Apps

Samsung Smart Care Lets You Troubleshoot Your Washing Machine Using A Smartphone

September 17, 2011 0 Tassavur

Well this is certainly the future that we are heading for, wherein our handheld device would be the master device which would allow us to control all our other devices including television, cars or even washing machines. Samsung has taken…

Nokia

Nokia 700, 701 Shipments Start; Headed towards India

September 17, 2011 0 Rahul S

Here’s some good news for all you fast dwindling breed of Symbian lovers out there. Remember the Nokia 700 and 701 handsets announced last month? Well both the devices have started shipping to dealers and are expected to land in…

Tech Industry News

Now Save Data For A Century With Sandisk’s Memory Vault

September 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Yes, you read that right! Now Sandisk has come up with a USB memory drive rightly called the Memory Vault, which would save you data for over 100 years. The Memory Vault is being promoted by Sandisk as a solution…

Apple

Daily App: The Daily for the iPad

September 16, 2011 0 Nimish

Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only newspaper, The Daily, is finally available for Indian users. And, needless to say, we have grabbed the app and taken a look at it.

HP (Hewlett Packard)

Shareholder Adds Insult to Injury by Suing HP for WebOS / TouchPad Debacle

September 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

HP which had abandoned WebOS from its future plans after the TouchPad debacle, due to the rising costs and non performance issues it had brough to the company, is now stung by a class-action lawsuit filed by one of its…

Android

Huawei Deuce: Dual SIM Android Handset

September 16, 2011 0 Tassavur

Although Huawei has launched a couple of Android devices in the market viz, the Ideos and the Impulse 4G, it was yet to launch a dual SIM Android handset, surprising considering that is the first feature they bring out in…

Nokia

Nokia Launches Low End Handsets Nokia 100 and Nokia 101 in India

September 16, 2011 0 Rahul S

A few weeks after their official announcement, Nokia has announced the launch of its new low cost, affordable handsets, the 100 and 101 here in India. Both the devices pack in color displays and will be positioned above the Nokia…

Apple

Wait, Hold Those iPhone Rumors!

September 16, 2011 0 Annkur

Apple hasn’t launched a new iPhone  at WWDC 2011 as it did for the past four years. History expected them to do so, but all that came out at WWDC was the iOS 5, OS X Lion and iCloud. iOS…

Android

Daily App: Firefox for Android Honeycomb

September 15, 2011 0 Nimish

All right, we admit that we got a bit late with the Daily App today. Our excuse? Heck, we were messing with a just-released build of Firefox for Honeycomb.

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…

HTC

HTC Pimps the Sensation; Calls it Sensation XE

September 15, 2011 0 Rahul S

Barely five months after it was officially announced, HTC has come up with a new, pimped up version of its flagship Android smartphone – the HTC Sensation. The device, packs in quite a bunch of new additions to the stock…

Motorola

Quick Review: Motorola EX109, Dual SIM QWERTY Phone

September 14, 2011 0 Annkur

The EX109 is one of the four Dual SIM QWERTYs on the market by Motorola. At Rs 3500 it’s one of the cheapest Dual SIM phone out there. The phone features a standard QWERTY design with a 5 way D-pad,…

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…

Market Watch

Seven Things You Want To Know About Windows 8

September 14, 2011 0 Annkur

Microsoft has shipped over 450 million copies of Windows 7 till date and finally, it has managed to beat Windows XP in consumer usage. Internet explorer 9 is the fastest growing browser for Redmond and as many as 500 million users use…

Android

Daily App: Facebook for Android

September 14, 2011 0 Nimish

  A new version of Facebook is always reason to celebrate for its members. And this time, Zuckerberg’s company has finally gone and added some muscle to its Android avatar. The latest version of Facebook for Android, version 1.7, is…

Tech Industry News

Is Intel Buying HP’s PC Business? No, Thanks! Says CEO Otellini

September 14, 2011 0 Tassavur

With HP’s surprise announcement of their plans to spin off their PC business or maybe even sell it, speculations and rumors about the same have been flying thick and thin and till date there has been a long list of…

Automobiles

Husqvarna E-go Concept Electric Motorcycle Unveiled by BMW

September 14, 2011 0 Tassavur

The bike that you are looking at is not a dirt bike and most certainly not a kids bike either. It is in fact an electric motorcycle named Husqvarna E-go, which was unveiled by BMW at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

eReaders & Tablets

Windows 8 Start Menu, Taskbar (Design) Leaked

September 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While we are gearing up for the Microsoft Build event scheduled to happen later this week at California where juicier details pertaining to Microsoft’s Windows 8 are expected to be announced, eagle eyed folks over at Toms Hardware has posted…

Automobiles

Hydrogen Powered Gullwing F125! by Mercedes Benz Leaked!

September 13, 2011 0 Tassavur

Called the F One Twenty Five this beautiful gull winged hydrogen powered fuel cell concept car by Mercedes Benz has been leaked ahead of the Frankfurt Motor Show. One look at the car and we know that this one is…

Android

LG Outs Optimus Hub (E510F) In Italy, Runs Android 2.3

September 13, 2011 0 Annkur

LG has announced an October release for its new mid-segment Android smartphone, the Optimus Hub. The Hub is powered by a 800MHz processor and was previously referred as the Univa. The Hub has a decent spec sheet for the price…

Android

Micromax Launching Sub 20k Dual Core Android Phone?

September 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

Now this one’s really interesting. Micromax Mobiles, which over the past few years had managed to turn quite a few heads with their range of low cost Android handsets like the A60 and the A70 , are at it again. The company…

Apple

Daily App: Dolphin HD for the iPad

September 13, 2011 0 Nimish

We had seen it weave its magic combo of webzines and gesture-based browsing on Android, and the iPhone and now Dolphin HD is available for the iPad, as well. Needless to say, we are cheering. Simply because, the numbers of…

Future WIP

Mobile Buildings Allow You To Be A Nomad Again

September 12, 2011 0 Tassavur

We all have read about nomadic tribes or people sometime in our academic life. Now it’s possible to be a Nomad again comfortably with the help of technology that allows you to move your home. And yes it’s not like…

Market Watch

Feature Phones on The Wane in Europe: IDC Report

September 12, 2011 0 Tassavur

We surely expect smartphones to outsell the featurephones in the near future, but we surely didnt imagine that it would happen so soon. As per a new report from IDC smartphones have outsmarted the feature phones in terms of shipments.…

Motorola

Motorola EX119 – Quick Review

September 12, 2011 0 Annkur

Motorola recently launched the EX119 and EX109 Dual SIM QWERTY phones in India recently, and we got our hands on the EX119. The EX119 is a slim and light weight phone that packs in a Touch Screen and  QWERTY keyboard along…

Apps

Daily App: Evernote for PlayBook

September 12, 2011 0 Nimish

It is for many people, the ultimate note taking application in the world. And it is ironical that it comes to the tablet meant for enterprises long after being available for both iOS and Android devices. We are talking of…

Motorola

Motorola’s Facebook Phone EX 225 on The Cards

September 11, 2011 0 Rahul S

By the time you read this, you might have already seen how serious Vodafone is about its partnership with Facebook here in India. The company had launched its “Facebook Phone”, the Vodafone Blue 555 here just days ago and along…

Android

LG Univa aka E510 Revealed; Hopes to become Mid-Range King

September 9, 2011 0 Rahul S

LG Electronics, which is struggling in its fight to keep up with compatriot Samsung in the high end Android smartphone sector, is looking to consolidate its midrange segment it seems. Its high end Optimus 2x hasn’t been able to evoke…

eReaders & Tablets

Budget Tablets: Where are the big brands?

September 9, 2011 0 Nimish

As we got an exclusive hands-on on yet another low-cost tablet (the iBall Slide), there were two rather contrary sentiments running through my ever so ‘humble mind. The first, rather obviously, was one of happiness that the market had yet…

Android

Exclusive First Look: iBall Slide Android Tablet, Price Rs 13995

September 8, 2011 0 Team OG

iBall is the latest Indian player to jump on the tablet bandwagon. Reliance and Beetel both have their offerings out in the market and even as we figure out if a tablet is a utility or hype, here comes the…

Maxx

OG Review: Maxx Khamoshhh MX401

September 8, 2011 0 Annkur

Maxx Khamoshhh series was released last month, and we played around with the MX401 for sometime. The MX401 is Dual-SIM with a 2.4″ screen and features SAM noise suppression technology. At under Rs 3000, Maxx has brought noise suppression technology to a…

Microsoft

Windows 8 to Support Windows Phone 7 Apps?

September 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

Now, this sure is a fascinating bit of news we have here. If we are to believe  nVidia’s CEO Jen Hsun Huang, Microsoft’s soon to be released Windows 8 Operating System is likely to feature native support for running Windows…

Samsung

Apple Sues Samsung in Japan Too

September 8, 2011 0 Rahul S

I know this is kinda getting boring now, but yeah news is that Apple had taken its recent patent infringement war to a new frontier when the company sued archrival Samsung in Japan. This comes at a time when Apple…

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…

Android

Next Google Phone: Samsung Nexus Prime GT-I9250

September 7, 2011 0 Annkur

Ever since Google started to ship its own devices under the ‘Nexus’ branding, rumors speculating features, manufacturer and launch of these devices have been frequent. The next Android release ‘Ice Cream Sandwich‘ is due soon, and we can totally expect…

Internet

Yahoo Board Puts the Company for Sale!

September 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Hours after the announcement of the unceremonial firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, reports are flowing in about the Yahoo Board of Directors deciding to put the company up for sale. A company official has reportedly divulged to the Wall Street…

Internet

Yahoo Fires CEO Carol Bartz; Internal Memo Leaked

September 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Yahoo’s 62 year old as CEO Carol Bartz who had still a year left for her contract to complete has been unceremoniously fired by the Yahoo Board of Directors. The news which came to light a few hours ago has…

Internet

Facebook Partners with Vodafone; Launches “Vodafone Blue” Facebook Phone in India

September 6, 2011 0 Rahul S

Vodafone and Facebook have jointly announced the release of a new Facebook phone called the Vodafone Blue here in India. The device, designed to offer a complete, all-encompassing Facebook experience also gets a decent array of features making it a…

Notebook / Laptops

Acer’s Ultrabook Aspire S3 Debuts, Is Thinner Than MacBook Air!

September 5, 2011 0 Rahul S

Acer, the world’s largest Notebook PC maker has taken covers off its first Ultrabook notebook, the S3 at the ongoing IFA Conference at Berlin. The device, aiming to be a portable, powerful notebook (like most other ultrabooks out there) has…

HP (Hewlett Packard)

HP-Palm: WebOS Software Unit Gets A New Home

September 5, 2011 0 Annkur

HP is exiting the hardware business, and the PSG group that also houses webOS would be spun off shortly. A lot of rumors and speculations have been flying around wrt to the future of WebOS. During the sell-out news HP…