Business News 05 – Virtual Meetings

How do you conduct your meetings? Face-to-face, on the phone, by videoconference or maybe even using VOIP/Skype? Well, now there is a new way virtual meetings, or meetings where participants are represented by computer generated characters. Listen to

Virtual Reality Goggles May Be Next Must-Have

Virtual Reality Goggles May Be Next Must-Have The real-time counter on the GSMA Intelligence website shows the constant rise of mobile phone subscribers worldwide. The market is huge and there's plenty of money to be made, but there's a design challe

英语小达人 120 Virtual Adventure

Virtual Adventure 第24单元 虚拟冒险 Sacks has the best job in the world, or at least he thinks so! He tests virtual reality video games. Every morning he gets up at 7 a.m., has a shower, reads the paper on the subway and arrives at the office

Take Away English-Virtual Worlds 虚拟世界

Online gamers enjoy a concert on the BBC's virtual island The line between the real world and online virtual worlds is becoming increasingly blurred with gamers spending real money to buy virtual commodities and even real estate in digital worlds. W

Virtual Learning

By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: October 30, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. Many people remember the day in school when they had to 1)cut up a dead frog. Students

Virtual Reality: Digital Treatment for Real Pain

Amanda Greene lives with pain. Greene says her pain comes from lupus, an autoimmune disease that attacks her organs and tissues. If I don't have nerve pain, I might have joint pain. If I'm not having joint pain, I might have headaches. She tried taki

每日一词【771】approval rating：支持率

今天我们要学的词是approval rating。 Approval rating是支持率的意思。Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's approval rating fell to 20%, 日本执政党自民党的民众支持率滑落到20%。 A new survey shows that President Ob

英国小镇建3D街道 逛街如行走未来世界

According to the Daily Mail of October 12, fake facades have been put up in 18 shops in Britain's Redcar street, along with one virtual house。 Shoppers are getting a vision of the future in one town and are walking in a virtual world。 Shops such

学个词Learn a Word 第1368期　virtual

今天我们要学的词是virtual。Virtual, 虚拟的，模拟的。美国和伊朗没有正式外交关系，不过美国国务卿希拉里.克林顿表示， The United States plans to open a virtual embassy for Iran by the end of this year, 美国

Markets Plunge; S&P, US Spar Over Rating Cut

Global financial markets continue to drop sharply in reaction to an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating and lingering concerns about European debt problems and global economic growth. In early Asia trading Tuesday, Japan's

Rating Agencies Affirm France's AAA Credit

The three major credit rating agencies have affirmed France's AAA rating even as the country's borrowing costs are increasing. Standard Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings all said Wednesday they are maintaining the country's top cred

Moody's downgrades Greece to lowest rating

LONDON/NEW YORK, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The rating agency Moody's on Friday cut the sovereign credit rating of Greece to the lowest level, saying the country's default risk was high. Moody's downgraded Greece long term sovereign credit rating from Ca to

S&P Downgrades French Credit Rating

Standard Poor's Friday downgraded the credit ratings of nine European countries caught up in the eurozone crisis. This includes France, which has Europe's second-largest economy. SP's downgrade of France's credit rating has been expected for weeks. F

Credit Rating Agency Upgrades Nigeria's Outlook

Credit rating agency Standard and Poors has revised Nigeria's economic outlook from stable to positive. In a statement, the rating agency says the Nigerian government, under President Goodluck Jonathan, has undertaken several important reform initiat

Rating Agency Downgrades US Credit Outlook

Standard and Poor's Ratings Services announced Monday that the United States continues to have a AAA [Triple-A] credit rating, but the rating agency lowered its long-term credit outlook for the U.S. government. SP cited U.S. budget deficits and gover

新西兰英语 516 Credit Rating Downgrade

Two rating agencies, Standard and Poors (S P) and Fitch downgraded New Zealands credit rating from AA+ to AA. This is the first downgrade in 13 years. A credit rating gives some idea of whether the economy is stable and whether the government can pay

S&P Downgrades US Credit Rating for First Time

The credit rating agency Standard Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country's elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a negative outlook. In a statement late Friday, SP said it made the move because the deficit-r

Italy Faces Credit Rating Cut

A major financial services company says that Italy faces a significant chance of having its credit rating cut soon, but that it has no plans to downgrade France's top credit standing. Fitch Ratings said Tuesday it is confident that the 17-nation Euro

S&P Cuts Italy's Credit Rating

Standard Poors has cut Italy's credit rating, citing weak economic growth and political uncertainty. The credit rating agency cut Italy's rating one notch Monday - from A+ to A. SP said the country's shaky coalition government and differences in parl

US Faces Possible Credit Rating Downgrade

U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress are engaged in an intense rush to settle on a plan to raise the countrys borrowing limit beyond the current total of more than $14 trillion. It is an effort aimed at averting a possible default on the countrys