Archives Subscriptions RSS Feeds Site Map ePaper Mobile Social
SEARCH

The Edge RSS icon

For free Netizens: Professionals and students took part in a protest against Internet censorship in Bangalore last month. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
The Hindu For free Netizens: Professionals and students took part in a protest against Internet censorship in Bangalore last month. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

Taking copyright law a step too far?

There's confusion as Internet service providers block access to legitimate websites »
SanDisk on new flash memory 64 GB USB drive launched in India. Photo: Special Arrangement.

A technology that promises storage and functionality, in a flash

What we've somehow begun to take for granted, however, are the huge advances in the field of electronic memory or storage devices. »

HP enters public cloud services arena

HP enters public cloud services arena Global IT major Hewlett-Packard announced the beta release of its first public cloud services that will enable developers to build the next ge... »
Screenshot of

Google's campaign in Indian languages

Google has introduced a new campaign, titled ‘Good to know' in a few Indian languages to help Indian users understand and protect their online information, a release from the tech giant stated. »

Cloud solutions for Narayana Hrudayalaya

Hardware and services firm HCL Infosystems will deploy its cloud solutions and services to host the hospital information system of the Narayana Hrudayalaya chain of hospitals. »
Pages: «  1  2  3  4  5    ›  »
May 14, 2012

FaceCode Hackathon on May 19

FaceCode Hackathon, an app development conducted by KRDS, a Facebook-preferred developer consultant, will be conducted for the second consecutive year in Bangalore. This contest will be held on Sa... »
4G is the next generation of mobile communications that promises home broadband-like experience on wireless networks. File photo.
BANGALORE, May 13, 2012

Will 4G help deliver the promise of the internet?

This week, amidst much fanfare, telecom major Airtel launched its 4G services in Bangalore, making it the second 4G-enabled city in the country after Kolkata. Airtel's fourth generation m... »
Data on the go: A screenshot provided by Google demonstrates the new Google Drive service using an Android device.
BANGALORE, May 6, 2012

Google goes on a data storage drive

Is Google Drive, a late entrant in the cloud storage service market, worth switching clouds for? »
April 29, 2012

Tech news: Two new releases from Canonical

This week, Open Source firm Canonical has two new releases: the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (long-term support) for the desktop, and Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, the first enterprise Linux distribution to includ... »
The Booktrack releases are available to iPad users, with other tablet computer versions to follow.
Bangalore, April 22, 2012

Oracle vs. Google: idea of owning an idea

With the tech titans fighting over IP, the Android platform is in danger of being suffocated »
Bangalore, April 22, 2012

SMS feature introduced on GooglePlus

Google's social networking platform, GooglePlus, has announced a new feature that allows users to get SMS notifications. This feature enables them to share updates using their mobile phones even w... »
Going places: Using GPS-enabled Android mobile phones and Free software, the students added and updated locations to OpenStreetMaps.
NITTE, April 15, 2012

Mangalore students map uncharted territories

During a quiet weekend recently at the Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology, 21 of its students created a bit of a stir with a ‘mapping party'. Using GPS-enabled And... »
Dileep Kumar, Country Chair, BICSI India, and Managing Director, DIRAK India.
April 15, 2012

Hard-wired for speed, reliability

Exploding bandwidth demand can only be met by a combination of wired and wireless networking options »
Ramesh N. Raghavan
April 8, 2012

Low-end coding skills, really?

The phrase ‘low-end coding skills' is one that is often used by chief executive officers and other senior management members of the Indian IT industry, often in the context of “moving up the value... »
Bangalore, April 8, 2012

Building your own gadget space

Operating systems now aim to offer a seamless gadget ecosystem for users »
A success story: A file photo of a man filing an application at the Spandana counter at the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Bidar. Photo: Special Arrangement
Bidar, April 1, 2012

Sakala's formula is a tried and tested one

Its software was developed and first used in Bidar, six years ago »
Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive co-chairman, Infosys in a conversation with VR Ferose, MD, SAP Labs during the launch of Global
March 26, 2012

Delivering scalable mobile app services

Delivering scalable mobile app services MindTree, a Bangalore-based IT and product engineering service firm, announced its partnership with Netbiscuits, a leading cloud platform, for the... »
Rite of passage: The e-books site for Encyclopaedia Britannica is powered by iPublishCentral, the flagship product of Impelsys, and the site now contains hundreds of new non-fiction titles and Britannica’s popular reference titles. File photo
BANGALORE, March 26, 2012

Off the shelf, but thriving on the Web

Bangalore-based Impelsys works with Britannica to find ways to market, monetise content »
Rammohan Sundaram
March 18, 2012

It's the era of touch marketing

The introduction of mobile phone as a wireless communication medium has revolutionised the entire communications industry. Today, mobile is no longer a device used primarily to talk, but has emerg... »
Enhancing the fundamentals: A couple compares an iPad 3 with its recent predecessor at an Apple store in Singapore. The new iPad sports a couple of fundamental enhancements but is not functionally very different from iPad 2. — Photo: REUTERS
Bangalore, March 18, 2012

The heart of Apple's latest tablet

With Retina Display, the iPad 3 boasts the highest screen resolution in its segment »
ANINDITA MUKHERJEE
March 11, 2012

Mourning an ‘illegal' treasure trove

There is an angry, disgruntled buzz in several universities across India as students discover that their rock of refuge during research has been shut down by the order of a court in Munich.L... »
SUBHAJIT DATTA
March 5, 2012

OMG! There are endless possibilities

At no time in history have humans written more than they are doing now. We are always writing on our ‘walls', on multiple windows at a time. Much of what we write today on the World Web Web — mainl... »
Bidar, March 5, 2012

Black Cat Creations will help you keep track of your children

Do you spend hours worrying about what your child does in college? Here is a simple tool that will lower your stress levels. Developed by three young engineering graduates, the... »
Simple, yet complex: A high-level task force has laid out a blueprint for a single-platform e-payment gateway linked to and enabled by Aadhaar. — File photo: K. Murali Kumar
BANGALORE, February 26, 2012

What the Aadhaar payment pipe offers

Authentication pilots show two per cent ‘false rejects', 8 to 12 seconds response time »
Team Unisys
February 26, 2012

Developing location-based services

Developing location-based services For mapping enthusiasts, geeks and neogeographers in Bangalore, here's something to look forward to. Cartonama, a workshop that offers intensive... »
Bangalore, May 14, 2012

Are you networking with caution?

Is your email account secure with a 25-character, alpha-numeric complex password? If you say ‘yes', then you might need to go through the rest of the article because the right answer is, ‘no, not n... »
Art in binaries: A digital artwork on display at Renaissance Gallerie in Bangalore. File photo: K. Murali Kumar
Bangalore, May 6, 2012

Where monitor becomes the canvas

Art is the universal language of human expression. But what happens in the digital world? The digital spinoff of art, in fact a worthy variant, is digital or pixel art.The general notion th... »
Smaller, faster: Codecs are application-level programmes capable of implementing various compression algorithms to reduce the file sizes of multimedia data such as images, music and videos.
BANGALORE, April 29, 2012

Shrink some to get smarter on the network

Increasing bandwidth is not the only solution for improving user experience on the Internet »
Graphics: S. Belmann
Bangalore, April 29, 2012

Is the outsourcing story unravelling?

Crisis in global economy hits profit margins of IT firms as they desperately seek new markets »
Defining boundaries: Panellists speaking at a discussion on Internet censorship organised in Bangalore on Saturday. Photo: Bhagya Prakash K.
BANGALORE, April 22, 2012

Mobilising support for freedom on the Web

A motion in the Rajya Sabha has sought annulment of the IT intermediary guidelines »
Street-smart innovation: Called ‘Le Chal’ (Hindi for ‘take me there’), 24-year-old Anirudh Sharma’s shoe-smartphone combination is a simple navigation aide.
BANGALORE, April 15, 2012

Haptic shoe shows them the way

Having landed a much-sought-after job at the research lab of a leading global IT major, fresh out of college, Anirudh Sharma was working on cutting-edge product technologies. But what really drove... »
April 15, 2012

Creating crafty, slick user interfaces

Over the years, user interfaces have improved dramatically, and these improvements have been an integral part of the consumer experience whether it concerns domains such as e-commerce that require... »
Spastics Society of Karnataka with support of SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore & Autism Society of India inaugral ceremony to launch
April 8, 2012

Explore Mandela's archives online

This week Google Inc. announced the completion of its work on a free Web archive on legendry anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. Now just a click away is an online multimedia treasure trove of p... »
Chew on it: A survey reveals that corporate India not only has the lowest percentage of female employees, but also the highest dropout rate between junior and mid-level positions. — File photo
BANGALORE, April 8, 2012

Could gender inclusivity in the IT sector be a myth?

A casual stroll through any of the IT campuses in Bangalore reveals that the technology sector indeed employs women in substantial numbers. Industry reports have pegged these numbers at around 30... »
April 1, 2012

Tech News: Recognising innovative tech players

Online ticketing firm RedBus Inc. and UFO Moviez, a firm that works with satellite technology to transmit movies to theatres across the country, were among the list of companies that bagged the to... »
All just a click away: While the explosion of data has meant that we have access to all sorts of information, ‘big data’ provides another opportunity: one that large companies and research organisations are investing hugely in. File Photo
BANGALORE, April 1, 2012

Connecting the dots, lucratively

Data is all around us; on the Web, within the enterprise, in closed and open academic communities, across a plethora of fields ranging from news and commerce to medical research and government rec... »
Screenshot: The 'free' world of numerical computing.
Bangalore, March 26, 2012

Exploring the Free world of numerical computation tools

The IT revolution is being unleashed on a day-to-day basis. Apart from intelligent programmes being written to perform various automation tasks, there is a whole spectrum of utilities that has mad... »
March 18, 2012

Workshops on business solutions

Workshops on business solutions Tally Solutions, a leading business solutions firm, conducted a nationwide series of workshops, titled ‘The Mathematics of Happiness'. A total of 122 sessi... »
Not enough: The allocation for promotion of electronics and IT hardware manufacturing has been increased from a paltry Rs. 2.83 crore in 2011-12 to Rs. 5 crore in 2012-13. File photo
Bangalore, March 18, 2012

Budget belies expectations of the electronics sector

The budget is the place where one expects the government to put its money where its mouth is. Barely a month before the presentation of the budget, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, a... »
March 11, 2012

Online videos, a soft target

By now, we've all heard about how ubiquitous malware — or malicious code written to steal your information or cripple your network — is on the World Wide Web. Now, a new study by Kaspersky Lab on... »
Making an impact: The Map Kibera project has shown that technology could be used in the context of developing countries, says journalist Erica Hagen. Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
BANGALORE, March 11, 2012

Digital storytelling on the grid

The promise of Web 2.0 was simple, yet tall. The explosion of social media and the Web led us to believe in a world where people could converse, tell their stories, grow into communities and, in s... »
March 5, 2012

Technology news

SAP Labs India launches new products SAP Labs India launched three new products — File Lifecycle Management, Policy Management Framework and Address Data Cleansing — at its fifth a... »
A artist lerning 3-D Animation on a PC on the occasion of International Animation day celebrated in Hyderabad. File photo
BANGALORE, March 5, 2012

Animation policy: a work in progress?

Entrepreneurs and stakeholders voice their concerns and reservations »
A demostration on Math Puzzler.
MANGALORE, February 26, 2012

Winning Android puzzle had the Sherlock edge

A group of young Bangalore-based technology professionals bagged the first place for ‘Math Puzzler' application they developed at the Global Android Dev Camp 2012, Android Hackathon. The ev... »
Major hurdles: Content generation in Indian languages faces two issues: the first arises from the huge backlog of undigitised content in Indian languages and the second is that of translation from other languages. — File photo
Bangalore, February 19, 2012

The challenge to localisation

The persistence of the digital divide in the era of widespread computing probably poses the biggest challenge to the realisation of the promise that the Internet would offer deliverance to society... »
Pages: «  1  2  3  4  5    ›  »