HTC Desire 600 launched in India at Rs 26,860

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has launched its Desire 600 smartphone in India. The new handset has a 4.5-inch screen, quad-core processor and dual-sim functionality. At a price of Rs 26,860, this new smartphone will compete against the likes of Google Nexus 4,Samsung Galaxy S4 mini and Sony Xperia SP in the Indian market.The all-new HTC...

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How to stop receiving ads on Gmail

Google users have been irked with the site sending them advertisements through emails in the Gmail account which appear along the legitimate emails. According to the Huffington Post, Google has recently included the feature of sorting emails as per their content in Primary, Social, Promotions and other categories...

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Now, social network to share your happy moments

Facebook and Twitter are all-purpose social networks. People can post anything on them, from saccharine sweet nothings to snarky one-liners.But what if you wanted a place to just celebrate and share the small moments of happiness in life? Happier, a Boston start-up, has created a niche social network aimed at exactly that.Think...

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IT managers, engineers hardest to find: Study

IT manager/network administrator, engineer, accountant and software developers are some of the positions that are the hardest to fill globally, says a study. According to a new global study from human capital solutions firm CareerBuilder, companies around the world have at least one thing in common: difficulty filling in-demand jobs as...

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Beware, this mirror can read your mind

Japanese researchers have developed a system, which is capable of manipulating your emotions and personal preferences by presenting you with an image of your own smiling or frowning face. The researchers were interested to see if the principle that emotional drives can be driven by physiological ones, could be used to build a computer...

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Aircel subscribers to get free Wikipedia access

Telecom operator Aircel today announced its partnership with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access to its customers. The alliance is aimed at making knowledge available on Wikipedia accessible to all Aircel customers in both rural and urban areas for free, the telco said in a release. This...

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iGate doles out retention bonuses to top executives

iGate has given large retention bonuses to five of its executive officers. Each will get $1,50,000 on June 30, 2014, and $1,00,000 on December 31, 2014, provided they are still employed in the company on the applicable payment date. The board approved the retention bonus plan on July 17. Srinivas Kandula, global HR head, Derek...

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What do Intel‘s earnings ‘reveal‘

After decades at the center of Silicon Valley, Intelis now struggling with one of the technology industry's oldest lessons: beware the cheaper, "good enough" competitor. For years, Intel executives scoffed at potential threats to its computer chip business from makers of less expensive chips for video games and mobile phones....

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Woman ‘electrocuted‘ by iPhone in Australia

A 20-year-old Australian woman has been hospitalised in Sydney after she got a shock from her iPhone, according to media reports.The woman from Sydney's north was taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable condition, the spokeswoman of New South Wales (NSW) Ambulance was quoted as saying in reports.It is not known...

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