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  • Samsung might make the next Facebook phone following HTC First disaster

    , with both remaining tight lipped about what was said behind closed doors. While Bloomberg reported that Facebook and Samsung discussed ways to promote technology startups, such a meeting suggests that the social network could have been meeting with Samsung to discuss the possibility of the Korean phone maker building the next Facebook phone. That wouldn't come as too much of a surprise, ...

  • Google challenges PRISM gag orders

    Google has challenged the secretiveness that forces it to be less than open with the public about data surveillance conducted by the US National Security Agency ...

  • Huawei would consider buying Nokia if it dumps Windows Phone

    , which would be Huawei's first major acquisition. "We are considering these sorts of acquisitions. Maybe the combination has some synergies but [it] depends on the willingness of Nokia," Yu admitted. "Twenty years ago, we were nothing but now we have the best quality [phones] and our customers say we are the best," he said. "We want to shorten the gap with ...

  • Nasscom Hiring in Indian IT to fall in 2013-14

    hiring and deployment. If we give letter say this July, a student will pass out 12 months from now and then he will go another 18 weeks of training. Companies can't do training for so many students together so for many years companies have been giving joining dates spread over three quarters. That's why we pushed for 8th semester hiring but then the educational institutions also pushed ...

  • Raising the next Bill Gates

    web developers can make $30 an hour without even having a degree. Broach, who's read that there's a lack of computer scientists coming out of college, wants Marlon to have the chance to learn as much about programming as a child, but in a fun way. "I don't want him to be a vegetable staring at a screen," she said. "Some of the kids at Pixel could be the next David ...


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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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  • Microsoft upgrades TypeScript with generics and better tooling

    downloadable at the TypeScript website , improves tooling capabilities offered for TypeScript in the Visual Studio IDE, assisting developers in using the language for large, application-scale JavaScript development. It also features generics, which take advantage of strong type inference and allow developers have better static error reporting and improved tooling, Microsoft said. "Along ...

  • After Sandy ATT Builds Solar Phone Charging Stations Across NYC

    Superstorm Sandy, Starbucks and other restaurants in the New York City region had lines out the door. The customers were not in line to get coffee or food, but instead to use the electric outlets to charge their dead cell phones. The administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, AT&T and other organizations are now looking to cut down on those lines ...

  • 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 ...

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