Apple online store in the UAE launches

Apple Inc, the US-based technology giant, has launched an online store in the UAE as the company moves to ramp up sales in fast-growing emerging markets.

The online store prices iPad 2s from AED2,099 and iPhones from AED1,899, undercutting sale prices at local retailers such as Sharaf DG and Jumbo Electronics.


Alongside iPhones, iPads and MacBooks, the Apple store will offer customised services including free engraving on products. Users can also build customised Macs, choosing their own specifications for memory and drives.


UAE electronics retailers said earlier this month they had seen a surge in revenues on the back of strong sales of Apple’s iPad. Jacky’s Electronics said sales of the tablet had accounted for about 14 percent of all technology sales in the year-to-date, a figure expected to rise to over 15 percent by the year-end.


source Arabian Business.com

Huge crocodile captured in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — What a croc!

Its mighty snout wrapped tightly with ropes, a one-ton, 20-foot saltwater crocodile was captured and put on display in a town in the southern Philippines — one of the biggest such reptiles to be caught in recent years.
But shed no crocodile tears for this colossal captive.
"Lolong," as it has been nicknamed, is about to become the star attraction of an ecotourism park — unless it is upstaged by an even larger reptile that may be still be on the loose.

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Residents of Bunawan township celebrated when they captured the croc, with about 100 people pulling the feared beast from a creek by rope, then hoisting it by crane onto a truck. While the beast was safely tied up, they examined its teeth, claws and stubby legs with fascination.
Their party may have been premature, however.
After the 20-foot (6.1-meter) reptile was caught over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday an even bigger crocodile may still be lurking in creeks of the remote region in Agusan del Sur province.
The scaly skinned Lolong — which tips the scales at 2,370 pounds (1,075 kilograms) — is estimated to be at least 50 years old. Wildlife officials were trying to confirm whether it was the largest such catch in the world, said Theresa Mundita Lim of the government's Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau.

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