01/05/2009
TV Preview: Tom Shales on 'The Story of India' (Washington Post)
Pretty, pretty pictures are at odds with sometimes wearisome words in "The Story of India," an ambitious attempt to encapsulate 5,000 years of what is now "the world's largest democracy" into a mere six hours of television. The articulate interlocutor for the BBC-PBS co-production is a chatty chap...
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01/06/2009
The India story on US television: Indus Valley to Bangalore (Deccan Herald)
Michael Judge in a Wall Street Journal preview says: This is just the beginning of an expedition that draws a straight line from the ancient civilizations of the Indus Valley to the high-tech wonders and wealth of Bangalore's Silicon Valley.
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01/06/2009
Eltek Valere Names New Chief Marketing Officer (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
RICHARDSON, Texas----Eltek Valere today announced that Morten Schoyen has been appointed to the position of Chief Marketing Officer.
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01/06/2009
Americans watch the India story - from Indus valley to Bangalore (New Kerala)
By Arun Kumar, Washington, Jan 6 : From the Indus Valley civilisation to the 21st century, India's story through the ages unfolds before television audiences in the US with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) telecasting a three-part series on the world's largest democracy.
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01/02/2009
Beach mayor honored for support of guard, reserve (The Virginian-Pilot)
Outgoing Virginia Beach Mayor Meyera Oberndorf was honored Wednesday with the Seven Seals award from the Virginia Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. The group recognized Oberndorf for her stalwart support of guardsmen and reservists, according to Col. Thomas Stephen, the committee's executive director.
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01/01/2009
Cyborg cockroaches can be made to power own electric 'brains' (New Kerala)
London, Dec 31: In an experiment, scientists have shown how cockroaches can be made to power electronic chips placed inside them.
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12/30/2008
Cyborg cockroaches could power own electric 'brains' (New Scientist)
Pity future cyborg insects – as if being remotely controlled by a human isn't bad enough, their every movement may be harnessed to power the electronics that hijack their bodies
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12/27/2008
BBC Builders: Tristan Ferne, and his 'startup' team at audio, music and mobile (Guardian Unlimited)
There are some brilliant technical minds at the BBC buried deep in an array of fascinating projects - but we don't know enough about these developers and the work they do. In the second of our occasional column profiling the BBC's technologists, we speak to Tristan Ferne , senior development producer in audio, music and mobile at the Future Media and Technology department. Ferne joined ...
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12/25/2008
Obituary: Oliver Selfridge (Guardian Unlimited)
Oliver Selfridge, who has died aged 82, was known as the "father of machine perception" for his work as a pioneer of computing and as a researcher into artificial intelligence. Though London-born, he did his most significant work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was among the organisers of the Dartmouth Conference of 1956 at Dartmouth College, ...
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12/15/2008
Modesty cast aside as Russia fetes Miss World win (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Russia's newspapers purred with satisfaction on Monday that its victory in the Miss World contest proved what everyone already knew -- that Russian girls are the most beautiful in the world.
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