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  • Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

    Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

  • Hackers target important Saudi websites Hackers target important Saudi websites

    The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

  • Ford shows off its 3D Cave automatic virtual environment

    Ford has let us poke around its 3D Cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), a simulated cavern where vehicles are designed and tested digitally to increase manufacturing efficiency while reducing the costs of building physical prototypes. Based at Ford's research and development centre just down the road from the firm's production line in Cologne, Germany, CAVE acts as "an ...

  • Microsoft warms up for Xbox 720 launch

    Microsoft is going to launch its next generation Xbox console tomorrow. The firm has been revving up its hype machine for weeks and rumours about the console have been swirling for months. It was codenamed Durango and apparently one was for sale on eBay, but now it seems that the next generation Microsoft games console will be named the Xbox 720. A countdown to the Xbox 720 launch is slowly ...

  • Gadgetwise Blog QA Getting Passes for Passbook

    Passbook feature for iOS 6, you can get passes -- electronic tickets, boarding passes, coupons, loyalty cards and the like -- from other sources. Businesses that do not have their own stand-alone iOS apps can ...


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Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring (Banshun) [DVD]

Late Spring is one of Yasujiro Ozus most direct and powerful shomin-geki, or modern family dramas. Shomin-geki was the genre in which Ozu excelled, and the second half of his cinematic career is defined largely by the poignant, sympathetic, and utterly transcendent wa ... ...

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  • Dell to Icahn Cannot disclose more information

    Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to founder Michael ...

  • Desi tablet makers eye Rs 210 crore opportunity

    NEW DELHI: A barely-masked populist move by the Rajasthan government, just six months ahead of the assembly elections, is giving hope to Indian tablet makers who see an opportunity to increase their share in the country's fast-growing tablet market. Last week, the Congress government in Rajasthan, led by Chief ...

  • PC shipments rise 7.5 in Jan-Mar quarter IDC

    India PC shipments rose by 7.5 per cent to 2.71 million units in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the previous quarter, research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said. The branded desktops witnessed execution of a few large deals, primarily in BFSI, IT and government verticals, supporting the overall commercial growth in Q1 2013, IDC said. However, consumer market remained largely ...

  • Google tax Why UK is not feeling lucky

    UK's famous parliamentary committee hearings, though they really can't do much to change laws or take punitive action, can sure make headlines and influence public opinion. Unlike Indian JPCs, UK MPs are known for being rather acerbic at times. It was a parliamentary committee that ...

  • James Bond Watch Found At Car Boot Sale

    James Bond's geiger counter wristwatch from hit movie Thunderball has turned up following years of mystery about its whereabouts after it was found at a car boot sale. The prop, one of the many gadgets used by 007 during his half century on-screen - was key to the plot of the film as it helped the secret agent locate stolen atomic weapons during underwater scenes in the 1965 film. ...

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