Tech Industry News

Tech Industry News

Windows 7 Edges Past Windows XP Market Share

April 9, 2011 1 Rahul S

According to folks over at Statcounter, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has finally edged past its old cousin Windows XP to become the most widely used desktop OS in the US. According to Statcounter, Windows 7 now has 31.71% of the market…

Tech Industry News

Asus Launches The GTX 590 In India

April 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

It was just days ago that Nvidia announced the launch of its GeForce GTX 590 graphics cards. Just days after that, Asus has brought the cards based on this dual core GPU here in India. Asus packs in its new…

Tech Industry News

Android, Windows Phone 7 To Top Smartphone Sales In Future: IDC

March 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what sounds to be great news for Nokia, research firm IDC has said that Android and Windows Phone would lead the smartphone OS pack in the not too distant future. The number of smartphone expected to ship in 2011 would…

Android

Google Not Yet Ready To Make Honeycomb Open Source, Our Team Comments

March 29, 2011 0 Ricky

The news broke out recently that Google isn’t taking Honeycomb open at the moment and that means developers have little room to play with the tablet build of Android OS and most of the 7″ Android tablets that we say…

Tech Industry News

[How To] Use Amazon App Store Outside The US

March 28, 2011 0 Ricky

It has just been nearly a week since the Amazon App Store has been launched, but the sad thing about it is that the app store has only been launched in the U.S and it will take some time till…

Apple

Apple Wins Trade Ruling Over Nokia Patents

March 28, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has drawn first blood in the battle against Nokia’s patent infringement suit against them that was lodged back in 2009 when the iOS vs Symbian war was at it peak. Back the Nokia had filed suits against Apple claiming…

Apps

Kinect Inspired Motion Gaming / Interaction On Smartphones?

March 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Motion gaming is catching up in the gaming world and Microsoft took the technology to a new level with the Kinect for Xbox 360 last year. While speculations of motion sensing coming to Windows PCs are rife, we have a…

Apps

PayPal Official App Arrives On Symbian. Not In India Yet

March 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

PayPal has launched an official application for Symbian handsets. Based on Java, the app lets you do almost everything you would expect from a PayPal application including send and receive money, check recent transactions and setting a mobile PIN. The…

eReaders & Tablets

Hands-on With MeeGo Tablets, WeTab, ExoPC and more

March 21, 2011 0 Annkur

A trip to Birmingham couldn’t have been more exciting. Last week I happened to attend the MeeGo meet organized by MeeGoExperts and apart from the wonderful techies we met there, there were a whole bunch of MeeGo devices around to play with.…

Tech Industry News

Spice Launches M9000 Projector Phone In India

March 21, 2011 3 Rahul S

Spice has announced the launch of a new phone in India with in built projector functionality. The Spice Popkorn Projector M900 as the phone is known – is capable of displaying the contents of your phone to a screen in…

Tech Industry News

Lava Launches Color Matching Phone KKT 35 In India

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Targeting the Holi smitten crowd, Indian phone maker Lava has announced the launch of its newest handset – the KKT 35 in the country. The USP of this phone is its unique “colour matcher” application that allows the users to choose…

Microsoft

Strategy Analytics Paints Rosy Future For Nokia, Samsung

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Research firm Strategy Analytics in their latest report has said that the next few years would turn out to be good ones for phone makers Samsung and Nokia. The report states that Samsung would cement its position as the worlds second largest…

Apps

Facebook For BlackBerry Updated To Version 2.0

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

RIM has announced a new version of the Official BlackBerry App for all BlackBerry devices running OS 6.0. The new version brings in a lot of feature additions that includes support for Facebook Chat, an improved news feed and a…

Internet

New Opera Mini, Mobile Versions Soon: Opera

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

At the upcoming CTIA Wireless Conference which kicks off on March 22, 2011 Opera is likely to introduce new versions of its popular mobile browsers. According to a press release by the company, both the browser versions – Opera Mobile…

sony ericsson

Sony Ericsson Supply Chains Affected By Japan Quake

March 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson has issued a statement which says that its supply chain has been affected by the earthquake in Japan last week. Japan is reeling under a nuclear crisis after the largest earthquake to hit the country event in recorded history. Sony…

Notebook / Laptops

Western Digital Launches New Scorpio Black Notebook Hard Drives In india

March 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

Western Digital has just announced that it is now shipping its new WD Scorpio Black 750 GB 7200 RPM 2.5-inch SATA hard drives for laptops, in India. The drive, which is claimed to be one of the fastest hard drives…

Nokia

Nokia Issues Ovi Store Update For Symbian Phones

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia has issued a minor update to the Ovi Store client for Nokia’s Symbian smartphones. The update is aimed at fixing compatibility issues with Nokia’s back end services. Of course, there are also some improvements in terms of the speed…

Microsoft

Microsoft Sells 10 Million Kinect Sensors; Creates Guinness Record

March 10, 2011 0 Rahul S

2010 saw the advent of some really cool gadgets that not only looked good, but also sold like hot cakes. The most popular amongst these were from Apple who bought the iPhone 4 and the iPad – both of which…

Apps

Opera Introduces App Store. Gets Booted Out Of GetJar

March 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

Opera has announced its own App Store for mobile phones yesterday. The store, accessible to over 100 million users who use Opera’s Mobile browsers has been built in partnership with Appia, a leading provider of open application market technology. The…

Nokia

Inexpensive Nokia X1-00 announced

March 8, 2011 0 c0rex

Finnish handset maker Nokia has announced new low-end handset aimed at the music enthusiasts – Nokia X1-00. Appearing to be younger brother of X2, the new Nokia X1-00 runs Symbian 30 mobile operating system (yes, it exists). Rated with 106phon…

Tech Industry News

Airtel Launches 3G Services In Mumbai

March 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

After launching 3G services in 12 cities across the country – including Delhi and Jaipur, Airtel has finally announced the launch of its 3G services in the financial capital, Mumbai. Airtel claims to have wider network coverage than most of…

Accessories

Western Digital Takes Over Hitachi’s Storage Division

March 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

In what would be the biggest takeover in the world of hard disk drive manufacturers since 2006 when Seagate took over Maxtor, Western Digital has announced a mammoth deal that would involve it paying a cool $3.5 billion in cash…

Featured

Why The Next Google / Facebook Isn’t From India

March 4, 2011 4 Annkur

This ain’t new talk and I got deflected back to this topic when discussing Indian cos making cellphones in a Facebook group. For long entrepreneurs in India have been motivated with talks of making the next Google, Facebook or Microsoft.…

Apple

Apple Unveils The iPad 2

March 2, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has finally announced the launch of the second generation iPad at an event held at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco earlier today. The second iPad comes in just about a year after the debut if the iPad…

Apple

The iPad 2 With Thunderbolt and 1.2GHz CPU Is Fake, Sorry

March 2, 2011 0 Annkur

I am not sure why many are in hopes about about the recent leak from Amazon’s German site. The so called product listing that appeared on Amazon claimed of a March 17th availability for Apple iPad 2 along with a…

Android

LG Optimus 2X In Europe This Month

March 1, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG’s flagship Android powered handset, the Tegra 2 powered Optimus 2X would finally arrive in the hands of consumers across Europe later this month. The company has made the news official about the device’s immediate arrival in these key markets.

Android

ChaCha Sues HTC for ChaCha

February 27, 2011 1 Annkur

Well this had to happen. While its not Diamond Comics suing HTC for its Facebook phone called ‘ChaCha’, its the search engines guys ChaCha that have finally made an attempt to shoot down HTC. Chacha.com is a search engine that…

Accessories

LaCie Little Big Disk Is The First Thunderbolt Toting SSD

February 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

Talk about being quick! Just a day after Apple and Intel announced the launch of the new I/O interface, the Thunderbolt, LaCie has introduced a new external SSD that would support the new standard. LaCie, which is known to be…

Apps

Windows Phone 7 Will Get Angry Birds Soon!

February 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

If the non-availability of Angry Birds for Windows Phone was the sole reason stopping you from getting hold of a WP7 powered phone, your wait will end later this year. That’s right Rovio will officially bring the much addictive game…

Apple

Apple Skips USB 3.0, Pushes Lightpeak as Intel Thunderbolt

February 24, 2011 0 Annkur

Its 2011 and none of the Apple MacBooks carry a USB 3.0 yet. Thats fishy for sure. Apple is known to move to newer technologies before the masses, be it SSD only notebooks or multitouch displays on a phone. So…

Apple

Apple Launches 2011 Macbook Pro Models, Intel Thunderbolt Debuts [Updated With India Prices]

February 24, 2011 0 Rahul S

Apple has refreshed its lineup of 13, 15 and 17 inch Macbook Pros with a host of new updates.  The line up gets Intel’s new Sandy Bridge based Core i5 and i7 processors. Apple also seems to have at least…

Apple

Intel’s Light Peak Technology Renamed Thunderbolt

February 23, 2011 0 Monis

Intel and Apple have jointly released a new I/O technology called Thunderbolt on the eve of the launch of Apple’s brand new MacBook Pro models. The technology was until know known by the Light Peak Moniker. While we have already talked abbout Light Peak in…

Apple

Apple To Bring LightPeak To Mac Soon?

February 20, 2011 0 Rahul S

Friends over at CNET are talking about Apple readying itself to introduce a new “high-speed connection technology” on Macs very soon. Most people assume this technology to be Light Peak from Intel which might in the future, replace traditional USB,…

Featured

Nokia E7: First Hands On, Early Impressions, Pictures

February 18, 2011 1 Team OG

Even though Nokia might have made it clear that Windows Phone Would be their smartphone OS of choice going forward, the fact is that Symbian still happens to be one of the most used smartphone platforms out there. In fact, Nokia will continue to…

Android

iPhone 4 Bags Award For The Best Mobile Phone At MWC

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

The just concluded Mobile World Congress was dominated by Android without doubt. A plethora of Android based smartphones were displayed at the expo since day one. The grand finale of the event was the Global Mobile Awards announcement. This function…

eReaders & Tablets

MeeGo Smartphone & Tablet All Set To be Demoed At MWC

February 14, 2011 0 Annkur

While Nokia made it clear that they have no hardware to demo at this years MWC (apart from a WP7 mockup), it became clear that no MeeGo handset would be seen, however it seems that Intel, who is promoting MeeGo…

Android

LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

eReaders & Tablets

Samsung Galaxy Tab II and Galaxy S2 Pictured Ahead Of MWC

February 13, 2011 1 Annkur

Samsung is all set to unveil its Galaxy S and GalaxyTab successor at MWC 2011 and it seems that they have eagerly let out some pictures already. A lot is also being speculated about the specifications as well. The new…

Accessories

Hitachi Launches New IPS Display, Has Apple’s Retina Display Running For Cover

February 12, 2011 3 Rahul S

Apple’s retina display has been for the past year been the undisputed leader when it came to sheer resolution on a mobile screen. While there is still a debate whether Super AMOLED screens offer better viewing experience it is a…

Android

Viewsonic Launches Dual SIM Android Smartphone, 10 inch Tablet

February 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

On the eve of this year’s MWC, Viewsonic has announced the launch of two its most anticipated devices in the European market. The devices in question are the new Dual-SIM Android Smartphone, the V350 and the latest entry to the…