Boeing 747-8 The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully began its flight test programme on Sunday (March 20), taking off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, in front of several thousand employees, customers, suppliers and community leaders.The airplane landed four hours and 25 minutes later... [Read More]

Trains Aiming at connecting Patna with high speed train, the Railways will undertake a pre-feasibility study of Delhi-Patna rail route, which would be conducted by a British firm.”Mott Macdonald, the United Kingdom firm, has been given the responsibility of conducting the pre-feasibility study... [Read More]

moon Are you ready for a “supermoon,” Seattle? Cross your fingers extra tight, because there’s a chance the clouds will part and you’ll be in for an eyeful Saturday night. That’s when the moon will be at perigee the closest point in its orbit around the Earth. Perigee happens every month, but... [Read More]

moon If you notice the moon looks different this weekend… that’s because it is. The moon will appear bigger and brighter for the next few days – the biggest in fact for almost 20 years. This unusually large full moon is known as a super “perigee moon”, that’s when... [Read More]

android Apple Inc’s iPhone accessed the Web more slowly through mobile applications than phones using Google Inc Android operating system, according to a report by a Canadian software company. The iPhone 4 was slower than Google’s Nexus S smartphone 84 percent of the time when accessing the... [Read More]

BMW 6-series The all new suave BMW 6-series coupe is set to be launched on March 25.There will be two petrol engine options offered with a standard eight-speed automatic gearbox in the 640i and 650i.The 640i is powered by a turbocharged 3.0-litre straight six petrol engine capable of producing 320bhp... [Read More]

Japan As Japan makes frantic efforts to deal with the nuclear radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, Indian information technology firms have begun relocating the families of their Indian employees in the country.Firms including Infosys,... [Read More]

blackberry-bold-reviews NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom (DoT) has named Google’s Gmail and email services running on BlackBerry among 15 communication services that cannot be tracked, saying the only option is to build capabilities of intelligence agencies to monitor and intercept these technologies. In... [Read More]

facebook-poke With over 500 million users, Facebook is not just popular. It’s also filled with features and customisation options that most don’t even know about. Learn a few of the Facebook tricks below, and you can separate yourself from the crowd and increase your productivity at the same... [Read More]

NASA The massive earthquake that struck Japan last Friday was so powerful that it accelerated the Earth’s rotation speed, shortening the length of the day by 1.8 microseconds, a new analysis by NASA has claimed. According to scientists at the US space agency, the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the... [Read More]

The global economic meltdown taught the corporate world a big lesson: cash is king. When the global economy bled, businesses across the world realised the criticality of liquidity and how it helps weather economic storms and stay afloat. Also, cash reserves gives the companies the required wherewithal... [Read More]

10inno1 Technology Review India recognises the game-changing achievements of young inventors from diverse areas covering biotechnology and medicine, nanotechnology and materials, computer and electronics hardware, energy, Internet and web and software.Technology Review has handpicked three innovators... [Read More]

google-chrome-go-green-theme Google’s $20,000 was as safe at Pwn2Own Wednesday as if it had been in the bank. The search giant had promised to pay $20,000 to the first researcher who broke into Chrome on the hacking contest’s opening day. But no one took up Google’s offer. “The... [Read More]

google-chrome Google said on its Chrome blog on Wednesday that the browser uses an updated version code named Crankshaft of Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine that brings a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript performance compared with the previous version. Chrome 10 options now opens in its own tab,... [Read More]

discovery T-10, 9 , 8 , 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 and Discovery was on its way to space for one last time, turning over a glorious chapter of space history.As mission control at the Kennedy Space Centre watched Discovery zoom off to the International Space Station, many took the opportunity to look back... [Read More]

facebook Abhay Bhargav on how hackers obtain your confidential data using social network website and how you can stay safe while networking with friends.Most people are hooked to Social Networking sites like Facebook, Orkut or Twitter and use it diligently on a regular basis.What if I told you that... [Read More]

xperia-play Get Ahead reader Sanaullah Khan lists smartphones that will make a mark in 2011 in response to our reader invite (below). All these phones featured in the recently-concluded Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in January this year. Sanaullah completed his bachelors in Technology in Electronics... [Read More]

facebook WASHINGTON: Facebook can have a positive influence on the self-esteem of college students, according to a new study. This is probably because Facebook allows them to put their best face forward, said Jeffrey Hancock, associate professor of communication at Cornell University. Hancock said users... [Read More]

espn-cricinfo With the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 heating up quite nicely. Quite a few close matches, some brilliant individual performances and a few upsets have kept the temperature up.Now as we are heading into the business end of the tournament (the quarter finals will begin soon), keeping up with... [Read More]

BrainDriver Can you drive your car using only your mind? Well, you might soon be able to do just that if a set of German researchers are successful in their endeavour.Raul Rojas, an artificial intelligence professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin, and his team are working on a project called BrainDriver... [Read More]

Steve Jobs Shiv Bakhshi looks back at Steve Jobs’  two stints with Apple and how he made the brand a modern day cult. Steve Jobs The products – the iPod, iPhone, iPad – that Apple has launched since Jobs’ return to the helm 12 years later tell only half the story, notwithstanding... [Read More]

ipad Media tablets are expected to displace around 10 per cent of PC units by 2014, according to Gartner.Apple has a clear edge in the tablet market with two versions of iPad. Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads in 2010. IDC said the iPad represented nearly 90 per cent of media tablets shipped in the... [Read More]

Alfa Romeo 4C Check out the world’s most versatile, eco-friendly and electrifying cars…A model poses in a new Alfa Romeo 4C concept car displayed during the first media day of the 81st Geneva International Motor Show at Palexpo in Geneva. Click NEXT to read on alexpo in Geneva The Wiesmann... [Read More]

android phone From health tips to free books, Google is set to woo its users with new apps.The battle between Microsoft and Google in the tablet and mobile space is heating up. But, if the response to Andriod devices in the biggest technology fair — the Mobile World Congress 2011 — is anything... [Read More]