Half a billion Android devices activated: Google
September 13th, 2012 - 2:17 pm ICT by IANS
San Francisco, Sep 13 (IANS) Google Wednesday announced that 500 million devices running on its Android operating system have been activated so far."Today is a big day for Android... 500 ... Read more...
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Mahesh Bhatt taps digital medium boom for wider reach
September 6th, 2012 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) A majority of filmmakers are using digital platforms to reach out to wider audience. Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt is one of them and says that the ... Read more...
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Google to cut 4,000 jobs at Motorola Mobility
August 14th, 2012 - 3:00 am ICT by BNO News
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- Internet giant Google, Inc. on Monday said it plans to cut approximately 4,000 jobs at telecommunications company Motorola Mobility, which it acquired last year, according to ... Read more...
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Apple lawyer claims that Samsung copied iPhone technology
August 1st, 2012 - 5:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Aug 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) An attorney representing Apple said that Samsung did not come up with an original phone. The attorney told the jury on Tuesday that Samsung copied Apple ... Read more...
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Microsoft reports first loss in 26 years
July 20th, 2012 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 20 (IANS) US computing giant Microsoft has reported the first unprofitable quarter since it became a public company in 1986 after it wrote down the value of its ... Read more...
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Texting at the table and working at the laptop while eating - Meal time manners have slipped badly
July 11th, 2012 - 9:46 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, July 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A new survey has revealed that meal time manners have slipped drastically. Earlier people used to eat food together as a family and discuss how their day ... Read more...
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South Korea’s IT exports contract
July 10th, 2012 - 2:28 pm ICT by IANS
Seoul, July 10 (IANS) South Korean exports of information technology (IT) products contracted 5.2 percent in the first half of this year due to slowing global demand and rising production ... Read more...
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Samsung did not copy ‘cool’ Apple iPad: Court
July 10th, 2012 - 12:13 am ICT by IANS
London, July 9 (IANS) The British High Court has ruled that Samsung's Galaxy Tab range does not unlawfully copy the iPad's "cool" minimalist design, The Telegraph reported.Apple sued its Korean ... Read more...
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Nokia to close facilities, cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide
June 15th, 2012 - 6:15 pm ICT by BNO News
ESPOO, FINLAND (BNO NEWS) -- Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, on Thursday said it will cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide over the next year and close a number ... Read more...
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Delhi bloggers meet offline to discuss issues, gadgets
June 11th, 2012 - 2:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The air was abuzz with tech talk as more than 250 bloggers came together Sunday for the IndiBlogger meet in the capital.They shared Twitter ... Read more...
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Samsung targets 60 percent of Indian smartphone market share
May 31st, 2012 - 11:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Korean mobile handsets giant Samsung Electronics Thursday launched its much-awaited smartphone Galaxy S III in the Indian market and said the company had targeted 60 ... Read more...
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Sony unveils smart phones for upward mobile
May 24th, 2012 - 7:14 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, May 24 (IANS) Sony Mobile Communications of Japanese electronics major Sony Corporation Thursday unveiled a range of smart phones for the upward mobile with unique features to access a plethora ... Read more...
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Mobiles making Britons lose their manners
May 17th, 2012 - 10:32 am ICT by IANS
London, May 17 (IANS) Britons seem to be doing away with their traditional good manners, as a survey has found two out of three people in Britain wouldn't mind answering ... Read more...
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RIM to launch 15 BlackBerry premium stores by year-end
May 11th, 2012 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) will launch around 15 BlackBerry premium stores across the country by the end of this year to expand ... Read more...
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Google launches ‘cloud’ service
April 25th, 2012 - 4:38 am ICT by IANS
San Francisco, April 25 (IANS) Google Tuesday introduced its cloud storage service "Google Drive", which enables users to access files anytime, anywhere through a web-connected computing device.According to Google's official ... Read more...
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BlackBerry launches new smartphone to regain market share (Lead)
April 18th, 2012 - 8:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Canadian mobile handsets maker Research in Motion (RIM) Wednesday launched BlackBerry Curve 9220 for the global markets in India to regain lost market share in ... Read more...
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Reliance Communications to market Android devices in India
April 16th, 2012 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Reliance Communications Monday announced its plans to market Android devices exclusively in India for the next two years, a company official said.Through a strategic collaboration with ... Read more...
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Hacker held through photos of girlfriend’s breasts
April 14th, 2012 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 14 (IANS) A hacker has been unmasked after officials managed to trace the GPS data of his house from a photo of his girlfriend's breasts that he had ... Read more...
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Facebook buys Instagram for $1 bn (Lead)
April 10th, 2012 - 3:43 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 10 (IANS) Facebook is purchasing Instagram, the very popular photo sharing company, for $1 billion in a combination of cash and stock, the social networking giant's founder ... Read more...
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Mobile phones hackers’ main target
April 6th, 2012 - 2:41 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, April 6 (IANS) Mobile phones will be hackers' main target in the future, according to a network security report.About 7.12 million Internet-capable smartphones were infected with malicious programmes in ... Read more...
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Free applications drain smartphones of energy
April 5th, 2012 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 5 (IANS) Beware of seemingly harmless free applications (apps) -- they could be draining your smartphone of 75 percent of its energy, just tracking your location and ... Read more...
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KKR goes all out to engage fans
April 3rd, 2012 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisee Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), co-owned by superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is going out of the way to engage fans ... Read more...
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Nokia launches new campaign ahead of IPL-5
April 2nd, 2012 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) Ahead of the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 5), Nokia and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Monday unveiled an interactive consumer engagement campaign ... Read more...
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How iPads make eyes itchy and inflamed
April 1st, 2012 - 6:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 1 (IANS) Hours of staring at iPads and smartphones have left many young people with dry eyes, which makes them itchy, inflamed and gritty.The mind can 'forget' to ... Read more...
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Nude iPhone photos spark privacy fears in China
March 23rd, 2012 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 23 (IANS) Smartphones like iPhones may not be well equipped to protect the owner's privacy as a woman in China found out the hard way.Photos and other data ... Read more...
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Samsung to launch cheaper smartphones for India
March 18th, 2012 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, March 18 (IANS) South Korean mobile handset giant Samsung Electronics Sunday said it would launch cheaper smartphones in order to cater to the wider consumer segment of the Indian ... Read more...
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Android taking over the smartphone market
March 8th, 2012 - 12:48 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Washington, Mar 7 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Google’s Android OS is fast crowding the smartphone market. Market analysts ComScore Inc. reports that three in every four smartphones in the United States currently runs on ... Read more...
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Google launches unified digital content store
March 7th, 2012 - 1:49 pm ICT by IANS
San Francisco, March 7 (IANS) Google Tuesday introduced a new online store called Google Play, offering consumers a one-stop marketplace for music, movies, books, applications and other digital media content.
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Microsoft offers free trial of Windows 8
March 1st, 2012 - 11:54 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 1 (IANS) Microsoft gave reviewers and the public their first taste of its revolutionary new operating system Windows 8, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.Windows 8 will run on ... Read more...
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Indian mobile handsets market grows 10 percent in 2011
March 1st, 2012 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) The Indian mobile handsets market grew 10 percent in 2011 with the sale of 183 million devices, including 18 million 3G mobile phones and around ... Read more...
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Men prefer taking smartphones to newspapers in loo
February 25th, 2012 - 12:36 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 24 (IANS) Taking a newspaper to the toilet has long been a male preserve. But with the tech-age influencing nearly every aspect of life, even this most established ... Read more...
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Towie’s latest star: Chloe Sims’ daughter - Madison
February 20th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
London, Feb 20 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Only Way Is Essex star Chloe Sims opened the doors to the cameras for her daughter Madison. This is the first time that Madison has been ... Read more...
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Apple wins slide to unlock case
February 17th, 2012 - 10:18 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Munich, Feb 17 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A court in the German city of Munich has ruled in favor of Apple in a case with rival Motorola involving a patent of the slide to ... Read more...
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Samsung eyeing 60 percent of India’s smartphone market
February 14th, 2012 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) Buoyed by the launch of its first dual SIM smartphones in India, South Korean handset maker Samsung Electonics Tuesday said it is eyeing to capture 60 ... Read more...
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Apple to introduce iPad 3 in March
February 10th, 2012 - 3:01 am ICT by IANS
San Francisco, Feb 10 (IANS) Apple will introduce its latest iPad 3 here next month, media reports said Thursday.The next generation iPad will have faster chips and better graphics, Xinhua ... Read more...
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