Samsung launches Galaxy S4 mini, S4 zoom in India

NEW DELHI: Just a day after Micromax launched its new flagship Canvas 4 phablet in India, Samsung has rolled out two smartphones in the country. Both new handsets - Galaxy S4 mini and Galaxy S4 zoom are variants of the South Korean company's top-end device Galaxy S4, launched earlier this year. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 mini...

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TCS replaces Tata Steel as India's most admired company

NEW DELHI: Software giant TCS has replaced its group firm Tata Steel as the country's most admired company, as per a Fortune list released today.  TCS is followed by Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Infosys and SBI in the top-five, while last year's top-ranked firm Tata Steel has slipped to seventh position in the list of India's 50...

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Lenovo launches business class M93z all-in-one PC

Lenovo is looking to do the corporate job with a new all-in-one (AiO) PC and two additional desktop models that pack Intel's fourth generation Haswell i7 CPU. The China-based company's ThinkCentre M93z features a 23-inch full HD LED IPS display in an AIO design with anti-glare glass on the models equipped with 10-point multi-touch. It...

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Galaxy Star review: Cheapest Android Samsung

NEW DELHI: Galaxy Star is a very important smartphone. In many ways, it is more important than the likes of Galaxy S4, iPhone 5 and HTC One that are usually in limelight.  With a market price of less than Rs 5,000, this is the cheapest Android phonea big companySamsung. Unlike many other affordable smartphones that run two or...

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'Mobile internet is the next big growth engine'

BANGALORE: India's ecommerce posterboy Flipkart.com has built its next-generation data centre running on the Juniper Networks's Junos operating system. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is deploying Juniper's ethernet switches, integrated with its security and routing devices, within the Chennai Airport's new terminals. In an interaction...

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Skype vs Facetime app: Take your pick

Skype, now owned by Microsoft, does have an app for the iPad. You can find instructions for getting started with it on the Skype site.  One of the biggest advantages Skype has over Apple's FaceTime app is that you can make audio and video calls to other Skype users around the world on more types of hardware. This includes calling...

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India to have highest IP traffic growth rate: Study

DUBAI: India is set to have the highest Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth rate with a 44 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR)2012-2017 followed by Indonesia (42 per cent CAGR) and South Africa (31 per cent CAGR) over the forecast period, a new study has revealed.  The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017)...

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More Moto X snaps surface, Motorola denies July 11 launch

Just hours after the the leaks of the Moto X's back and front panels, more pictures of the customisable handset have revealed themselves online. Put together with the pictures we sawthe weekend, the new images, leaked on Weibo and passed onto Nowhereelse, help paint a better picture of the handset - assuming that they're real, of course. For...

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Microsoft to shut pioneering online TV service

The predecessor of many modern internet TV services, MSN TV was purchased by Microsoft in 1997 for 425 million dollars, and requires a significant amount of hardware including a set-top box and bespoke keyboard, reports BBC.  According to the report, MSN TV allows users to check email, use MSN chat services and share photos...

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Yahoo shuts down search engine AltaVista

NEW YORK: Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more.  On July 8, its owner Yahoo sent AltaVista.com to the internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butlerAsk Jeeves.  Palo Alto, California-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three...

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What Infosys, NIIT are doing to retain talent

MUMBAI/ KOLKATA: The tough macroeconomic environment has prompted companies to enhance their focus on people in an attempt to retain and engage top talent. CompaniesCiti India, Infosys, Maruti Suzuki, Essar Group, RPG, and NIIT, among others, have focused increasingly on innovative rewards and recognition, talent development, workplace...

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Soon, drive your car with smartphone

WASHINGTON: Satellite-navigation firm Garmin is introducing its first portable head-up display, or HUD, for smartphone navigation apps.  The head-up display projects real-time driving directions onto the windscreen of a vehicle. The device is capable of projecting crisp, bright directions onto a transparent film on the windshield,...

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What makes Snapchat hit among teenagers

The Snapchat application, mainly used for sending selfies (a picture taken of yourself) is gaining popularity among youngsters, especially teens. With this app, users can take a photograph or record a video and send it to a friend. After a set time limit, the image or video self-destructs . The time limit can be10 seconds to as little...

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Email snooping: What intelligence agencies track

The Obama administration for over two years allowed the National Security Agency to collect enormous amounts of metadata on email usage by Americans, according to one of the latest leaks of government documents by the now-famous whistleblower Edward J Snowden.  But what is e-mail metadata anyway? It's information about the people...

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