'Flying car' to end your traffic woes

A car, which doubles up as a plane, took-off for the first time in public during the afternoon air show on the first day of EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The prototypes of the car-plane hybrid, Terrafugia Transition, have been displayed at AirVenture for eight years now, but only in 2013 did the vehicle fly and drive in...

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Yahoo buys 20th start-up under CEO Marissa Mayer

Yahoo on Wednesday said it bought e-commerce platform start-up Lexity, racking up its 20th acquisition since Marissa Mayer became chief last year.Yahoo did not disclose the financial terms of the deal to buy Lexity, a four-year-old company specializing in software applications that help small businesses attract and service...

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Google rolls out 'invite-a-friend' feature for Glass

Google, after inviting more than 6,000 people to buy and try its controversial wearable computing device Google Glass in its Explorer programme, has reportedly allowed some of the owners to invite their friends to become part of the initiative. According to ABC News, Google Glass Explorers who bought the glasses...

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Meet Sonny Dickson, the teenager behind Apple leaks

An Australian teenager has been reportedly found to be the source behind Apple products' revelations before they are officially unveiled. Sonny Dickson from regional Victoria has been found to be leaking and selling prototypes ofApple products online months or weeks before the original ones hit the market, Stuff.co.nz...

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‘India unlikely to meet cybersecurity workforce target‘

India is unlikely to meet the target of creating a workforce of 5,00,000 cybersecurity professionals in next five years due to lack of infrastructure and investment, an official of security firm EC-Council said. The country is lagging behind in its fight in cyberwarfare which has adopted innovative ways to attack governments...

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Banks looking at voice biometrics for security

Some banks are in discussion to introduce voice biometrics as an option for authenticating phone banking. For banks, the main attraction of voice authentication is that this does not require deployment of infrastructure — unlike in the case of fingerprint or iris recognition — as mobile phones are widely available.Banks are...

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Google: Half of Chinese urban people have smartphones

Nearly half of Chinese urban population have smartphones, according to a report released by internet search giant Google.The 'Our Mobile Planet: China' report, compiled by Google and market research company IPSOS in the first quarter, surveyed 1,000 urban Internet users between the ages of 18 and 64 and found that 47 per cent...

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Nokia Asha 501 review: Small wonder

While smartphone market surges, feature phones still make up the greater share of the total mobile phone sales worldwide. Therefore, it makes sense for a titan like Nokia to launch a phone that offers all the goodness of a smartphone at the price of a feature phone. Enter the new Asha 501, launched in India recently by the company's...

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Indian IT cheers Telangana state formation

After over three years of uncertainty, the Information Technology industry here heaved a sigh of relief with theCongress party's announcement to carve out a separate Telangana state. The announcement has cleared the air over the future of Hyderabad, a major IT destination in the country. This fast growing metropolis...

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Wipro Launches Co-Innovation Center for SAP® Solutions in Bangalore

Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company today announced the launch of the Wipro Co-Innovation Center for SAP Solutions in Bangalore. The focus of this partner research center for co-innovation is to drive innovation based on SAP® solutions. Wipro anticipates that participants...

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UL Inaugurates New Product Testing Facility in Gurgaon

A state-of-the-art lab facility specialized in testing and certification of textiles, garments, toys and leather products. Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a global safety science company, inaugurated its new test facility here today. Spread over 20,000 sq ft, the facility will cater primarily to consumer product testing and certification...

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