Samsung Galaxy Note III launch date 'revealed'

NEW DELHI: Phablet fans out there, the next-generation of the first successful phablet Samsung Galaxy Note seems to be only days away. According to a report in technology blog AndroidGeeks, Samsung will be holding an Unpacked event on September 4 this year, just ahead of IFA 2013 in Berlin, to unveil Samsung Galaxy Note III. The company...

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Yahoo buys mobile app company Qwiki

Yahoo said that it will buy Qwiki, a mobile app for creating videos in Apple's iPhone, as it tries to increase its presence in the world of smartphones and tablets.  The company paid about $50 million for the deal, tech blog AllThingsD cited sources as saying. Terms of the deal however were not disclosed.  This is Yahoo's...

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Facebook stickers hit web chat

Facebook has added stickers support to its web chat, carrying the jumbo emoticons overthe mobile apps to the desktop interface. The popular images – which some IM users love, while others find them infuriating – have been featured in Facebook’s mobile chat service for some time, but have quietly been added to conversations in the desktop...

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Angry Birds updates with new game mode and 15 new levels

Rovio has outed a big update for its popular Angry Birds title. One of the most-downloaded games oftime now has a new gameplay mode, 15 new levels, and even 73 new “pig contraptions” taken straightRovio’s spinoff game Bad Piggies. If you’ve been finding yourself getting bored lately with the bird-flinging game, this could renew the lasting...

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Samsung ships 20m Galaxy S4: Eyes 100m record

Samsung has shipped 20m Galaxy S 4 smartphones, the company has told South Korean press, pegging demand 1.7x more than the Galaxy S III it replaced. The smartphone – which Samsung claimed “sold” 10m in its first month of availability – is on track to be the company’s first 100m unit smartphone, Yonhap News reports, supposedly the internal...

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Nokia unveils 3G-enabled feature phones, 207 & 208

NEW DELHI: Nokia today unveiled three 3G-enabled phones, named 207, 208 and 208 dual-sim. The three feature phones sport candybar shape and have bright coloured back covers, similar to the Lumia range and the new Asha 501. The new Nokia 207, 208 and 208 dual-sim feature a 2.4-inch display and are water resistant. Connectivity options...

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HP beats TCS to win Rs 400cr Corporation Bank deal

BANGALORE: Technology services company Hewlett-Packard won a Rs 400-crore technology outsourcing contractpublic sector lender Corporation Bank, beating India's largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro.  The deal win comes at a time when Indian software-exporters are winning outsourcing contracts coming up for renewal...

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Microsoft seeking space in Kerala's Technopark

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Global software giant Microsoft is seeking space in the Technopark campus here, a top official of the IT department said.  "Preliminary reports suggest that they are serious (about taking space at Technopark). Things will become clearer in some days," the official, who did not wish to be named, told IANS.  Construction...

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Apple hires ex-French luxury group CEO for 'special projects'

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has hired the former chief executive of French luxury group Yves Saint Laurent for "special projects" reporting to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook. "We're thrilled to welcome Paul Deneve to Apple," spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said. "He'll be working on special projects as a vice president reporting directly...

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Moto X ad hints at customizable smartphone

NEW DELHI: Motorola has been in the news over the past few months for its upcoming X Phones, being developed in Google's X Labs. Recently, the company's CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed that such a phone is in the offing, and announced that it will be called Moto X. The device is slated to be unveiled later this year, but not much is known...

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Instagram users hit with spam

WASHINGTON: Photo-sharing app Instagram was reportedly hit with 'miracle fruit diet' spam when users accounts were hacked and photos of fruits were posted.  According to the Fox News, the spam hit the service in the weekend and along with the food photos a link to a fake BBC page was also posted promoting 'miracle fruit diet'.  One...

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Indian languages to drive Google's growth

BANGALORE: Nelson Mattos, VP of product & engineering for Europe and emerging markets in Google, has grown the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) engineering strength300 people, when he took over in 2007, to 1,800 people today. The team has contributed to projects including Google Chrome, Android, mobile products and Google+...

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Why TCS, Wipro, Infosys eyeing start-ups

BANGALORE: The hunt for the next growth driver brought top IT companies - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant, Wipro and MindTree - to a Nasscom matchmaking event last week,they were serenaded by about a dozen technology start-ups hoping to be bought by one of them.  The event, the first of its kind in India, signals...

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Google Reader alternatives face issues as service shuts

Feedly's chief executive Edwin Khodabakchian said that the company is committed to fixing the problems adding that Feedly did not currently import OPML files but would gain the functionality and users could export the dataGoogle and reload it en masse into Feedly at some point over the coming days.  According to the report,...

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RIL-Samsung 4G handset deal fails

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries' (RIL's) negotiation with South Korean conglomerate Samsung for developing handsets which can provide voice on 4G technology have hit a hurdle, with the handset maker unwilling to match the price demanded by RIL.  Sources involved in the negotiations said Reliance Jio Infocomm, an RIL subsidiary,...

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12 founders: Company or crowd?

Listing for landlords is free, though this might change in future, says Sharma. Sharma, the site currently has 2,000 brokers and is ad-free. "We will keep it ad-free as our focus is the buyer and seller, and we want to give an unbiased, uncluttered site." In the next two months, the portal plans to launch new productslisting new projects...

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Indians check work e-mails even on vacation: Study

MUMBAI: While on a business trip, schedules are choked with meetings, conferences, market visits and playing catch up with work mail on smartphones, people still try to find time to eat out at popular restaurants, visit popular tourist spots etc, according to a survey released recently by an online travel portal.  The survey asked...

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Michael Dell advised to raise buyout offer

NEW YORK: Michael Dell has been advised to raise his $24.4 billion offer for Dell, coming under further pressure as billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he had committed more than $3 billion to back an alternative proposal.  The PC maker's special committee told Dell's founder and chief executive a few days ago that he should...

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'Nokia may burn through cash pile in just one year'

HELSINKI: Nokia's move to buy out Siemens's share of their network equipment joint venture strains a balance sheet already under pressurea loss-making handset business, which could burn through its cash as soon as next year. While the 1.7 billion euro price tag Nokia will pay Siemens to gain full control of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)...

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Google urged to stop ads for illegal products

In a letter sent to Google, Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt complained about Google's practice of placing before some YouTube videos advertisements for pharmacies willing to sell percocet and oxycontin without a prescription.  Oxycontin and percocet are powerful painkillers that...

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Paying bill online costs man Rs 50,000

NEW DELHI: Two days after TOI reported that the crime branch had registered an FIR against a man who allegedly created a fake Delhi Jal Board website; the cybercell is being approached by victims of fraud that took place while paying bills for power and other utilities.  Anil Kumar, a technical officer at Laser, Science and Technology...

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