Meet Good Charlotte
The News Review:
- Meet Good Charlotte
- Agreement on mobile TV
- Wife of terror suspect says she is target of harassment
- Free speech for mad mullahs
- Fannie, Freddie creating new home loans
- Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/Worl…
Meet Good Charlotte
Malaysia Star – Apr 17, 2007
The band features twins Joel Madden (vocals) and Benji Madden (lead guitar and vocals), with their long-time friends Billy Martin (guitar and keyboards) and Paul Thomas (bass), plus new drummer Dean Butterworth. In conjunction with the release of Good Morning Revival in Malaysia recently, MTV is organising the MTV Live Concert, featuring Good Charlotte, this Saturday at 7pm at Car Park A, National Stadium Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur. The concert is brought to you by DiGi Telecommunications, which will also feature home grown bands such as Lo, One Buck Short and Estranged. The show is hosted by MTV VJs Fazura, Colby, Denise and Utt. Currently, the passes for the concert are exclusive and only available via… For fans who are interested to get special Good Charlotte premiums and to buy the album at a discount, Sony BMG together with DiGi are also running retail promotions from now until April 30. They are giving away a limited edition Good Charlotte T-shirt with every CD purchase and an exclusive Good Charlotte poster with every cassette purchase. This promotion is exclusive for DiGi customers only and is redeemable at participating retail outlets: Speedy, CD Rama, Tower Records, Rock Corner, Music Valley, Video Ezy, Victoria Music Centre, Fantasy Sunway and Inverno (Malacca). In addition to the Good Charlotte premiums, DiGi customers who download any Good Charlotte mobile content will also get the chance to purchase the Good Morning Revival album at a special price of RM35. 90 for CD and RM15. 90 for cassette (equivalent to 20% discount off the recommended retail price for the album).
Agreement on mobile TV
Australian IT – Apr 17, 2007
Mobile makers and mobile operators alike are keen to tap the potentially lucrative market in phones that receive television, but the take-up of services has been held back by fragmentation of the technologies on offer. There are half a dozen competing systems. Nokia and many other European industry players favour the home-grown DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld) standard for their mobile phones, but competing technologies, including DMB and MediaFlo, have gained ground over recent months due to slow rollout of DVB-H networks. Nokia said it and Samsung plan to make their DVB-H mobiles work with the same standards as the Nokia network services system. They would work on using the OMA BCAST standard for mobile operators, the statement said. Related links April 17 |.
Wife of terror suspect says she is target of harassment
Toronto Star – Apr 17, 2007
"I have to come forward and let the world know this is what’s happened. If I end up dead, then you know where it started. "Her husband is among 12 people accused of forming a home-grown terrorism cell and being held at the Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton awaiting a preliminary hearing slated to begin next month. She says she believes she was targeted for harassment after speaking out about jail conditions in a Star story this month. MacAulay Jamal said her 1996 Acura overheated on the way to visit her husband last Thursday. She gave it to her brother-in-law to check out and said he spotted a bullet hole in the radiator on Saturday, the day she drove their 1998 minivan to Milton and it, too, overheated. She said a hole was found in its radiator as well.
Free speech for mad mullahs
NEWS.com.au – Apr 17, 2007
The reality is the question of dealing with this sort of inflammatory material with its capacity to incite or advocate terrorism first arose almost 12 months ago when Ruddock asked the state attorneys-general to focus their minds on the problem. To no one’s surprise, Hulls, a shameless civil libertarian who has already burdened Victorians with a ridiculous charter of rights which will fatten the wallets of lawyers, was not happy with the notion wannabe terrorists might be deprived of essential learning materials. As a long-time supporter of South Australia’s home-grown self-confessed al-Qaeda trainee David Hicks, Hulls thought restrictions on DVDs might place a curb on free speech. At the same time, he was happy to go along with a Queensland proposal to place restrictions on the sale of video games promoting graffiti. Free speech for mad mullahs who want to spray lead into the homes of infidels, but not for jerks who want to spray execrable scrawls on subway walls. Hulls and the other state A-Gs said their officials would come up with some thoughts about terrorist DVDs but, by last week, they had come up with nothing.
Fannie, Freddie creating new home loans
ABCmoney.co.uk – Apr 17, 2007
They have grown dynamically in recent years and now finance or guarantee some $4 trillion of home mortgages, representing about half of the single-family mortgages in the country. —-Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/Worl…
Gulf Times – Apr 17, 2007
Under the March 4 plan, UN and French peacekeepers in the buffer zone will pull back in stages and be gradually replaced by mixed brigades of government and rebel soldiers. Although fighting between the two sides had ceased four years ago, the buffer zone had effectively marked the division between the rebel-held north and the government-held south, hindering transport and communication between the two halves. The peace plan, a home-grown deal which followed the failure of several internationally brokered accords, foresees the holding of elections by early next year after key disarmament and national identity procedures are carried out. Gbagbo said the ceasefire zone dividing the country was the biggest obstacle to polls being held. “From today onwards, we have no more excuses not to organise elections.