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Indian software industry to see strong revenue growth PwC
The Indian software industry is poised for a strong revenue growth driven by social media, mobility, analytics and cloud, said a report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The Indian companies in the top 100 emerging markets list bring combined revenue of $797 million. India ranks fifth among the emerging markets based on revenues, according to the PwC Global 100 Software Leaders report, ...
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News Corp. approves poison pill buyback before split
LOS ANGELES -- News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile trading period after the split is ...
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Apple 1 breaks auction record goes for $671400
One of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for ...
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Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668000
German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family ...
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Bits Blog Vintage Apple-1 Sells for Record $671400
Sotheby's sold an Apple-1 for $374,500 last year. A few months later in Germany, one sold for $640,000. An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976, sold for a record $671,400 on Saturday at an auction in Germany. That surpassed the $640,000 record for an Apple-1, set last November at a sale at the same auction house in Cologne, Germany. The fall 2012 sale was a sharp rise from the previous record ...
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X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes [DVD]
X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes is one of B-movie auteur Roger Corman's more interesting films, a science-fiction parable about an ambitious medical researcher who tests an experimental serum on himself, which gives him the ability to see through objects. The story shamelessly and successfully combines the same threads of science fiction and horror that fueled Mary Shelly's Frankenst ... ...
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Consciousness Why we need to build sentient machines
Consciousness: The what, why and how " FROM C-3PO of Star Wars to Wall-E, the sentient garbage collector, the prevalence of conscious machines in the stories we tell seems to reflect humanity's deep desire to turn creator and design an artificial intelligence. It might seem as if we stand little chance of making an artificial consciousness when the natural variety remains such an ...
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Meet the new champ of desktop speakers Adam Audio F5
ARTist 3 , took me by surprise last year. That little speaker is still in the line, but when I learned Adam just introduced a less expensive, but slightly larger desktop ...
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Girls suicide after alleged attack troubles town
Audrie 's. Instead, the girls were having a party. A classic teenage ploy. By all accounts, Audrie was a gorgeous girl. Her lush brown hair framed a heart-shaped face. Light makeup outlined her sharp brown eyes, but round cheeks gave her a childlike charm. She was a soccer player, a painter, a girl who at age 4 had the gumption to stand in front of 1,000 people in church and belt out a ...
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LA stoplights synchronized but road war endures
Yet, with the flip of a switch earlier this year, Los Angeles became a worldwide leader by synchronizing all of its nearly 4,400 stoplights, making it the world's first major city to do ...
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Star Trek II producer talks Ceti Eel J.J. Abrams and more
Robert Sallin, producer of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," shares his experience working on the film, looks at the future of "Trek," and dishes on whether that was Ricardo Montalban's real ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Swiss-Grand Resort & Spa, Bondi Beach, Australia
Perfectly positioned alongside Sydney's World famous Bondi Beach, the Swiss-Grand is a great hotel, packed with uniqueness and extras. At ...
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