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Google has worked hard to minimize the environmental impact of its services. The above comparisons show how doing 100 searches compares to drying your hands, ironing a shirt, or drinking orange juice. Specifically, Google uses about 0.0003 kWh of energy to answer the average search query. This translates into roughly 0.2 g of carbon dioxide. To know more about this...

By this time next year, thousands of people will be using a new longer-range kind of Wi-Fi commonly called "Super Wi-Fi."(TV White space). Super Wi-Fi isn't really Wi-Fi, a form of wireless networking which uses unlicensed spectrum. Instead, it's a new kind of wireless network running on unused or underused spectrum known as "white spaces." After a long, protracted battle...

Access Office now as a cloud service that harnesses innovation enabled by Windows 8. Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office on Monday. The next release features an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social...

After winning top honors as the fastest supercomputer in the world -- for now, anyway -- IBM's Sequoia is getting ready to go to work for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Its duty: help manage the United States supply of nuclear weapons. "Much of the modeling for defense, aerospace, medical research and anticipating natural disasters is done on supercomputers," said...

A camera capable of creating images with "unprecedented detail" has been unveiled by US engineers. Nowadays, the typical commercial digital camera is capable of taking photographs ranging from 8 to 40 megapixels, but a new prototype machine, dubbed AWARE2, is threatening to make these cameras obsolete. It works by synchronising 98 tiny cameras in a single device. The...

No two people study the same way, and there is little doubt that what works for one person may not work for another.  However, there are some general techniques that seem to produce good results. No one would argue that every subject that you have to take is going to be so interesting that studying it is not work but pleasure. Effective Study skills are about more than...

Brand Finance, a company that specializes in brand valuation and the valuation of intangible assets, has three Indian companies in the Top 10 of ‘Most Valuable Brands in IT Services’ list.  Company Name |  Brand Value IBM                 |  $39.1 billion HP              ...

Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari is spending a third of his time on creating a tablet for the cellphone maker, which would stand out among hundreds of iPad-challengers, he said in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio. "We are working on it," he was quoted as saying. "We continue to eye the tablet space with interest, but have made no specific announcements,"...

Microsoft has made Office 15 Technical Preview available to a select group of people under the obligation of a non-disclosure agreement This is essentially a closed beta, a more polished release for the public is expected in summer. As expected, the interface design has been adjusted for use with devices such as a tablet PC, implemented using the Metro style that appears...

For millions of people Google is an indispensable search tool.And along with that it contains a huge number of web pages.Now, instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient. Some of these are obvious ones, that you probably know about. But others are lesser-known.Here i am presenting...

Mahindra group's two technology ventures, Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam, would be merged by the end of this year, a senior group official said here. "Also, the Mahindra name would certainly be there in the combined entity, although there have been no decision so far on whether to retain the Satyam name also," Mahindra Satyam Chairman Vineet Nayyar told PTI here on the...

The most effective anti-malaria drug will soon be available in plenty and at an affordable price to provide medication for more than 225 million malaria patients worldwide, especially in the developing world. For more details, refer : Anti-malaria drug n...

Facebook has publicly identified a gang of five cyber criminals it believes to be behind Koobface computer worm, a piece of malicious software that attacked hundreds of thousands of computers through the social network's profiles. For more details.. refer this link : Facebook exposes hackers behind 'Koobface' computer worm...