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Is Google+ the new Facebook?
After the lukewarm response to Google Buzz, the search giant is back again - this time with the feature-packed Google+. Touted as the rival to Facebook, the new social networking place has the online forums buzzing. While most people are going gaga over its cool features like Circles and Hangou
Microsoft rolls out Office 365 in the cloud
Seattle - 29 June 2011:Microsoft Corpmade its biggest move into the mobile, internet-accessible world of "cloud" computing on Tuesday, taking the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite.The world's largest software company is heaving its two-decade old set
HTC launches Flyer tablet in India
NEW DELHI: Smartphone manufacturer HTC announced the launch of its first tablet -- HTC Flyer -- in India to compete with the already existing players such as Samsung's Galaxy Tab, BlackBerry Playbook and Apple iPad. The seven-inch touch screen tablet is powered with HTC sense, a graphical user
British researchers develop "cure" for Type 2 diabetes: starve yourself
British researchers have developed what they say is a "cure" for Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. And all you have to do is starve yourself for eight weeks.Roy Taylor, head of the magnetic resonance imaging unit at Newcastle University in Britain, and his colleagues studied 11 p
Scholarship Scheme from Popular Front
New Delhi:Following the two months long School Chalo campaign across the country, Popular Front of India is launching scholarship scheme for poor and meritorious students who wish to pursue higher studies after completing Higher Secondary (Plus Two) education. Applications are invited from students
Post Matric Scholarships 2010-11 for Karnataka Minorities
Bangalore - Applications are invited from the students belonging to the minority communities pursuing Class XI / XII (PUC), Vocational Courses in I.T.I/I.T.C., JOC, Diploma (Technical & Paramedical), D.Ed, D.Pharma, GNM, Graduation (B.A, B.Com,B.Sc, B.B.M, B.C.A, BSW, B.Ed, B.P.Ed, B.LibSc, BTA, etc
End of dotcom era, Net braces for 'notcoms'
WASHINGTON: Coming soon to the internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon."The organization that oversees theinternetaddress system is preparing to open the floodgates to a nearly limitless selection of new website suffixes, including ones in Arabic, Chinese and other scri
National Overseas Scholarship Scheme for Minority Students of Karnataka
Bangalore - The State Government have introduced a scheme for providing financial assistance to minority students of Karnataka State for pursuing higher studies aboard in Master Degree, Ph.D and Post Doctoral Courses etc., in prestigious Foreign Universities through the Director, Directorate of
India's $35 tablet launching this month
New Delhi - 16 June 2011: After hitting the roadblock for over six months, the Indian government backed ambitious low-cost tablet project is finally set to take off.According to latest media reports, the low-cost $35 tablet codenamed 'Sakshat' is expected to launch by the end of this month.The count
Markazul Ma'arif declares dates for Common Entrance Exams
Mumbai- 5 June:Markazul Ma'arif Education & Research Centre (MMERC), Mumbai declares entrance test dates for the batch-20011-2013 in Diploma in English Language and Literature (DELL) course for all its 8 centres across India. Maulana M. Burhanuddin Qasmi, Director of MMERC, Mumbai said in a press st
Lead Trust Scholarship For Promising School Students
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June 16, 2011 Naqsh E Nawayath
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74 p.c. of online users fear hacking of social networking account: Study
Online users in the country today are more scared of their social networking account being hacked as compared to loss of personal data in the cyber world, a Microsoft India study said. About 74 per cent of the respondents said they worry about hacking of their social networking account as oppose
Another diabetes drug mired in controversy
One more diabetes drug has now entered the realm of controversy. With France and Germany banning 'pioglitazone' (marketed under the brand name Actos) following reports that it raised the risk of bladder cancer in long-term use, debates have begun to rage in India as well. "This follows a rather re
Low-cost laptops in Rs. 2,200 a piece, set to roll out after 6 years
Six years after it was conceived, the first lot of 10,000 laptops - the HRD ministry calls it low-cost access-cum-computing device - would be delivered to IIT-Rajasthan in late June, and over the next four months 90,000 more would be made available at Rs 2,200 apiece.The announcement was made on Wed
Apple Reveals iOS 5 Apple Reveals iOS 5
The iOS preview stole the limelight at the WWDC event in San Francisco. The event also saw the beta release for iOS Developer Program members. The prominent features announced were Notification Center, iMessage, Twitter integration, Newsstand, Game Center, and Airplay.Apple claims that the Notifica
June 1, 2011 - Naqsh E Nawayath
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Rare midnight solar eclipse on June 1-2
New Delhi: The second partial solar eclipse of 2011 will happen on June 1. The eclipse will not cover India but can be seen from the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The eclipse begins at sunrise in Siberia and northern China at about 00:55:18 IST and the maximum eclipse will occur at 0