Google plans to hire more female engineers

Search engine Google is aiming to increase the number of female computer engineers in order to reduce the gender gap in the industry.  Co-founder Larry Page in his address during the I/O conference, said that the company is focused on recruiting more women 'forever' so as to ensure that the company is not all male.  In...

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Samsung launches biggest Galaxy phones in India

Samsung on Tuesday launched Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3, its biggest smartphones so far in India. The company, encouraged by the sales of Galaxy Note, which has a screen size of 5.5-inch, believes that in the developing countries there is demand for oversized smartphones that can also double up as tablets. As their names...

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Microsoft‘s competition to begin from May 29

Startup Village, country's first telecom technology incubator, here is set to host from May 29 the regional round of the prestigious BizSpark India Startup Challenge held by Microsoft, an organiser said.The event is aimed at searching for entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in cloud computing, mobile applications and Windows...

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Singapore to regulate Yahoo, other news websites

Websites that regularly report on Singapore, including Yahoo News, will have to get a license from June 1, putting them on par with newspapers and television new outlets, in a move seen by some as a bid to rein in free-wheeling internet news. "Online news sites that report regularly on issues relating to Singapore and...

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Inside Google‘s secret lab

Last February, Astro Teller, director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from CEO Larry Page for an unlikely acquisition. Teller was proposing that Google buy Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines mounted on unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft tethered to the ground like a kite. The start-up,...

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What is Sony’s most successful business

Sony is best known as a consumer electronics company, making PlayStation game consoles and televisions. And it loses money on almost every gadget it sells. Sony has made money making Hollywood movies and selling music. That profitable part of the business is what Daniel S Loeb, an American investor and manager of the hedge fund Third...

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UK to step up internet surveillance

The British government has revived plans to snoop into people's emails, internet accounts and mobile phone texts.  Following the recent killing of British soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, UK's home secretary Theresa May said that thousands face risk of being radicalized by hate preachers and the charter legislation for snooping...

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BSNL, Dimension Data launch enterprise cloud services

Telecom operatorBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) andDimension Data, a global ICT solutions and services provider, today jointly announced the launch of their enterprise cloud services in India. Based on Dimension Data's Managed Cloud Platform (MCP), BSNL's enterprise cloud services will be rendered via its internet datacentres....

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