A Bhaskar Narayana, Ex-ISRO Scientific Secretary, said that the findings are committee's own conclusions. ...
03:36 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists who were primarily behind the Antrix-Devas deal were indicted on Saturday night. ISRO on Saturday night released details of high powered review committee on Antrix-Devas deal. Some of the conclusions and recommendations of the committee are that there were serious lapses of judgement by several officials; in some case it even violated several norms...
01:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
London: It's a research which is likely to reignite the cliched battle of the sexes -- women are much better at parking a car than men. The research, which clearly contradicts the notion that women cannot park a car, has found female drivers are better at finding spaces and also more adept than men at manoeuvring a vehicle into a space -- though they may take longer to park. Women...
08:20 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Bangalore: Former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a withdrawal of the ban on him and three other colleagues over the controversial Antrix-Devas deal. Nair wrote in his letter that the ban targeting him and the other three scientists was regretable. The former ISRO chief asked the PM to explain what the scientists had done wrong, why there had been no...
04:10 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The government has showed signs of blinking in the stand-off with former ISRO scientists. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the government will speak to Madhavan Nair and the other 3 former ISRO scientists soon. The government is in fact expected to speak to the banned scientists to get their version. Sources say an immediate revocation of the decision to ban the scientists from government jobs may not happen...
08:21 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New York: Research in Motion's Thorsten Heins plans to waste no time in his new job. The BlackBerry maker's chief executive said he will present the board with his plan for company's future in just a matter of weeks. The German-born executive, who took over from two longstanding co-CEOs on Saturday, said his plans for RIM would be "significant" though he did not divulge details in an interview with Reuters....
02:55 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Bangalore: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday lashed out at the Prime Ministers Office for its order barring him and three of his colleagues from holding government posts for their alleged involvement in the controversial Antrix-Devas S-band spectrum deal. Nair did not spare his successor, K Radhakrishnan, either. "This is a clear attempt to tarnish our images and I can see the personal agenda of current Chairman Radhakrishnan...
08:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has stood by its ban on former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair, barring him from government jobs. V Narayanasamy, MoS in the PMO, said, "It was a decision taken by the committee on the basis of the report... It was in the best wisdom of the government. The government has the right to take these decisions." ...
08:12 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Washington: Booming demand for the latest iPhone model helped Apple beat all phones using Google's Android platform in the US smartphone market in the fourth quarter, data showed on Wednesday. Research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said Apple's share of the US market doubled from a year ago to 44.9 per cent in the October to December period, just beating Google's Android smartphones, which slipped to 44.8 per cent from 50...
03:38 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Wikipedia went dark as part of protests to stop Internet piracy legislation being considered by the US Congress. ...
09:36 AM, Jan 19, 2012
London: Researchers have found a dramatic rise in injuries to people using headphones while walking on the streets and have warned of serious accidents involving pedestrians using electronic devices, such as iPods and mobile phones. There is rising concern about the near trance-like state people can apparently enter while using mobile phones, MP3 players or electronic personal organisers, the Daily Mail reported. Psychologists view it as "divided attention" or "inattentional...
03:22 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: Research in Motion (RIM), the Canada-based Blackberry phone service provider, has reportedly refused to release the records of phone calls and text messages between Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz and former Pakistan Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, both embroiled in the raging memogate scandal rocking the country. The judicial commission investigating the scandal had asked the government to send a formal request to RIM through the Canadian High...
10:42 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Washington: US regulators looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to favour its own products have expanded the probe to include Google+, the search giant's new social networking tool, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday. Google+, which was launched in June, offers many of the capabilities available on Twitter and on Facebook. Google announced on Tuesday new features aimed at making search results more personalised. As...
11:17 AM, Jan 15, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal - its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft's other websites fielded 2.75 billion search requests in the US during December, catapulting in front of Yahoo Inc. for the first time in the jockeying for runner up to Google Inc., according to statistics released Wednesday by comScore Inc....
10:19 AM, Jan 12, 2012
San Francisco: Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information. The additional personal touches that began to roll out Tuesday mark another step toward one of Google's most ambitious goals. The Internet search leader eventually hopes to know enough about each of its users so it can tailor its results to fit the unique interests...
07:05 AM, Jan 11, 2012
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