Is the Avatar concept really possible?
Now the highest-grossing film ever, "Avatar," has captivated millions of viewers with its picturesque scenery, extraterrestrial battles, and nature-loving, blue-skinned aliens. The premise of the film is that humans can enter the world of these 10-foot aliens, called the Na'vi, by way of half-human, half-Na'vi hybrids. A high-tech interfacing mechanism allows a human to remain inert while controlling one of these avatar hybrids just by thinking. Continue Reading
Océans: The Fish Story That Is Sweeping France
Take that, George Clooney. Though the American film heartthrob is still the favorite actor of millions of movie lovers around the world, in France these days he's being outdrawn by a bunch of fish. Score that as a win for Océans, a spectacular new French maritime documentary that has done not only twice as much business as Up in the Air since both movies were released on Jan 27, but is also looking to set a new mark for nature films when it rolls out internationally in the coming months. Continue Reading
State of the Internet
Trying to encapsulate the Internet in one image? Well, Mashable.com has done just that with Sate of the Internet 2010, one image which breaks down the demographics of Internet users—with both surprising and expected results. Continue Reading
Outsources go global
One glance at the travel itinerary of Natarajan Chandrasekaran will tell you just how dramatically the post-recession economy is changing. Since October, when he became CEO of Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chandrasekaran has retraced the business trips his predecessors have been making for years to New York City and London, the home cities of big banks and other companies that have traditionally outsourced computer programming and other work to Indian firms. Continue Reading
Google builds a better browser
After years of dominating search on the Web, Google is looking to change the way we go about surfing it. A little more than a year ago, it launched the beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. Continue Reading
About Tan Sri Lim
Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lim Kok Wing, the Founder and President of Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, does not fit into any ordinary mould that would describe most entrepreneurs.
His journey has been closely linked with the economic and social development of Malaysia. Read more
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World internet users were estimated at 1,668,870,408 by mid-year 2009 with internet penetration at 24.7%. This means that approximately one out of every four persons in the world used the Internet.
— Internet World Statistics, August 2009
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