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Toshiba plans to double operating profit by 2014-15
Reuters
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on Thursday it aims to more than double its annual operating profit in three years to $5.6 billion, by expanding its social infrastructure business and boosting sales of electronics devices. | The electronics conglomerate, whose television sales...
Rakuten Website
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Why A Japanese E-Commerce Giant Is The Lead Investor In Pinterest
Business Insider
| Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is the lead investor in Pinterest's $100 million round. | Most people in the United States have never heard of Rakuten. And that's a big reason the company is trying to get in good with Pinterest. | Pinterest will be able to drive more...
>How to View Sunday’s Eclipse (Safely) with a Telescope
Wired News
| A view of an eclipse on January 6, 2011. Image: nasa.gov | As I mentioned a few months ago, all the recent sunspot and inspired me to pull out our low-tech telescope and . Once I figured it out, it was easy to set up a viewing station on our front ...
>Which Insane Stunt Crew Will Be the Jackass of the Future?
Wired News
| << Previous | A boat jump from the upcoming 3-D movie about extreme stunt crew Nitro Circus.<< Previous | The trio of films from the crew has grossed more than $334 million globally (emphasis on grossed). But they haven’t cornered...
Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: How Theorizing Snake-Oil Salesmen Sell World Government
Pakalert Press
Share | Jurriaan Maessen | ExplosiveReports | Gideon Rachman’s 2008 article titled ‘And now for a world government’ and, more recently, Scientific American- editor Gary Stix’s piece Effective World Government Will be Needed to Stave Off Clima...
Japan ready to help in euro crisis at G8 talks
France24
| AFP - Japan said that it stood ready to extend help in stemming the eurozone's debt crisis as the Group of Eight major industrialized nations opened crisis talks. | Japan, the world's third largest economy and only Asian power in the elite G8 club,...
The interior of a car was seen being cleaned with a vacuum cleaner at a petrol station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
WN / Priya Dashini
A vacuum cleaner that talks as it cleans
The Siasat Daily
London, May 10: | A Japanese company has come up with a robot vacuum cleaner that can talk to people as it cleans. The gadget can be controlled with an iPhone and it also sends bac...
File - Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) meets with members of the Oregon National Guard, the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs, and family support groups at Portland State University in Portland, Ore., June 29, 2009.
USAF / Tech. Sgt. Nick Choy
Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National Security Issue for AMERICA
Pakalert Press
Share | Washingtonsblog | After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported … and urged Japan to accept international help to stabiliz...
Expressway in India - road - travel
WN / Aruna Mirasdar
Japan keen on technology transfer for Indian expressways
The Times Of India
Tweet NEW DELHI: Japan is keen on technology transfer with India for developing expressways, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said today. | Japanese Land, Infrastructure...
Japan Launches South Korean Satellite Into Orbit
Voa News
SEOUL - Early Friday, Japan successfully launched a South Korean satellite. The historical accomplishment puts the Japanese in the same arena as European and Russian entities in the lucrative commercial space launch business. |  The roar of the ...
>Review: Awesome Action Barely Keeps Battleship Above Water
Wired News
| Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch) and Yugi Nagata (Tadanobu Asano) examine a space invader in the game-adaptation movie Battleship. | Battleship starts like Top Gun, morphs into Transformers and ultimately ends up somewhere in the neighborhood of Indepen...
Japan Successfully Broadcasts an 8K Signal Over the Air: Prepare To Upgrade Your TVs Again
Gizmodo
Andrew Liszewski -  | We assumed the gorgeous 8K ultra-HDTVs we saw at CES this year were years away. But Japan’s NHK has just completed the first over-the-air broadcast of a 7680×4320 signal using UHF frequencies—just when you̵...
Future Technology
India Former President A.P.J Abdul Kalam during the Acharya P C Ray Young Scientists Conference at Derozio Hall in Presidency University on the occassion of the 150th birth anniversary of P C Ray in Kolkata in Eastern India City
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Arm yourself with knowledge and courage, Kalam tells students
The Hindu
India can become a global player when innovation is used to produce value-added products, said the former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam here on Thursday. | Addressing the graduating batch of CMR Institute of Technology, Dr. Kalam said: “When you graduate, the two things you carry with you is knowledge and courage.” | He urged students to...
Telecommunication
King Prajadhipok Museum in Bangkok, Thailand
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International Day of Museums celebrated
Khaleej Times
The Sharjah Museum of Natural History and Vegetation, affiliated to the Sharjah Department of Environment and Natural Reserves, celebrated the International Day of Museums on Thursday. | Saif Al Suwaidi, Chairperson of the Department of Environment and Natural Reserves, said the celebration of this annual international event, under the slogan of 'M...



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