However, a study suggests that crying is a recent trend at the Oscars since 1995. ...
03:50 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were partially hit due to fog on January 15, affecting the schedule of 25 domestic and international flights. Twenty-five flights, originating from here were delayed either due to weather conditions at the airport and at the destination or due to operational reasons. Only one flight was cancelled on January 15, airport sources said. ...
11:34 AM, Jan 15, 2013
The digitisation change in the Indian TV landscape brings to fore Darwin's theory of natural evolution by natural selection. Natural selection is a gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 11, 2013
A company has made a digital pen to allow people to use Windows 8 on their old monitors for less than the cost of buying a new touch-enabled computer. ...
01:54 AM, Jan 09, 2013
It was another chilly day in the capital with the mercury remaining below 5 degree Celsius in the morning hours. The minimum was recorded at 4.4 degrees as against the minimum of 4.8 degrees on January 2. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 03, 2013
A growing band of 'lifeloggers' are recording every day in minute detail for a lifetime with digital cameras. ...
11:23 AM, Dec 25, 2012
Eastman Kodak is selling its digital imaging patents for about $525 million, money the struggling photo pioneer says will help it emerge from bankruptcy protection in the first half of next year. ...
02:26 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Panasonic may sell its Sanyo digital camera business to Japanese private equity fund Advantage Partners by the end of March. ...
04:42 PM, Dec 12, 2012
London: People concerned about what remains on the internet when they die are compiling 'digital wills' to help erase any embarrassing online legacies, it has emerged. Increasing number of Britons are leaving their passwords, login details, passwords and detailed instructions to digital executors who then use that personal information to tidy up web-based information. By accessing the information from a secure server, an executor can erase secret email folders, close...
05:13 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Washington: People with moderate vision loss can regain the ability to read quickly and comfortably by using digital tablets, a new study has claimed. Researchers found that people with eye diseases that damage their central vision could increase their reading speed by 15 words-per-minute, on average. Using a tablet with a back-lit screen resulted in the fastest reading speeds for all study participants, no matter what their level of visual...
05:39 PM, Nov 12, 2012
TV sets go black in Delhi and Mumbai homes as the deadline for digitisation ended on Wednesday, but Kolkata and Chennai get a reprieve. ...
07:52 PM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: Television sets without set top boxes (STBs) in hundreds of households across Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata went blank as the deadline for switch over to cable TV digitisation ended on October 31 midnight. People watching various programmes faced a TV blackout when the clock struck 12. However, in some areas of Kolkata, the television sets without STBs were found to be working. In Mumbai, nearly 20 per cent...
10:09 AM, Nov 01, 2012
New Delhi: The deadline for cable operators to switch to digital TV ends on Wednesday in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. What it essentially means is that if you don't have a set top box, then you can't watch TV starting Wednesday. This is the first of the three-stage process where cable TVs across the country must migrate to digital signals to be distributed through set top boxes. Official data...
10:22 AM, Oct 31, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday threatened to launch an agitation if television transmission was blacked out after the October 31 deadline for digitisation and accused the Centre of trying to adopt a path of "confrontation" with the states on the issue. "When set top boxes are not in hand, analog system should be allowed to continue and the Centre has no right to blackout television. We...
05:06 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Over 80 per cent cable TV digitisation has been achieved in the four metros, with Mumbai accounting for almost 100 per cent, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday said. In a statement, the ministry claimed that this figure rises up to 87 per cent if the progress made by Direct-To-Home (DTH) is also taken into account. DTH operators have informed that 27 lakh boxes have been installed...
07:25 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Eight-year-old Ritesh Walia peers through his spectacles at Hercules saving a lost princess, his latest video game. After five hours with Hercules, he switches to Angry Birds, and then to Pokemon. Ritesh is not alone in his addiction to video games. With increasing access to computers, smart phones, 3D television, ipads and numerous other gadgets, childhood myopia (near-sightedness) has become a huge risk for urban children, say experts....
02:01 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Japan's Kanda Myojin shrine is an ancient temple in Tokyo that has come up with safety charms for computers and internet to protect information in today's tech-savvy world. The shrine has produced stickers with charms imprinted on them that can be pasted onto one's computer or mobile phone to protect information. The Shinto shrine is over 1,200 years old. ...
09:53 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: Aiming to eliminate bogus ration cards and ensure that food subsidy reaches the genuine beneficiaries, the government on Thursday approved a Rs 884 crore plan for end-to-end computerisation of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in the 12th Five-Year Plan on a cost-sharing basis with states. Around 18 crore households, including above poverty line and below poverty line, get subsidised ration under the TPDS. The cabinet committee on...
10:53 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out extension of deadline for digitisation of cable television beyond October 31, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Friday said Delhi was lagging behind other metros in this process. Soni met Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and asked her to ensure that all households having cable TV connection installed digital set top box (STB) before the deadline. "Only 70 per cent people in Delhi have installed...
08:23 PM, Sep 28, 2012
