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HP to pay $55mn to clear charges

Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $55 million to settle charges that it paid kickbacks to technology partners for recommending HP products to federal agencies.

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Moore’s law is still the law

New york, Aug. 31: Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory that

Microsoft enters Google’s unwalled garden

New York, Aug. 31: In late 2009, when Microsoft introduced a downloadable application for the iPhone from Apple, it set off some excitement in the tech world. For years, Microsoft and Apple had been h

Key Karzai aide in graft probe is linked to CIA

Aug. 26: The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the centre of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the CIA, according to Afghan and American officials. Moha

S. Korea: Kim visiting China by special train

Aug. 26: The South Korean authorities were checking signs that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Il, was visiting China by special train on Thursday, an official in the presidential office of South Ko

US rider asks if cabbie is Muslim, then stabs him

Aug. 26: It was the first fare of the cab driver’s shift. A young man hailed him at the corner of Second Avenue and East 24th Street, wanting to go to 42nd and Second. It was 6 pm on Tuesday; the traf

Photography gets 3D fillip

I had some fun with 3D, despite my lack of enthusiasm for the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time technology. Fujifilm updated last year’s 3D camera with a new model that adds high-def 3-D video capture. T

Web access is less among sick people

Although the number of “cyberchondriacs” — people who research health information online — is at an all-time high, those who are afflicted with chronic conditions are less likely to have Internet acce

Start-up Smooth-Stone aims to slay chip goliath

New York, Aug. 16: A group of investors, including companies from the United States, Europe and the United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises. The c

Debts go unpaid as bust erodes home equity

During the great housing boom, homeowners nationwide borrowed a trillion dollars from banks, using the soaring value of their houses as security. Now the money has been spent and struggling borrowers

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.