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LONDON: Playing computer games may not always slacken kids’ performance at school, for a new study has found that children who play computer games before going off to school get better grades than those who don’t play such games.

In the study conducted at the St Columba’s Primary in Dundee, a group of Primary 5 and 6 pupils played for 20 minutes on Nintendo’s handheld DS console at the start of each day which showed ‘dramatic’ advancements in the classroom after gaming for 20 minutes before the lessons began.

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Movie
`A Mighty Heart`
Director
Michael Winterbottom
Cast
Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi
 
 
The filmmakers behind the Daniel Pearl drama “A Mighty Heart” wanted to honor the slain journalist by doing what he did best — tell the straight story, unadorned by opinion, ideology or bias.
Starring Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s widow, “A Mighty Heart” unfolds in docudrama style, its just-the-facts approach putting viewers in the midst of the anguish, hope and heartache that family, friends, and colleagues underwent in the weeks after his kidnapping in Pakistan in January 2002. (more…)

The iPhone is a multimedia and internet-enabled mobile phone announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the keynote address at the Macworld …

The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled quad-band GSM EDGE-supported mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. User input is accomplished via a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone’s functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player (”iPod”), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. (more…)

Bangalore and Singapore are the Asia-Pacific’s two leading cities in mobility readiness, according to the findings of a study commissioned by Nokia.

Conducted by Saffron Hill, the study surveyed 300 IT decision makers and another 300 business users in Bangalore, Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to assess companies and users’ adoption and awareness of business mobility.

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300 international & Indian students. 16 cities. Over 15 distinguished speakers. 8 days. 3 venues. The best Alumni. Social & Cultural awareness.Planning, Strategizing, Implementing - The Power of AIESEC.
    
Pradeep Kar, Chairman & Managing Director, Microland to speak at the opening of the Conference

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Bangalore: BangaloreIT.in, Asia’s biggest IT and telecom annual event, will witness more than 200 top IT companies, including 60 global majors, showcase their products and services from October 29 to November one.
Briefing news persons at a press conference here today, Karnataka IT and BT Secretary M N Vidyashankar said the mega event would be held at the world class Bangalore International Exhibition Centre.

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BANGALORE: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has sent a letter to the Karnataka government for failing to reimburse the fees of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students in professional colleges. Three years ago, the government promised to reimburse the fee of students who got free seats and 60% - of the Rs-90,000 fee - of the amount for students who chose payment seats. The refunds were scheduled to begin from 2004-2005. The concessions for the first two years were released, though after a considerable delay. However, the fee concessions/subsidy for 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 are yet to be released.

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BANGALORE: The software exports from Karnataka has reached the Rs 19,500-crore mark in the first six months of this fiscal as against Rs 16,000 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal.

Ninety per cent of the exports were from Bangalore, J Pathasasarthy, Director, Software Technology Parks of India, (STPI) Bangalore said during the sidelines of announcing the BangaloreIT.event to be held in the city from October 29.

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AIESEC, the international student body for young people to develop their potential, is organizing three conferences in Bangalore to mark its 25 years of presence in Bangalore.
The three conferences are The Alumni Congress, UNITE - Learning Network Conference and National Strategic Conference 2007. Some of the prominent names to speak at these conference include Pradeep Kar, Founder of Microland, Vikram Gandhi, Head – Global Financial Institutions Group, Credit Suisse First Boston and Sulajja Firodia Motwani, MD, Kinetic Engineering.

On the objective for it’s conferences, AIESEC says, “Through a series of discussions and seminars with global business, cultural, science, political and NGO leaders, top youth talent from AIESEC will have a unique opportunity to exchange opinions and discuss the most relevant issues affecting today’s world.”  

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BANGALORE: South Western Railway will run the following trains to cope with the seasonal rush:

Train no. 647/648 Bangalore City-Madurai-Nagercoil-Bangalore city weekly special will leave Bangalore at 4 p.m. on Saturdays. It will reach Madurai at 2.30 p.m., depart at 2.35 p.m. and reach Nagercoil at 6.55 p.m.

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