Indian student in Cornell University hacks into ICSE, ISC database

Indian student in Cornell University hacks into ICSE, ISC database Kolkata-born Debarghya Das, majoring in computer science, says that all he had to do was run a simple program that entered all roll numbers after defining a range to get access to all the results. NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old Indian student from Cornell University hacked into the database of ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) school exam results, exposed glaring...

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Ind vs SA: Shikhar Dhawan's ton sets up India's win over South Africa

Ind vs SA: Shikhar Dhawan's ton sets up India's win over South Africa India's Shikhar Dhawan (R) celebrates his century with India's Virat Kohli (L) during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and South Africa. CARDIFF: In the middle of all the madness surrounding cricket, if there's one man having a blast, he's Shikhar Dhawan. Confined to the first-class circuit for years, tagged a wasted talent...

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Microsoft Launches Website That Helps Students Buy Laptop

Microsoft Launches Website That Helps Students Buy Laptop Bangalore: The graduation season is in full swing in U.S. Among the colleges that are vying to capture the attention of high school grads, the odd out, Microsoft, is trying to sell its computing machines by launching a website that lets family and friends to come together and chip in to help their grads buy a windows laptop, reports Los Angeles Times. Last year too...

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LinkedIn To Open New Office In Bangalore

LinkedIn To Open New Office In Bangalore Bangalore: Social networking site LinkedIn, reportedly booked a 74,341 sq ft of office space in Prestige Technology Park in Bangalore. The company has taken up the space to consolidate its existing offices while the rest of it will be used for growth, reports Economic Times. According to LinkedIn India Country Manager Nishant Rao, "The new office space in Bangalore will house employees...

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Acer Iconia W3 launched, world's first 8.1-inch Windows tablet

Acer Iconia W3 launched, world's first 8.1-inch Windows tablet Acer has unveiled the first 8.1-inch Windows 8 tablet today at Computex 2013. The Acer Iconia W3 priced at $379 was unveiled a day before the official start of the Taiwanese consumer trade show.After a plethora of big slates running the Windows 8 OS, this is the first Windows 8 device that can actually fit in your hand. It is powered by an Intel...

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Google releases stock Android keyboard as standalone app in Play Store

Google releases stock Android keyboard as standalone app in Play Store It seems that Google has started to take the Nexus experience and provide bits and pieces of it to users on non-Nexus Android devices. To begin with, Google has released its Google Keyboard app for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above. The app on the Google Play Store is now available...

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Logitech buys Kickstarter-funded TT Design Labs

Logitech buys Kickstarter-funded TT Design Labs The two-person startup's team will now work for Logitech. The accessories maker will also start selling the TT Design Labs products under its own brand. The TidyTilt case for the iPhone 5 at left, and the JustMount Logitech, a company focused on selling tech accessories, has acquired a company that got its start on Kickstarter. TT Design Labs was founded a little under two years...

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Samsung launches firmware update for Galaxy S4

Samsung launches firmware update for Galaxy S4 The update provides users with the ability to put applications onto the SD card, freeing up the precious little space on the 16GB option. Samsung's Galaxy S4 (left) and its predecessor, the Galaxy S3. Samsung has launched a firmware update for the wildly popular Galaxy S4 that should quell some unrest for those who own the 16GB version. Once the firmware is...

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Technology paves way for a highly competitive HR cosmos

Technology paves way for a highly competitive HR cosmos According to industry experts any HR team facilitated by technology can efficiently manage the multi-cultural and multi-generational workforce, across the globe. Nearly 54% of organisations will be focusing on significant technology investments to manage the global workforce, revealed a TimesJobs.com study. The evolving “boundaryless” work environments demands...

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Fastest way to lose belly fat

Fastest way to lose belly fat Fastest way to lose belly fat Here's your quick guide to a flat, toned stomach Losing weight on your midriff can seem very challenging, but if you push yourself a little further, you can easily shed those extra kilos from your abs and flaunt an envious one. Side plank This abs exercising is known to be the most difficult one than a traditional plank one because you are supporting your entire...

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Their is always burden of expectation on Team India: MS Dhoni

Their is always burden of expectation on Team India: MS Dhoni "If you don't have fans, people ask if you're missing them. When you have fans, people talk of the burden of expectation. So I think when it comes to the Indian team, there is always pressure or the burden of expectation," Dhoni said. CARDIFF: There seem to be two faces to Mahendra Singh Dhoni these days — one which lights up if you're talking cricket and the...

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Top 10 changes that Microsoft Windows 8.1 will bring

Top 10 changes that Microsoft Windows 8.1 will bring After several rumours hinting at the new features that Microsoft's Windows 8.1 would bring, the Redmond giant has officially announced some of them through a new blog post taking a "first look."According to Microsoft, Windows 8.1 will not just respond to customer feedback, will add new features and functionality to improve the...

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Will Verizon ever see a 'pure' Android smartphone again?

Will Verizon ever see a 'pure' Android smartphone again? HTC and Samsung are both releasing "pure" Android phones this month -- but not for Verizon, the biggest wireless carrier in the U.S. So how about a successor to the 18-month-old Galaxy Nexus? Behold the "pure" version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, available June 26, but not on Verizon. My Verizon Galaxy Nexus is getting long in the tooth, as they say. Old. Sluggish. I bought...

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How Windows 8.1 upgrades will get to you

How Windows 8.1 upgrades will get to you Microsoft is sharing more on how existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 "Blue" preview and final.   With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month, a number of users are wondering how Microsoft plans to handle the upgrade. At TechEd North America, officials shared some details on that topic in a session entitled "Windows RT...

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The one thing Microsoft really needs to restore in Windows 8.1

The one thing Microsoft really needs to restore in Windows 8.1 Forget the Start button. There's another feature Microsoft yanked from Windows that I want back even more. Bring it back, Microsoft. Bring it back. For all the complaining about Windows 8's lack of a Start button (much of it coming from me), the tech media has largely ignored an even bigger feature Microsoft unceremoniously pulled from the OS. And...

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Google debuts Maps Engine API for customized, cloud-based maps

Google debuts Maps Engine API for customized, cloud-based maps Google touts that its new Maps Engine API can be used for virtually any kind of application, with business use cases ranging from health care to retail.   Google has introduced a new API for its Maps Engine, touted to enable developers to build "endless kinds of applications" all while hosted in the Internet giant's cloud. To recall, the Maps...

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IT/ITES among top industries hiring science graduates

IT/ITES among top industries hiring science graduates Srilagna Saha, According to TimesJobs.com data, the top three industries that hire B.Sc graduates are IT/Telecom, CRM/Call Centres/BPO/ITeS, and BFSI.  The top three functions offered to science graduates are – Customer Service/Tele calling, IT/Telecom, and Sales/Business Development. In April-May 2013, 26% of job postings for B.Sc...

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‘Finding product development professionals is a major challenge in India’

‘Finding product development professionals is a major challenge in India’ Sanjay Singh, CEO and co-founder, hCentive (provides cloud-based healthcare technology solutions) What are the different talent management strategies you implement while handling your workforce in India and US? There are certain HR practices that are universal and there are certain practices that are unique to specific geographies. The practices...

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Google, Infosys using internships to hire talent

Google, Infosys using internships to hire talent Google, Infosys etc are increasingly looking at internship as a key HR strategy that enables them to recruit A-grade performers. NEW DELHI: Organisations like Google, Infosys and Coca Cola are increasingly looking at internship as a key HR strategy that enables them to recruit A-grade performers based on how individuals fare in an actual workplace scenario, experts say....

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Raina, Jadeja, Ojha managed by firm owned by Dhoni

Raina, Jadeja, Ojha managed by firm owned by Dhoni According to documents filed by the firm with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Dhoni held 30,000 shares or 15% stake in Rithi Sports as on March 22. NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A day after BCCI president N Srinivasan had to step aside because of a conflict of interest, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni faced a similar charge for holding shares in Rhiti Sports Management...

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Dhoni-Rhiti deal, a curse for fringe players

Dhoni-Rhiti deal, a curse for fringe players Chennai Super Kings' Skipper MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina during an IPL encounter. MUMBAI: It has been an open secret for ever. India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni maintained a strategic distance but his association with Arun Pandey, the face if not brain behind Rhiti Sports, was well known in top cricket circles. In 2010, he turned it into a business partnership by signing up with...

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The entire history of Windows in one video

The entire history of Windows in one video Watch the entire string of upgrades from Windows 1.0 to Windows 8, as well as some gameplay from Reversi and Doom, in just over an hour. Oh, misty Doom-colored memories... Windows has come a long way over the decades from the now antiquated-looking boxes of Windows 1.0 to the layers upon layers of desktops, start screens, charms, tiles, and whatever that bar on...

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Dear Apple, is wearing a watch really natural?

Dear Apple, is wearing a watch really natural? Apple's Tim Cook suggested this week that wearing something on one's wrist is natural. But why, then, has Apple spent the last few years making it unnatural? Well, one of them is wearing a watch. Most of us spend our lives sliding on a scale between impossible and gullible. We're sometimes persuaded so easily, yet, at others, even the most accepted pieces of information can't penetrate...

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