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Tivo, Netflix in partnership on Web streaming

Tivo, Netflix in partnership on Web streaming With the aim to further provide Netflix's Web streaming service directly to televisions through many devices, on Wednesday, Netflix Inc. said that it has entered a deal with TiVo Inc. 

Though the full terms of the deal were not disclosed, under this deal, Netflix needs to provide subscribers of its online DVD rental service, and 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers, with the facility to stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix's "Watch Instantly", free of charge. 

More about World Champion Viswanathan Anand

More about World Champion Viswanathan AnandThe very well known World Champion Viswanathan Anand has managed to retain his title. Anand, born on December 11, 1969 in Chennai, is the son of 

Vishwanathan, who is now a retired general manager, Southern Railways.

His friends call him ‘Vishy’ and he learnt to play chess from his mother Susheela at the tender age of six, and since then he had developed great love for 

the game. His mother had been a great source of inspiration for him. 

Toyota all set to launch its small car for US$ 5,000 by 2010

Toyota all set to launch its small car for US$ 5,000 by 2010 It was recently made official that the Indian arm of Japanese auto major Toyota Motor Corporation would be launching a global small car by 2010-11. The car would also be exported to overseas markets in both developed and developing countries, other than being launched in the domestic market. 

This strategy adopted by Toyota is quite similar to other auto majors. The main motive of all these companies is widening their market share tremendously through the launches of their own small cars. 

Fortis Healthcare aims at more acquisitions

Fortis Healthcare aims at more acquisitions Recently, Shivender Mohan Singh, CEO and managing director of Fortis Healthcare, announced, “Fortis Healthcare is eyeing acquisitions and is in talks with more than two players in south and west India. The company is hoping to close the transactions in the current financial year.”

Mercury reported to be once alive with volcanoes

Mercury reported to be once alive with volcanoesOn Wednesday, a very astonishing piece of information was given by the NASA scientist that the little planet of the solar system, Mercury, was once alive with volcanic activities during its early history; the planet which now is seen as geologically dead. 

This comes after data and images sent back by the U.S. space agency's car-sized MESSENGER probe, which explored the planet on 6th October. The images displayed extensive and deep lava flows on the surface. The images also suggested hardened lava more than a mile deep filling a crater 60 miles in diameter. 

Arctic winter sea ice sees great decline in its depth

Arctic winter sea ice sees great decline in its depth For the first time since records commenced in the early 1990s, the thickness of sea ice in the Artic, tremendously decreased last winter. The research, undertaken by British scientists has shown a of loss in the thickness of the northern ice cap following the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007. 
However, the weather was not really warm then. 

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