The much-awaited upgrade to RIM’s Blackberry phones has just hit India and Blackberry fans can finally look forward to some serious upgrade fun. The Blackberry Bold 9900, one of the three models that were globally unveiled a week ago by RIM as part of its new line-up, has been launched by web retailer Letsbuy.com for […]
Union Information & Broadcasting minister Ambika Soni today expressed “full confidence” in the non-violent nature of Anna’s movement. She, however, justified the crackdown. “I have full confidence in Anna’s movement.. I know they won’t resort to violence,” she said, asked about the arrest. She, however, pointed out that any march, even if non-violent, can be […]
Samsung will launch the new line-up of its Android tablets, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Tab 8.9, in India on the 10th (coming Wednesday). The company will launch the two models — acclaimed as the best Android tablets on the planet right now — at a glittering ceremony in Delhi, according to sources. […]
Not so long ago when a 21-inch bulky, traditional CRT (picture-tube) TV would cost Rs 10,000-12,000. Then came the attack of the panels, first plasma, then LCD and then LED-LCD. In the meanwhile, production of ‘normal’ tube TVs, which used to come for around Rs 7,000 to 11,000, has almost come to an end. Instead, […]
Home Minister P Chidambaram said Anna Hazare and hundreds of his followers have been detained under the “preventive arrest” sections of the Indian Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.PC). Chidambaram said Anna and his group were arrested because when asked about today’s program, they said they intended to protest at the JP park. Late yesterday night, Chidambaram […]
India’s exports set a new high in June, while imports showed a welcome slippage from the high levels shown in May, according to the latest foreign trade data. The oil bill, which had cross the $10 billion mark in the previous month, remained stable at around $10.2 billion in June too. Proving critics wrong, the […]
Essar Energy has said that its $350 million acquisition of Shell’s oil refinery at Stanlow in the UK, will help it export the products of its India refinery to the UK market. The Stanlow refinery, whose acquisition was completed today, is the second largest refinery in the UK and supplies approximately one sixth of the […]
Indian e-retailer Letsbuy.com has brought to India the qwerty-enabled Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro priced at Rs 15,399 ($340) The phone, despite having decent specifications like a 1GHz processor, 5 Megapixel camera, WiFi and Android 2.3 Gingerbread, is not exactly the ‘latest and greatest’ in the league of smart-phones. The biggest factor that differentiates the […]
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the second largest equipment firm in the World, has appointed John Suffolk, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the British Government as its chief cyber-security officer. The firm said the move is aimed at developing a state of the art security system for the company which can be deployed to […]
Bharti Airtel clarified that media reports on its Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal’s salary being raised to Rs 70 crore per year this year are inaccurate. Media reports had reported that his salary may go up from the current Rs 27.5 crore per year, giving the impression of an immediate hike. Bharti said the there will […]
The news has been confirmed — Apple has indeed emerged as the World’s single biggest smartphone vendor displacing Nokia, according to market research firm Canalys. Not only did Nokia surrender the first place, but it also lost the second place to Samsung during the quarter ended June, Canalys said. In all, nearly 107.7 million smartphones […]
India’s IT companies, the second biggest source of IT outsourcing services to the World, grew at their fastest pace in four years in the year ended March 2011, according to a compilation by Dataquest Magazine. The top 200 grew at 25% in the financial year, up from just 8% growth shown in the previous year […]
The Government of India has dismissed reports that India’s forests are declining at an alarming rate of 1% to 2.7% every year, pointing out that the definition of forests is quite broad in its dictionary. Responding to a question by an alarmed Rajya Sabha member today, the new environment minister Jayanti Natarajan said that any […]
Sprint, America’s biggest 4G operator, has launched HTC Detail, a tweaked version of the HTC Evo Shift that it launched for consumers earlier this year. HTC Detail will be part of its offering for ‘wholesale’ customers such as Mitel, which repackage Sprint’s services along with their own to sell to other customers, typically companies. The […]
Fans of Ubuntu can soon enjoy Gnome 3, the new radical overhaul of the look and feel of the Linux desktop, at a single click. The new interface can now be easily installed on the upcoming edition of Ubuntu, the Oneiric Ocelot, thanks to the migration of Ubuntu’s own user-interface ‘Unity’ from GTK-2 code to […]
US device maker Motorola has just announced that users of its Xoom tablets in Asia Pacific (including India) will be eligible for a free update of their operating system from Android 3 to Android 3.1 from tomorrow onwards. The update, the first major update to the tablet oriented Android Honeycomb edition, will resolve many pain […]
Google has reduced its call rates to Indian phones from 6 cents (Rs 2.70) per minute to 2 cents (90 paise) per minute and extended the service to customers outside the US, including those in India. Google phone-calls help customers call phones almost anywhere in the World at rates that are usually cheaper, sometimes much […]
A general trend by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, India’s big three GSM operators, to raise prepaid tariffs has got many customers irked. But a close look at the tariff numbers of the Indian mobile sector over the last two years reveals the reason for the move. It points out that hammered by competition, […]
Sprint has just announced the two most powerful Blackberry phones ever, including the Torch 9850 which has a 3.7 inch full touch screen — the biggest ever to adorn a Blackberry handset. The other phone, the Blackberry Bold 9930, is similar in specifications to the already announced Blackberry Bold 9900 and has a 2.8 inch […]
Huawei, World’s second largest mobile network equipment provider, has just launched a data-card product that may turn out to be crucial to the roll-out of wireless broadband in India by players like Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. The data-card is the World’s first such device to support a host of technologies, including TD-LTE — seen as […]
