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Microsoft upgrades TypeScript with generics and better tooling
downloadable at the TypeScript website , improves tooling capabilities offered for TypeScript in the Visual Studio IDE, assisting developers in using the language for large, application-scale JavaScript development. It also features generics, which take advantage of strong type inference and allow developers have better static error reporting and improved tooling, Microsoft said. "Along ...
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After Sandy ATT Builds Solar Phone Charging Stations Across NYC
Superstorm Sandy, Starbucks and other restaurants in the New York City region had lines out the door. The customers were not in line to get coffee or food, but instead to use the electric outlets to charge their dead cell phones. The administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, AT&T and other organizations are now looking to cut down on those lines ...
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eBay goes for Chinese payment takeaway
eBay wants to be the first US company to roll out an online payment system in China and is confident that its mandatory Paypal service will make it. The firm is trying to get into a market that is dominated by local players. Google is the second most used search engine in China after Baidu, and most of China's 1.35 billion people prefer to shop with Chinese ...
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Soon 3D-printed batteries for your smartphones
gold combs, creating a tightly interlaced stack of anodes and cathodes. Then the researchers packaged the electrodes into a tiny container and filled it with an electrolyte solution to complete the battery. The researchers said despite its tiny size, the battery's electrochemical performance is "comparable to commercial batteries" in terms of charge and discharge rate, cycle life ...
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Cisco to open new RD centre in Israel
John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. The new centre is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel, reported Xinhua. Chambers Tuesday said the new project, whose main focus is information security, would be based on knowledge accumulated at NDS, an Israeli hi-tech company acquired last ...
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Google Internet balloons to help SMBs
Google's plans to beam the internet from giant balloons sent to the stratosphere could boost small businesses in rural parts of Asia by connecting them ...
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Sony No plans to start manufacturing ops in India
Sony India has managed to break into the top five markets in the Japanese giant's global operations, riding on healthy sales of televisions. The upsurge -- to the fourth position -- has been quick for the Indian subsidiary that till two years ago was a distant ninth in Sony's global markets. Sony India finished last fiscal (2012-13) with a 27% growth at overall revenue of Rs 8,000 ...
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Gorilla Glass maker Corning to invest in View
View Inc , a maker of energy-saving glass that automatically adjusts the amount of heat and light glare that passes through it, the companies said on Tuesday. Corning, known for innovations such ...
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Nasscom Big gap between hiring and deployment
There have been many issues related to on-boarding of students especially in HCL Tech where students protested in front of their offices. What is your view on this? Educational institutions should work with the industry and see that recruitment period is closer to passing out. In today's world of uncertainty , it is difficult to estimate requirements. There is a big gap ...
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NSA hopes US people cant add up
General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, told Congress that spying on the internet connections of ordinary people managed to disrupt 50 terror attacks since September 11. Alexander is a clever man, by touting a number like 50 it sounds rather a lot. It implies that if he was not spying on you, that is 50 airplanes which would have flown into buildings. He must have been hoping that the ...
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Germans come up with novel ebook DRM
has come up with a novel form of DRM for e-books. Dubbed SiDiM, the DRM changes the text and punctuation of an e-book slightly in a way which is unique to each book sold. While this will not stop the book being shared, it will serve as a digital watermark that can be used to track books that have had any other DRM layers stripped out of them before being shared online. One researcher, Martin ...
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Intel bags a smartwatch
Intel is branching out into another range of accessories. According to Chipzilla's chief technology officer Justin "it's not crap" Rattner the company is working on a smartwatch. The high-tech timepiece is one of a range of "experimental devices in the lab" rhw CTO said, Rattner claimed that it was part of the chip firm's exploration of "novel display ...
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Redmond planning Surface RT refresh
Tegra 4 does not feature integrated LTE, which might explain Microsoft’s decision to look elsewhere. It’s worth noting that the current Surface RT, based on the Tegra 3 SoC, lacks LTE as well. It is still unclear when the updated version will appear. Windows 8.1 and the next Windows RT update are due this fall, which is probably when we should see the new Surface RT as well. There ...
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Adobe saved by subscriptions
a higher-than-expected profits for its Creative Cloud, which is a subscription based software model. Adobe has been shifting to its web-based subscription service Creative Cloud from a licensing model since last year and there appears to be a lot of take up. The company said it added 221,000 paid Creative Cloud subscribers in the latest quarter, taking the total to 700,000. Adobe expects to ...
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Shine goes off Wintel tablets
that he expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter. Previously he had thought that there would be a 0-5 percent growth in April. This was a slap on the nose with a rolled up newspaper for Acer which a month ago was talking up the market. Wang was saying that he expected up to 80 percent of Acer's products to have touch-screen ...
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Nvidia to license GPU IP to ARM outfits
Tegra business model. Writing in his bog, company spokesman David Shannon said Nvidia’s "next step" is to license GPU cores and visual computing patents to other outfits. "We'll start by licensing the GPU core based on the Nvidia Kepler architecture, the world's most advanced, most efficient GPU. Its DX11, OpenGL 4.3, and GPGPU capabilities, along with vastly ...
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Experts work on making cybersecurity impenetrable
Australian scientists are working on Quantum mechanics which is being applied to computing in order to develop most powerful and impenetrable cybersecurity method ever ...
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HP names new head of strategic growth
Todd Bradley, the head of HP's printing and PC business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on ...
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Huawei unveils worlds slimmest smartphone Ascend P6
world's thinnest smartphone , which it hopes will take on high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung in the global market. Bidding to extend its market reach outside China, Huawei chose London to unveil its Ascend P6, which is just 6.18mm thick -- the June 18 launch date reflecting the dimensions. "Our theme for this product is elegance with an edge," Richard Yu, the chief executive ...
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Microsoft We freed millions of PCs from botnet
Microsoft said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cybercrime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a ...
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Acer sees Q2 tablet laptop shipments to be flat
TAIPEI: Acer, the world's No. 4 PC vendor, on Wednesday said that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5% growth made in ...
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New CEO begins Alcatel makeover
The new plan unveiled on Wednesday by Michel Combes, the company's new chief executive, will also include unspecified asset sales of above 1 billion and 2 billion euros in debt re-financing by 2015, followed by a further 2 billion in debt reduction that could include issuing new ...
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Japan formally OKs new nuke safety requirements
TOKYO -; Japan's nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima ...
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TCS organises camp for science maths students
Tata Consultancy Services, held its goIT summer camp programme in the Cincinnati area exposing students to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related career ...
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Google challenges court over US data requests
Google asked US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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