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  • Video Czech engineers create successful flying bicycle

    AFTER their first prototype that was unveiled nine months ago, their design has progressed greatly - with this video showing a successful test run of the first flying ...

  • What is keeping Indias engineers unemployed

    India's engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed. Others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications in a market where there are few jobs for India's overflowing technical talent pool. Beset by a flood of institutes (offering a varying degree of education) and a shrinking market for their ...

  • Aadhaar opens new revenue streams for Indian IT

    MUMBAI: Information technology companies are tapping into a lucrative opportunity opened up by the government's vote-catching scheme to transfer cash directly to beneficiaries. With the Aadhaar unique identity number at its core, the scheme is heavily dependent on banks, which in turn are relying on technology firms to implement the programme. More than half of India's rural population ...

  • As startups bloom so do outsourced CXOs

    BANGALORE: Jayant K Tewari is a freelance chief financial officer. He does a lot of the heavy lifting for several small and medium-sized technology companies with revenues of up to $5 million. He works out of a plug-and-play office in Bangalore's UB City, reviews contracts, negotiates lines of credit with banks, looks at pricing - everything that an in-house CFO does, but at a fraction of ...

  • Indian IT 3 things that may hit hiring

    IT companies are now hiring less -- the sector hired 200,000 people last year, 50,000 less than the previous 12 months, according to industry body Nasscom. A global slowdown and a slow-to-change local industry have crimped hiring, and with it, the aspirational tag long enjoyed by this sector. "A feeling of disgust has replaced our previous feeling of pride," says Bakshi. Having waited ...


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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already deconstructed the Western in "Dead Man" (1995), it is only logical that for his next narrative film he would turn his sights on the gangster film. ...

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  • Facebook CEO meets SKorean president

    South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a meeting at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Zuckerberg arrived Monday for a visit that reportedly also includes meetings with Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jay-yong to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the world's largest social ...

  • Steve Jobs emails make Apple e-book trial murky

    Eddy Cue , an Apple senior vice president assigned with negotiating e-book contracts with major publishers in late 2009 and early 2010 before the launch of the iPad. Even though the emails were never sent, government prosecutors argue that they help establish a pattern of Apple serving as a "ringleader" in a conspiracy with the publishers to force the retail book industry to adopt ...

  • Infosys seeing surge in job applications

    job applications at the software firm, even in tepid market conditions. Infosys has seen a 39.1% drop in job applications in FY13 compared with the previous year. But healthy salary raise of 8%, a 3-year 'daunting' roadmap chalked out by executive ...

  • Batteries hold key to wearable device revolution

    Reuters © Sleiman Itani (L), co-founder and chief executive of Atheer, and Hosain Rahman, co-founder and chief executive of Jawbone, speak at the wearing computing panel during Reuters Global Technology Summit in San Francisco, June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen ...

  • AMD reveals details of Berlin and Seattle chips

    AMD has released information on its first server APU supporting its heterogeous system architecture (HSA), codenamed Berlin, and its first ARM server processor, codenamed Seattle. AMD's server division has been busy preparing both x86 and ARM based processors and it has revealed some information about chips that will appear next year. The firm's x86 quad-core Berlin processor will ...

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