IBM has launched a program which aims at sponsoring talented engineering students from various leading technical institutes of India. The program also aims at encouraging further researchers in the region. 

"The IBM Blue Scholar Program is aimed at growing that rare talent that blooms in a scientifically challenging atmosphere," said Dr. Manish Gupta, associate director, IBM India Research Laboratory.

Olga Kurylenko - the new, hot, delicious and sassy Bond babe - seems determined to remain single, and claims that she is ‘not interested in men.’

After the recent break-up of her second marriage to American mobile phone mogul Damien Gabrielle, the Ukrainian-born model and actress has made it a point that she would rather be alone. Olga left Gabrielle as she felt he was jealous of her blossoming career.

The ‘Karzzz’ concert of singer, composer and actor Himesh Reshammiya will be aired by Star Plus on November 9. The concert, presented in association with T-Series, was held at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai on October 12.

Those present at the concert included the chairman and managing director of T-Series, Bhushan Kumar, T-Series' Vinod Bhanushali, the ‘Karzzzz’ leading lady Shweta Kumar, Ajay Kapoor and the team of ‘Karzzzz’.

After pursuing US rights to an untitled Barack Obama documentary produced by actor Edward Norton for several months, HBO has finally closed the deal running into seven-figures.

The deal with HBO was negotiated by Endeavor Independent and Andrew Hurwitz. HBO plans to air the feature-length documentary next year.

The project was financed by GOOD, Green Film Co. Citi Prods., and Norton’s Class 5 Films. The Obama campaign was approached in early 2006 for the documentary chronicling the new president-elect’s history in politics.

To improve the performance and reliability of solid-state drives (SSD), SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday announced an advanced flash file management system called ExtremeFFS system.

Don Barnetson, senior director of marketing at the Milpitas, Calif.-based memory maker's SSD business unit, said ExtremeFFS should boost the speed of writing common types of data to SSDs by as much as 100 times, thereby dramatically improving two of the main weaknesses of SSDs.