San Francisco: Engineers at Intel Corp are applying lessons from aircraft design to create sturdier laptops in a bid to reduce the prices of the new ultra-thin computers the top chipmaker is promoting heavily. Intel is counting on the super-thin laptops, a category it has dubbed ultrabooks, to add some pizzazz to a PC market languishing due to the growing popularity of Apple Inc's iPad. Models expected later this year...
10:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012
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
New Delhi: The Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which seeks to protect owners of literary or musical works, has been passed by the Rajya Sabha and will be presented to the Lok Sabha before it becomes law, much to the delight of singers, writers and composers. The bill, which is to provide exclusive and moral rights to performers in conformity with the World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) Copyright Treaty and performances...
03:27 PM, May 22, 2012
Kolkata: A year into the rule of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal has seen a sharp division among intellectuals who once backed the Trinamool Congress chief, with some feeling that she was 'autocratic' and 'intolerant of criticism', but most agreeing that she needed more time. Educationist Sunanda Sanyal, litterateur Mahasweta Devi, actor Kaushik Sen, writer Nabarun Bhattacharjee, Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh have been critical of the chief minister on various...
09:58 AM, May 20, 2012
NILAMBUR: The Nilambur forests are fast turning a haven for Maoists and other extremist organisations, according to the latest intelligence reports. The police and forest officials have started combing operations to smoke them out from the forest areas of Vazhikadavu and Karulayi bordering Tamil Nadu where they are said to be camping. Nilambur forests are considered as a sensitive area where extremists thrive. This belief has been strengthened by the...
12:04 PM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: With states stoutly opposed to NCTC in its current form, Home Minister P Chidambaram has assured that the matter of re-location of the anti-terror body outside the Intelligence Bureau (IB) would be re-examined. In his concluding remarks at the Chief Ministers conference, which were released officially on Sunday, the Home Minister sought to clarify on the decision of placing the NCTC within the IB. "...I may recall, when...
01:55 PM, May 06, 2012
New York: Intel Corp. said that PCs with chips from its new generation of processors, featuring a revolutionary design, will be available this week. The new generation, code-named "Ivy Bridge," is the first to be made with a 3-D structure. Miniature fins jut out of the plane of the chip, letting Intel cram more features into the same space. That means the chips can be faster while consuming less power....
10:50 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: India based handset manufacturer, Lava International will bring two more handsets with Intel Atom processor by this year end. A senior executive of the company told this to The Mobile Indian after launching Lava's first Intel Atom processor based Xolo 900 which also happens to be the first smartphone with the said processor to be launched in India. "Lava will be launching two more handset based on Intel...
01:55 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New York: Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other's employees. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected the companies' bid to dismiss claims brought under the federal Sherman antitrust law and California's own antitrust law, the Cartwright Act. In a decision on Wednesday night, Koh...
12:50 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Intel, in association with Lava, has announced the launch of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside. Priced at Rs 22,000, the phone is powered by a 1.6 GHz Atom processor with Hyper Threading technology that is believed to bring speed and multi-tasking performance. The phone features a 4.03-inch high resolution LCD display and an 8 megapixel camera. The XOLO X900 runs Android 2.3, which is...
12:27 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Beijing: China's smartphone companies are at risk of becoming embroiled in disputes over intellectual property rights since many important patents are held by international companies like Google and Microsoft, experts have said. In 2005, international mobile phone-makers occupied over half the Chinese market. But in 2011, China shipped 455 million mobile phones, among which domestic brands made up 72 per cent. Telecommunications experts have warned Chinese companies that they may...
02:26 PM, Apr 15, 2012
San Francisco: A former Intel Corp employee who allegedly stole from the chipmaker documents worth hundreds of millions of dollars pleaded guilty on Friday to five counts of wire fraud. Federal prosecutors in Boston had alleged that Biswamohan Pani, 36, downloaded some of Intel's "most valuable" design and manufacturing documents in June 2008, in his final days as an engineer in a Massachusetts facility. Intel was not aware at the...
11:33 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: The government may ask Army Chief General VK Singh to go on leave till May 31, the day he retires as it triple to tide over the crisis precipitated by the General levelling bribery allegations against serving as well as retired Army officers and writing a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mentioning that the Army was ill-equipped to fight a war and defeat the enemy. Sources say...
11:30 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India's premier nuclear facility in Mumbai and also most vulnerable to a possible terror attack was on top of the list of sensitive buildings surveyed and video-taped by 26/11 terror attacks planner David Coleman Headley. Headley surveyed the BARC complex for a possible terror strike. Intelligence agencies have now reported, despite stepped-up security after the Mumbai terror attacks, at least 25 intrusions have...
06:36 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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