The government on Thursday revised downward the economic growth for fiscal 2011-12 to 6.2 per cent from the earlier estimate of 6.5 per cent. However, as per the first revised estimates of National Income, Consumption Expenditure, Saving and Capital Formation, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) for the fiscal 2010-11 has been revised upwards to 9.3 per cent from 8.4 per cent. ...
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Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his screenplay on Facebook film The Social Network and created TV drama 'The West Wing', said on Thursday that he would be looking for an element of tension or an obstacle in Steve Job's life on which to hang the movie. Movie studio Sony Pictures announced on tuesday that Sorkin would adapt Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the enigmatic genius behind the iPod and...
11:36 AM, May 19, 2012
Patna: Bihar's average economic growth rate in the past five years stood at 11.3 per cent, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said on Monday. Quoting a report by the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) on the basis of 2004-05 price base, Modi said the economic growth rate of Bihar over the past five years stood at 11.3 per cent and the same in 2011-12 is expected at 13.13 per cent....
06:26 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Im Feeling Lucky is a memoir by one of Googles early employees. Edwards was one of the few non-geeks in Googles early years. He worked in marketing, and was, in fact, the one responsible for much of the search engines tone in its interface with users. Its hard to remember a time when Google wasnt ubiquitous, but, as the book shows, it took some time to get there, and the...
01:08 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Writing a review about a book on Steve Jobs life is not easy. It is close to being very difficult, nonetheless here is a review of, 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson. This might sound a bit strange, however I have never owned a single Apple product and yet I am so taken in by the man behind it all. Steve Jobs at the same time was also a person and...
04:33 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Beijing: The pirated version of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' biography is being sold in Shanghai as bookstores have run out of the authorised copies, a media report said. Since its debut Oct 24, the sales have been brisk. The Shanghai Book City ran out of stock of its 1,800 copies within hours. Steve Jobs died Oct 5. Shanghai Daily said street vendors display the biographies in English or Chinese and...
04:15 PM, Nov 05, 2011
New York: A genius for mixing the humanities and sciences coupled with a Svengali-like ability to motivate people powered Steve Jobs's mission to change the world, biographer Walter Isaacson concludes in his exhaustive new study of the Apple co-founder. "Michelangelo knew a lot about how to quarry stone, not just how to be a sculptor," Isaacson quotes Jobs as saying in one of the many interviews the Apple chief executive...
09:37 AM, Oct 29, 2011
New York: Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson he wanted him to write his biography because he's good at getting people to talk. Jobs, it turns out, didn't need much prodding, secretive as he was about both his private life and the company he founded. "I just listened," said Isaacson, whose book, "Steve Jobs" (Simon & Schuster) went on sale on Monday. Jobs, who died on October 5 at the age...
08:44 AM, Oct 27, 2011
'Steve Jobs" (Simon & Schuster), by Walter Isaacson: "Steve Jobs" takes off the rose-colored glasses that often follow an icon's untimely death and instead offers something far more valuable: The chronicle of a complex, brash genius who was crazy enough to think he could change the world - and did. Through unprecedented access to Jobs with more than 40 conversations, including long sessions sitting in the Apple co-founder's living room,...
11:26 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New York: The biography of late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs' hit the bookstores on Monday, and reviewers wasted little time in heaping praise on the much-anticipated book destined for the bestseller list. The New York Times called Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs," which Simon & Schuster published earlier than planned following of Jobs' death from pancreatic cancer on October 5, clear and concise, saying it "does its solid best to...
08:43 AM, Oct 25, 2011
San Francisco: Google can only hope that Steve Jobs' final vendetta doesn't haunt the Internet search leader from his grave. The depths of Jobs' antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson's authorised biography of Apple's co-founder. The book goes on sale on Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs' long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his October 5 death. The Associated Press obtained a copy Thursday. The biography...
02:19 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New York: The seven months that Steve Jobs spent wandering in India in search of spiritual enlightenment were "not a waste of time", his biographer has said, with the late Apple co-founder telling him his time in India taught him "intuition". In an interview with the CBS, biographer Walter Isaacson says Jobs' design sense was greatly influenced by the "simplicities of Zen Buddhism." Isaacson's book 'Steve Jobs' will hit bookstores...
01:45 PM, Oct 24, 2011
New York: Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs, who is described by his biographer as being "brittle and very mean to people," had high regards for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and admired his Silicon valley counterpart for "not selling out." In an interview with CBS for the show '60 minutes', Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson says he admired Zuckerberg's zest for "wanting to make a company." "We talk about social networks in...
01:31 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs revolutionised multiple industries with his cutting-edge products but he was not the world's best manager, biographer Walter Isaacson said. Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and then brought a revolution to the mobile market but the inspiring genius is known for his hard edges that have often times alienated colleagues and early investors with his my-way-or-the-highway dictums. "He's not...
09:07 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer did not get his maximum bonus for the last fiscal year, despite notching the company's highest ever sales, as he took a hit for missteps on phones and not moving fast enough to counter Apple Inc's iPad. Ballmer, 54, recieved a cash bonus of $ 670,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30, equal to his salary, but only half of the maximum...
12:47 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Roddick earned his fifth title in a Masters 1000 tournament - one level below the Grand Slams - and his first since 2006. ...
10:02 AM, Apr 05, 2010
SE has announced its latest phone with tennis star Maria Sharapova. ...
05:38 PM, Mar 27, 2009
The historic town of Mamallapuram near Chennai is emerging as a centre for child sex tourism. ...
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