
Tel Aviv :Intel Corp is launching research in Israel into technology that mimics the human brain and develops devices that "learn" about their user. "Machine learning is such a huge opportunity," Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, told reporters in Tel Aviv. "Despite their name, smartphones are rather dumb devices. My smartphone doesn't know anything more about me than when I got it," he added. "All of these devices will...

10:05 AM, May 24, 2012

Shanghai: Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No. 2 PC maker by sales, said on Monday that it will invest about 5 billion yuan ($793 million) over the next five years in an integrated mobile devices facility in China to meet rising global demand for smartphones and tablet computers. The Lenovo (Wuhan) Industrial Base, located in the city of Wuhan in central Hubei province, will carry out research and development, production...

11:14 AM, May 07, 2012

London: A growing dissatisfaction among office workers with the clunky computers their employers force them to use, in contrast to the sleek Apple devices many have at home, could yet benefit incumbent suppliers like Dell, a top Dell executive said. As Apple's third-generation iPad went on sale on Friday, accompanied by the now traditional scenes of fans queuing round the block, Dell's chief commercial officer Steve Felice said the tablet...

10:41 AM, Mar 17, 2012

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The IT@School project has come up with a Resource Portal and YouTube channel to help with the preparations of the SSLC Examination for 4.50 lakh students in the state. A press statement here said that resource portal of IT@School Project www.resource.itschool.gov.in had been packed with contents of Science, Social Science and Mathematics for benefiting students appearing for the SSLC examination commencing next month.The portal has been designed to enable...

11:23 AM, Feb 20, 2012

From a man in Kashmir who fought for opening a dispensary in his village to a woman who fought for the full payment of her wages under the NREGA scheme, 2011 saw citizens taking up the nation's corrupt by its jugular and fighting for their rights. ...

08:31 PM, Feb 19, 2012

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

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: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday unvieled the world's cheapest tablet computer. The cost, just Rs 2250. Or about $ 149. Sibal said, "There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones." These tablets will be subsidised by the government and given to Indian university students at just over Rs 1000. It's a five year old project ...

10:41 AM, Oct 06, 2011

New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday unvieled the world's cheapest tablet computer. The cost, just Rs 2250. Or about $ 149. Sibal said, "There are milestones in life when we feel we have really achieved something great. This is one of those milestones." These tablets will be subsidised by the government and given to Indian university students at just over Rs 1000. It's a five year old project...

10:41 AM, Oct 06, 2011

Sydney: World's thinnest nanowires will drive computers super fast in the near future using light, a new research claims. Nanowires will use a 'photonic chip' at its core to perform functions in computing and electronics. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian National University engineered a nanowire thousand times thinner than a human hair in a special type of glass known as chalcogenide. The photonic chip is the...

09:47 AM, Sep 21, 2011

San Francisco: Ruling out any move to become the rival of its own customers, the world's largest chip-maker Intel said it is not interested in acquiring technology giant HP's PC business. At the same time, it also dismissed speculation about a growing divide between Intel and its long-term partner Microsoft, the world's largest computing software company. The speculation was fuelled after Intel announced a partnership with Google for its foray...

01:55 PM, Sep 15, 2011

San Francisco: The world's largest chip-maker Intel Corporation said the new 'Ultrabook' devices being developed with its technology will initially cost around $1,000, but the price tag should fall below $799 in coming years. Such a price tag would bring Ultrabooks - which are billed as being slimmer, faster and lighter than conventional notebook PCs - closer to tablet devices in terms of pricing, although Intel does not expect the...

01:40 PM, Sep 15, 2011

San Francisco: Banking on emerging markets like India, China and Brazil to drive continued growth in sales of PCs, technology giant Intel said "the new kid on the block", Ultrabooks, would herald a transformation in the market. Ultrabooks, touted by the world's largest chip-maker as as a sleeker, thinner and faster version of laptops at an affordable price and the next big thing in the computing market, will be launched...

01:32 PM, Sep 15, 2011