Nokia 'confirms' Lumia phone with 41MP camera

NEW DELHI: Nokia changed the for smartphone cameras last year when it launched the 808 PureView with 41MP snapper. It was rumoured to have included this camera in its flagship Lumia 920 last year, but that was not to be. However, speculation is now rife that the Finnish manufacturer will launch a Lumia phone 41MP camera at its July 11...

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Samsung Galaxy Note III leaked image surfaces online

NEW DELHI: Samsung has been releasing smartphones at a rapid pace in the past couple of months. Now, a new image of the company's Galaxy Note III phablet has emerged on the internet, just a day ahead of Samsung's June 20 event in London. The handset is an update to the Galaxy Note II smartphone and is slated to be launched at IFA 2013...

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Google to open Android Nation retail stores in India

NEW DELHI: In a significant move that will help increase Android penetration in India, its promoter Google is now vying for a piece of the retail market with brick-and-mortar stores called Android Nation.  The US company will partner BK Modi's Spice Global to set up the stores in various Indian cities, starting with New Delhi later...

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Telcos offer average salary hike of 7%

MUMBAI: Wages across India's telecom sector have risen by an average 7% this year, with smaller companies loosening their purse strings a little more than their larger peers in a sluggish market.  The pay increase at market leader Bharti Airtel, which has seen its share slip lately, has been 4-5%, said two people familiar with...

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Uploading your brain to PCs may soon become reality

NEW YORK: Humans may be able to upload their brains to computers by as early as 2045, some futurists believe. This notion formed the basis for the Global Future 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference held in New York, last week. The conference, which is the brainchild of Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov, featured...

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Former Vodafone exec to head Airtel‘s consumer biz

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, the country's largest mobile operator, has roped in the Vodafone UK's former consumer director Srinivasan Gopalan, to play a similar role in India, an indictor that the company is tweaking its organization structure yet again, as its new leadership team grapples with twin challenges of falling profits and slowing...

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India sets up nationwide phone, email tapping programme

NEW DELHI: India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said. The expanded surveillance in the world's most populous democracy, which the government...

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MTS launches MBlaze in 37 Tamil Nadu towns

CHENNAI: Sistema Shyam TeleServices, which offers telecom services under the brand name MTS, today announced the launch of high speed mobile broadband service MBlaze in 37 towns across Tamil Nadu.  With this roll out, MTS has expanded its high-speed data footprint to over 140 towns across Tamil Nadu, Suresh S Kumar, chief operating...

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India set to frame new telecom gear testing norms

KOLKATA: India will shortly frame new testing standards for telecom gear to shield networks potential cyberattacks. The country's top security brass has decided that CCRA or "Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA)" clearance will no longer be enough to certify global telecom gear used in India.  The telecom department (DoT)...

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How Silicon Valley makes money online snooping

WASHINGTON: When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley company. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook's more than 1 billion users outside attacks went to work for another...

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What is forcing Indian mobile app developers to change biz models

HYDERABAD: Soaring sales of mobile phones and their rising prominence as personal entertainment devices are forcing game developers in India to change tacks and shift the focus of their business models away the personal computer.  Gamers switching to mobiles are buying fewer games for their PC, hitting developers hard. Also, the...

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