Chiba: A startup little known outside Japan that offers games for cellphones is emerging as the new star at this year's Tokyo video game exhibition, usually dominated by big-name console makers like Sony and Microsoft. Gree Inc., a social networking service that began just seven years ago in the founder's living room, had its first booth ever at the sprawling Tokyo Game Show, which previewed to media Thursday ahead of...
12:52 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Tokyo: In a world of booming smartphones and tablets, social game providers will take the spotlight at the Tokyo Game Show this week, while champion Nintendo, criticised for being too centred on hardware, struggles to win back fans. As sales of conventional games sputter, Japanese mobile social gaming company Gree and rival DeNA are seen well placed to benefit in the local market, given their success with previous generation feature...
02:50 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court Tuesday issued notices to megastar Amitabh Bachchan, Sony TV and the censor board on a petition challenging promos of the forthcoming season of "Kaun Banega Crorepati" show. Petitioner Mumbai businessman Mukesh Sharma contended that a series of six promos telecast as a build-up to the show "insulted and maligned" the slogan of freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose "Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe azadi doonga"....
10:29 AM, Jul 06, 2011
New York: Machines first out-calculated us in simple math. Then they replaced us on the assembly lines, explored places we couldn't get to, even beat our champions at chess. Now a computer called Watson has bested our best at Jeopardy! A gigantic computer created by IBM specifically to excel at answers-and-questions left two champs of the TV game show in its silicon dust after a three-day tournament, a feat that...
11:13 AM, Feb 17, 2011
New York: The computer brained its human competition in Game 1 of the Man vs. Machine competition on Jeopardy! On the 30-question game board, veteran Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter managed only five correct responses between them during the Double Jeopardy round that aired Tuesday. They ended the first game of the two-game face-off with paltry earnings of $4,800 and $10,400 respectively. Watson, their IBM supercomputer nemesis, emerged...
11:07 AM, Feb 16, 2011
New York: A man-versus-machine showdown on popular US quiz show Jeopardy! ended in a tie on the first day of a three-day challenge, when an IBM computer showed off its knowledge of the Beatles, as well as a few glitches. The machine, dubbed Watson after International Business Machines Corp's former president Thomas Watson, is the computer and software maker's latest display of its expertise in advanced science. Watson's ability to...
11:54 AM, Feb 15, 2011
New York: TV game show 'Jeopardy' will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, will play two games against 'Watson', a computer programme developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that...
04:01 PM, Dec 14, 2010
New York: The game show Jeopardy will pit man versus machine this winter in a competition that will show how successful scientists are in creating a computer that can mimic human intelligence. Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions - Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter - will play two games against "Watson," a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three...
12:38 PM, Dec 14, 2010
Check out the list of B-Town actors who have tried their hand at hosting television shows ...
05:06 PM, Apr 07, 2010
He will be seen hosting
Idea National Bingo Night on Colors. ...
02:22 PM, Dec 27, 2009
Soha is happy as not many women have been tried their luck in this stream. ...
12:56 AM, Jun 09, 2009
It is a coincidence that Duncan Fletcher resembles Grady Little, the baseball coach who will go down in history as the man who didn't pull a struggling Pedro Martinez during Game Seven of the 2003 American League Championship Series? Little was unceremoniously dumped from his position as Boston Red Sox coach following the team's exit from the doorstep of the World Series, and to this day remains a man castigated...
05:25 PM, Apr 29, 2008
Perth: Australian wicketkeeper batsman Brad Haddin on Monday fired a fresh salvo at the struggling Indian team ahead of Friday's third Test here, saying the visitors break quicker than anyone in the world when things are not going their way. Haddin said the Australian team had discussed the mental frailty of Indian players during the second Test in Sydney last week, which the hosts won by an innings and 68...
03:02 AM, Apr 09, 2008
Chennai: After scoring his maiden century, Kieron Pollard said that he would like to be more consistent at the international level. I hope that I am more consistent. Thank God, I got my maiden hundred. Wanted the team to win. Didn't happen today. Just have to go back and reflect on what went wrong. First couple of games were really close. Hopefully, we'll take a couple of months off international...
03:18 AM, Mar 29, 2008
Allahabad: Indian Premier League chairman Rajeev Shukla on Wednesday described the London court order holding two Pakistani cricketers guilty of spot-fixing as a matter concerning the Cricket Boards of Pakistan and England which the BCCI has nothing to do with. I do not think that anybody associated with the BCCI needs to comment on the London court order indicting former Pakistani skipper Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif. It...
02:09 AM, Mar 15, 2008
The star says talks are on with several channels. ...
01:19 AM, Jul 30, 2007
Delhi High Court has asked the MRTP Commision to investigate how the show is conducted. ...
11:38 PM, Apr 30, 2007
India's number one television quiz show
Kaun Banega Crorepati has landed itself on the hot seat. ...
01:25 PM, Apr 28, 2007
