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  • HTC sees disastrous Facebook phone sales

    HTC reportedly is in crisis due to "disastrous" sales of its HTC First handset that features Facebook Home, with multiple staff having fled the ...

  • GIF creator sparks outrage by revealing that its pronounced Jif

    Steve Wilhite ruined lives on Tuesday with the revelation that "GIF" is actually pronounced "Jif". Wilhite made the shocking revelation during an interview ...

  • The Last of Us Hands-on preview

    Pennsylvania in the early evening sun. The sky casts a golden pall over a patch of foliage as the pair make their way into town. Fireflies dance in the sunlight, distracting Ellie as Joel scowls and pushes forward with nary a glance. You control Joel throughout The Last of Us, but this section is all about Ellie. 14 years old and born after the fungus brought the world to its knees, Ellie is ...

  • China wants communication on cybersecurity with US

    BEIJING: China has appealed for communication with the US on cyber security, Xinhua reported. While stressing that cybersecurity was a global issue, confronting not only America but also China, a foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said: "China proposes stronger cooperation with the United States on cyber security." The statement came during a daily press briefing in response to a ...

  • How Chinese Premier Lis visit will boost TCS biz

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to TCS headquarters in Mumbai and his promise to open up his country's services industry may further boost the Indian IT major's forays in the communist ...


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Movie Review

Your Friends & Neighbors

Your Friends & Neighbors

Neil LaBute's "Your Friends & Neighbors" is akin to a sociological cataloging of human misery, cruelty, and sexual dysfunction. Its characters are either inhumane, self-absorbed, insipid, or all of the above. Throughout the film, those personality flaws (which are so immense, the word flaw seems insufficient) come into constant conflict, causing unending misery and pain. Only one character ... ...

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  • Phaneeshs wife stood by after the Infosys firing

    scandal in 2002, his wife, Jaya, stood solidly behind him and went as far as to say that the episode only strengthened their marriage. "A crisis like this teaches you who your real friends are and which relationships are lasting," Jaya said in an interview to the Economic Times in 2003. "We've bonded more strongly as a family because of this episode. I've got my husband ...

  • Online slang guide helps deliver justice

    justice move slowly sometimes, but not, apparently, as slowly as Webster's New World Dictionary. Slang has always been a challenge for the courts in cases that involve vulgar or insulting language. Conventional dictionaries lag the spoken word by design. That has lawyers and judges turning to a more fluid source of definitions: Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced collection of slang words on ...

  • Mobile services shut in Pakistan ahead of Chinese Premiers visit

    Li Keqiang here. Li will arrive here today on a two-day visit after his official visit to India. The state-owned Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) issued a formal notification to all cellular companies to shut the services until 1 PM local time. Pakistani officials say that militants routinely use mobile phone for planning and implementing attacks. The authorities have taken security ...

  • How Apple scores its lower tax bill

    Apple is one of America's most profitable companies. And it pays a substantial income tax bill to the U.S. government -- by its own account, $6 billion in 2012 and an estimated $7 billion this ...

  • US power grid companies leave networks vulnerable

    US government’s belief in the efficiency of its private sector to run its power infrastructure is proving completely bogus. According to a Congressional report, it would be more secure for US infrastructure for congress to put a cat in charge of the network than leave things as they are. The report said that inefficiencies in how security standards are set and "haphazard" ...

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