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  • eBay goes for Chinese payment takeaway

    eBay wants to be the first US company to roll out an online payment system in China and is confident that its mandatory Paypal service will make it. The firm is trying to get into a market that is dominated by local players. Google is the second most used search engine in China after Baidu, and most of China's 1.35 billion people prefer to shop with Chinese ...

  • Soon 3D-printed batteries for your smartphones

    gold combs, creating a tightly interlaced stack of anodes and cathodes. Then the researchers packaged the electrodes into a tiny container and filled it with an electrolyte solution to complete the battery. The researchers said despite its tiny size, the battery's electrochemical performance is "comparable to commercial batteries" in terms of charge and discharge rate, cycle life ...

  • Cisco to open new RD centre in Israel

    John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. The new centre is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel, reported Xinhua. Chambers Tuesday said the new project, whose main focus is information security, would be based on knowledge accumulated at NDS, an Israeli hi-tech company acquired last ...

  • Google Internet balloons to help SMBs

    Google's plans to beam the internet from giant balloons sent to the stratosphere could boost small businesses in rural parts of Asia by connecting them ...

  • Sony No plans to start manufacturing ops in India

    Sony India has managed to break into the top five markets in the Japanese giant's global operations, riding on healthy sales of televisions. The upsurge -- to the fourth position -- has been quick for the Indian subsidiary that till two years ago was a distant ninth in Sony's global markets. Sony India finished last fiscal (2012-13) with a 27% growth at overall revenue of Rs 8,000 ...


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Mulan

Disney's latest animated epic, "Mulan," is certainly one of its more ambitious efforts. Without straying too far from its successful and oft-imitated formula, "Mulan" manages to encompass much more than the usual kiddy fare. First-time directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook have essentially combined the best elements of Disney's last two (lesser) efforts -- the darkness of "The Hunchback of Notre ... ...

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  • Gorilla Glass maker Corning to invest in View

    View Inc , a maker of energy-saving glass that automatically adjusts the amount of heat and light glare that passes through it, the companies said on Tuesday. Corning, known for innovations such ...

  • Nasscom Big gap between hiring and deployment

    There have been many issues related to on-boarding of students especially in HCL Tech where students protested in front of their offices. What is your view on this? Educational institutions should work with the industry and see that recruitment period is closer to passing out. In today's world of uncertainty , it is difficult to estimate requirements. There is a big gap ...

  • NSA hopes US people cant add up

    General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, told Congress that spying on the internet connections of ordinary people managed to disrupt 50 terror attacks since September 11. Alexander is a clever man, by touting a number like 50 it sounds rather a lot. It implies that if he was not spying on you, that is 50 airplanes which would have flown into buildings. He must have been hoping that the ...

  • Germans come up with novel ebook DRM

    has come up with a novel form of DRM for e-books. Dubbed SiDiM, the DRM changes the text and punctuation of an e-book slightly in a way which is unique to each book sold. While this will not stop the book being shared, it will serve as a digital watermark that can be used to track books that have had any other DRM layers stripped out of them before being shared online. One researcher, Martin ...

  • Intel bags a smartwatch

    Intel is branching out into another range of accessories. According to Chipzilla's chief technology officer Justin "it's not crap" Rattner the company is working on a smartwatch. The high-tech timepiece is one of a range of "experimental devices in the lab" rhw CTO said, Rattner claimed that it was part of the chip firm's exploration of "novel display ...

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