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Japanese researcher Shimomura, joint 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.
Friday, October 10, 2008 www.ibnlive.com
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Stockholm: Two Americans and a US-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for research on a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionised the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms.
Japan's Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien shared the prize for discovering and developing green fluorescent protein, or GFP, the Royal Swedish
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Apple has swept board at Britain's T3 technology magazine's annual awards, winning four prizes.
Friday, October 10, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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London: Apple has swept the board at Britain's 'T3' technology magazine's annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch.
The touch-screen music and video player beat the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, TomTom's GO 920 car navigation system, Sony's HDR-TG3 compact camcorder and six other devices.
T3 Editor Michael Brook said Apple had "nailed the mix of
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ASUS to Launch N10 and S101 in India this Quarter
Friday, October 10, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Notebooks slightly thicker than the MacBook Air; at half the cost Asustek Computer has launched its newest slim-gem in the form of the high-end EEE PC S101. The company has also officially launched its big brother to EEE PC, the N10.
Both, the S101 and N10 sport a 10.2-inch panel and are powered by Intel Atom processors.
The newest addition to the EEE PC family, the S101, is a wee bit thicker th
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New chopper-mounted ‘eye’ promises to help disaster-response efforts
Friday, October 10, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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As was seen during the recent flood relief efforts in Bihar, aid organisations don’t have quick and accurate ways to determine how many people need assistance in the case of a natural disaster.
Satellites can collect aerial images of areas affected by a natural disaster, but this has restrictions, and cloud cover can prevent collection of images.
“Without a real-time map, it’s very hard to do de
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Satyam Computers is considering eastern Europe and Latin America as potential markets for expansion.
Thursday, October 09, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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New Delhi: India's fourth largest software exporter Satyam Computers is considering eastern Europe and Latin America as potential markets to expand its IT services.
"We are looking at South America and eastern Europe to expand our market.. we have presence in Sao Paulo (in Brazil), but we would like to enter that market in a big way. Eastern Europe is also a region to look for," Satyam Computers
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Far from the revival that was expected to boost the earnings of software firms
Thursday, October 09, 2008 infotech.indiatimes.com
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MUMBAI: Far from the revival that was expected to boost the earnings of software firms in the second half of the fiscal, the second quarter results are now expected to signal more gloom for FY09 revenue and earnings.
Tech bellwether Infosys Technologies, which is habituated to under promise and over perform, is widely expected to lower its dollar guidance on the back of the events that have shake
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Irvine in the US shows that fat found in olive oil, nuts and avocados trigger production of a compou
Thursday, October 09, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Washington: A study by pharmacologists from the University of California, Irvine in the US shows that fat found in olive oil, nuts and avocados trigger production of a compound in the small intestine that curbs hunger pangs.
Daniele Piomelli and his colleagues have studied how a fat-derived compound called oleoylethanolamide (OEA) regulates hunger and body weight. The study has been published in
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From monkeys to men, but what’s next? One geneticist believes that man will not evolve any further b
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Man in the developed world has stopped evolving, a British genetics expert has said, because he no longer has to struggle to survive and natural selection does not come into play any more.
Going by his argument, any hopes of man evolving into something else other than the current human state – are left with the developing world, where tools of evolution are not thwarted in the absence of modern m
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Cozy deals and conflict of interest mark Indian patent grant process
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 justsamachar.com
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Mumbai: The rush for patents in India among foreign-owned and large Indian companies in the world’s second fastest growing major economy is not new. But as scores of firms and individuals scramble to get protection for their technologies and products, what is coming to light is the cosy relationship between patent controllers, the Indian government officials who decide whether or not to grant a pa
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RIM will roll out a touch-screen model of its BlackBerry smartphone later this autumn.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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Toronto: Research In Motion will roll out a touch-screen model of its BlackBerry smartphone later this autumn, thrusting it into direct competition with Apple's popular iPhone.
RIM said on Wednesday the BlackBerry Storm will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the US and Vodafone subscribers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.
RIM's launch of a touch-screen Bla
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