Two Indian-American teens charged with combined 73 felony counts for allegedly hacking school computers -- for stealing tests and changing grades -- have pleaded not guilty at a court in southern California.County prosecutors allege that the two students broke into their Tesoro High School to steal tests and change their own and others' grades on the school computer network.If convicted, Omar Khan, 18, faces decades in prison while Tanvir Singh could get three years.
A proposed online search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google came under fire at a US Senate hearing as Microsoft claimed that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had himself admitted that the agreement would hurt competition.
The double-digit lead that Senator Barack Obama enjoyed over Senator Hillary Clinton three weeks ago, has evaporated with both candidates experiencing a decline in their image, according to a new national poll. The tightening Democratic race reflects a modest but consistent decline in Obama's personal image rather than improved impressions of Clinton, with fewer Democrats ascribing positive qualities to Obama. Obama's unfavourable rating has risen six points.
Internet search giant Google announced its largest layoff, saying it will cut 300 of DoubleClick's 1,200 employees, the online advertising company it acquired last month for $ 3.2 billion. Google said about a quarter of the company's employees will exit this week, and others will move into 'transitional positions' until the two companies are fully merged. Google also plans to sell a DoubleClick unit, Performics, which helps websites improve rankings on Google's search engine.
The company also announced $765,000 for Bangalore-based Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, $660,000 for Centre for Policy Research, $1,015,000 for Institute for Finance Management & Research (IFMR) while NGO database information PRS Legislative Research will get $880,000.
Hotel heiress Paris Hilton's mega-rich grandfather has bequeathed $2.3 billion or 97 per cent of his net worth to charity, sharply diminishing her chances to cash in on the family fortune.
While 89 per cent of Indians and 91 per cent of Chinese support foreign trade, the figure is only 59 per cent in the world's largest economy, the US, the Pew Global Attitudes survey of more than 45,000 people in 47 countries has found. While in the two Asian giants the public support for foreign trade has remained almost same since 2002, in America it has seen a sharp decline since 2002, when 78 per cent believed it was having a positive impact.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and X Prize founder Peter Diamandis said their aim is to spark a second space race to animate scientific imagination and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration.
Kids don't just ask for food from McDonald's, they actually believe that the chicken nugget they think is from McDonald's tastes better than an identical, unbranded nugget
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, who engineered the acquisition of Hutch-Essar in India, has accused unsuccessful rival bidders of trying to derail the deal and sought transparency from Indian regulators in M&A approvals.
Google urged the US government on Thursday to raise the number of H-1B visas by highlighting the contributions of its co-founder Sergey Brin and the company's principal scientist Krishna Bharat, both foreign-origin workers.
The high-tech industry in the US has opposed the immigration bill being debated in the Senate, saying the measure as currently drafted would harm the American technology industry.
Move over Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai, lesser-known Indian cities, such as Kochi and nagpur, have the most potential to be the next big outsourcing hotspots for major international corporations.
Labour cost advantage associated with offshoring information technology services to countries like India, China and the Philippines, are declining.
Both countries have seen huge increases in their economies, which mean more large factories and power plants to sustain such growth.
The Harris Poll of 3,423 US adults revealed that 57 per cent of Americans believe the US is very or extremely powerful when compared to other nations, with an additional 28 per cent saying the country is generally powerful.
California is home to one of the largest Sikh populations in the United States, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to a Sikh organisation.
Apple Inc. may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties to Cisco Systems for the coveted iPhone trademark, industry experts believe.
Marijuana is the United States's biggest cash crop with estimates that the annual pot crop is worth $35 billion, according to a study.
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