No solution yet to BlackBerry security issue
April 15, 2008
New Delhi:A solution to the security concerns over BlackBerry services in India has still to be hammered out as its licensor Research-in-Motion (RIM) has sought more time from the Indian government to reach an agreement.
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Indian American developing infrared super computers
April 14, 2008
Washington: A computer that is a thousand-fold faster than the fastest current supercomputers is being developed by an Indian American scientist.
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Infosys revenue guidance $5 billion for 2008-09
April 14, 2008
Bangalore:Infosys Technologies Ltd has estimated consolidated revenue guidance of $5.05 billion for the new fiscal (2008-09), projecting year-on-year (YoY) growth of 21 percent over FY 2008 under the American accounting practice.
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Software to anticipate vehicle malfunctions being developed
April 13, 2008
Berlin:Cutting edge tools and software that will anticipate and prevent possible vehicular malfunctions are under development.
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Men, beware of gigolo sites
April 13, 2008
New Delhi: In an alarming trend, young Indian men are being lured on the internet as gigolos and then being robbed of money. Police confirm that such rackets are thriving as in most cases the victims are too embarrassed to file a complaint.
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Russia needs $5 bn to complete its space station segment
April 11, 2008
Moscow: Russia will need an additional $5 billion to complete construction of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, the head of Russia’s rocket and space corporation Energia said.
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Indian science could gain from open access push
April 11, 2008
Bangalore:Indian academic institutions are finding it “exceedingly expensive” to have a well-stocked library of science journals. New ways to access research is needed, a prominent science journal has said.
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IBM to use ’spintronics’ to increase computer memory capacity
April 11, 2008
San Francisco: IBM announced a new kind of computer memory Friday that could increase storage capacity 100-fold.
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MEA servers hacked, but no breach of classified files
April 11, 2008
New Delhi: Hackers have been targeting the servers of the computer network of the external affairs ministry from time to time, but there has been no breach of classified information, official sources said Friday.
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DRDO has failed to deliver, says Antony
April 11, 2008
New Delhi: Even as a high-powered committee suggested a drastic overhaul of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Defence Minister A.K. Antony Friday admitted the organisation has failed to deliver on many of its projects.
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