The role of the Office of the Quartet 7 Hours Ago | 03:41 ‹ 03:41 The role of the Office of the Quartet 7 Hours Ago 02:03 Solving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict 7 Hours Ago 02:50 The Quartet is a very flexible platform: De Boer 7 Hours Ago 03:37 How to attract investors into Palestine 7 Hours Ago › In the latest episode of the CNBC Conversation, CNBC’s Louisa Bojesensits down with the head of mission at the one of the leading bodies in the Middle East peace process: the Office of the Quartet’s Kito de Boer. In his conversation, de Boer…
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A 29-year-old Indian research scholar from the National University of Singapore won the German Green Talent award. Shamik Chowdhury, who is doing his PhD in environmental engineering was among the 25 scholars, who were awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for their innovative green ideas. Why was he awarded? The young research scholar was awarded for his innovative approach in sustainable development, resource efficiency, cleaner production and eco-innovation. His mission is to make a sustainable city life through green technologies that will be based on renewable feedstock Image source: twitter.com/ pocketnewsalert Chowdhury’s research is based on…
Teachers in Mumbai urged the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Board to provide a 3-day gap between social studies and sciences in order to provide enough time for the student to revise their syllabus and retain what they had studied earlier to the fullest. Following the timetable released by the SSC on Tuesday, Mumbai teachers expressed their concerns and complained that back-to-back papers can discredit and demoralise the students. Teachers’ concern over SSC timetable: The Mumbai Teacher’s Parishad on Tuesday in a letter also asked the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education to make changes in the timetable…
There are two types of products that send the PCWorld lab into retest mode: those that perform better than expected, and those that perform worse. Toshiba’s 2.5-inch, TLC NAND-based, OCZ-branded TL100 definitely falls into the latter category. As a matter of fact, after seeing a sustained write speed of less than 100MBps, a far cry from the “up to 530MBps” you’ll see advertised, we started kicking tires with particular energy. Three TL100’s were tested on four separate PCs and three different operating systems (Windows 7, 8.1, and 10) to confirm that the bad write numbers it was pulling weren’t somehow…
Flexible, thin-film solar panels from a Silicon Valley company are allowing drone makers to keep their craft in the sky for hours longer than is possible with batteries alone. The panels, from Alta Devices in Sunnyvale, are produced on thin plastic sheets that can be stuck on the top frame of drones like the Bramor ppX, developed by Slovenia’s C-Astral Aerospace. On Tuesday, the two companies showed off a version of the drone with six solar panels affixed to its top. The basic drone can stay aloft for 3.5 hours, but the addition of the solar panels has extended this by two…
A new LeEco phone has been certified by Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA. Listed as LeEco X850, the device is powered by Snapdragon 821 chipset and sports a 5.7-inch, QHD display. RAM is 4GB, while internal memory is 64GB. In terms of camera, the phone features a dual rear-camera setup of 13MP and a 16MP front shooter. A large 3,900mAh battery is there to keep the lights on. Weighing in at 185g and having a thickness of 7.99mm, the phone comes in coffee gray and gold charm color options. Pricing and availability information is currently unknown. source”cnbc”
A lot has been written about the upcoming Huawei Mate 9 but the company may have something up its sleeve (literally). An e-paper based smartwatch has leaked with a circular display with marginally smaller bezels than the Pebble Time Round (which was not upgraded in the last round of Pebbles). Looking back at an teaser image from early last month, this seems to be the Huawei Honor S1 smartwatch (note the notches on the bezel). Huawei Honor S1 smartwatch with an e-paper display For those unfamiliar, e-paper is a type of low-power display that has amazing sunlight legibility and can…
Sony’s mobile division started off well – it was making more per phone than any other Android maker. But the company will not reach its 20 million phones shipped forecast – it already cut it once by a million and now by two more. In total, Sony’s forecast is that it will ship 17 million Xperia phones. The blame has been put on Europe. On the positive side, the forecast for operating income for the year remains unchanged as Sony transitions into higher value phones (its mid-range phones are underperforming). The mobile division even scored a small profit ($37 million)…
Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images A woman takes pictures of a sign after the opening of Google’s pop-up store in New York. Google parent Alphabet announced a $7 billion buyback yesterday after the close. That got a lot of attention, but the buyback trend has been declining all year. That $7 billion buyback would reduce Alphabet’s share count by about 1.4 percent if fully implemented. Alphabet buys back shares fairly regularly in the last year … about $5.5 billion in the last three quarters. Still, buyback activity has been muted recently. Announced buybacks are down 30 percent for…
David A. Grogan | CNBC Indra Nooyi Running a multinational corporation with annual revenues north of $63 billion and a market cap of more than $153 billion is not easy. Every day presents new choices on which the future of the company could depend. As a result, the CEO and CFO of Pepsico get into arguments on a pretty regular basis, say Indra Nooyi, the CEO and chairman of Pepsico, and Hugh Johnston, CFO and vice chairman of Pepsico. The pair appeared earlier this week at the Net/Net event at the New York Stock Exchange. “We argue and fight about…