Tag: global

Females' Roles in Global Conflicts "Women, War & Peace," a new five-part series co-produced by WNET New York, explores the changing role of women in conflicts around the world.

This excerpt tells the story of an Army Female Engagement Team that reaches out to Women in rural parts of Afghanistan.

carnaval.inthetube.tv is a video web guide to global carnival celebrations, parades, and travel info for their host cities.

Watch Carnaval video clips and experience a cultural travel for New York, London,
Toronto, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador Bahia, Trinidad, New Orleans and others.

Discover the myth & magic of the dance of life. Emphasis on syncretic cultures of the New World and music like steelpan, samba and calypso.

Asia Pacific is set to dominate both the inbound and outbound tourism sector over the coming decade, with China leading the way.

That is the view of speakers and panellists at the Asia Luxury Travel Market, taking place this week in Shanghai, China.

Global personal navigation device shipments to stagnate at 48 Million by 2015, says ABI Research. Growth in Personal Navigation Device (PND) shipments will continue to slow, stagnating at 48 million by 2015.
The Asia-Pacific market will experience the strongest growth with more than 10 million shipments in 2015. PND shipments continue to suffer from competing navigation form factors, says ABI Research practice director Dominique Bonte. While the free navigation solutions from both Nokia and Google firmly establish handset-based turn-by-turn navigation as a standard feature, in-dash navigation is also becoming affordable for a larger portion of car buyers.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products.

The campaign, which starts Monday in countries including France, Japan and Britain, represents a rare foray by Google into mass-market advertising and underscores increasing competition to provide businesses with email and other office software.