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Mumbai's 'dabbawalas' learn English, use of computers
Mumbai's famed 'dabbawalas', or tiffin suppliers are now getting special training in the English language as well as in the use of computers to enable them to understand the requirements of modern...


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Delving deeper into the relationship between youth and digital culture
A new thesis explores the relationship between Internet and today's youth, and how they learn and socialise through new...
New 'pigment noise' technology could identify century-old colours
Identifying the composition of pigments in century-old artworks could be made easier soon, with the discovery of a new technology called photoacoustic infrared...
New plant-mimicking photovoltaic cells that self-repair sun damage
MIT scientists have developed new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that can not only mimic a plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy but also repair itself from damage that occurs due to constant...
Disabled Find New Horizons Through The Internet
Posted on: Monday, 6 September 2010, 07:43 CDT People once restricted from a large part of society due to physical and mental impairments are now finding a virtual world of Internet gadgets, tools...
Force10 Networks Opens New Innovation Center in Olympia Technology Park; Company's India Growth Strategy Accelerates Employment Ramp
CHENNAI, India, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business,...
Independent Research Firm Includes SAGE SA in 'Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch in 2010: Q2 Update' Report
in its "Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch In 2010: Q2 Update" report.SAGE is a financial technology firm that develops banking solutions. Its flagship product, Prospero, is a suite of...
Mumbai's 'dabbawalas' learn English, use of computers
By Sanjeev Shukla, Mumbai, Sep. 6 : Mumbai's famed 'dabbawalas', or tiffin suppliers are now getting special training in the English language as well as in the use of computers to enable them to...
Anil Ambani’s Reliance Scraps Talks to Sell Towers
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd. ended talks to sell some assets to GTL Infrastructure Ltd. after both sides failed to agree on a deal to create...
Cockroaches 'may help beat superbugs'
Cockroaches have long been regarded as an unwanted pest but in fact they could hold the secret to treating the most resilient of superbugs, scientists said on Monday.Tests have found tissue from the...
Google Wave goes open sauce
of its communications suite that includes email and instant messaging. The company has open sourced around 200,000 lines of code in a package that includes an application bundle with a server and...
Jailbreaking the Sony PS3 goes viral
a mod-device that liberates the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) so it can run any operating system was banned by an Australian court, the secret was open sourced and made even more portable. The net result...
Google pays $8.5 million in a privacy settlement
reported back in April that the company was taking the heat for steam-rolling privacy rights every time it released a new application. Now it has bitten the bullet on Buzz privacy violations and...
US President backs Intel
, the idea was first suggested to US President Obama by the chip giant Intel, which has a lot of R&D plans, many of which are hatched out in foreign parts although its primary research campus is...
Yahoo gets into web telly
Yahoo has decided to get into the online TV business. Yahoo has signed a deal with European telly maker Vestel to deliver TV, movies, video and other content in Europe. The plan is that Vestel will...
Head Hon Hai honcho halves annual growth hope
Foxconn - will be lowering its annual sales growth targets by half because it has been doing so well for itself. In an interview, he said that the figure rests at the 15 percent mark. After having a...
IBM accused of Homeland Security Project Shield fraud
Cook County executive.Responder LLC alleges that Big Blue "fraudulently induced" it to develop and put into action a mobility platform for Project Shield in Cook County. Project Shield is funded by...
HTC to unveil HD3 Windows Mobile at London event
4G , an eight megapixel camera with two LED flashes, HDMI port and HD recording capabilities. There's also said to be a 1800mAh battery, all in a 10mm thick enclosure. It will run Windows Phone 7,...
Tech heavyweights set to move music to the cloud
FROM the sagging shelf of vinyl, through teetering stacks of CDs to a hard drive stuffed with MP3s, personal music collections have adapted to, even thrived on, the technological changes of the last...
Samsung releases its first tablet computer
Apple , because the device has a smaller screen, and Samsung was expecting to set a price 1.5 to 2 times lower than the iPad. Samsung were considering a ten inch screen on future models. Galaxy Tab...
Oracle offered job to ex-HP CEO Hurd: source
Mark Hurd, chairman, CEO and president of HP speaks at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena, California, in this July 24, 2009 file...
Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Satyam work as partners
HYDERABAD: Even before the official process of integration of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam commenced, execution of projects is being shared between the companies, highly placed sources said ...
VMware's new services to speed up cloud tech use
SAN FRANCISCO: The US-based provider of virtualization software VMware, on Tuesday, unveiled a cloud computing strategy to help companies accelerate adoption of ‘technology as a service’. At...
On Labor Day, remember the unemployed vote
As many of us gather for parades, barbecues and festivities in honor of the many men and women - past and present - who toil day in and day out in hopes of a better life, let us not forget the 31...
Kharabeesh launches two new original cartoon shows for Arabic internet users during Ramadan
Kharabeesh, a creative Jordanian cartoon studio developing original and unique Arabic content for the Arab world's growing online community, have produced two new Arabic language cartoon shows for...
TECH STOCKS: Chip-stock Losses Lead Weak Month For Techs
Tech stocks ended the month on a lackluster note Tuesday, as sector's negative general trend for August held firm with semiconductor stocks ranking among the biggest...
Facebook testing ‘subscribe to’ user feature
Facebook is testing a new 'subscribe' feature that enables users to get notifications and alerts whenever a friend edits their profile. Photo: Bloomberg...
From Viral Video to Billboard 100
The Gregory Brothers used footage of Glenn Beck on Fox News in a Web video series called “Auto-Tune the News.” But in one of the stranger twists in recent pop-music history, a musical remake...
Apple Faces Many Rivals for Streaming to TVs
Steven P. Jobs of Apple may be hoping his latest attempt at Apple TV will catch on as the iPod did. However, for now at least, it provides little because users can rent shows from just two...
Craigslist Blocks Access to ‘Adult Services’ Pages
Craigslist, the popular Web site for classified ads, has blocked access to its “adult services” section and replaced the link with a black label showing the word...
Smarter Than You Think: The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You
Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford University. “That is not where most work gets done.” For now, most of the mobile robots, sometimes called telepresence robots,...
Noticed: Defriended, Not De-Emoted
MySpace , there was a feeling that, ‘Oh, hey, this is just the Internet, who really cares?’ ” he said. “But in the meantime we’ve seen psych study after psych study...
The Media Equation: The Glut of Shows Unwatched
Verizon — for just such a circumstance, my wife and I plopped down on Monday night for a little time with Don and Peggy. I hit play, and then the screen went blank. After several more attempts,...
China’s Mobile Internet Users May Double in 5 Years, Lee Says
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- China’s mobile Internet users may more than double within five years as smartphones that can browse the Web and download music become more affordable, Lee Kai-fu, the...
Gamer's 13-year wait nearly over as Duke Nukem Forever gets a release date
Almost 13 years after it was first announced, Duke Nukem Forever has finally been given a release date. 2K games broke the news on Twitter and then showcased it at the PAX games convention over the...
Opera ends up on Mediatek's platform
Opera's push into mobile web browsing appears to be paying off. In a statement, Opera said that its Opera Mobile 10 browser is now available on Mediatek's platform. Mediatek's chips for 2.75G and...
Hurd might end up at Oracle
of HP, who was fired for wining and dining a former soft porn star and then hiding it in his expenses, seems to be about to land a job at Oracle. While many people who are fired for breach of trust...
Apple fanbois join 'Ping'
Apple fanbois have decided that it is really important to think different all together and have signed up for Steve Jobs' music social notworking website Ping. Apple told the world plus dog that in...
Acer and Nvidia, brought to you in 3D
the 3D tango with Nvidia for its mid-range gaming laptop. Acer's Aspire 5745DG comes with Nvidia's active shutter 3D Vision technology this time around. The company was one of the first to market...
Britain's not got invention talent
Britain had talent, which you probably didn't, you may be shocked to hear that we're actually not that creative. In a survey of 1000 people working in the creative industry, conducted by...
Self powered parts will be electronic mainstay by 2020
are throwing their car keys into a bowl and pairing off to come up with a way to create and commercialise sensors and switches that generate their own power. The idea is that the parts will make...
Storage software market continues to rise
IDC . In its Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, IDC said the market experienced continued gains in the second quarter of 2010 with revenues of nearly $3.0 billion. This showed a 3.3...
Swarming spacecraft to self-destruct for greater good
However, should one spacecraft in such a swarm begin to fail and risk a calamitous collision with another, it must sense its end is nigh and put itself on a course that takes it forever away from the...
First Orange Technology Exhibition in Taiwan Held at NCKU on September 3rd
TAINAN, Taiwan - (Business Wire) National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, has organized the first 2010 Orange Technology Exhibition on September...
Fewer twins and triplets are being born in Finland as a result of in vitro fertilisation . In the 1990s, every third multiple birth was the result of fertility treatments. Today more advanced technology has pushed that figure down to one in six.
Around a dozen triplets and some 850 pairs of twins are born in Finland each year. In the 1990s the number of triplets born was as much three times higher. In the late 1990s, specialists began...
More on Juan Uribe's go-ahead homer
The San Francisco Giants' Juan Uribe connects on his two-RBI home run take off against the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving the Giants a 5-4 lead in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles...
TENNIS Once again, Murray has a major setback
The dire forecasts that were supposed to rattle the U.S. Open field seemed to pass Sunday with little of the expected doom and gloom. The wind, which turned Saturday into a mess, calmed by Sunday...
Hassle in Haight over McDonald's menu change
What would seemingly be an issue of capitalism and supply and demand in any other city, or any other neighborhood in San Francisco, has instead morphed into another battle between merchants and the...
Army to study bomb techs’ concussions
Soldiers from the Army’s 52d Ordnance Group based at Fort Campbell have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military’s first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain...