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India's Nano to challenge global auto industry
News Tata commercially launches ultra-cheap small vehicle Nano, likely to be priced at US$2,000, paving way for India to play bigger role in global automotive market.
Tags: Product development and design, Budgeting/cost control, Cost control, India, auto company, SIAM, phone, Mumbai, R&D, industry
Aussie marriage sealed with a digital kiss
News In what is claimed to be a world first, an Australian couple recently tied the knot with a marriage certificate signed using digital certificates.
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company.
Tags: Cellular phones, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Mobile, Hologram, 3D, processor, technology company, Silicon.com, network, 2D
The day tech saved me
Blogs A few months ago, I accepted an invitation from my car manufacturer to attend a driver orientation program. During that ...
Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos
News The state of Virginia has abandoned its US$200-a-day-fine aimed at forcing Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.
Tags: Web 2.0, Insurance Company, User Data, Virginia, attorney, Compensation, photograph, accident, Facebook, Web 2.0
Five ways to discover unstructured processes
Techguide Many companies tend to focus their IT efforts on larger, structured processes such as CRM and ERP. Here's why taking this attitude can be expensive.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT Governance, Data Management, Process, CRM, BPM, Environment, compliance, e-mail, accident
BlackBerry has twice failure rate of iPhone
News Apple's iPhone is twice as reliable as BlackBerry and Palm Treo, a new study of more than 15,000 handsets, shows.
Tags: Smart phones, BlackBerry, Mac OS, Battery, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phone, Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Treo, Sales
Twitter to roll out 'Verified Accounts'
News Twitter co-founder Biz Stone details plans to prevent abuse of the service such as identity theft in future.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Twitter, Account, Lawsuit, Terms Of Service, Chicago, San Francisco, accident, co-founder
Virus downs systems at three London hospitals
News The unspecified computer virus has resulted in the indefinite shutting down of non-essential IT systems at Barts, the Royal London Hospital and The London Chest Hospital.
Tags: Security, Backup, Spokesperson, Computer, Environment, Hospital, London, virus, accident, backup system
Google networking error caused outage
News An effort to update networking addresses in its IPv6 shift didn't work out as planned Thursday, causing widespread service outages for about an hour.
Tags: Search, Web services, Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, accident, McAfee Inc., network, Internet Service Provider, Internet
LHC restart pushed back further
News The U.K.'s Large Hadron Collider will come back online in late summer 2009 at the earliest, and not in June as previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Infrastructure/architecture management, R&D, CERN, James Gillies, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management
Baidu.com CFO dies in accident
News Shawn Wang, chief financial officer for Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, died in an accident while on vacation during the holidays.
Tags: Business development/management, Personnel management
Never-say-die technopreneur found
News VS Kumar certainly has an interesting story to tell.
Pakistan welcomes back YouTube
News YouTube has removed a video clip that offended some of Pakistan's Muslims, and the government there has lifted a nationwide ban against the video-sharing site.
Tags: Video, Web sites, Web 2.0
Sage snaps up payments firm Verus
News Deal worth US$323.8 million will add credit card and check payment processing to Sage's services.
Tags: Business applications, Acquisitions, Mergers
