Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/.
: The State Electricity Department would provide five lakh service connections, including 50,000 free ones for persons belonging to the Below Poverty Line category, during 2006-07, Power Minister A K Balan told the assembly.
It is more than 30C and the pavements of Paris are melting in the late-summer heat that often smothers the French capital. As I race to meet Laurence Parisot, the woman who runs France’s powerful business federation Medef, I hope she has chosen an air-conditioned restaurant.
October 18, 2005 Residential Natural Gas Prices (CA) (read this story) Higher natural gas bills will start hitting California in October - by Michael Liedtke, AP (read this story) Fearing Heat Costs, Many Take Preventive Action - by Pam Belluck And Sarah Kershaw, New York Times (read this story) Genuine Elections - by Ron Resnick (read
Biologists at UCSD have discovered that the presence of a key protein in the compound eyes of the fruit fly allows the formation of distinct light gathering units in each of its 800 unit eyes, an evolutionary change to an 'open system' that enabled insects to make significant improvements in visual acuity and angular sensitivity.
Among the greatest contributions to today’s technical renaissance of mechanical timekeeping are the very important works of young (and not-so-young) independent watchmakers from around the world.
In a single basic electronic product, the firmware may come from Korea, the hardware from Taiwan, the software from India and the ware itself assembled in China...