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
The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, declared the ISAT results 2012 on Wednesday at 2pm. Candidates who appeared for the test to be eligible for the B.Tech programme at the institute may view the results at http://www.iist.ac.in/isat2012/ online.htm. The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technologys IIST Admission Test-ISAT 2012 was conducted on April 21, 2012 in 22 cities across the country. However, when IBNLive tried...
02:33 PM, May 23, 2012
Gurgaon: A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded by two youths on Monday after a heated argument over parking space for their cars in sector 55 in Gurgaon, police said. According to police, some people, who were in a Tata Safari car, shot at Sachin twice when he objected to their parking of the car at his place. The victim runs a cab service in the area and hails from...
09:22 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistani military planes have violated Indian air space 23 times in the past three years including twice in last four months, Defence Minister AK Antony said on Monday. He also noted that all such violations are "taken up" with the country concerned. "During the last three years - 2009-2011 - and current year, 23 incidents of air violation by planes of Pakistan defence forces were reported," Antony said...
06:50 PM, May 21, 2012
Moscow: The crew members at the International Space Station (ISS) will make a photo report about life onboard the orbital complex, with a 3D camera sent by Russian news agency RIA Novosti. "Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin who on Tuesday left for the ISS onboard Soyuz TMA-04M space shuttle, took a special stereo camera to make a 3D report about their life and work on the orbital complex,"...
10:43 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General report on the controversial Antrix-Devas deal tabled in Parliament has called it "a classic case of public investment for private profit". The report comes down heavily on the Department of Space saying that in its eagerness, it concealed facts from the Cabinet and violated several rules. The report also has harsh words for retired ISRO employees MG Chandrasekhar and D Venugopal. The report...
02:21 PM, May 15, 2012
Hyderabad: "Mar ke bhi chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death, then where will I go?" This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even death offers no solution. Rapid urbanisation, burgeoning population, escalating land prices and shrinking graveyards due to encroachments have...
12:58 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: After MiD DAY reported how over a 100 vehicles jostle for one parking spot in Mumbai, it emerges that the citys fleet of 42,000 cabs might widen the ratio even more, competing as they are with private vehicles for parking space at select locations in the city and the suburbs. The system of operating prepaid taxi stands outside various railway stations, and of share-a-taxi stands on several arterial roads...
12:50 PM, May 14, 2012
Bangalore: The Indian space agency will on Saturday conduct a crucial test on an indigenously built cryogenic engine for launching its heavier rockets from its spaceport, a top official said on Friday. "The cryogenic acceptance test will take place on Saturday in our Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. If it succeeds, we will use the cryogenic stage in the geostationary satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) rocket later...
12:50 AM, May 12, 2012
Jakarta: A Russian-made plane carrying 46 people lost contact with air controllers while flying over mountains during a demonstration flight on Wednesday in western Indonesia, officials said. Search and rescue teams were heading to the area, said Bambang Ervan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation. Bad weather, however, forced at least two helicopters to turn back. The Sukhoi Superjet-100, a civilian plane, took off from Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma Airport...
06:16 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said China intruded twice into the Indian airspace last month when its helicopters were found flying over territories of Himachal Pradesh. "There was an incident of air violation on March 16 when two Chinese helicopters were observed flying on Indian side of international border in Himachal Pradesh," Defence Minister AK Antony told Rajya Sabha in a written reply. Another such incident took place on...
02:04 AM, May 03, 2012
Chennai: India will ferry two foreign satellites - French and Japanese - on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) rocket in August this year for a price, said a senior official. "The next rocket launch will be in August. We will be sending our PSLV rocket with French satellite SPOT 6 (800 kg) and a small Japanese satellite weighing around 15 kg. Though the rocket is called PSLV-C21 it...
01:29 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Pyongyang: In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography. The country is famous for organising crowds of thousands of people using coloured cards to spell out political slogans and images in stadiums or large squares, and the gathering last week to celebrate the 100th birthday of national founder Kim Il Sung was no different. This time, however, the spelled out message in a central square in the...
08:14 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New York: In a city understandably wary of low-flying aircraft, New Yorkers and tourists alike watched with joy and excitement on Friday as space shuttle Enterprise sailed over the skyline on its final flight before it becomes a museum piece. Ten years after 9/11, people gathered on rooftops and the banks of the Hudson River to marvel at the sight of the spacecraft riding piggyback on a modified jumbo jet...
04:01 PM, Apr 28, 2012
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