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Buggy PS Vita Creates Furore in Japan, Sony Issues Apology (Video)

December 19, 2011 0 Tassavur

It’s been only a few days since the PlayStation Vita was launched in the Japanese markets by Sony. The gaming device has had an impressive opening on December 17 as it managed to sell around 3,21,407 of the total 7,00,000…

Android

Mobile Security Trends: Nothing is Foolproof from Android to iOS

December 17, 2011 0 Tassavur

The other day I was speaking to a techie who has good knowledge of things at Microsoft. Amongst iOS, Android, Mobile market, Windows 8 and other topics of discussion, we spoke about mobile security. The person in question highlighted that…

Tech Industry News

3LiveShop Brings WebCam Chat & Product Display on Your Screen (Video)

November 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

Want a convenient way of taking a look at handsets you intend to purchase and compare their features with others before you buy them. How about being able to do all the research and complete your purchase, all from the…

Reviews

Sony Ericsson TXT: Quick Review

November 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

It’s no secret that QWERTY keyboard based chat phones are an instant hit with the youth. Off late, we had a slew of social networking based phones hitting the market, which includes the likes of Vodafone Blue, Motorola’s Motokey Social…

Featured

Violet 3D: World’s First Space Sensing Home Theatre System

November 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

We went to NasscomPC 2011 with a quest to find if successful hardware manufacturing startups can be possible in the Indian sphere. Though the scenario of such an event happening looks bleak with consistent domination of China and the failure…

Future WIP

Batteries That Last Ten Times Longer, Coming Soon!

November 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Without doubt batteries today on smart phones is a headache, with the current crop hardly lasting even half a day. Though we have been hearing about longer batteries with funny names like the Jelly battery, the fact remains that none…

Concept / Educative

Pivo 3 a Self Parking & Self Driving Concept EV by Nissan (Video)

November 14, 2011 0 Tassavur

We have been seeing a lot of concept cars, while some like the BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics look ravishing, there are some which look ordinary to say the least like the Terrafugia Transition. Well it promises to fly atleast which…

Maxx

Zippy MT105, Full Touch Feature Phone by Maxx

November 5, 2011 0 Tassavur

Maxx mobile is one of the only few Indian mobile manufacturers that have not only managed to survive in the cut throat competition of the market, but also grow in it. And one of the key features that has been…

Concept / Educative

Pepsi’s “Sound Of Football” Project For the Visually Impaired

November 3, 2011 0 Tassavur

This was a match between former pro soccer players and the visually impaired. But this wasn’t the kind of match as you would imagine it to be. It was an experiment wherein both the teams were brought to the same…

Tech Industry News

Screen Reflection Problems No More With Invisible Glass

October 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

How often do we come across reflection problems on screens of our devices? No matter which type of screen your device boasts of, reflection can still be a problem. Well now there is a solution so effective that it will…

Tech Industry News

Chinese SuperComputer With Self Made Microprocessors

October 29, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well China has not exactly been known to produce high performance micro processors. So it was a real surprise when China announced its first supercomputer the Sunway Bluelight MPP powered by micro processors made in China itself.

Accessories

X-mini Rave Portable Speaker Review

October 29, 2011 0 Tassavur

X-mini speakers are ones you can aptly call devilishly cute. They look so small and yet they are so loud. We still haven’t forgotten how we fell head over heels in love with the X-mini V 1.1 & Happy. So…

Future WIP

Elastec Oleophilic Skimmer Collects 4,600 Gallons per Minute to Win $1.4M X Challenge

October 25, 2011 0 Tassavur

Oil spillage is an environmental menace that affects the marine flora and fauna adversely and thus resulting in extreme environmental impact. Thus it is imperative that we have the best processes and equipments in place to either prevent or minimize…

Reviews

Spice (M9000) Popkorn Projector Phone Review

October 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Its no doubt that the mobile phone market is evolving rapidly each passing day and addressing one or the other needs. And its increasingly changing shape and features to adopt even advanced feature sets unimagined before. Now projector on a…

Micromax

Review: Micromax X40 Projector Phone

October 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Slowly but steadily a slew of projector phones have begun entering the market. While we are not entirely sure that if need for such a niche exists in the market, projector phones are certainly a welcome addition to the already expanding…

Future WIP

The New Age Surveillance Bot: Rotundus GroundBot

October 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well this rolling ball is just not any ball but a revolutionary camera equipped surveillance bot for the future. Though it reminds me of those rolling creatures in the sci-fi movie Critters. This one is called the GroundBot made by…

Concept / Educative

LED Window Panes by Samsung. Coming Soon!

October 10, 2011 0 Tassavur

Samsung is one of the top players in the manufacturing and supplying of LED’s in the market. Samsung is not only a leading player but has also been a pioneer in the field of displays which include foldable displays and…

Android

Samsung Nexus Prime Leaked Video!

October 7, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well today seems to be a day of leaks and rumors. We have already written about quite a few, but this one seems to be the biggest of them all. Mobilismo.ro a Roman tech reporting website today leaked a video…

Apple

Quick Compare: iPhone 4S vs iPhone 4

October 4, 2011 0 Tassavur

Apple has retained the same design and retina display on the new iPhone, it is called the 4S. However, it seems that a lot has changed on the inside. Compared to the iPhone 4, the 4S has an all new…

Android

Is That The Motorola Xoom 2?

September 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well Motorola didn’t exactly set the market ablaze with its first Android tablet, the Motorola Xoom. Motorola had an exclusive launch with the Honeycomb update for Android, and the lucrative tablet market has so far seen many me-too products ever since…

Nokia

Quick Review: Nokia 101 (Dual SIM)

September 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

Nokia has set its sight on recovering the market share it has lost in the low cost budget phone segment to the local players. Hence Nokia has upped the ante and rapidly released a number of low cost dual SIM…

Nokia

Review: Nokia C2-03, Touch & Type Dual SIM Phone

September 21, 2011 0 Tassavur

With Nokia struggling in the smartphone market and not expected to make any major inroads till they get out their WP7 offerings phone out, it seems they have decided to concentrate on the low cost phone segment for now where…

Google

Your Purse is now Officially Obsolete as Google Wallet Goes Live

September 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

With the advent of smartphones our lives have changed for the better. So far smartphones have replaced our music players, yellow pages, maps among so many other things. And starting from today it is replacing our wallets as well. Google…

Automobiles

Audi’s Electric Urban Concept Beats Nano for Size

September 15, 2011 0 Tassavur

Tata Nano developed one of the smallest but affordable production car. But who would have thought that Audi, one of the best luxury car makers in the automobile industry will ever make a car this small. Well as you can…

Concept / Educative

New Jelly Battery: Cheaper, Safer and Long Lasting

September 14, 2011 0 Tassavur

There have been innumerable instances of manufacturers struggling with their batteries. Smartphones running out of battery are a common phenomena or laptops batteries being recalled due to safety issues is also not rare. Well all this could soon be a…

BlackBerry

Shareholders Rock RIM’s Already Sinking Ship

September 7, 2011 0 Tassavur

After, the political unrest in the Gulf countries and surrounding regions. It seems that the instability has gripped the tech world as well. The Silicon valley is observing one of its most turbulent times starting from the sudden demise of…

Market Watch

A Look At Android Phones In India

August 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

The Android platform has grown three fold since the last year. And its presence and acceptance in the Indian market as well has grown by leaps and bounds. The mindshare enjoyed by Android phones in India is much higher than…

Microsoft

Fujitsu Launches First Windows Phone 7.5 Mobile in Japan

August 25, 2011 0 Tassavur

Windows Mango phone has officially made its entry in Japan with Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications launching the Windows Phone IS12T which was announced last month. Fujitsu is the first company to launch Windows Phone 7.5 in Japan which would be…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Microsoft Smartly Poaching webOS Devs Over To Windows Platform

August 22, 2011 0 Tassavur

It was only last Friday that Mr. Brandon Watson of Windows Phone had reached out to webOS developers via a tweet, stating that Microsoft will be more than happy to have them on board and work with them.

Android

Microsoft is the Real Winner of the Google Motorola Deal!

August 19, 2011 0 Tassavur

Google is about to complete its $12.50 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the handset manufacturing arm of Motorola. For now the acquisition is being projected as a move to fend off the patent wars and interestingly being appreciated by manufacturers…

Nokia

MeeGo Fight: After US, Nokia Avoiding N9 Launch In UK

August 11, 2011 0 Tassavur

We just heard a couple of days back that the US market wont be seeing anymore of Symbian and the Nokia N9 wont be officially released either. Well as it turns out the US market is not the only one…

First look

Motorola Launches Dual SIM Handsets EX109, EX119, EX212 In India

August 10, 2011 0 Tassavur

Motorola Mobility has officially launched three dual SIM handsets in India today viz, the EX109, EX119, EX212. All the three dual SIM handsets are priced in the sub Rs 10,000 range starting from Rs. 3,590 going up to Rs. 6,190.…

Apple

Will Apple Be The Largest PC Manufacturer?

August 9, 2011 0 Tassavur

With the iPad tablet’s entry into the computers market, Apple’s share in the PC market just spiraled upwards. Now with the new Mac OS X Lion priced at just $30 and the Thunderbolt equipped Macbook Air, Apple would only increase…

India

Quick Review: Wynncom OGO O78 Touch

August 3, 2011 0 Tassavur

After a long hiatus another Wyncomm phone has finally landed in our office and its called the Wyncomm OGO. The last time we encountered a Wyncomm handset was exactly a year back and it was their one of the highest…

Concept / Educative

YouTurn, Turn Signals Meet Hand!

July 31, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well, we all know how difficult it is surviving with a bicycle on roads these days. Cycling during the day in broad daylight is much safer as compared to the night wherein there is a constant fear of the racing…

Apps

Tata Sky Mobile Access App: Universal Remote + Social Networking

July 30, 2011 2 Tassavur

What do you do when you misplace a remote when needed? Isn’t it really irritating for the fact that your TV, DVD player and your DTH all of them have separate remotes. Wish you could have one remote for all…

events

G’Five Launches Four New Multimedia Centric Handsets

July 24, 2011 0 Tassavur

G’Five has announced the launch of three new handsets under its “Movie King” label in India. The handsets in question are the E680, E650 and E620. As the name suggests, these devices are being targeted at the movie going crowd…

First look

Samsung Launches N100 Netbook

July 21, 2011 0 Tassavur

Samsung today launched the N100 netbook, a successor of the Samsung N150 launched last year. Samsung is banking on the success of the N150 and have designed the N100 on similar lines. The N100 has a dual core Intel Atom…

First look

Sony plans To Double Vaio Sales With “More Colour. More Style”!

July 12, 2011 0 Tassavur

Today Sony showcased its latest Vaio series fleet debutantes and announced its Blitzkrieg strategy to double its sales from 2.5 lacs from last year to 5 lacs this year and also revealed its plans to capture the Indian market share…

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