Facebook hiring for its engineering office in London
July 25th, 2012 - 9:23 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, July 25 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Social networking site Facebook is hiring engineers for its new office which would be located in London. This would be Facebook’s first engineering office, which would be ... Read more...
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Gmail outage affects tens of millions of users worldwide
April 18th, 2012 - 12:39 am ICT by BNO News
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- An estimated 35 million users of the popular webmail service Gmail were unable to access their accounts on early Tuesday afternoon, Google said, although the issue ... Read more...
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Gmail outage affects users worldwide
April 18th, 2012 - 12:14 am ICT by BNO News
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- A large number of users of the webmail service Gmail were unable to access their accounts on early Tuesday afternoon, according to users affected by the ... Read more...
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Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion
April 10th, 2012 - 4:29 am ICT by BNO News
MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -— Internet social network giant Facebook announced on Monday that it has reached an agreement to acquire popular photo-sharing app Instagram for roughly $1 billion.According to the ... Read more...
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Facebook shifts to new headquarters in California
December 20th, 2011 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 20 (IANS) Facebook has announced that its final wave of employees have moved into its new headquarters in the one million-square foot Menlo Park city of California.The ... Read more...
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Apple’s new iPad today to kick off tablet war
March 2nd, 2011 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto/New York, March 2 (IANS) With 2011 touted as the year of the tablet, the tablet war begins this week with Apple unveiling its new iPad Wednesday and BlackBerry-maker Research ... Read more...
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Tablets set to sweep corporate offices
February 25th, 2011 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
New York, Feb 25 (IANS) Just second year into their existence, tablets are set to sweep corporate offices, according to a survey.With tablets' business apps luring them, about half of ... Read more...
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San Francisco Earthquake Causes Little Damage
July 3rd, 2010 - 7:00 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
San Francisco, July 3, (THAINDIAN NEWS) An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale was felt in the San Andreas Fault in California. The earthquake was reported ... Read more...
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Chile quake occurred in zone of “increased stress” caused by 1960 temblor
March 2nd, 2010 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 2 (ANI): A geologist has determined that the massive, 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 occurred in an offshore zone that was under increased stress caused by a ... Read more...
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Plane crashes in East Palo Alto, 3 dead
February 18th, 2010 - 1:33 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
East Palo Alto, Feb 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A small plane crashed in East Palo Alto, in which all the 3 people onboard the plane were killed. The plane was going ... Read more...
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Tesla Motors to open a showroom in Chicago
March 4th, 2009 - 10:43 am ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi
Tesla Motors two outlets in Los Angeles and Menlo Park and now it will be the first outside California. Hence the opening is at a Chicago store. The Chicago facility is in ... Read more...
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Chemical reaction in landslide rocks may start wildfires
December 2nd, 2008 - 5:50 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 2 (ANI): A new research has suggested that a chemical reaction in rocks in landslides may be responsible for starting wildfires.According to a report in New Scientist, in ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Groundwater seems to be taking on CO2 100 times faster than atmosphere
November 19th, 2008 - 3:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): A new study has determined that groundwater seems to be taking on carbon dioxide (CO2) 100 times faster than the atmosphere.According to a report in Discovery News, ... Read more...
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Oprah Winfrey’’s “human hankie” reunites with her on show
November 9th, 2008 - 2:48 pm ICT by ANI
img src="/newsportal/images/Barack Obama-83218.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="2" width="180" height="180" align="right"Chicago, Nov 9 (ANI): When American talk show host Oprah Winfrey wept on the shoulder of the man next to her ... Read more...
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Arsenic-eating bacteria rewrite evolutionary history
August 15th, 2008 - 2:06 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 15 (ANI): A new kind of photosynthesis that uses arsenic instead of carbon dioxide to harvest light promises to rewrite evolutionary history - at least that of arsenic metabolism ... Read more...
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