Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well. Written by the Indian composer A.R. Rahman for “Slumdog Millionaire” back in 2008, the song features a mix of a catchy dance beat with a distinctive [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, News on July 31st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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International furniture retail giant Ikea is set to commission multi-million pound contemporary artworks for public viewing as part of a Moscow-based development due to open in 2012. The development in Moscow will be only the first of many mixed-use spaces across Ikea sites, beginning with Russia. Major contemporary artists such as Piotr Uklanski, Jeppe Hein [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on April 7th, 2010 @ 7:07 am
Hyundai and BASF are presenting their jointly developed i-flow concept car this month at the Geneva Motor Show. The innovations in the i-flow are the first included in any vehicle to date, and illustrate a great many possibilities for mobility in the future. For example, the interior of the i-flow offers a revolutionary seating concept, [...]
Filed under: News on March 5th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
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From new smartphones to a whole new generation of wireless mobile technology, there are lots of exciting innovations coming out of the Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. My picks for some of the most interesting mobile tech coming out of the conference include:
• Windows Phone 7 Series – By re-imagining how its touchscreen smartphone interface [...]
Filed under: News on February 18th, 2010 @ 9:46 am
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On Monday Volkswagen introduced a hybrid concept car the company said will get 45 miles per gallon by combining a four-cylinder gasoline engine from Volkswagen’s TSI with a 1.1 kWh lithium-ion battery.
When the New Compact Coupe’s gasoline engine isn’t needed, it shuts off and is disengaged from the transmission to cut down on drag, including [...]
Filed under: News on January 13th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
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The Guardian has a very thoughtful piece about the unfortunate disconnect that exists in developing nations where it’s easier to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than it is to get life-saving medicines for very treatable diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. While many of the problems associated with dispensing adequate treatment can be attributed to corruption, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 20th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
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Since its merger with Nextel back in 2005, Sprint has steadily been losing ground to Verizon and AT&T, lagging behind in innovation both with its product and service offerings. But over the past year plus, the company has made attempts to right the ship, building out its network reliability, adding an iPhone competitor in the [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
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Fresh off the heels of last week’s blockbuster deal with Yahoo!, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia, another attempt to go after the top player in the space. While the Yahoo! deal was about tackling Google’s dominance of the search market, this newest collaboration takes aim at Research In Motion’s [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 13th, 2009 @ 11:45 am
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Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.