Asus has plans for wearables, and those plans involve voice and gesture commands. Asus CEO Jonney Shih revealed over the weekend that the company's first wearable device, assumed to be a smartwatch, will complement smartphones with alternative control methods. However, Shih admitted at a National T

  NEW DELHI: India is set to get full-fledged membership status of the Washington Accord by June, enabling global recognition of Indian degrees and improving mobility of students and engineers. Secretary higher education Ashok Thakur also said steps were being taken to set up National Acc

NEW DELHI: One key issue in the upcoming general elections is state governments' track record, with Gujarat receiving the most attention because it is BJP PM designate Narendra Modi's biggest publicity plank. Gujarat's economic growth, its prosperity and its efficient administration are being showca

Jeddah: More than half a million foreign workers were reported as runaways across the Kingdom last year, equivalent to 7 percent of the more than 7 million expat workers Kingdom-wide, according to statistics reported by regional labor offices. Reports of runaway workers were most prevalent in maj

Sepang, Malaysia:  The mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 deepened on Monday when a sweeping search failed to find any sign of the jetliner near its last known location, leaving experts to puzzle over how a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard could have vanished without a trace. The search w

London: A Japanese company has developed a device that can track everything you do in the workplace - from how long you have been sitting idle to how often you visit the lavatory. Hitachi, the electronics maker, has created a device called 'Business Microscope', which looks like a badge or ID car

TELCO (now Tata Motors) had big dreams and plans in the 1970s. The market for trucks was booming, with the waiting list for new trucks as long as 6-7 years. Telco decided to expand production and build new factories near Pune. It could raise the money, but it couldn't buy machines, equipment and die

NEW DELHI: A Chicago-bound Boeing 777 ofAir India on Monday returned to Delhi six hours after taking off from IGI airport as the aircraft suffered a transponder failure just when it was about to cross Afghanistan. The flight, AI 127 with 313 passengers and 16 crew members, had flown for about three

DUBAI: India has emerged as the top trading partner of Dubai in 2013 with a trade volume of $37 billion, representing a 10 per cent share of the total foreign trade of the emirate. China comes second with a value of $36.7 billion accounting for around 10 per cent, while the US is third with $23.4

MUMBAI: The benchmark sensex on Monday hit a lifetime high of 22,023.98 and ended at yet another record close of 21,934.83 with a modest gain of 15 points, extending the winning run to the fifth day, aided by overseas investor interest in capital goods, realty and banking shares. The NSE Nifty al

KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, VIETNAM: The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the country's civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of ships and

MUMBAI: The humble 50 paise coin is still legal tender, but could be close to extinction given that people refuse to accept it. From shopkeepers to traders, laundrymen, rickshaw drivers, bus commuters and provision store owners, the smallest denomination of the Indian currency is simply not accep

CEOs and managing directors of multinational and national companies in Saudi Arabia are the highest paid executives among the GCC countries, but many expats in the Kingdom feel they are the lowest paid, and have been demanding pay hikes to meet the growing living expenses. “While chief executives

Room-wide web! U.S. computer software giant Microsoft has proposed new technology which would allow displaying of web content on multiple flat surfaces and devices such as phones or tablets in a room. The technology would mean different parts of web content would fit just right onto different pat

Job options for IT post-graduates are often limited to roles, where either demand is not high or candidates are given mundane tasks. TimesJobs.com probed recruitment experts to explore hot job options available to IT post-graduates in 2014. Hot Job Title: Big Data Crunching (collection of large a

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Scientists have devised a new mathematical formula that can reduce the annual electricity consumption of a building by up to 50 per cent.  The formula detects unreliable systems and faulty equipment that affects energy consumption, researchers said. Li Song, from the University of Oklahoma, an

CHENNAI: None of India's 700 universities and 35,539 colleges has made it to the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released on Thursday. This means that academics don't think too highly of the capabilities and work of our higher educational institutions. The