Bomb explosion at Nigerian military post

An effective bomb exploded Tuesday at a military post inside the restive, northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, then a hail of gunfire, witnesses said.



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The witnesses said they saw bodies, but CNN cannot confirm any deaths or injuries.

They said the military exchanged fire using the attackers and cordoned off the area.

Suspicion fell around the militant Islamic sect Boko Haram, especially with the Christmas holidays around the corner.

In November, lots of Boko Haram assailants descended on Damaturu, capital of the Nigerian state of Yobe, and killed greater than 100 people in a coordinated compilation of bombings and gun attacks.

More and more targeted were Christians, but police stations and mosques deemed "insufficiently Islamic" were also attacked.

Boko Haram translates from the local Hausa as "Western education is outlawed." The group has morphed into an insurgency in charge of many attacks in Nigeria over the last a couple of years.

Boko Haram's targets include police outposts and churches and also places related to "Western influence."

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In Maiduguri, the epicenter from the insurgency, there's a heavy military presence, with security checkpoints, sandbagged military positions along with the scars left by bomb attacks.

Many Christians in northeastern Nigeria have fled their homes since the violence has worsened this year.

New BlackBerry 7 smartphones

Yesterday in Jakarta, I saw a fully new and unique design for the quintessential Indonesian Batik. It arrived red and black design so when always it looked amazing. But in addition to being eye-catching, why this design totally unique is the crafted Blackberry logo within.

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Ultimately, this Batik design got first in Indonesia as BlackBerry embraces Jakarta’s people, history and culture to commemorate a “world’s first inside the BlackBerry history”, the global launch in the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 in Indonesia, the world’s fastest-growing niche for BlackBerry.

With more than 165+ million units sold around the globe, Jim Balsillie, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Industry (RIM) proudly reported to us that BlackBerry reigns to become the best smartphone brand in Indonesia, Middle East, Nigeria, Latin America only to name just a few. In Indonesia alone, Four out of five smartphone sales participate in BlackBerry with subscribers actually growing 10x more in Two years.

With such a massive growth, clearly Indonesia loves BlackBerry; hence, RIM has placed its persistence for work together and spend money on Indonesia for “long-term mutual success”.

At present, this commitment provides Indonesia with jobs and work at home opportunities having established BlackBerry Academic Programs in 15 Indonesian Universities, 48 BlackBerry Expert Centers across Indonesia as well as a Repair Center positioned in Jakarta for its after-sales support or perhaps put by Gregory Wade, Regional Managing Director, East Asia (RIM), to supply “customers with peace of mind”.

As BlackBerry writes history using its original global launch in Asia, Indonesia’s enthusiasm for BlackBerry indeed emanated during the entire ballroom from the plush Ritz Carlton Hotel. Excitement peaked as two new BlackBerry smartphones running on BlackBerry 7 main system were finally revealed; the “Stylish and Powerful” Bold 9790 and Curve 9380.

These BlackBerry 7 smartphones, as confidently conveyed by Jim Balsillie, provides the “best hybrid experience” previously being built with the easiest browser with new JIT (Just Soon enough) Java Script Compiler and HTML5, voice activated search heightening its universal search capability, built-in support for Augmented Reality and NFC for a “faster and richer user experience”.

Users will be surprised to determine the BlackBerry 7 smartphones curently have a line-up of pre-installed applications which include Docs To travel, BlackBerry Protect, Social Feeds, the new BBM and BlackBerry Travel all built to maximize productivity and simplicity of sharing.

Experience an incomparable smoothness, unrivaled speed, let alone an exceptional “fluid touchscreen” with BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380; both powered by BlackBerry 7 Operating System.

The 1st BlackBerry Lifestyle Store Now Open in Jakarta

A rare event, the 1st ever “BlackBerry Lifestyle store” in Jakarta, Indonesia finally opened for the public last November 16, 2011, the morning following the global launch from the new BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380.

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It had been indeed an enjoyable sight to determine dozens of people arranged with the hundreds outside of the Kelapa Gading Shopping center patiently looking forward to the BlackBerry store to spread out. Much excitement and anticipation was gone through by those gathered interior and exterior the mall, needing to see and determine what is at store for all of us.

Graced by RIM’s top officials, the outlet ceremony went on and the 115-square meter lifestyle store by Global Teleshop was finally unveiled.

A store featured the newest array of BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry Playbook tablets and also the largest array of authorized BlackBerry-branded accessories in Indonesia.

A shop has certified sales staffs that are centered on customer experience in addition to being what Rohilesh Singh, Country Director, Indonesia RIM told us earlier, the BlackBerry Lifestyle Store is “the perfect place for customers to go through the wide range of BlackBerry devices and solutions.

Customers can have satisfaction when purchasing authorized BlackBerry products and they'll also love the best advice and service from trained personnel inside store.”

For anyone present inside and out with the mall, for the opening day, the big event was highlighted with the announcement of the opening day promotion and that's a 50% discount to the first 250 customers who got a new BlackBerry smartphone or even a Playbook device.

Lucky draw sessions then followed in which a total of 50 customers could obtain a BlackBerry device with a 50% discount.

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In addition, customers received a BlackBerry t-shirt, screen protector plus a 50% discount on any accessory whenever they purchased any BlackBerry device.

So for anyone present on its opening day most of us agree, it absolutely was an event worth remembering; for foreign guests at all like me, it had been truly really worth the trip and for the Indonesians, it was indeed well worth the wait.

Editor's note: Len Amadora was so thankful for your possiblity to go to Jakarta for the global launch from the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 that they went home crazy using a complete report as well as a box-full of pictures. While no stranger to events similar to this, nor a rookie while using newest gadgets available in the market, Amadora reports how the two BlackBerry 7 smartphones unveiled in Indonesia offer one of the better experiences in hybrid devices. Both Bold 9790 and the Curve 9380 are equipped with fast browser through JIT (Just in Time) Java Script Compiler and HTML5, voice activated search, built-in support for Augmented Reality and NFC for faster and richer user experience.

Unemployment is fastest-rising fear

The annual poll, known as the World Speaks, gave people a summary of concerns and asked that they had discussed with friends or family previously month.



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Corruption and poverty still ranked the best, but unemployment was mentioned by 18% - six times the rate citing it within the first survey last year.

The poll was performed by Globescan.

The expansion in concern is discovered across all countries surveyed, although corruption emerged because the most talked about global concern.

Nearly one fourth of people asked had discussed that topic in most form over the past four weeks.

Young jobless

Next came extreme poverty. One in five had mentioned that subject recently.

Issues connected with inflation, such as higher food and prices, were on level pegging with unemployment in third place - with both topics mentioned by 18% of the surveyed.

Concern about joblessness appeared to vary by country.

The top list was Spain, where 54% of those sampled said they'd discussed unemployment recently, a boost of one-third around the previous year's BBC poll.

Spain reaches the heart from the debt crisis within the eurozone and has the highest youth unemployment in the area at more than 40%.

Ghana, Mexico, Nigeria and Turkey were among the other countries where this topic appeared a specific concern, using a third or even more of these sampled saying that they had discussed the problem inside month prior to the survey.

One could speculate that growing worry about deficiency of jobs is linked to current economic worries, such as financial damage to euro currency and the resulting slowdown of major economies.

But there is no certainty relating to this.

The very first annual survey published in 2009 coincided with possibly even greater economic global turbulence from the collapse of the usa investment bank Lehman Brothers.

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Corruption and poverty emerge as hardy perennials of global debate.

The three annual surveys completed thus far demonstrate these topics to be presents itself their list.
Regional differences

But the latest results show considerable differences between countries inside issues people important.

In the usa, France and Japan - all wealthy, developed nations - your the planet economy emerged as the main talking point.

By comparison, corruption was probably the most frequently discussed issue in Nigeria, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Nigeria and Peru.

These are generally all developing nations, most with poor reputations for transparency in government and business.

In another band of developing countries, including China, Russia, Kenya along with the Philippines, rising prices for food and were the principle topic.

In Latin America, however, crime and violence emerged as commonly discussed themes.

Indeed in Brazil, famous for social tensions in its urban slums, along with Ecuador and Mexico, recognized for drugs-related killings, crime and violence were the most talked-about subjects.
Changing perceptions

People in developed nations appeared more concerned about the longer-term, less immediate threat linked to java prices than those sampled in poorer, developing economies.

But just about everywhere climate change had slipped around the ranking of issues discussed within the last month.

The subject was the most frequently brought up issue in 10 nations in last year's survey, but this coming year climatic change topped their list only in Germany and Britain.

Fieldwork for that latest poll was performed between July and September of this year from the polling firm Globescan for the BBC.