Google launches Product Listing Ads in India

MUMBAI: Online search giant Google has launched a new ad format, called Product Listing Ads, in India to provide users informationimages, price and brands of products that will help people shop better both online and offline.  Everyday, millions of shoppers use Google search to research and discover products to purchase online...

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Apple received 5,000 data requests US

Apple, over the last six months, received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for customer data US law enforcement authorities relating to criminal investigations and national security matters, the company said.  Microsoft and Facebook published similar data last week after reaching a deal about disclosures with US national security...

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'Tech Mahindra, MindTree may raise salaries by 7-12%'

MUMBAI: Mid-tier IT firms such as Tech Mahindra and MindTree may raise salaries by 7-12% this fiscal to ensure they do not lose talent to top players TCS, Infosys and Wipro, according to HR service providers.  The larger players have announced wage hikes ranging between 6% and 10% for this fiscal.  "Current environment...

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Micromax unveils Canvas 4 with 13MP camera

NEW DELHI: Indian smartphone manufacturer Micromax has released a teaser of its upcoming handset called Canvas 4. The company has posted two teaser videos of the device on its official YouTube channel. The videos, with tagline "Can Life Be Endless," show a smartphone with a sleek body and 13MP camera.  Expected to be an update...

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Life-like robots showcased in New York

A Japanese scientist has developed a body-double robot which resembles him closely, with tiny humanmovements and blinking eyes.  Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, has been working on developing lifeandroids.  The new robot was unveiled at the Global...

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Guava Soft sets up data centre in India

NEW DELHI: Ludhiana-based IT firm Guava Soft has started e-mail services email.biz with complete set-up in India, offering singleacter-based and name-based domains.  The company has set up its data centre in India and has developed entire e-mail services with its in-house Indian employees.  "Our complete set-up is in India....

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European cloud computing cos see positives in NSA scandal

PARIS/LONDON: France has its Sovereign Cloud project, while across the Rhine data firms have created the label Cloud Services: Made in Germany,trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away the prying eyes of US spies. European firms believe revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has secretly...

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See, what led to recent hike in mobile tariffs

NEW DELHI: The so-called 2G scam,suspected government corruption in the award of telecom spectrum led to the cancellation of 122 service licences across the country by the Supreme Court, is one of the reasons for recent tariff hikes, apart denting the global image of India's flourishing mobile phone industry, experts maintain. The mobile...

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New iPad app allows users to click telescopic images

WASHINGTON: A new iPad app has been developed, which allows people to click telescope images of celestial objects the comfort of their couch.  The app created by the online Slooh Space Camera allows people to command and control their robotic network of space cameras, Fox News reported.  Slooh's professional telescopes...

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Samsung to launch 'faster' version of Galaxy S4

SOUTH KOREA: Samsung Electronics plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday.  JK Shin, also co-chief executive of the world's biggest technology firm by revenue, said the phone would be sold in South Korea...

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Microsoft Boot Camp 2013 Gives Students Inside Track on Tech Trends

Four-city Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) Boot Camp kicks off in NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh New Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) inaugurated at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management Over 300 enthusiastic technology students gathered at the 2013 Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) Boot Camp held at the GL Bajaj Institute...

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Germany plans more online surveillance: Report

BERLIN: Germany's foreign intelligence service plans a major expansion of internet surveillance despite deep unease over revelations of US online spying, Der Spiegel news weekly reported. Spiegel said that the BND planned a 100 million euro ($130 million) programme over the next five years to expand web monitoring with up to 100 new...

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How your future TV may look like

WASHINGTON: Japanese engineers have unveiled the prototype of a flexible, plasma television that can roll upa window shade. Japan's Shinoda Plasma Co demonstrated the plasma screen at the Display Week 2013 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last month, winning an award for 'Best Prototype at Display Week'. The company calls...

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Free mobile roaming soon, but conditions apply

NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai allowed free mobile roaming on payment of a fixed fee July 1 and reduced national roamingges for others by up to 57 per cent.  Trai, however, said making national roaming completely free ofges is not practical as of now.  "The authority has decided to reduce the ceiling (upper price for...

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Murthy is IT industry's Don Bradman: Investors

BANGALORE: It was paeans and poetry at Infosys's 32nd annual general meeting held in Bangalore on Saturday. And it kept everybody in good humour. The signature IPL saxophone tune played in the background welcoming NR Narayana Murthy back to his home turf nearly two years after he resigned the company. Shareholders hailed Murthy as the...

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Aircel 'survival' under threat as debt rises

MUMBAI: Forits recent parleys on radical options to get back on track - relief on debt repayments, sale of some assets, sale of everything - Aircel is back to square one,everyone who has something to do with it does not want to do anything more with it than they absolutely have to.  The glimmer of hope arising the multitude...

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