Several years after Tel3, Pingo and Reliance rolled out their card-less phone services to India, VSNL is rolling out a similar me-too international calling service for South Asian immigrants in the U.S. Dubbed Trueroots, the service was unveiled at a function on August 16 in New York City. The per minute rates for the calls, […]
Feeling the heat from Nikon, Canon has launched two new digital SLR cameras – EOS40D and the EOS-1Ds Mark III. The EOS40D is aimed at the amateur and semi-professional. Highlights of the EOS40D include: * 10.1 MP APS-C CMOS sensor * 6.5fps, 75 JPEG image burst * High precision wide area AF * 3.0″ LCD with Live […]
Silicon Valley start-up Tilera has launched a new processor called TILE64 that contains 64 programmable cores, each capable of running the open source Linux operating system. TILE64 is the first in a family of TILE Processor chips that can supposedly scale to thousands of cores. Tilera executives claim that TILE64 delivers 10X the performance of […]
Brazil’s state-run public health system will pay even for sex-change operations. Brazil’s Health Ministry said Saturday that the public health system would provide free sex-change operations to citizens in compliance with a court order. Brazilian lawyers successfully argued that sexual reassignment surgery is covered under a constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right. Transsexuals are […]
A bunch of reporters from CNET and the AP sued HP and two of its former executives over the computer giant’s use of illegal tactics while spying on journalists and their family members. HP’s investigators illegally obtained telephone records of reporters using “pretexting” techniques – pretending to be someone else to get private information – to […]
In yet another corporate scandal, Dell admitted to repeatedly lying about its financial results and said it had cooked its books for several years to meet financial targets. After an internal probe revealed the accounting manipulations and irregularities – which usually occurred at the close of a quarter – Dell intends to restate the results […]