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Top Stories: Coimbatore, Nov 20: Green house technology is getting popular among the farmers in Tamil Nadu, where a farmer has reaped rich dividends by growing tomatoes with this technology. ANI Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:03 -0500Washington, November 20 : A team of scientists has proposed a smart home network system that works by integrating well-known Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) to allow people to access a video monitoring and media system throughout their household or even remotely. ANI Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:50:24 -0500(11-20) 11:59 PST -- Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source yesterday, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites, Internet searches showed t... San Francisco Chronicle Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:59 -0500Sony said that its wireless e-reader, the Daily Edition, might not make it to buyers before the end of the year, Barnes & Noble said its Nook e-reader is... San Francisco Chronicle Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:58 -0500Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end-users, after announcing its intention to do so in August. San Francisco Chronicle Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:56 -0500(11-20) 18:34 PST BERKELEY -- Police arrested about 40 protesters inside UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall tonight, ending an 11-hour occupation of the building on the third day of raucous protests and stri... San Francisco Chronicle Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:51 -0500The Bank of England has outlined plans for "top-up" charges to boost bank balance sheets, as it sought to add the "missing ingredient" to financial regulation. The central bank said the impact of th... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:27 -0500British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, if the Conservatives win the general election. Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said ... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:26 -0500Every victim of crime should be visited by the police, irrespective of how serious the offence, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has indicated. Launching the first national television advertising campaig... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:25 -0500The emergency services are braced for more heavy rain after England's wettest day on record claimed the life of a "heroic" policeman and left thousands of others counting the cost of flooded homes and... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:25 -0500The number of empty homes in England reached its highest level for five years during 2008. There was a 9% jump in the number of private homes that had been empty for at least six months during the y... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:24 -0500Alcohol prices could rise by 10% next year because of tax increases, the head of a major brewer has said. Stuart MacFarlane from AB InBev UK, which owns brands including Beck's, Stella and Budweiser... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:24 -0500Supermarkets are giving customers more money-off deals in the run-up to Christmas but they offer smaller savings than last year, research has suggested. A study carried out for The Grocer magazine b... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:23 -0500Katie Price is gearing up for yet another Bushtucker Trial on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! - but this time she will be partnered by a fellow contestant. TV presenter Kim Woodburn was chosen... Ananova Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:50:23 -0500Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has secured orders worth more than $2.3bn during the Dubai Air Show, demonstrating its strong market positions, its continued investment in technology an... AME Info Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:49:59 -0500Intel CTO Justin Rattner made his bones in the 1980s, pushing the supercomputing industry from unsustainably expensive, proprietary architectures toward affordable, off-the-shelf microprocessors. In h... Tech Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:18:01 -0500Whether you think PCI is a useful standard that makes our credit card data safer or a credit card industry whitewash that merely creates the illusion of security, PCI compliance is a fact of life. ... Tech Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:18:00 -0500Judging from the jockeying they're doing, the big hardware vendors expect their sagging server sales to rebound in the not-too-distant future. I'm thinking of EMC's recently inked deal with Cisco to b... Tech Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:58 -0500We surveyed almost 500 business technology professionals and found little end-to-end encryption use. Instead, we're doing only what auditors demand. Tech Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:57 -0500Acronis' Snap Deploy 3.0 client imaging system is first to bat in our InformationWeek review of Windows 7 deployment software. Acronis focuses only on client imaging and deployment. If you're shopping... Tech Web Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:56 -0500Viewers of the movie "Planet 51," opening in theaters this weekend, will first see "Live Music," a computer-generated short that is a collaboration of 51 animators from 17 countries who were brought t... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:46 -0500The show must go on. That's the rallying cry for Macworld 2010, which is preparing to soldier on for the first time in 26 years without Apple as its anchor vendor. The show, a production of IDG World... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:44 -0500A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech) / U.S. not ready for cyberwarfare, government warns as attacks rise... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:43 -0500(11-20) 16:47 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal jury took only 20 minutes to reject claims by a graduate of UCSF Medical School who filed a $1 million civil rights suit accusing San Francisco police of ... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:35:37 -0500The emergency services are braced for more heavy rain after England's wettest day on record claimed the life of a "heroic" policeman and left thousands of others counting the cost of flooded homes and... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:19 -0500Katie Price is gearing up for yet another Bushtucker Trial on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! - but this time she will be partnered by a fellow contestant. TV presenter Kim Woodburn was chosen... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:17 -0500Every victim of crime should be visited by the police, irrespective of how serious the offence, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has indicated. Launching the first national television advertising campaig... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:17 -0500British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, if the Conservatives win the general election. Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said ... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:16 -0500MEMPHIS, Tenn. ? Elliot Williams scored 23 points and Doneal Mack added 20 in leading Memphis to a 92-59 victory over Tennessee Tech on Friday night. Williams connected on 8-for-12 from the... Sign on San Diego Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:56:08 -0500Washington - Many people today rely as much on their smartphones as they do on their computers. So questions about how best to use smartphones, how to make them last longer on a charge, and how to pro... Earth Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:39:12 -0500CHENNAI: Even as private telecom operators are slugging it out in the ongoing ‘pricing strategy’ , state-run telecom operator BSNL seems to have pushed the limits of the ‘first mover’ advan... Times Of India Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:15 -0500(11-20) 09:20 PST -- In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service. San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:30 -0500(11-20) 09:12 PST -- About 90 Web sites hosted in the U.S. that sold unlicensed or misbranded drugs have been taken offline following warning letters from the... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:28 -0500Alibaba site with own search engine may outshine Yahoo China," posted Friday, omitted a key element of the 2005 deal between Alibaba and Yahoo. As part of the deal Alibaba received $1 billion in cash.... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:26 -0500(11-20) 08:58 PST -- Vapor was in the air this week as rumors swirled around two products that exist only as pixels, not molecules: the Google Phone and the Apple Tablet. In its war over 3G ads, AT&a... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:24 -0500That lasted until her Orange County landlords informed her that the 48-pound animal exceeded the apartment complex's new, 35-pound weight limit for pets. Warner said she had a doctor's note that reco... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:21 -0500(11-20) 16:00 PST LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident. San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:06:18 -0500The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates said their captors were "losing patience" and they could be killed within a week. Paul and Rachel Chandler were shown on Channel 4 News. Mr Chandler ... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:22 -0500The widow of a hero police constable swept away when a bridge collapsed in floods has paid a moving tribute to her husband. Pc Bill Barker, 44, fell into the River Derwent when the bridge he was sta... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:21 -0500It was the wettest day ever - and a family were left mourning a "heroic" policeman while thousands of others were left counting the cost. Pc Bill Barker was directing motorists away from Northside b... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:20 -0500Gordon Brown has brushed aside gloomy economic news, insisting he remained an "optimist" over the future of the country's finances. The Prime Minister, speaking as the Cabinet met in Nottingham on i... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:20 -0500British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, if the Conservatives win the general election. Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said ... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:19 -0500Every victim of crime should be visited by the police, irrespective of how serious the offence, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has indicated. Launching the first national television advertising campaig... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:19 -0500The head of the Commons committee that deals with MPs' expenses abuse has dismissed an allegation that his wife banned him from the constituency home he claimed for as "akin to Harry Potter". Tory M... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:18 -0500Another Google product The photo - whose authenticity has yet to be verified - seems to indicate the product is some sort of "2 ply bathroom paper" made from "100 per cent virgin pulp." Judging fro... The Register Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:14:32 -0500Mr. Potato Head returns from a previous edition to host the new Hasbro Family Game Night 2. The game is available for the Nintendo Wii; a version is also available for the Nintendo DS and is titled "H... The Ledger Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12:23 -0500Google is kicking its way into the operating system world with Chrome OS, an open source system that works almost entirely online. It says Chrome OS cuts down on things like malware and data loss, tho... Tech News World Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:11:46 -0500GEORGE TOWN: Nearly 30 computers worth RM61,000 were seized from a 24-hour cybercafe in Bukit Mertajam for using pirated software. State Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism enforcement chief ... New Strait Times Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:07:49 -0500EDACafé about the challenges and opportunities for enabling widespread acceptance of Assertion-Based Verification (ABV). ABV is considered the technology that can have the most impact for reduc... Fresh News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:59:47 -0500GENEVA ? Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago. USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:49:30 -0500Da Vinci Code fans may thrill to dark conspiracies surrounding the secret history of early Christianity, but how many know about the real scholarly debate surrounding the young church? Even without a ... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:49:29 -0500Though you may think us to be iPhone fans all the time, we really do want to root for the underdog. Whether it's Google's Android or Palm's webOS, the smartphone industry could really use a David to t... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:48:04 -0500Selphy CP790 snapshot printer looks more like a lime-green lunch pail. With its convenient handle, it begs you to take it to your next children’s party or family get-together. The trade-offs are a h... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:59 -0500Macworld.com The Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 point-and-shoot camera and the Sonim XP3 Quest rugged phone are supposed to be tough. How tough? We decided to find out. Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:57 -0500Pogoplug multimedia sharing device . The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard ... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:52 -0500Various nations (including Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and the U.S.) are said to be negotiating ACTA now,... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:51 -0500Macworld.com The original Super Monkey Ball was an App Store launch game and sold like gangbusters. Taking advantage of the iPhone’s accelerometer controls and already possessing a huge following t... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:47 -0500Macworld.com When Apple announced new iMacs last month, it included a major step forward amid the subtle-but-welcome refinements in most of the models: the first ever iMac to offer a quad-core proces... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:46 -0500View all Macworld blogs For the California Energy Commission, the voluntary guidelines of the Federal Energy Star program aren't enough to curb energy guzzling by HDTVs. In a unanimous vote, the... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:44 -0500Macworld.com Geotagging—adding data to a photo that reveals the location it was taken—has quite literally added a new dimension to enjoying and sharing photography. Online photo-sharing sites hav... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:35 -0500FileSalvage 7 , an update to its data recovery software. The latest release offers Snow Leopard support and enables better recovery for flash-memory cards and Windows drives. SubRosaSoft gave FileSalv... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:29 -0500Juan Carlos Perez , IDG News Service Yahoo has enhanced its Web search engine’s news “shortcuts” by adding Twitter posts, photos and videos to them, the company announced Thursday. Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:27 -0500Everybody bring out the noisemakers, confetti, and party poppers. Fresh out of public beta, the one-stop password-managing shop known as Agile Web Solutions ... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:25 -05002-in-1 Wall & Car Charger , and features a 12V plug (for car accessory jacks) on one end and a fold-away wall-outlet plug at the other. The Combo Charger is compatible with international voltages,... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:24 -0500, AT&T. I realize you’re trying to fight fire with fire with your new “side-by-side” ad, but when you play with fire, somebody’s going to get burned. Taking on Verizon head on by comparing... Macworld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47:21 -0500Syabas Popcorn Hour devices like this C-200 can no longer play YouTube videos, due to the absence of a deal between Syabas and Google/YouTube. YouTube is set to become a regular feature of televisions... Wired News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:37:57 -05001 Recommendation Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms. Appearing at the RubyConf event in Burlingame, Calif., on... InfoWorld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:30 -05003 Recommendations Lenovo will offer Qualcomm's latest Gobi multimode 3G (third-generation) mobile data chipset on ThinkPad laptops, allowing users to connect to the world's two major types of 3G netwo... InfoWorld Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:29 -0500US stocks have drifted downward for a third straight session, with the tech sector in focus after weak results from computer-maker Dell on the heels of a downgrade of key semiconductor stocks. The Australian Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:07 -0500Lunch for Good , an event on Wednesday that brought together nearly 100 people deep in the Bay Area's social-networking industry to talk about a futuristic question: how online social networks can hel... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:13 -0500Palm Pixi smartphone for just $25. Onlie reports say Amazon and Wal-Mart have slashed the original retail of $100 by 75%, less than a week after Palm's second... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:11 -0500Twitter's geotagging feature . Twitter's newest feature allows you to embed your location in the 140-character messages you send out to the world. Whenever you send a tweet with your location informat... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:08 -0500(11-20) 07:15 PST -- The judge in the copyright infringement case pitting the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) against... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:04 -0500Peter Pan will fly into San Francisco in April in a very big way. He's bringing not only Wendy, Tinker Bell and Captain Hook with him but also millions of pixels, 400 square miles of virtual London an... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:02 -0500(11-20) 17:11 PST Raleigh, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina doctor could lose his medical license after a patient complained he made cutting criticisms, including telling her she was fat. The News & Obs... San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:02 -0500It was the wettest day ever - and a family were left mourning a "heroic" policeman while thousands of others were left counting the cost. Pc Bill Barker was directing motorists away from Northside b... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:47 -0500Every victim of crime should be visited by the police, irrespective of how serious the offence, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has indicated. Launching the first national television advertising campaig... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:46 -0500British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good, nearly 70 years after the end of the Second World War, if the Conservatives win the general election. Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox said ... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:45 -0500The head of the Commons committee that deals with MPs' expenses abuse has dismissed an allegation that his wife banned him from the constituency home he claimed for as "akin to Harry Potter". Tory M... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:45 -0500The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates said their captors were "losing patience" and they could be killed within a week. Paul and Rachel Chandler were shown on Channel 4 News. Mr Chandler ... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:44 -0500A man has walked free from court after strangling his wife during a nightmare. Brian Thomas, 59, of Neath, South Wales, strangled his wife in his sleep as he dreamed that he was battling an intruder... Ananova Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:05:43 -0500The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is in operation again after more than a year of repairs. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Cern, said in a stateme... ZDNet Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:23 -0500Government transparency must go beyond posting to a blog here and a Wiki there and calling the result "transparency," Beth Noveck, federal deputy CTO for open government, said Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo... Tech Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:04:55 -0500Corporate payments fraud is becoming a pressing issue for banks as the recession progresses and the sophistication of attacks increase. In light of all this,... Tech Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:04:53 -0500Motorola has acquired RadioFrame Networks' Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) business and said the acquisition will be integrated into its Home & Networks Mobility business. Terms of the deal... Tech Web Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:04:47 -0500AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/09 -- Asure Software (NASDAQ: ASUR), a leading provider of workforce management software, today announced that it will release the results of its 2010 first quart... Fresh News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:05 -0500CHANDLER, Ariz. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR) today announced that Joanne Solomon, chief financial officer, and Jim Fusaro, executive vice president for assembly and t... Fresh News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:04 -0500MILWAUKEE -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice ha... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:24 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas. The earliest that anyone who orders the $2... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:24 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Gani Lawal had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead No. 21 Georgia Tech to a 70-62 victory over George Mason on Friday in the consolation round of the O'R... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44:13 -0500CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida ? Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up... USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:36 -0500William Lynch, President of Barnes and Noble.com presents the new "nook" digital reading device on October 20, 2009 in New York City. USA Today Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:43:35 -0500 |
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