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• Nero still plays fiddle as hunger kills in silence - Times of Oman
  
  Times of Oman
  This is because in these crucial days, the body is laying down fundamental human hardware and software
• Spotify Adds Three Asian Cities To Current 20 Served, Priced Lowest In Malaysia - TechCrunch
  
  TechCrunch
  It's practically the new Big Mac Index of music subscribers, going by Spotify's head of new markets, Sriram Krishnan. He told us the prices are a
• Japan Inc. Hesitates to Invest as Yen Spurs Nikkei Rally - Bloomberg
  
  Bloomberg
  Even in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., when the U.S. financial system was on the brink of meltdown, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index was never valued at less than 1.4 times book value. ... Accounting Benefit. Exchange ...
  
  
• New animation tech could make motion capture suits obsolete - Gizmag
  
  Gizmag
  Actors may soon say good-bye to those humbling Lycra body suits commonly used in the visual effects industry, thanks to a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII). They've formed a start-up called The Captury that is ...
  
  
• Sensex declines 1.2% - Times of Oman
  
  Times of Oman
  Mumbai: India's benchmark stock index fell to a seven-month low amid concern company earnings will trail analysts' estimates. Software exporters led the decline. The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 1.2 per cent to 18,226.48, the lowest close since September13.
  
  
• Indian bourses dive for second week on weak Infosys results - Times of Oman
  
  Times of Oman
  Infosys, the country's second largest software exporter, forecast a revenue growth of 6-10 per cent for this fiscal, lower than IT industry body Nasscom's estimate. The decline was in contrast to fall in retail inflation in March and factory output ...
  
  
• The fight for HTML5: 'Keep DRM out' lobby steps up standards battle - ZDNet
  
  ZDNet
  Summary: A group of 27 organisations - including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation - have written to the web standards body W3C urging it to reject proposals that would make it easier to support DRM-protected media in ...