Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday.

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Top media execs wonder how Twitter will make money

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — It turns out the media elite aren't so different from a lot of less affluent folks: They think Twitter is a great communications tool, but can't figure out how the online messaging service is going to make money.

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Iranian opposition head calls for rally Thursday

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has called on his Web site for a mass rally Thursday to protest the country's disputed election results and violence against his followers.

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NEW DELHI - Wipro chief Azim Premji has asked the Indian IT industry to get ready to face the global competition, and not fall into a mind trap of 'India Advantage'. "We have talked a lot about India advantage. That makes me extremely worried. It's a huge amount of thumping on the back (by Indian IT industry)," Premji said at the 5th India Innovation Summit 2009, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

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In a recession hit period, where companies are downsizing to overcome the crisis, Indian software major Infosys plans to hire about 1,000 people in the US within a year and a half. Infosys Chief Executive, Kris Gopalakrishnan while attending Microsoft's CEO summit held in Seattle this week announced that the company is planning to add more than 100 employees as a part of a big US expansion in anticipation to the growth resuming in 2010. Overall, the company wants to hire nearly 1000 people across US.
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After declaring web of objects, Yahoo Inc now plans to venture into social networking to refurbish its line of products.  Yahoo is looking to acquire companies that will support it to become a bigger player in social networking, as provided by Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh. He told the Reuters Global Technology Summit that this is the good time for buying. Balogh referred to the valuations the have fallen over the past few months. The giant web company seems all set to revive its fortunes after an unstable period that affected a decline in sales due to recession and competition from Internet heavyweights like Google Inc.

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NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON - India's software industry has opposed a US bill that seeks to make it mandatory for American companies to fill vacancies with locals before turning to skilled foreign workers. 'The stated objective of the bill is to prevent fraud and visa abuse. However, several of the provisions of this bill are against the principles of free trade and are creating trade barriers,' said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).

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MUMBAI - The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Wednesday signed an agreement with Colombia's Federation of Software and Related Technologies (Fedesoft) to enhance software trade between the two countries.

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With supplemental oxygen, Will Cross, 37 became the first person with type 1 diabetes to reach the South Summit of Mt. Everest. That put him just shy of the top of the 29,029-foot mountain.

while this is not the top, is a great achievement for a type 1 diabetic. Will has called in and stated he only went as far as the South Summit of Everest and turned around because of high winds… For a type 1 diabetic, this is beyond what many can dream.

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