Samsung copies Apple, announces gold Galaxy S4

It seems after witnessing the craze for the recently launched gold editions of the iPhone 5S, Samsung has also decided to tread the golden path. The South Korean smartphone giant has announced that it is bringing in two gold colour models of its flagship smartphone Galaxy S4. Twitter accounts of the Samsung Arabia...

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Gtalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients

Sent a message to someone onGtalk and it got delivered to someone else? Wondering what happened? Hold, you are not the only one experiencing this bug. Many other users of Google's free instant messaging serviceGoogle Talk too have reported that messages are being delivered to unintended recipients on Gtalk.In some cases the...

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India shines in Facebook’s global friendships map

Facebook's recently released global friendships map shows India among the 'densest use' countries where the social networking site is accessed the most to form friendships across the world. The new map shows Facebook's global reachnow impacting India, Africa and South America.The original version of the map, which was...

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Prem Watsa confident of BlackBerry deal

Fairfax Financial chief executive Prem Watsa said he is confident the consortium he leads can find the money to fund its $4.7 billion bid for smartphone maker BlackBerry."We wouldn't put our name to such a high-profile deal if we didn't feel confident that at the end of the day that our due diligence would be fine and we'd be able...

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eBay to buy payments company Braintree

PayPal parent eBay says it is buying online and mobile payments technology provider Braintree for $800 million in cash. Braintree's payments technology is used by popular start-ups such as vacation rentals siteAirbnb, cab-hailing app Uber and restaurant reservations site OpenTable. The move...

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Google announces Hangouts update

Google has update its Hangouts app, adding the much desired status availability feature. Meaning, the updated Hangouts app finally shows who is online. The update shows only as to who is online, but also as to who is reachable on Hangouts. Green icons show that people are online while grey ones indicate they are...

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Can Amazon crack Indian e-commerce market?

In just three months, MirchiMart, a Delhi-based online retailer of mobile phones, has seen its business jump by 50%. In the same period, another electronics retailer Universal, which runs 500 stores in South India, has shipped tablets and smartphones to every state and union territory in India. And AXA PDA Lounge, a Bangalore-based retailer...

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Nokia Lumia 1020: First impressions

Nokia has unveiled the Lumia 1020 smartphone in India though it is yet to announce the price tag. The manufacturer showed off many of the camera features and technologies that go into the phone at a media event on Thursday, but refused to divulge the price. While potential customers will be able to buy the smartphone on October 11, we...

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15% of Americans dont use internet: Study

A latest study by the Pew Research Centre's Internet and American Life Project has revealed that 15% of Americans don't use the internet. The study also states that 9% of US adults only use the internet when they are not at home. According to Fox News, out of those people who don't go online, only 8% want to,...

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Tweets show global news readership patterns: Study

Researchers have used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe, a new study has found.In a new article published in SAGE Open, researchers discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles.For example, American and British readers are...

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World‘s first ‘attention-powered‘ car

Researchers claim to have developed the world's first 'attention-powered'car — a pioneering vehicle that uses a headset to monitor brain activity and slow acceleration during periods of distraction.The car commissioned by the The Royal Automobile Club of West Australia was tested in Perth in a bid to prevent road accidents...

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‘More airlines will tap social media for business‘

Over the next three years, 70% of the airlines will use social media to reach out to passengers and offer services, aviation industry specialists in Goa say in a report on Thursday."India is the world's third-largest social media market with the number of users in urban India estimated at 66 million. Indian carriers...

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Oracle launches 10 new services on cloud

Business software and hardware systems major Oracle has launched 10 new cloud services, as well as a cloud marketplace, in a push towards offering cloud based services and solutions.  On the third day of the ongoing Oracle Open World in San Francisco, Thomas Kurian, executive vice-president for product development at Oracle said...

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BlackBerry failure: A lesson for Apple, Samsung

Indonesia has long been a surprising jewel in the crown of BlackBerry, a rare market where its devices enjoyed mass appeal. But the country also highlights the struggling company's failure to embrace the emerging economies that are leading smartphone sales growth across the globe. Indonesia is still one of BlackBerry's biggest markets,...

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Modi‘s run to the PM’s seat in new Android game

Just a day after Narendra Modi-themed SmartNamo phones became available for pre-orders in India, a US-based company has released an Android game featuring the Gujarat chief minister. Dexati, a developer of mobile apps, has released the game - titled Modi Run - as a free app on Google's operating system. The gameplay of Modi Run...

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Valve unveils SteamOS for gaming devices

 Video games developer and publisher Valve has reportedly announced SteamOS, which is expected to bring PC gaming into the living room and potentially disrupt the gaming market dominated by PlayStation, Xbox and Wii. The OS code will be made freely available for manufacturers who want to launch their own gaming hardware and the...

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HTC plans to launch sub Rs 10,000 smartphone

 Mobile handset maker HTCsaid it is eyeing almost three fold jump in its market share to 15% as it focuses on ramping up distribution network and service support to strengthen its foothold in country's growing smartphone market.The company said it also intended to launchsmart phone with less than Rs 10,000 price range though...

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HCL Tech bags multi-million dollar contract in US

Software services company HCL Technologies said that it has won a multi-year multi-million dollar contract to modernise unemployment insurance services in the US states of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and North Dakota.  "HCL America Inc (HCLA), a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, has won a multi-year, multi-million dollar...

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