US priest launches smartphone app for confessions
A smartphone app enabling parishioners to schedule confessions with their priests aims to make life easier for the flock
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Related: New iPhone, iPad app keeps track of one’s sins
Scientist develops body-double robot
Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan, has been working on developing lifelike androids.
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How Bluetooth connects gadgets
Smartphones, headsets, keyboards, mice, game controllers, stereos — you name the device, it’s probably connectable via Bluetooth. Bluetooth has made massive inroads because of the ease with...
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NEW DELHI,
June 18, 2013
Huawei launches ‘Ascend Mate’
Chinese communications giant Huawei, on Tuesday, launched its 6.1-inch Ascend Mate smartphone in India with a price tag of Rs.24,900.The company said it planned to invest about Rs.175 cro...
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San Francisco,
June 11, 2013
Apple’s iOS 7 looks familiar to Android fans
Investors and Apple fans have been clamouring for some breakthrough Apple products for months, but after the company’s big reveal on Monday in San Francisco there was an unusual sense of disappoin...
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NEW DELHI,
June 6, 2013
BlackBerry Q10 launched in India
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry, on Thursday, launched its Q10 in India, priced at Rs. 44,990.
The smartphone will be available for sale in 20 cities across 1,000 stores from Thursda...
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Berlin,
June 5, 2013
Smartphones getting closer to the body
The race for the mobile phone future is on, and researchers are coming up a number of concepts including fold-out and 3D displays, sensors and a computer identity chip to wear in a ring. It...
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June 5, 2013
Chris goes missing
After over a year of its release on Nintendo 3DS, Resident Evil: Revelations gets a hi-def port to home consoles and PC. This means that the graphics get a nice boost, with the game now looking far...
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San Francisco,
June 5, 2013
Google offers pure Android versions of Galaxy S4
Google is stepping up its efforts to offer users pure versions of its Android operating system without the extra software — or as critics call it “bloatware” — added on by phone manufacturers....
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June 2, 2013
More mobility, but what about security?
From banks and cafes to restaurants and bookstores, more and more businesses are offering mobile services. Tasks which were carried out on desktops earlier are now conducted from mobile...
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May 31, 2013
At your fingertips
My textbooks in school were not palm leaves or stone tablets, but they were not phablets either. Kids today use e-readers, do homework on a school PC, play games on a tablet, find project informat...
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CHENNAI,
May 29, 2013
Flipkart exits digital music biz
India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart.com is pulling the plug on its digital music store, nearly a year after the platform was set up and close to six months after Apple’s music store iTunes ent...
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New Delhi,
May 29, 2013
Sony launches Xperia Tablet Z in India at Rs. 46,990
Expanding its Xperia range of gadgets, Sony India on Wednesday launched the Xperia Tablet Z, which the company claims is the world’s thinnest design at 6.9 mm, priced at Rs. 46,990.
The d...
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Hard-selling smartphones
Mobile carriers of microbes
Microsoft unveils Xbox One with live TV
Panasonic re-enters mobile space
Six appeal
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Mumbai,
June 17, 2013
Student smartphone usage: Tier II cities overtake Metros
About 70 per cent students today own smartphones with a larger user base in smaller cities than metros, according to a survey by software services firm TCS.Nearly six out of 10 post-millenni...
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Bangalore,
June 9, 2013
Welcome the successor to the MPEG-4 standard
Imaging may be the key differentiator in the crowded mobile handset market, but the challenge is in delivering high definition images on the small screen. The trick is to compress images without s...
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NEW DELHI,
June 5, 2013
Lenovo launches series of smartphones in India
China-based computer maker Lenovo launched six new smartphone devices in India on Wednesday, priced between Rs. 8,689 and Rs. 32,999.
“The journey of Lenovo smartphones in India t...
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June 5, 2013
And thereby hangs a digitale
Armed with digital cameras, students of five corporation schools in Coimbatore recently ventured out on a project to cover civic issues. Among the images they “captured” were street food vendors s...
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June 5, 2013
Going flat and minimalist?
There are gadget lovers and then there are Apple lovers. There is something about Apple that has attracted a near cult-like following the world over and next week’s World Wide Developer Conference...
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San Francisco,
June 5, 2013
Samsung wins patent ruling banning older iPhones from US
The International Trade Commission on Tuesday banned several older model iPhones and iPads from the U.S. in a major patent victory for Samsung.
Samsung lost a patent case to Apple last ye...
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May 31, 2013
Lights, phone... action!
Until a couple of decades ago, there was no way you could make a movie and get it released without expensive film cameras, and every can of film that could shoot a few minutes of footage would set...
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Thiruvananthapuram,
May 29, 2013
By the letter
The typeface industry in India seems to be on an upswing. Monotype Imaging, one of the world’s top typeface firms, which owns popular fonts such as Times New Roman, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, H...
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May 29, 2013
One card to rule them all
Just when you try convincing a non-PC gamer to betray their platform of choice with the “but it's not really that expensive to be a PC gamer” argument, something like the GeForce TITAN comes along.
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Chennai,
May 28, 2013
Samsung gets busier in Indian smartphone marketplace
Samsung India has aggressively opened its smartphone floodgates with almost five launches in the last six months.
Its latest introduction now ensures that the company’s smartphone portfol...
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