By embracing errors, a new microchip design could power your cellphone for weeks without charging.

Cinderella and the Global Financial Meltdown is not the sort of story you want to tell your children at bedtime.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner Shankar Bidri confirmed that the bomb was similar to the one used in the serial blasts on Friday. Bidri added that a man wearing a red T-shirt had planted the bomb near the mall on Saturday morning.

The name of Lord Venkateswara, the presiding deity of the 2,000-year-old hill shrine at Tirumala, is all set to "Reach the Moon" onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the US space agency NASA, scheduled for launch later this year, according to a devotee.

Be it a terrorist attack, mass tragedy or police verification, this bank can be of great use for security agencies and doctors. Combining Biometric, anthropology and information technology together, Asia's first human DNA Bank has been set up in Biotech Park of Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.

A scientist of Indian origin from MIT, along with colleagues and researchers from Texas Instruments, has developed an energy-efficient microchip for portable electronics, which could lead to longer-lasting, self-charging cell phones.

These new chips could also boost the battery life of mobile phones and digital cameras, the scientists say.

An expected reduction in import duty for such devices in the coming budget session is expected to almost halve the prices of PNDs that currently sell for around Rs 20,000 on an average -- the import duty of over 30 per cent accounting for a major chunk of the cost.

"In the current, weak-Dollar situation," says German economist Peter Bofinger in an interview with Der Spiegel, "a treaty should be signed by the central banks of China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and other countries that have huge Dollar reserves...so that they don't dump massive amounts of dollar onto the market.

James E Burton took over as the Chief Executive Officer of the World Gold Council in October 2002. Many consider this as an important step in the ongoing development of the WGC as a commercially-driven gold marketing organization. Burton revitalized the organisation, focusing on its mission as the marketing organization for the gold industry. He restructured the senior management team, reduced staff overheads, allotted fund for priority programs.

The first of the stores in Delhi will be opened by Brinda Karat, the only Bengali politburo member of the party who is in Delhi during Puja, at Chittaranjan Park on October 17.

An iPod music player designed in California, assembled in China and delivered at the doorstep of an Indian living in New Haven exemplifies succinctly the process of globalisation which began centuries ago, says a book.

Technology research in the country is the next big thing.

TCS, NXP Semiconductors and Gemini Traze are already in the fray.

A large part of the drop in life expectancy is due to increased mergers and acquisitions

Satyam Computer Services, a leading global IT services company, on Wednesday signed an estimated $200 million (around Rs 900 crore) five-year contract with California-based Applied Materials

As many as 18 out of the top 25 chip companies are setting up chip design centres in India,

Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing.

The ball for the 2006 World Cup finals will be largely in traditional black and white for the first time since 1994.

Mexico scored a stunning 3-0 victory over defending champions Brazil to capture the FIFA Under-17 World Championship.

FIFA assured that technology to determine whether the ball has crossed the goal line would be ready for World Cup final.

Using some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips, researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics.

Sports footwear and apparel company Adidas on its ninth year of operations in India, on Wednesday said the country would take over from Malaysia as the number one market for the company in South East Asia.

Indian chip designer MosChip Semiconductor Technology said on Thursday it was acquiring privately-held US chip startup Verasity Technologies for $4 million in stock.

Globally India is known as a software powerhouse but that's rapidly changing to the point where you have companies like Wipro having hundreds of hardware engineers.\n\n