Washington, April 23 (DPA) The US Air Force Thursday launched its so-called 'space plane', an unmanned craft designed to fly for months in space.
A rocket carrying the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle took off at shortly before 8 p.m. (2400 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission that the Air
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London, April 22 (IANS) Google has violated the principle that 'individuals should be able to control the use of their personal information', say officials from 10 major nations. They have demanded to know how the internet giant will meet concerns about its use of public data in future.
Britain's Information Commissioner
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Berlin, April 21 (IANS) State-of-the-art electric cars will be in vogue by 2020 and global sales of such vehicles will amount to around 470 billion euro ($635 billion), a media report has said.
However, with the manufacture and sale of electric vehicles, there is also a need for proper universal charging
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Bangalore, April 19 (IANS) Singapore-based Raffles Education Corporation Ltd (REC) will invest $24 million (Rs.107 crore) to expand its operations in India to offer design skills in multiple sectors, a top company official said Monday.
As part of its expansion, the company will set up five more design colleges across the
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Bhopal, April 19 (IANS) An innovative portal launched by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, ideasforcm.net, has won the Indian government's 2009 Web Ratna award, an official said here Monday.
The jury selected the website, run by the National Informatic Centre of the IT ministry, recognising the growing trend of
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Washington, April 16 (IANS) Every new US passport issued since 2007 has been outfitted with a computer chip, embedded on its back cover. Till recently hackers were able to access it from afar, but now such e-passports can only be read when they are opened.
The 'e-passport' contains biometric data, electronic
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), April 15 (IANS) The failure of India's GSLV-D3 rocket launch powered for the first time by an indigenous cryogenic engine will not delay the realization of the country's second moon mission, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said Thursday.
'If we are able to flight test an indigenously built cryogenic
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Dubai, April 14 (IANS/WAM) Hundreds of universities from 40 countries will take part in the four-day global education and technology exhibition GETEX 2010, beginning Wednesday in Dubai.
The event, which will run until April 17, will showcase a comprehensive range of educational tools and solutions displayed under two segments - Student
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San Francisco, April 14 (DPA) Microsoft has outsourced its internal tech support to Indian technology services firm Infosys, the companies have announced.
The move was first revealed in an Infosys press release Tuesday announcing a three-year deal to 'manage internal IT services for Microsoft worldwide' and later confirmed by the US
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Gandhinagar, April 12 (IANS) General Motors India has signed an agreement with the Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) and the US Department of Energy to develop and supply biodiesel to run its vehicles, a company official said Monday.
The five year $950,000 tripartite partnership aims at developing jatropha
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