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Source:Anil Ambani in talks to buy Newcastle United: report this is an interesting news ...hence started a new thread than jus posting it in the football channel

Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:12PM EDT This week, domain name broker Sedo sold the highly-desirable domain name pizza.com for the cool sum of $2.6 million. And while that's an impressive amount of money to pay for something that doesn't actually exist, it still doesn't quite crack the top ten list of most...

It almost feels like covering an old story, so herein we mention only a few new developments and reference the rest at the bottom. As many have realised before the week ended, Microsoft is not in a good shape. It’s nothing like it used to be, but Microsoft goes out of its way to keep up...

Another quarter with losses for AMD. Shuts down handheld graphics and digital TV business. Hector Ruiz steps down and will continue in board. Dirk Meyer will takeover responsibilities. Though it's a bug amount, $876million loss is due to shutdown of handheld graphics and digital TV...

Despite widespread activation problems, Apple said Monday that it sold its one millionth iPhone 3G on Sunday, just three days after the new handset launched worldwide on Friday, July 11.. "iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. Last year, Apple...

Source @mods Please move this to Random News Section.

Bsnl deals with Moto

Source :: *www.msnbc.msn.com/

*www.rediff.com/money/2008/mar/07tata.htm so tata indicom is up for itBut i would have really preferred if they instead pulled down the broadband rates a bit,with airtel and other ISPs providing same bandwidths at a lesser rate.

Tata Communications plans to connect 200,000 retail customers using WiMax by March 2009, the company said Tuesday. The company, which is targeting both retail and enterprise customers, said that it plans to roll out WiMax in 110 cities for its enterprise customers and 15 cities for retail...

Source: Engadget After bleeding red for months, Sony's games division finally turned a profit last quarter. Sony sold 4.9 million PS3s last quarter after slashing console prices, boosting game titles, and cutting production costs internally. Of course, we're sure Wii shortages aren't hurting...

Desktop Linux hurts Microsoft Linux has kept a big chunk of the server business out of Microsoft’s hands. But in 2008, Linux will hurt Microsoft on the desktop. Here’s how. A new computing platform Thanks to Moore’s Law and evolving application needs, a new computing platform arrives every 10...

The Million Book Project (or the Universal Library), led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries, aims to digitize a million books by 2007. Working with government and research partners in India and China, the project is scanning books in many languages...

EA have recently hit the market with NFS and Battlefield ports for the OS X, so Valve couldn't wait to seize the opportunity and make an OS X port of their own. Of course, Half Life 2 seems to have been the chosen title and the talks with Apple were...

Friday, October 05, 2007: New Delhi: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has once again grabbed the number 1 position in the EFY TOP 100 list. With a turnover of Rs 346,162 million, BSNL kept Tata Consultance Services (TCS ) at number 2 with Rs 189,142 million turnover for the year 2006-2007...

Microsoft anticipates a boost to its profits, from the new service it flagged off on Thursday, offering customised domains for the huge market of young Indians, a decade after it acquired Hotmail. The free mail service, coolhotmail.com, uses the same Hotmail platform but will offer over 200...

Google announced today it is sponsoring a $30 million robotic race to the moon, organized by the X PRIZE Foundation, a Santa Monica non-profit famous for issuing multimillion-dollar scientific challenges. A $20 million grand prize will go to the first team that lands a privately funded...

:cool: ;) 1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR! 2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back. 3. The US national debt is about 5.62...

Microsoft’s CEO has said today that currently Windows Vista boasts with more than 60 million legal licensees, and that the Windows-powered PCs will surpass the number of cars produced in the world by the end of fiscal year 2008. That means more than 1 billion Windows users. "By our math, we...

Microsoft is "happy" about Piracy in China ! While the company has sold reportedly around 20 million legal Vista's globally, in the first month of launch; in China, supposedly only 244 were sold officially in the same period. Most preferred the $1 pirated Vista DVDs ! Windows is used on an...