Things just got real folks! At their big event today, HP finally announced its swanky new tablet to the world, and it’s a beauty! Called the HP TouchPad, the tablet is the result of Palm being absorbed into the world of HP with webOS beating at the heart of the device. With more sliding and […]
The ICC has published on its website an edited and encrypted 102-page version of the final determination of the independent tribunal that handed out its verdict on February 5 after the spot-fixing hearings in Doha. However, in light of the Crown Prosecution Service’s recent decision to pursue criminal charges against the three banned players – […]
A federal jury on Tuesday ordered SAP AG to pay $1.3 billion to its archenemy, Oracle Corp., for stealing customer-support documents and software in a scheme to siphon off customers. The verdict amounts to more than half of SAP’s total profit last year and stunned the German software maker. It had only set aside $160 […]
India 566 for 8 dec. (Dravid 191, Dhoni 98, Gambhir 78, Sehwag 74) beat New Zealand 193 (Ryder 59, Ishant 4-43, Ojha 3-57) and 175 (Ishant 3-15, Harbhajan 3-56) by an innings and 198 runs Finally the actors returned to the original script. The groundsman was the first person to get the revised lines: the […]
Pakistan v South Africa, 3rd Test, Abu Dhabi, 1st day South Africa 311 for 5 (de Villiers 119*, Kallis 105, Tanvir 4-67) v Pakistan Contrasting hundreds from Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers pulled South Africa out of strife and into a position of considerable comfort at the Sheikh Zayed stadium in Abu Dhabi. Debutant […]
India v New Zealand, 3rd Test, Nagpur, 1st day New Zealand 148 for 7 (Ryder 59, McCullum 34*, Sreesanth 2-20, Ishant 2-32) v India Until the toss, even at it, it was all going New Zealand’s way. The pitch was expected to be flat, the wet outfield had done away with the morning session, the […]
Oracle and Apple today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical […]
Social networking site Facebook may soon offer e-mail services to its 500 million members to compete gmail and yahoomail, making it the largest such service on the planet. More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of e-mail. Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them […]