Tokyo: A Japanese businessman using a home-built computer has taken calculations of the mathematical concept of 'pi' to the trillions of digits and won a world record for his labors. Shigeru Kondo, a systems engineer in his 50s at a food company in the central Japanese prefecture of Nagano, in August calculated pi - the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter - to five trillion digits, almost doubling...
12:46 PM, Jan 21, 2011
Bangalore: News Corp and Apple Inc are delaying the launch of the media conglomerate's digital newspaper for the iPad, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The tablet newspaper, which will be called The Daily, was supposed to be unveiled next Wednesday, but the two parties decided they need more time to test a subscription service, the WSJ said. News Corp confirmed the delay but declined...
05:21 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Los Angeles: Stop the presses - completely. The world's first iPad newspaper, The Daily, is prepping for launch. Journalists have been hired and are in place at multiple US bureaus, including Los Angeles and New York. The formal announcement of the digital publication owned by News Corp. will be made at an event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on January 19, according to two people familiar with...
09:53 AM, Jan 14, 2011
New York: News Corp will launch its long anticipated digital newspaper for tablet devices on January 19 at a joint news event attended by Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. News Corp, which generates almost 30 percent of its first quarter revenue annually from publishing, is a making a big bet that starting a newspaper from scratch...
11:57 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: The online advertising sector witnessed a turnaround in 2010, as increasing confidence in the medium, has made advertisers take digital media more seriously for display purposes, according to a study. Aimed at providing an insight into the user behaviour across advertising sectors, the Ozone Media Performance Users Study (OPUS) is an analysis of nearly a quarter of a million leads generated from campaigns that were run on the...
03:33 PM, Jan 06, 2011
New York: Liquid Comics, an entertainment company founded by three Indians, has announced the digital iPad release of "Untouchable", an original graphic novel exploring various themes of racial prejudice during the British Raj with a supernatural horror twist. A printed edition of the novel by acclaimed writers Mike Carey (X-Men, Lucifer, The Unwritten) and Samit Basu (Devi, The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma, The Simoqin Prophecies), will also be released...
08:09 PM, Nov 22, 2010
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co, the world's No 3 maker of compact digital cameras, unveiled a hybrid camera on Tuesday and predicted the new segment will grow 10-fold in five years to surpass the high-end single-lens reflex (SLR) market. Traditional camera makers such as Canon Inc and Nikon are facing a threat to their dominance of the SLR market from Sony's NEX and other so-called mirrorless cameras by Olympus Corp and...
02:26 PM, Sep 14, 2010
New Delhi: With some five billion mobile phones in use today globally and over 10 billion credit and debit cards issued each year, tech evangelist Sam Pitroda has predicted the virtual death of paper money in 30 years thanks to innovative convergence. "Paper money will disappear as transactions become digitised in another three decades," said the inventor of Casio Digital Diary, which was a rage in the 1980s, speaking about...
06:23 PM, Sep 11, 2010
The 126-year-old dictionary could be the latest victim of our digital revolution. ...
10:50 AM, Sep 09, 2010
Washington: With 39 Indian companies making it to the Forbes "Asia's Best Under a Billion" list, up from only 20 last year, India was the biggest gainer as the region grew at "blistering rates" after the global economic crisis. "More Indian companies made it to the list this year as the country is less open than many other Asian economies and was therefore less affected by the global downturn," the...
06:46 PM, Sep 02, 2010
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Thursday recommended that all analogue signals be phased out by 2013 to allow consumers to watch high quality digital channels of their choice on a-la-carte basis. Digitization will help companies improve signal quality and offer more interactive and value-added services. In its recomendation, TRAI said the implementation of the digital broadcast signals should take place in a phased manner starting...
07:07 PM, Aug 05, 2010
The US Justice Department is making inquiries into whether Apple unfairly dominates the digital music market. ...
10:42 AM, May 27, 2010
The search engine giant Google plans to put millions of books online. ...
12:35 PM, Feb 12, 2010
You'll be able to access college degrees or school marksheets at the click of a button. ...
10:30 AM, Jan 13, 2010
Around 800 PCs get accessed from remote destinations every day in India. ...
10:25 AM, Nov 27, 2009
Soni says before the year end, Cabinet should approve Headend In the Sky. ...
12:14 AM, Oct 21, 2009
If approved, the settlement may unlock access to millions of books in the US. ...
10:22 AM, Sep 25, 2009
Wednesday is the last repeating, single-digit date for almost a century. ...
03:00 PM, Sep 09, 2009
Good for consumers who want books, mags, newspaper on handy tablets. ...
01:28 PM, Aug 26, 2009
Kamal Hasan says digital cinema is the future of cinema. ...
03:34 AM, Aug 06, 2009
