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Nokia

Nokia Hits Back, Leads Sales of Dual SIM Devices in India

January 25, 2012 0 Tassavur

Stats from a research project of Cyber Media Research Ltd reveal that out of the 166 million handsets sold in India in the first 11 months of 2011, a massive 54% were dual SIM handsets. And Nokia has managed to…

BlackBerry

RIM’s Co-CEO’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis Step Down, Thorsten Heins Appointed New CEO

January 23, 2012 0 Tassavur

There have been numerous calls from the investors and stakeholders for the founders to step down. And Jaguar Financial Corp. has been at their throat for a long time since the Blackberry makers were unable to turn the tide and…

Internet

Wikipedia goes black as 24 hour long Blackout Commences

January 18, 2012 0 Rahul S

The 24 hour long Wikipedia Blackout in protest against the SOPA anti piracy act that is being moved in the U.S House of representatives has commenced. As I type this, the Wikipedia home page looks like this:

Apple

Apple to debut E-textbooks at January 19 Event?

January 17, 2012 0 Rahul S

We have been hearing about this January 19 Apple events for quite some time now. Earlier, it was thought that the iPad 3 could be unveiled at this event thanks to sources from the Far East. But  those claims have…

Internet

Wikipedia to go ahead with 24 hour blackout on January 18 against SOPA

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

It was late last year that the anti-piracy act SOPA, which is currently under consideration in the U.S House of Representatives, evoked strong response from Internet crusaders and free speech activists. The act would give the US lawmakers enhanced powers…

Internet

China has over 500 Million Internet Users Now

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

A Chinese industry group has said that the number of Internet users in the world’s most populous country has surged past the 500 million mark. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, the total number of Internet users in Mainland…

Internet

Delhi High Court to Hear Google, Facebook Petition

January 16, 2012 0 Rahul S

The Delhi High Court is set to hear a petition filed by Google, Facebook and as many as 21 other social networking websites against warning by a trial court that ruled that these websites could face a ban if they did…

Opinion

Bada Merges With Tizen, Becomes The Android Alternative For Samsung

January 15, 2012 0 Annkur

We should have smelled this way back when Intel announced that MeeGo would be transitioned as a HTML5 centric operating system, called Tizen. Tizen was led by a technical team comprising of folks from Intel and Samsung, and today it…

Tech Industry News

Apple, HTC and RIM Face a Kodak Moment; Sued for Photography related Patent Infringements!

January 10, 2012 0 Rahul S

While the Eastman Kodak Company might be facing financial troubles galore with rumors of it reportedly about to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the company seems to have decided that it is not going to go down without a fight. Confident after…

CES

CES 2012: Samsung intros connected TV’s, Refrigerators, Washing Machines and Tablets

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

Samsung took covers off a plethora of new products at its launch event organized at this year’s CES. The same occasion had last year seen the birth of the Samsung Galaxy Tab which after the debut of the iPad 2…

CES

CES 2012: XPAL Power intros Cellphone that runs on one AA Battery, Lasts 15 years on Single Charge!

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

XPAL Power, the company behind famous battery brands like Energizer and Powerskin have announced a new mobile phone at CES. The phone, known as the SpareOne is unique in the fact that it is powered by a single AA battery.…

CES

CES 2012: Withings Introduces Internet connected Baby Scale

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

We start our CES 2012 coverage with an unlikely gadget –a baby weighing scale. That’s right. A baby scale. But this one’s a different breed compared to your normal baby scale. For starters, this one is connected to the Internet.…

Apple

Chinese Writers file $1.9 million lawsuit against Apple

January 9, 2012 0 Rahul S

Now this is undoubtedly a first. While until now we have heard of U.S based companies going after Chinese companies for infringing upon intellectual property, for once, we are seeing the Chinese go after the Americans. A group of Chinese…

CES

Acer announces the World’s thinnest Ultrabook; The Aspire S5

January 8, 2012 0 Rahul S

Acer has officially revealed its newest addition to its Ultrabooks line up. Known as the Aspire A5, this 13.3 inch notebook is a successor to the Aspire S3 which was released back in September 2011. The Aspire S5 builds upon…

Android

Move over Aakash, OLPC’s XO3 Tablet is here

January 8, 2012 0 Rahul S

Just a week or so after we woke up to news about the fact that India’s own, $50 tablet, the Aakash is selling like hot cakes, we now have news about yet another contender for a low cost tablet. This…

Apple

Apple Files Patent for Facial Recognition on iOS Devices

December 30, 2011 0 Tassavur

We all know how uncomfortable it feels when someone else handles your phone, especially parents or even with best pals. Imagine how cool it would be if you can tell people that your phone functions only when you are in…

Tech Industry News

Airtel’s Malad Data Centre fire causes network outage in Western India

December 27, 2011 0 Rahul S

A fire that happened at its Malad data center in Mumbai has left lakhs of Airtel customers reeling under either no network coverage, SMS’ or data access. The fire reportedly happened in the wee hours of December 27 and lakhs…

Apple

Port Siri to Any Jailbroken iOS 5 Device Legally, Courtesy Spire

December 27, 2011 0 Tassavur

There were talks of it becoming legal to port Siri to any of the iOS5 devices after a new update is made available. But now it has emerged that a similar solution has already been made available by the joint…

Samsung

Sony To Exit Joint LCD Venture With Samsung Acquiring it for $934 Million

December 26, 2011 0 Tassavur

Sony announced Monday that it will be selling its entire stake in an LCD manufacturing joint venture with Samsung. Their entire stake will be bought by Samsung Electronics for 1.08 trillion Won or US$934 million. The LCD joint venture based…

Tech Industry News

HTC Granted Injunction Against IPCom by Dusseldorf Court in Germany

December 22, 2011 0 Tassavur

Now this is another patent story in existence since 2009 when IPCom sued HTC for infringing on their UMTS – 3G standards. Though unlike the HTC – Apple patent case wherein HTC was ruled as infringing on the Apple patent,…

Microsoft

Now Motorola is Found Guilty of Infringing Microsoft Patent By ITC

December 21, 2011 0 Tassavur

It was just yesterday that we heard the news of HTC being in trouble for infringing on an Apple patent. Well now just 24 hours later the International Trade Commission have passed another ruling which states that Motorola indeed infringes…

BlackBerry

RIM Rejected Buyout Offer From Amazon

December 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

As per Reuters, Research In Motion apparently rejected takeover bids from the retail giant Amazon and instead preferred to continue as it is. Although it is unclear at what stage the discussions had reached before the offer was annulled by…

Nokia

Is Nokia Working on a Windows Phone Successor of the N8?

December 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

The Nokia N8 didn’t do much in sales and wasn’t even close to being one of the best smartphones in 2011. It still had one of the best cameras loaded with a mechanical shutter, large sensor, Carl Zeiss optics and…

Android

HTC Phones Face Ban in the US After ITC Rules in Favor of Apple

December 20, 2011 0 Tassavur

It was only yesterday that we spoke of the possibility of Apple being in trouble after ITC had announced that they would be reviewing a decision made earlier by an ITC judge in which Apple was acquitted of infringing on…

Entertainment

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…

HTC

HTC’s 4G LTE Windows Phone with AT&T in Early 2012

December 19, 2011 0 Tassavur

As per reports from BGR, HTC is apparently working on a 4G LTE Windows Phone which will be released in early 2012. This will be the first 4G LTE Windows Phone and will be released with AT&T. In other fascinating…

Android

Is Google Launching a New Tablet in First Half of 2012?

December 19, 2011 0 Tassavur

Has Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt mistakenly let the cat out of the bag? While talking to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on the occasion of the opening of Google’s new office, during the course of the interview Schmidt…

Nokia

Symbian’s Last Stronghold Breached; Android now Top Smartphone OS in India

December 19, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it is clear that Nokia had taken hands off Symbian ever since Windows Phone took over as its primary smartphone focus, its fall from the top spot was nothing less than dramatic. Within a year, it has gone from…

BlackBerry

BlackBerry 10 Delayed, Might Lay RIM to Rest

December 17, 2011 0 Tassavur

We all thought that BlackBerry is facing intense heat of competition from Apple’s iOS, and Google’s Android and almost all of us have predicted that the rise of the two will lead to the demise of RIM pretty soon. Well…

Concept / Educative

Pick Your Seat Mate Says KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

December 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Do you often find yourself taking those boring flights alone? Or you wish that maybe you had a friend or maybe even an acquaintance for company during the flight hours. Well then it might be soon a reality if KLM…

Apple

Will Microsoft Really Buy Nokia? New Rumors

December 14, 2011 0 Annkur

Rumors of Microsoft buying out Nokia is past. Shot down multiple times and so far no official sense of truth in it. But then it keeps coming back. Microsoft is making a comeback in the mobile game and Windows Phone…

Android

Aakash Tablet goes on Sale: Upgraded version Available for Preorder

December 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

The much awaited $35 tablet (which is actually nearer to the $47 mark now)  has finally been launched. The Aakash which was officially announced back in October is actually made by a Canadian company called DataWind.

Samsung

Samsung Sells 300 million mobiles in 2011

December 12, 2011 0 Tassavur

Samsung is one of the fastest growing smartphone manufacturing firms and is likely to pip HTC early next year as Numero Uno in the US. Well they certainly are on their way to do it if the numbers they have…

Launch Pad

Vodafone Launches new 3G Android phone “Vodafone Smart”

December 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Vodafone seems to be quite upbeat about its 3G prospects in India. in what is seen as a move to attract more youngsters to adopt 3G, the company has announced the launch of a new entry level 3G capable smartphone…

eReaders & Tablets

Amazon To Update Kindle Fire, Improve Silk Browser in Two Weeks

December 12, 2011 0 Tassavur

Although, the Kindle Fire has been well received in the market with the its price tag making it stand out from the rest of the competition, its the performance part that has come under heavy criticism from the industry experts.…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP Taking WebOS Open Source, Who Would Make The Hardware?

December 9, 2011 0 Annkur

The webOS saga makes for a good movie script. The story began with HP acquiring Palm last year and raising the market expectations from what was a new and promising platform in the mobile space. Android and iOS had pretty…

Nokia

Official Symbian Belle Update coming February 2012: Nokia

December 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the latest version of Symbian, the Belle has been around for the past few months on newly launched handsets including the likes of the Nokia 603, 701 and the 700, Nokia has for some reason not released an update…

BlackBerry

Blackberry loses BBX Trademark Court Battle; Renames it to BlackBerry 10

December 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

RIM, had on the eve of the recent BlackBerry DevCon named its upcoming OS for next generation BlackBerry devices as BBX. Little did it know at that time that BBX was actually a trademark registered and owned by another company…

Android

Aakash Tablet Launch delayed. Upgraded Model to be available by January

December 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Looks like the wait to get your hands on the cheapest Android tablet has just been lengthened by a month. The company which makes the Aakash tablet for the Government of India, Datawind has confirmed that there would be some…

Internet

Facebook acquires Location Sharing Service Gowalla

December 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

While it was clear that Foursquare had already won the location sharing app wars long back, there is no doubt that another service known by the name “Gowalla” was fairly popular. But then, it could never match the popularity of…