LEADER: This country urgently needs to get back to normality
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 09:56
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Hopefully, by next week, bar a couple of days for celebrations, it will all be over. There will be a victor and a loser, and that’s it. (Unless, the Maltese electorate chooses to go...
Archive management is now also digital
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 09:46
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The warehouse is anonymous in an anonymous street somewhere in Malta. I had to give an assurance I would not reveal its whereabouts (or else, I joked to myself, they would have blindfolded me and...
Analysis: US cuts likely to hit global economy
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 09:31
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The effects of the $85 billion in U.S. government spending cuts scheduled to begin Friday will be felt across oceans and could further hurt recession-hit European nations and burden an economically...
Wireless connections creep into everyday things
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 18:10
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner when electricity gets more...
MFSA warning
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 16:57
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has today issued a warning to alert the public that SeaMed Finance Savings and Investments, SeaMed Finance Ltd, SeaMed Bank and SeaMed Holdings which...
After meatballs, Ikea withdraws sausages
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 14:31
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea says it is withdrawing wiener sausages in France, Britain, Spain, Ireland and Portugal after tests confirmed "a few indications of horse...
Spain's 2012 deficit falls, but not to level hoped
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 10:35
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has conceded that the government just failed to reduce its budget deficit in 2012 to the level it promised European authorities. He says the...
World's postal services struggle with lower demand
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 08:30
Last update: about 13 years ago
Malta Independent
Sandra Vidulich is so excited about the leather boots she ordered through Amazon that she rips open the box in front of the postman and tries them on. "I looove them," she...
Pirate Bay moves from Sweden to Norway, Spain
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 16:43
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
Embattled file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is looking for safe havens in Norway and Spain after its Swedish host came under legal pressure to shut it down. The Swedish Pirate Party, a...