| PTCL Profit Falls in Q1FY12 | | PTCL’s revenues jumped by 4.2 percent in 1QFY12, over the same period last year, but cost of services increased as well by 6.5 percent. As a result, PTCLs gross profits slid down by roughly one percent, over the same period. | | Continue Reading The Story | | Dennis Ritchie, Father of C and Unix, Died | | Dennis Ritchie, famous for inventing the programming language C and who co-developed Unix, was found dead at his home in New Jersey last week. He died at the age of 70, never fully recovering from his struggles with prostate cancer and heart disease during the last years of his life. | | Continue Reading The Story | | Steve Jobs Had Syrian Origins | | While the world mourned the death of Steve Jobs, a little known fact about the great man came into the spotlight. Steve Jobs, born as Abdul Latif Jandali, was of Syrian origin. As it turns out he was born to an American mother Joanne Carole Schieble and a Syrian Muslim father Abdul Fattah Jandali. | | Continue Reading The Story | | |
