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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The new real estate boom. Really. Oil hit another record high on Friday. So it's no surprise that natural resources mutual funds, funds that invest in energy companies and other plays on surging commodities, are the best performing domestic stock funds this year. Home > Rss Directory > Business > CNN |
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The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks? It's 10 am on a Thursday, and the line at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco snakes out the door. Inside, an espresso machine hisses like an angry tomcat as customers order their cappuccinos. But the real action is taking place a few steps away, where a scruffy barista stands at a stai Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Coffee Fix: Can the $11,000 Clover Machine Save Starbucks? It's 10 am on a Thursday, and the line at Ritual Coffee Roasters in San Francisco snakes out the door. Inside, an espresso machine hisses like an angry tomcat as customers order their cappuccinos. But the real action is taking place a few steps away, where a scruffy barista stands at a stai Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Top 10: SAP makes a pitch, Apple gets the ditch Intel used its developer's forum this week to lay out its solid-state drive plans as well as talk up its Internet connectivity efforts. The partnership between Microsoft and Novell, once billed as an unholy alliance between enterprise server software rivals, was exten Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Web 2.0 scores successes in the enterprise Incorporating Web 2.0 social networking concepts into enterprises offers great benefits but also challenges, implementers of these technologies, including Best Buy, Serena Software, and Oracle, said Tuesday evening during an industry event in Silicon Valley. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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In the cloud: What startups need to succeed With Google's recent launch of its App Engine, and with the likes of IBM and Amazon having staked claims, cloud computing is clearly a major development in the IT landscape. The benefits are obvious, enabling enterprises to scale rapidly with a level of performance pr Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Showdown of the Top 5 smartphone OSes Remember when a phone was just a phone? You'd no more give thought to its operating system than you would to the one that your microwave oven ran. Boy, have times changed.Today's smartphones are pocketable, Net- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Web's best free stuff Free: It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft vs. VMware: Rumble in the virtual world Two weeks ago, VMware found itself squarely in Microsoft's crosshairs -- and chaos followed. VMware lowered its revenue expectations for the year earlier this week. Its stock took a nosedive, which likely led to President and Chief Executive Diane Greene's sudden resi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Revealed: How the Beano de-menaced Dennis Lay off Walter the Softie, young man The former editor of the Beano has revealed that during the late 1980s, publishers D. C. Thomson & Co decided it would be best if Dennis the Menace laid off Walter the Softie lest he be accused of “gay-bashing” his apparently less than robustly heterosexua Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Who Stole the Plans for iRobot's Battle Bots? Jameel Ahed says he didn't really read the email. He was preoccupied with trying to solve a few electrical problems on the robots he hoped his company would sell to the US Army for as much as $300 million, one of the largest robot orders in history. So he didn't pay much attention to the fact tha Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World Of all the copy shops in all of England, Trudy Coughlan had the rotten luck of walking into Document Image Processing. It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them ont Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Formula One Racing World Of all the copy shops in all of England, Trudy Coughlan had the rotten luck of walking into Document Image Processing. It was June 2007 in sleepy Surrey County, and Coughlan, a statuesque blonde, sauntered through the door of the shop holding a sheaf of 780 pages. Scan them ont Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |