Washington: Scientists in the US claim to have developed the world's first "biological computer" that is made from biomolecules and can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips. A team from the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology claims it has created the computing system using bio-molecules, 'AngewandteChemie' journal reported. In the research, when suitable software was applied to the biological computer, the scientists found that...
05:29 PM, Feb 08, 2012
BANGALORE: While passengers of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporations (BMTC) Vayu Vajra get new benefits like browsing the internet on touch-screen tablet PC installed in the buses, conductors and drivers of those buses are not a happy lot. They have been slapped with show-cause notices for not maintaining the electronic gadgets. As many as seven conductors and drivers received notices, issued by honchos of BMTC Volvo division, which hold them responsible...
09:58 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Lacs Magnum has introduced a wide range of Tablet PCs to suit every pocket in India. ...
12:39 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced it would fully computerise the activities of its commercial taxes department at an outlay of Rs 230.96 crore to provide transparent governance as well as improve tax compliance. In a statement issued here, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has ordered computerisation of all activities of the commercial taxes department owing to the growing number of transactions and also improve its productivity. Presently only...
02:33 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Kalyanmoy Deb is the winner of the Infosys 2011 Prize for his contribution in engineering and computer science. His unique software helps pick the right solution from millions of confusing choices. Though designed for industrial applications like car and cell phone manufacture, it can theoretically be adapted to much more personal uses. Choices are something we all have to make. Dr Kalyanmoy Deb is someone who helps making ...
08:56 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: In the race with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pitched for a Rs 5000 crore supercomputer for India. But the question is whether it will be enough to match China's prowess. "Over the past few decades, India's relative position in the world of science has been declining and we have been overtaken by countries like China," the Prime Minister said on Tuesday. India has 17 per cent...
08:40 AM, Jan 04, 2012
London: Stroll the grimy backstreets of Dickensian London and experience for yourself the sights and sounds which inspired one of the greatest writers in English literature. Computer tablet users can now travel to the darker side of London as Charles Dickens knew it, with an interactive novel-cum-app launched on Friday by the Museum of London that is the next best thing to having your own time machine. The graphic novel,...
08:02 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Tehran: Iran said on Sunday it had detected the Duqu computer virus that experts say is based on Stuxnet, the so-called "cyber-weapon" discovered last year and believed to be aimed at sabotaging the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites. The head of Iran's civil defense organisation told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being checked and that Iran had developed software to combat the...
08:14 AM, Nov 14, 2011
New Delhi: Owning a laptop may have become a necessity for some and fashionable for the rest, but it poses a potential fire threat to thousands of users who prefer to take the device to bed and go to sleep without logging off, as was seen in the recent death of a Kolkata-based executive. Sayan Chowdhury, a 34-year-old MNC employee, was found dead in his bedroom November 6, where he...
05:21 PM, Nov 09, 2011
BANGALORE: We must dream of a Mach 8-10 capable reusable cruise missile by 2016-2020, which have stealth capabilities and will deliver the payload at hypersonic speeds before returning to base, said former president and eminent missile scientist A P J Abdul Kalam. Addressing a gathering at the inauguration of the Centre for Excellence in High Speed Aerodynamics in the Indian Institute of Science Campus (IISc) here on Tuesday, he stated...
08:37 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New York: Indian authorities are investigating a computer server in Mumbai for links to the Duqu malicious software that some security experts warned could be the next big cyber threat. Web Werks, a Mumbai-based Web-hosting company, said it had given an image of the suspicious virtual private server to officials from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), after security firm Symantec Corp found the server was communicating with computers...
09:03 AM, Nov 08, 2011
New York: Indian authorities seized computer equipment from a data center in Mumbai as part of an investigation into the Duqu malicious software that some security experts warned could be the next big cyber threat. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web Werks told Reuters that officials from India's Department of Information Technology last week took several hard drives and other components from a server that security firm Symantec...
09:11 AM, Oct 29, 2011
New Delhi: Filmmaker Karan Johar, who saw the preview of 'RA.One', is going ga ga over the movie and says it has the best computer graphics India has ever seen and proves India can match the technology used in Western movies. "I just saw 'RA.One'! Adrenalin pumping and the best computer graphics India has ever seen! Its a mega blockbuster super hero ride! Outstanding," the 39-year-old posted on micro-blogging site...
07:15 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp used its monopoly position in computer operating systems to block the PC-sharing business of MiniFrame Ltd, according to a lawsuit filed by the small Israeli technology company. The world's largest software company, which supplies the operating systems on 90 per cent of the world's PCs, unfairly changed its licensing agreements and bullied MiniFrame's potential customers to prevent it from winning valuable contracts, the Israeli company said. MiniFrame's...
02:10 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a conditional bail of six months to former Satyam employees G Ramakrishna, D Venkatpathi Raju, Srisailam, Ramalinga Raju's brother B Suryanarayana Raju, Satyam's former MD B Rama Raju and former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) auditor Subramani Gopalakrishnan in the Rs 617 crore income tax fraud case. All the accused have been given bail on the a surety bond of Rs 2 lakh each and...
12:57 PM, Oct 12, 2011
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