BANGALORE: In a first, Microsoft Ventures in India has launched a hotline for entrepreneurs to get real-time professional advice on their business and technical queries. A team of 4 professionals trained by Microsoft will staff JumpStart who will address queries related to accounting and taxation, legal, understanding term sheets and technology. Startup queries will be routed to a team of… Read more →
The competition to build Europe’s next generation of polar-orbiting weather satellites has been won by Airbus. The big aerospace concern was declared the winner at the latest meeting of the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Industrial Policy Committee (IPC). A contract valued in the hundreds of millions of euros will be signed by Esa and Airbus in due course. The existing… Read more →
NEW YORK: Microsoft will end support for the persistently popular Windows XP on Tuesday, and the move could put everything from the operations of heavy industry to the identities of everyday people in danger.An estimated 30% of computers being used by businesses and consumers around the world are still running the 12-year-old operating system. “What once was considered low-hanging fruit… Read more →
London: As the internet and mobile companies constantly strive for spy-proof, secure technology for customers who use smart phones, laptops or tablets, a team of scientists have shown how a novel quantum cryptography technology can help them achieve an ‘NSA proof’ world. Currently available quantum cryptography technology is bulky, expensive and limited to fixed physical locations – often server… Read more →
Sriharikota (AP): India today successfully launched its second navigational satellite IRNSS 1B onboard PSLV-C24 from this spaceport. Indian Space Research Organisation’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C24 placed the IRNSS IB in precise orbit about 19 minutes after a perfect lift-off at 5.14 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here. ‘PSLV, in its 25th successive successful flight, injected… Read more →
State-owned gas utility GAIL India has slapped a show-cause notice on Rolls-Royce for allegedly not disclosing a commission of Rs 30 crore paid to agents in contracts worth Rs 1,639 crore. Rolls-Royce has over the years supplied 63 out of the 72 gas turbines installed on nationwide pipeline network of GAIL. The British company also provides spares and services to… Read more →
Getting funding [for research] is easy in India,” said Dr. Mathai Joseph “because there is no competition here. Money is not scarce [though R&D spending is less than 1 per cent of GDP]. But money comes with the same bureaucratic restrictions that apply to all government expenditure.” Dr. Joseph is a computer scientist and a consultant, and was earlier… Read more →
The Microsoft that Satya Nadella inherited was in a state of disarray. Steve Ballmer’s tenure had been full of crazy leaps in profit and revenue but very little in the way of consumer-facing innovation. This strategy would suit a company like Oracle or IBM, which are solely based on the needs of the enterprise market, but for Microsoft it… Read more →
Aligarh: A group of engineering students from Aligarh Muslim University have succeeded in extracting bio-diesel from refined and used mustard oil, university officials said on Tuesday. Third-year students of the Diploma in Engineering at the AMU Polytechnic designed a bio-diesel extraction plant as part of the recently developed Alternative Fuel and Combustion Engineering Lab, said M. Yunus Khan, assistant professor… Read more →
NEW DELHI: With Samsung, HTC and Sony done with their big launches of the year, all eyes are on Apple to launch the next big thing – iPhone 6. The device is expected to usher in the era of big-screen iPhones and help Apple regain market share from arch rival Samsung.A new set of images of iPhone 6 has… Read more →
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