Have you counted the number of Malayalam movies that have been recently remade in Hindi? Hera Pheri (Ramji Rao Speaking). Chup Chupke (Punjabi House). Hungama (Poochakkoru Mookkuthi). Hulchul (Godfather). Kyunki (Talavattam)... The list seems endless .. more »

Rediff confirms that indeed government has passed an order to censor blogs. "Anil Saxena of Spectranet confirmed that the list sent by the DoT contained names of particular blogs, but added that Blogspot as a whole had not been blocked. This is contrary to the experience of customers like Dwivedi, who are still unable to view sites hosted on .. more »

"Thursday marked its first Pro Photo Summit, featuring the launch of a program called Icons of Imaging, designed to showcase the work of leaders and innovators in photography; and the announcement of the winners of a Future Pro Photographer Contest." Signs of better photo tools from MS... more »

The first quarter of Red Hat Inc.'s 2007 fiscal year was a great one. But, because it fell short of analysts' expectations, the company's stock fell in after-hours trading. The total revenue for the quarter, which was reported on June 28, was $84.0 million, an increase of 38 percent from the year ago quarter and 7 percent from the prior quarter. .. more »

With the rising cost of everything else, Mumbai school too hiked fees over 50 pc. This seems not a one-off case too me. All across india, in all metros, schools are charging exhorbitant fees... more »

SlashDot diccusion on a new scientific study which states "Our analysis explicitly shows that the winning strategy is to bid at the last moment as the first attempt rather than incremental bidding from the start." The study appears in the current Physical Review E journal... more »

Many people dream of home ownership but it mandates homework, legwork and considerable effort on your part to ensure that the process goes as smoothly as possible. An American view, but many points are valid for indians too... more »

NewScientist reports, "Our mother tongue may influence the way problem-solving circuits in our brains develop, suggest the researchers." Culture/language has a huge impact on habits/attitudes of people. So this should'nt come as a big surprise?.. more »

Last year only four million Indians bought PCs. This from a country of over a billion. Companies from Intel to Motorola are looking for ways to boost technology use among the millions of India's poor... more »

A group of theoretical physicists has recently published an interesting string-theory scenario that describes a new way to approach the development of the Big Bang. They propose that the universe began as a type of theoretical space-filling object called a "brane"... more »

Groklaw's own Sean Daly was in Barcelona at the 3rd International GPLv3 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, this week, and while there, he had the opportunity to interview Richard Stallman [ as Ogg (3.8 MB)]. He asked Mr. Stallman what programmers should focus on next, about DRM, binary drivers, proposed changes to the GPL, and what he feels he has yet .. more »

"Almost every Sunday morning, I go bike riding with some other teachers at our school. It's a great way to see the sights of Delhi and get some exercise at the same time. Here are some of the places we've been to. After the name, I give the date that it was built (or the era it was built in, if the actual date is unknown) and the Intach Delhi .. more »

ElectronicsWeekly.com reports on Motorola's joining of the Eclipse IDE community. "Motorola has joined the Eclipse open source community which supports the adoption of open-source embedded software and tools including Linux. Motorola is working with the Eclipse Foundation to propose an Eclipse Tools for mobile Linux (TmL) project which will support .. more »

This article will show how to export and print outlines, customize outline heading line colors, and use outline mode's special features in everyday documents -- such as numbered lists, traditional outlines with Roman numerals, and even book manuscripts containing chapter and section headings... more »

The technical adviser to Australia's World Cup team explains how a computer is helping his squad win games... more »