Zimbabwe’s consumer inflation stood at -1.1 percent month-on-month in April compared to -3.0 in March, the Central Statistical Office [in Harare] said on Friday. The CSO did not release a yearly figure.
Zimbabwe has allowed the use of multiple foreign currencies to stem hyperinflation that destroyed the value of the Zimbabwe dollar.
Expedia.com said Wednesday it will stop charging fees when customers book airline tickets over the Internet, upping the ante in the competition among online travel agencies.
The company, a unit of Expedia Inc., stopped charging booking fees in March under a promotion that was scheduled to end May 31. The latest move makes the no-fee policy permanent.
Rival online agencies Orbitz.com, a unit of Orbitz Worldwide Inc., and Sabre Holdings Corp.’s Travelocity.com also had eliminated booking fees on a promotional basis. The companies declined to comment on possible next steps. “Orbitz intends to remain a competitive place to book online,” a spokesman said. A Travelocity spokesman said: “We’re continuing to waive booking fees through this month.”
Facebook, the fast-growing social network, has found a deep-pocketed friend in Russia.
Digital Sky Technologies, an Internet investment company based in Moscow, said Tuesday it has invested $200 million in Facebook in exchange for a 1.96 percent stake in the company, and would eventually offer to buy at least $100 million in Facebook’s common stock. Facebook said the deal values the entire company — which Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, founded in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 — at $10 billion.
jQuery focuses on expressiveness, quick and easy coding, and the DOM while MooTools focuses on extension, inheritance, legibility, reuse, and maintainability. If you put those two things on opposite sides of a scale, the jQuery side translates into something with which it’s easy to get started and see quick results but (in my experience) can turn into code that’s harder to reuse and maintain (but really that’s up to you; it’s not jQuery’s problem, per se), while the MooTools side takes longer to learn and requires you to write more code upfront before you see results, but afterwards is more reusable and more maintainable.
For me, I decided on jQuery a while back and we’ve opted to do the same at Wall St. We’ll see if jQuery stands up to the maintainability test over time, but for now, I contend, the library is giving way to faster and better development.
This is why I love Roanoke lacrosse. Matt Burkhead wrote and produced this 33-minute video highlighting what was supposed to be a rebuilding year in 2011. After losing 15 seniors, five All-Americans (including their starting goalie), and two position players of the year at the end of the 2010 season, most lacrosse fans suspected that [...]
I somehow missed this a few weeks ago. Popular Mechanics has a detailed article analyzing the transcript of AF447′s cockpit voice recorder. It is chilling and incredible and horrifying and terribly sad. Bonin yields the controls, and Robert finally puts the nose down. The plane begins to regain speed. But it is still descending at [...]
A great collection of photos from the Twisted Sifter – the top galleries from 2011. Often the most popular posts on the site, the galleries not only take our readers around the world, but back in time as well. Some galleries even show us the farthest reaching points of the Cosmos and the thriving microscopic world [...]
Fascinating article in Vanity Fair, my favorite magazine, on the TSA and the $1.1 trillion the US Government has spent on the agency since 9/11. Written by Charles C. Mann: To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a trillion dollars can wreak. So much inconvenience for so little benefit [...]
Tons of tools for web developers using Firefox. One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web browser to enable people to create amazing things.