Telecom

If reports are to be believed, then Vodafone is trying to buy controlling stakes in Tata Teleservices; and if this happens, then it will create India’s biggest telecom company! Vodafone, after it’s sale of 45% in Verizon Wireless for…

India-made super computer PARAM Yuva II has been ranked 44th in the prestigious Green500 List for Super Computers. It was announced at the Super Computing Conference in Denver, Colorado. Created by the Centre for Development of Advanced…

Apple products sold like hot cakes in 2013, yet again. Tech savvy consumers lapped up 150 million iPhones, 71 million iPads and 16 million Mac laptops in 2013, generating revenues of $171 billion and profits of $387 billion. Behind these…

It was the year of mobile in 2013. Globally, more than 100 billion mobile apps were downloaded in this year, with revenues from apps touching approximately $26 billion. It is an increase of 44% compared to 2012, when 64 billion apps were…

2013 saw several new and exciting gadgets being launched all across the globe. And consumers chose the best among them. As per a Gartner study, as of 2013, there are more than 2.35 billion gadgets in use all over the world, which is an…

During Mumbai Comic Con event in Mumbai, Microsoft announced the launch of Amar Chitra Katha Comic App, which will offer comics created by Amar Chitra Katha is an easy to read, downloadable format. Currently, there are more than 200 titles…

WhatsApp rise has been meteoric to say the least, especially in last 12 to 18 months. The latest numbers announced by WhatsApp on their blog may astonish you – They now have crossed 400 million monthly active users out of which around 100…

The battle of the consumer electronics giants has started, and what better platform than CES to demonstrate it? And the flavour for this year’s CES 2014 will be – Curves! LG started it first. Via a press news release yesterday, LG…

PlayStation 4 has been launched in India and will be available in stores from January 6th. An improvement over the previous PlayStation 3, the console is priced quite steeply at Rs. 39,999. The games for the console will be sold at Rs.…

Do you remember Notion Ink – Yeah, the same company that launched the Adam tablet was touted world over as the next iPad killer. Forget about being a killer, the tablet went in the opposite direction. People who bought the first version of…

Mobiles have taken over the world and soon we would be doing their bidding. The only issue is they do not have the power to last more than a day. On one hand they are almost as powerful as the low class laptops, with almost all the apps…

Close to 5 million new mobile subscribers were added in the month of October 2013 as per the latest TRAI report

Truecaller is very popular with Indian smartphone users – the popularity of this reverse phone lookup app can be judged from the fact that half of all the new users added on Truecaller network are from India. According to Techcrunch…

Curves are new buzzword in the electronics world! A few weeks after rival Samsung launched a smartphone with curved display screen, its Korean compatriot has now gone one step further – innovating both the television and the smartphone!…

Hold on a moment, and let it absorb you: Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio has joined hands with Bharti Airtel; two strategic rivals have joined forces which has the potential to disrupt Indian telecom market! Officially speaking, this is a…

Mobile Messaging clients are the flavour of the season – Whatsapp, Line, Wechat and our very own homegrown Hike are at war with each other to garner global market share. Each one of them are coming up with features and schemes to entice…

64 bit chipset in mobile is pretty much useless as of now. Even Apple has no use for it even though they have already introduced it to the market. That isn’t to say that the move in itself is a bad one though. Eventually the RAM would…

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has been taking tough stand on Pesky Callers and Spam SMS senders over past few months. They came up with string of directives to ensure that menace of unsolicited commercial communication (UCC)…

Whatsapp, one of the leading mobile messaging platforms in the world has partnered with India’s 5 largest telecom provider Tata Docomo. In this new offering, Tata Docomo will be offering unlimited whatsapp usage to its subscribers at Rs.…

Breaking the tradition, Apple has decided to introduce iPad Air in India sooner than expected. The sleek device which was launched on November 1, 2013 in USA would be available for Indian buyers starting December 7, 2013. Ingram Micro,…