New York: Facebook Inc and banks including Morgan Stanley were sued by the social networking leader's shareholders, who claimed the defendants hid Facebook's weakened growth forecasts ahead of its $16 billion initial public offering. The defendants, who also include Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, were accused of concealing from investors during the IPO marketing process "a severe and pronounced reduction" in revenue growth forecasts, resulting from increased use of...
09:41:33 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Today, Robert Moog's Google doodle gave us an opportunity to compose music on a synthesizer, record and play it back. Most of us are quite amused with this interactive and playable doodle. But do you know that this is not the only playable musical Goodle doodle from Google? This is for the second time that Google replaced its usual homepage logo with an interactive musical doodle. Last year,...
09:02:28 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Google doodle marking the 78th birthday American electrical engineer Robert 'Bob' Moog had the online world hooked trying out their keyboard skills. The interactive doodle, the second interactive musical instrument doodle since the digital guitar on Les Paul's 96th birthday, has some cutting-edge Web technologies behind it. The Bob Moog Google doodle is powered by JavaScript, Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, Google+ API,...
06:03:47 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: While you were busy creating new tunes with the Google doodle version of the Moog Synthesizer on your non-Chrome Web browser a little link below the doodle may have missed your eye. It says "Upgrade to a modern browser and see what this doodle can really do" and leads to a Google Chrome download page that suggests that Google doodles are best experienced on Google Chrome. With the...
04:56:02 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Expanding its Galaxy range, Samsung has announced the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 310. It is Samsung's first Android 4.0-powered tablet. The tablet features a 7-inch WSVGA PLS TFT display with a resolution of 600x1024 pixels. The Galaxy Tab 2 310 is powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor. Weighing 345 grams, the Galaxy Tab 2 310 is equipped with mobile voice call feature which enables...
04:02:43 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: In the BrandZ list of the Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2012 are two Indian companies - Airtel and ICICI Bank. India's leading private sector bank ICICI has made it to the annual list on previous ocassions but this is Airtel's maiden entry into the top 100. ICICI has dropped 10 places since 2011 in the list and according to Millward Brown ICICI Bank's brand value has...
02:41:40 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Google today replaced its homepage doodle with an interactive synthesizer doodle to mark the 78th birth anniversary of Robert Arthur 'Bob' Moog, who is better known as the self-described geeky-toolmaker-turned-visionary. Born on May 23, 1934 in Queens, New York, Bob Moog had a strong passion for electronics, and used to consider himself a geeky, socially awkward kid. Bob's father George Moog was an electrical engineer for Con Edison....
02:32:49 PM May 23, 2012
Chicago: Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity. Just ask anyone who's lost a remote. Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith...
01:47:44 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: To commemorate Robert Moog's 78th birth anniversary Google, today, replaced its usual homepage logo with an interactive synthesizer doodle.The doodle includes a synthesizer to let users compose music of their choice. To the right of the synthesizer is a 4-track tape recorder that lets you record, play back the recorded music and share songs via short links or Google+.You can use your mouse or keyboard on the Moog...
01:35:29 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Finnish Mobile Game developer, Rovio Mobile is set to release new Angry Birds Heikki game on June 18 this year. The new Angry Birds Heikki is teased at the landing page at - http://heikki.angrybirds.com and no details have been mentioned on the page. From the images placed on the landing page, it is quite evidential that Rovio might introduce Angry Birds Heikki game in order to support and...
01:02:17 PM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: In the coming weeks, the smartphone market in India will be abuzz with launches from Nokia, Samsung, Sony and HTC. Even LG is all set to join the party with launch of its flagship smartphone, the Optimus L7. "LG will be launching Optimus L7 around last week of May for Indian consumers," sources at LG who are familiar with development said to The Mobile Indian. LG had unveiled...
12:57:26 PM May 23, 2012
New York: Business software maker SAP AG on Tuesday said it will buy Ariba Inc., which makes Web-based software that connects suppliers and buyers online, for about $4.51 billion. The deal continues Germany-based SAP's rivalry with database maker Oracle Corp. Both companies are buying up smaller ones that, like Ariba, provide software that's hosted on remote servers, in the so-called "cloud." Cloud-based applications remove the need for businesses to install...
12:10:30 PM May 23, 2012
Kolkata: Mumbai Indians received the maximum hits, while Kolkata Knight Riders were the least "popular" among the top four IPL teams, a survey by internet search engine giant Google claimed today. In a survey among the four teams for the last seven days, 'Google Insights for search' registered maximum number of 'hits' by Mumbai Indians followed by the two-time defending champions Chennai Super Kings. Delhi Daredevils were the third in...
11:58:39 AM May 23, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to mark the 78th birth anniversary of Robert Moog, Google, today, replaced its usual homepage logo with an interactive synthesizer doodle. This interactive doodle features a synthesizer to let users compose music of their choice. To the right of the synthesizer is a 4-track tape recorder that lets you record, play back the recorded music and share songs via short links or Google+. You can...
11:24:49 AM May 23, 2012
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