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Google and PC maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) have paused sales of Chromebook 11 due to reports of some chargers getting damaged due to overheating.
Chromebooks are laptops powered by Google's Chrome OS operating system. HP's Chromebook 11 was introduced globally last month eyeing the holiday season demand.
HP Chromebooks start at around USD 299 in the US, while Chromebook 14 is available in India for Rs 26,990.
Volkswagen, Samsung top European Union list of world’s top R&D investors
German carmaker Volkswagen is the world’s top private-sector investor in research and development (R&D), followed by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, according to European Union data released on Monday.
Volkswagen topped the list with 9.5 billion euros ($ 12.8 billion) of R&D investments in 2012, while Samsung stood at 8.3 billion euros.
But the figures showed that European companies have to do more to keep up with competitors in China and the United States, as the bloc seeks to overcome its economic crisis.
Volkswagen was the only European firm to reach the top 10, which also comprised US-based companies Microsoft, Intel, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, Swiss companies Roche and Novartis and Japan’s Toyota.
The ranking includes 2,000 global companies, of which just over a quarter are EU-based.
The European Union still lags behind its main competitors in business investment in R&D,” said EU Research and Innovation Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, adding that there were some “worrying signs” for the 28-member bloc.
Despite the positive results of top EU companies in important industrial sectors such as automobiles, we are still too weak in high tech sectors such as biotechnology and software,” Geoghegan-Quinn said.
Octacore smartphone in India
Computer peripherals maker Intex Technologies said Monday that it had become the first local handset maker to begin selling Octacore smartphone in India which will allow users to do more with their smartphones as it offers faster processing speeds.
Octacore essentially means eight processing cores built in together, which allows users to run multiple applications at the same time without the phone coming to stand still or heating up. Multi-core chipsets are made by several companies including China's MediaTek, US-based QualComm, NVidia and BroadCom.
Octacore is small but fast growing segment within smartphones after Samsung launched the S4 with the Exynos 5 octa-core processor early this year. Rival handset maker Huawei, which has little presence in India, also plans to come out with smartphones on the ultra-fast processor.
Global Entrepreneurship event begins
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is set to hit India this week.
GEW, along with Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) run by IIM Ahmedabad be held from November 18 - 24, across 29 cities with 150 events and over 10,000 participants.
GEW INDIA 2013 allows CIIE to create a platform to celebrate entrepreneurship across the country and help lower the societal barriers towards entrepreneurship, said Ashwin Joshi, VP Ecosystem Development, Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship.
There are events ranging from simple business plan competitions to policy level discussions between academia and policy makers for the event and thus the GEW is bringing entrepreneurship in focus for the society, as well as creating an opportunity for the ecosystem to assess its successes and failures and create a better environment for entrepreneurship in the country.
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Google today launched a new online service called "Helpouts," aiming to connect businesses and consumers to solve problems or get advice on a range of issues.
The service is similar to Google's "Hangouts" with live video for paid services in areas ranging from computer tech support to weight loss.
"What if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button?" Google's Udi Manber said in a blog post announcing the new service.
World’s largest cancer database launched
The world’s largest cancer database — containing 1.7 billion experimental results — has been launched, with an aim to discover future treatments for the deadly disease.
The system, called CanSAR, is the biggest disease database of its kind anywhere in the world and condenses more data than would be generated by one million years of use of the Hubble space telescope.
It contains more than eight million experimentally derived measurements, nearly one million biologically active chemical compounds and data from over a thousand cancer cell lines.
The database will utilise artificial intelligence similar to the technology used to predict the weather to predict which potential drugs are likely to work in which circumstances.
The new CanSAR database developed by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, is more than double the size of a previous version and has been designed to cope with a huge expansion of data on cancer brought about by advances in DNA sequencing and other technologies.
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Google and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday.
Writing ahead of a British summit on Internet safety, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said his company has fine-tuned Google Search to clean up results for over 100,000 search terms. When users type in queries that may be related to child sexual abuse, they will find no results that link to illegal content.
``We will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages, so the impact will be truly global,'' Schmidt wrote in the Daily Mail newspaper.
The restrictions are being launched in Britain and other English-speaking countries first. Similar changes are being brought out on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Birla Science centre chief gets award
Burra Gautham Sidharth, Director, B.M. Birla Science Centre, here has been chosen for the 2013 award given by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics Einstein-Galilei (IFM), Italy.
The award recognises Sidharth’s contributions and discovery that the universe is expanding, which he theoretically predicted one year ahead of the scientific confirmation.
The award consists of an IFM Diploma and a gold medal. The announcement was made by Christian Corda, Chairman of the IFM. The other awardees for the year are Douglas D. Osheroff and Franco Pettini (posthmous), a former Secretary of IFM.
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Microsoft said today it has opened a new cybercrime centre, using its resources to combat malware, intellectual property theft, child exploitation and other ills in cyberspace.
The Microsoft Cybercrime Centre is where our experts come together with customers and partners to focus on one thing: keeping people safe online," said David Finn of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit.
Abdulla Yameen sworn in as the President of Maldives
Abdulla Yameen has been sworn in as the 6th President of the Maldives on 17 November 2013.
The Chief Justice of Maldives, Ahmad Faiz at a special session of the Parliament in Male administered the oath of office to Abdulla Yameen. Mohammad Jameel was sworn in as vice-President.
Yameen (54) a candidate of Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) secured 51.39 percent of votes, whereas the opposition leader and the former President Mohamed Nasheed received 48.61.
Election Commission of Maldives, declared the results of the election on 16 November 2013 in which it declared Yameen, the half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as the President elect.
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India's leading integrated infrastructure finance company, announces the appointment of Mr. Rajesh Jain as Head - Investment Banking division at IDFC Capital.
Rajesh brings with him close to 27 years of extensive experience, having spent the last 14 years in the investment banking & consulting space. He will be responsible for managing the Investment Banking function at IDFC Capitaland will report directly to Vikram Limaye, MD &CEO, IDFC Ltd.
Prior to joining IDFC, Rajesh was Head of Markets at KPMG. As a member of KPMG's leadership team in India, Rajesh was actively involved in the firm's growth agenda since 2002.
Google and PC maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) have paused sales of Chromebook 11 due to reports of some chargers getting damaged due to overheating.
Chromebooks are laptops powered by Google's Chrome OS operating system. HP's Chromebook 11 was introduced globally last month eyeing the holiday season demand.
HP Chromebooks start at around USD 299 in the US, while Chromebook 14 is available in India for Rs 26,990.
Volkswagen, Samsung top European Union list of world’s top R&D investors
German carmaker Volkswagen is the world’s top private-sector investor in research and development (R&D), followed by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, according to European Union data released on Monday.
Volkswagen topped the list with 9.5 billion euros ($ 12.8 billion) of R&D investments in 2012, while Samsung stood at 8.3 billion euros.
But the figures showed that European companies have to do more to keep up with competitors in China and the United States, as the bloc seeks to overcome its economic crisis.
Volkswagen was the only European firm to reach the top 10, which also comprised US-based companies Microsoft, Intel, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, Swiss companies Roche and Novartis and Japan’s Toyota.
The ranking includes 2,000 global companies, of which just over a quarter are EU-based.
The European Union still lags behind its main competitors in business investment in R&D,” said EU Research and Innovation Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, adding that there were some “worrying signs” for the 28-member bloc.
Despite the positive results of top EU companies in important industrial sectors such as automobiles, we are still too weak in high tech sectors such as biotechnology and software,” Geoghegan-Quinn said.
Octacore smartphone in India
Computer peripherals maker Intex Technologies said Monday that it had become the first local handset maker to begin selling Octacore smartphone in India which will allow users to do more with their smartphones as it offers faster processing speeds.
Octacore essentially means eight processing cores built in together, which allows users to run multiple applications at the same time without the phone coming to stand still or heating up. Multi-core chipsets are made by several companies including China's MediaTek, US-based QualComm, NVidia and BroadCom.
Octacore is small but fast growing segment within smartphones after Samsung launched the S4 with the Exynos 5 octa-core processor early this year. Rival handset maker Huawei, which has little presence in India, also plans to come out with smartphones on the ultra-fast processor.
Global Entrepreneurship event begins
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is set to hit India this week.
GEW, along with Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) run by IIM Ahmedabad be held from November 18 - 24, across 29 cities with 150 events and over 10,000 participants.
GEW INDIA 2013 allows CIIE to create a platform to celebrate entrepreneurship across the country and help lower the societal barriers towards entrepreneurship, said Ashwin Joshi, VP Ecosystem Development, Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship.
There are events ranging from simple business plan competitions to policy level discussions between academia and policy makers for the event and thus the GEW is bringing entrepreneurship in focus for the society, as well as creating an opportunity for the ecosystem to assess its successes and failures and create a better environment for entrepreneurship in the country.
News--
Google today launched a new online service called "Helpouts," aiming to connect businesses and consumers to solve problems or get advice on a range of issues.
The service is similar to Google's "Hangouts" with live video for paid services in areas ranging from computer tech support to weight loss.
"What if getting help for a computer glitch, a leaky pipe, or a homework problem was as easy as clicking a button?" Google's Udi Manber said in a blog post announcing the new service.
World’s largest cancer database launched
The world’s largest cancer database — containing 1.7 billion experimental results — has been launched, with an aim to discover future treatments for the deadly disease.
The system, called CanSAR, is the biggest disease database of its kind anywhere in the world and condenses more data than would be generated by one million years of use of the Hubble space telescope.
It contains more than eight million experimentally derived measurements, nearly one million biologically active chemical compounds and data from over a thousand cancer cell lines.
The database will utilise artificial intelligence similar to the technology used to predict the weather to predict which potential drugs are likely to work in which circumstances.
The new CanSAR database developed by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, is more than double the size of a previous version and has been designed to cope with a huge expansion of data on cancer brought about by advances in DNA sequencing and other technologies.
NEWS--
Google and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday.
Writing ahead of a British summit on Internet safety, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt said his company has fine-tuned Google Search to clean up results for over 100,000 search terms. When users type in queries that may be related to child sexual abuse, they will find no results that link to illegal content.
``We will soon roll out these changes in more than 150 languages, so the impact will be truly global,'' Schmidt wrote in the Daily Mail newspaper.
The restrictions are being launched in Britain and other English-speaking countries first. Similar changes are being brought out on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
Birla Science centre chief gets award
Burra Gautham Sidharth, Director, B.M. Birla Science Centre, here has been chosen for the 2013 award given by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics Einstein-Galilei (IFM), Italy.
The award recognises Sidharth’s contributions and discovery that the universe is expanding, which he theoretically predicted one year ahead of the scientific confirmation.
The award consists of an IFM Diploma and a gold medal. The announcement was made by Christian Corda, Chairman of the IFM. The other awardees for the year are Douglas D. Osheroff and Franco Pettini (posthmous), a former Secretary of IFM.
NEWS--
Microsoft said today it has opened a new cybercrime centre, using its resources to combat malware, intellectual property theft, child exploitation and other ills in cyberspace.
The Microsoft Cybercrime Centre is where our experts come together with customers and partners to focus on one thing: keeping people safe online," said David Finn of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit.
Abdulla Yameen sworn in as the President of Maldives
Abdulla Yameen has been sworn in as the 6th President of the Maldives on 17 November 2013.
The Chief Justice of Maldives, Ahmad Faiz at a special session of the Parliament in Male administered the oath of office to Abdulla Yameen. Mohammad Jameel was sworn in as vice-President.
Yameen (54) a candidate of Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) secured 51.39 percent of votes, whereas the opposition leader and the former President Mohamed Nasheed received 48.61.
Election Commission of Maldives, declared the results of the election on 16 November 2013 in which it declared Yameen, the half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as the President elect.
NEWS--
India's leading integrated infrastructure finance company, announces the appointment of Mr. Rajesh Jain as Head - Investment Banking division at IDFC Capital.
Rajesh brings with him close to 27 years of extensive experience, having spent the last 14 years in the investment banking & consulting space. He will be responsible for managing the Investment Banking function at IDFC Capitaland will report directly to Vikram Limaye, MD &CEO, IDFC Ltd.
Prior to joining IDFC, Rajesh was Head of Markets at KPMG. As a member of KPMG's leadership team in India, Rajesh was actively involved in the firm's growth agenda since 2002.
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