Samsung launches Galaxy Round with curved screen

Samsung Electronics launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible - even unbreakable - screens.Curved displays are on the frontline of Samsung's innovation war with rivals...

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Infosys reduces staff strength of R&D arm

In yet another indication that Infosys is trying to put the focus back on its traditional services, the company is cutting the strength of its R&D arm, called Infosys Labs, and is moving these employees to billable projects on the IT services side. BANGALORE: In yet another indication that ...

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Samsung launches 85-inch Ultra HD TV at Rs 28 lakh

 Samsung Electronics has unveiled three new Ultra High-Definition (UHD) TVs in India under its F9000 range. These televisions have four times the resolution of Full HD TVs and come in three sizes, 55-inch, 65-inch and 85-inch.The company has priced the 55-inch and 65-inch at Rs 3.29 lakh and Rs 4.39 lakh, respectively....

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First look: Hewlett-Packard‘s Chromebook 11

Hewlett-Packard's newChromebook 11 is a laptop at heart, but it's light and portable enough to work well in places where you'd normally prefer a tablet.I'm thinking cramped buses and airplanes, the waiting area of a doctor's office or even the cushiony couch in your living room. The Chromebook...

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Internet giants Amazon, Apple and Google targeted ahead of world‘s biggest book fair

Organisers of the world's biggest book fair warned against the domination of Internet giants as the publishing world grapples to blend old and new forms of reading. Organisers of the world's biggest book fair warned on Tuesday against the domination of Internet giants as the publishing world grapples...

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Now, ‘feel‘ images on your smartphone

Smartphone users can now 'feel' images and objects seen on their touchscreen! WASHINGTON: Smartphone users can now 'feel' images and objects seen on their touchscreen! In a game-changing invention, engineers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, have developed a new technique that allows you to feel...

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Indian smartphone market: LG vs Samsung

Call it a tale of two strategies. Korean chaebols Samsung and LG waged furious battles against each other and the rest of the Indian consumer durables industry a decade ago. Today, LG claims leadership, but that's not enough. It wants a bigger slice of the premium market. Samsung shot up the sales and perceptual charts with...

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Nest Labs makes the smoke detector ‘smarter‘

Nest Labs has a new gadget to sell and it's another little-noticed, pedestrian home device: smoke detectors. SAN FRANCISCO: Nest Labs has a new gadget to sell and it's another little-noticed, pedestrian home device: smoke detectors. The Silicon Valley startup that elevated the lowly thermostat with...

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New tool to help robots ‘see‘ better

Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer vision, researchers said. WASHINGTON: A statistical tool can improve 'vision' in robots by helping them better understand the objects in the world around them. Object recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in...

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On Semiconductor to cut up to 870 jobs at Sanyo

On Semiconductor Corp said it would cut up to 870 jobs at its Sanyo Semiconductor unit as it looks to reduce costs. On Semiconductor Corp, a maker of power-management chips, said it would cut up to 870 jobs at its Sanyo Semiconductor unit as it looks to reduce costs. The company said it would cut 600-700...

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Google Glass gets software update

WASHINGTON: Google has reportedly given a software update to its much-anticipated wearable computing device Google Glass ahead of its launch. The search giant released another update XE10 for its Google Glass Explorers team across the US. According to Fox News, the new update allows users to have detailed instructions in step-by-step...

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