London: Over two decades after 'Satanic Verses' sparked a never-ending controversy and provoked a 'fatwa' for his head, author Salman Rushdie has only one thing to say to his detractors: 'I did not write it for the mullahs'. The India-born controversial writer who has lived for years under the shadow of his 1988 book, now liberally jokes about the whole issue. Speaking at the Hay Festival of Literature and the...
09:20 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Asus has announced two new notebooks - the ASUS TAICHI and ASUS Transformer Book at Computex Taipei. Asus TAICHI - dual screens for a notebook and a multi-touch tablet in one - is touted to be slim and ultraportable. Both 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models have a double-sided LED-backlit IPS/FHD display. The device has a touch screen on the outside of the lid. With the lid open, the Asus...
04:20 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Taipei: Acer has introduced its Windows 8 Ultrabook devices - the Aspire S7 series - at Computex Taipei. Available in two sizes, 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch, these are touch-enabled ultrabooks. Both are said to have a sleek aluminum metallic unibody design. The larger model additionally sports a glossy, sculpted glass cover, thereby delivering a trendy and elegant appearance. With the aluminum unibody design, the S7 Ultrabooks are slim and light. The...
10:32 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New York: Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually. Plaintiffs in the seven-year-old case...
12:58 PM, Jun 01, 2012
San Francisco: Google will try to win more converts to a computer operating system revolving around its popular Chrome Web browser with a new wave of lightweight laptops built by Samsung Electronics. Tuesday's release of the next-generation Chromebooks will give Google and Samsung another opportunity to persuade consumers and businesses to buy an unconventional computer instead of machines running on familiar software by industry pioneers Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc....
06:51 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Song writers, artistes and performers, deprived of their dues so far, can now claim royalty for their creations with Parliament today approving a law to provide much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are cornered by producers. The bill,...
03:23 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Asus India has launched two new notebooks - Multimedia N56VM and Gaming Notebook G75VW. The multimedia N56VM is the latest addition to Asus' popular N Series of multimedia notebook. It is said to utilise SonicMaster Premium audiophile-worthy sound, wide-view screens with Full HD 1080p, and an all-new look with zinc alloy casing. The Asus N56VM is powered by an Intel 3rd generation core processor, which is claimed to...
11:02 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan is a part of India and PV Narasimha Rao is the Prime Minister of the country - this is being taught to school students in some states, according to a Member of Parliament. AIADMK member S Semmalai highlighted this in Lok Sabha on Wednesday while referring to the controversy over Ambedkar cartoon in CBSE textbooks during a discussion on Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Amendment Bill,...
08:42 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Following the controversy over a 63-year-old BR Ambedkar cartoon by K Shankar Pillai the government assured Parliament that no political cartoons would be allowed in school textbooks. Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee also announced that all the objectionable material would be withdrawn. But the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) book at the centre of the storm - India Constitution at Work, a part of the Class...
06:58 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Pottermore, an online hub developed by author JK Rowling for fans of the boy wizard Harry Potter is now open for all. The free site promises to be an exciting world full of new activities and information on Harry Potter and others from the hit book series. Fans will get additional writings from Rowling about the books, digital games extending the series' themes and plot-lines, e-book reading and...
12:54 PM, May 14, 2012
A Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT that there should be no political satire in school textbooks. ...
03:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Not just BR Ambedkar, there should be no political satire in school textbooks, that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. Sources told CNN-IBN that at a meeting on May 8, the Parliamentary Forum on Children strongly objected to cartoons in Political Science textbooks of Class IX, X, XI and XII. Sources say the MPs want cartoons of all politicians...
01:06 PM, May 13, 2012
New York: Harry Potter has joined the Kindle lending library. Amazon.com announced Thursday that on June 19, the e-book editions of J.K. Rowling's seven Potter novels will become part of the Kindle service available to Amazon Prime subscribers. Members can download a book for free once a month. Amazon's library has more than 145,000 books. Financial terms were not disclosed for the online retailer's "licensing agreement" with Rowling. Rowling only...
11:46 AM, May 11, 2012
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