2014: How India’s smartphone landscape evolved

2014 will go down as the year that ushered in true democratization in the Indian smartphone market, the year of the Chinese attack on Indian market, the year when the high and mighty brands exposed the real chinks in the armour of giants and proved the...

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India e-commerce awaits more billion-dollar babies

NEW DELHI: From Amazons of the world to Chinese Alibabas to desi Flipkarts, everyone wants to have a pie of the burgeoning e-commerce market in India and consumers are not complaining with sweet sale deals coming their way.In the process, these e-retailers...

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Google Glass may not have a very good 2015

2014 wasn't kind to Google Glass.The expensive wearable tech has failed to catch on with the masses. Next year may not be any better for Google Glass, reports CNBC.Before it becomes a consumer hit, Glass will need support from the developer community.Google...

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2014: How India’s smartphone landscape changed

2014 will go down as the year that ushered in true democratization in the Indian smartphone market, the year of the Chinese attack on Indian market, the year when the high and mighty brands exposed the real chinks in the armour of giants and proved the...

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Sebi's fraud detection tool tender: Top IT giants in fray

MUMBAI: Technology giants from India and abroad, including Wipro, Tech Mahindra, IBM, HP and HCL, have evinced interest in Security and Exchange Board of India's (SEBI) proposal to upgrade business intelligence gathering software which is used for detecting...

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5 biggest milestones for Indian e-commerce industry in 2014

01 Consumer internet companies raised over $4 billion this year amid an unprecedented appetite for India's digital pie. Over 1,250 new ventures sprouted, with the number of mobile-first startups growing fastest.Here are the 5 biggest milestones achieved...

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Cybercriminals eyeing vulnerabilities in Apple Pay: Trend Micro

NEW DELHI: Cybercriminals are looking at ways to exploit tech giant Apple's recently-launched digital payment solution Apple Pay, according to top cybersecurity solutions firm Trend Micro.Even though no actual attacks on Apple Pay have been reported...

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Lenovo to launch budget 4G smartphone

NEW DELHI: It looks like more smartphone makers are gearing up to launch budget 4G smartphones in 2015.PC and mobile device maker, Lenovo has announced that it will be launching a new 4G LTE-capable smartphone at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show...

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Vodafone India to take 130 management trainees

NEW DELHI: Vodafone India, the country's second largest telecom operator, will recruit over 130 students as management trainees in 2015 through its 'Discover' campus programme, the company said on Monday.Since the programme's launch in 2010, the Indian...

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Infosys to expand CSR activities in Americas

NEW DELHI: Country's second largest software services firm Infosys will expand its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in the Americas to focus on making quality computer science education widely available.To be carried out by its philanthropic...

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I&B ministry gaining steam on social media

NEW DELHI: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading from the front, social media outreach of I&B ministry and its associated bodies has got a major boost with over 16 lakh followers on Twitter, nearly 90,000 YouTube subscribers and around 30 lakh...

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3 apps to help keep your New Year resolutions

WASHINGTON: Do you find keeping New Year's resolutions a Herculean task? Download these apps.A trio of apps called Lift, Workflow and Hours will help you keep your resolutions, the Washington Post reported.The Lift app offers a menu of self-improvement,...

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Facebook apologizes for grief caused by "Year in Review" feature

NEW YORK: Facebook has apologized for the grief its "Year in Review" feature caused some of its users while dishing out good memories along with the bad ones.The social networking site compiled a "Year in Review" for every user, allowing them to reminisce...

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Nasa launches app to give information on International Space Station

WASHINGTON: Want to know more about the International Space Station (ISS)? There's an app for that!A new Nasa app provides information on ISS experiments, facilities and research results through video, photos, interactive media and in-depth descriptions.The...

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168 Foxconn workers arrested for trying to enter Chennai plant

More than 150 employees at Hon Hai Precision Industry Co's Chennai factory were arrested on Monday as they attempted to force entry to the mobile phone plant earmarked for closure at the end of the month.Hon Hai, which trades as Foxconn, announced on...

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It’s app-ening: Tech will transform aam aadmi

The multi-billion-dollar valuations of Flipkart and Snapdeal are no pricing bubble, but a signal that India's technology boom has begun. The next five years will see a flurry of technology innovations that will transform the country as much as cellphones...

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What working at Facebook is like

Most of Facebook's 8,000 employees are millennials — and the average age is 28, compared to 30 at Google and 31 at Apple, the Wall Street Journal reports.CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 30.The company has embraced stereotypes about millennials (like, that they're...

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10 ways technology changed lives in 2014

Rise of the instant gratification economyDespite the troubles app-based cab companies like Uber faced last month, there's no denying that they gave us unprecedented control over our movement within the city. Plenty of other things got Uber-fied too as...

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Sony PlayStation Network outage continues into third day

BOSTON: Sony worked for a third day to restore services to its PlayStation Network as the FBI said it was looking into the disruption, which began on Christmas Day."We are aware of the reports and are investigating the Sony PlayStation matter," Federal...

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Average Indian to spend Rs 10,000 on e-commerce in 2015: Study

NEW DELHI: The average annual spending of Indians on online purchases is expected to rise 67% to Rs 10,000 next year, according to a study. Currently, online shoppers spend around Rs 6,000 a year on average, said the Assocham-PwC study.About 40 million...

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Streaming release of 'Interview' test for industry

ATLANTA: Sony's 'The Interview' has been a hacking target, a punchline and a political lightning rod. Now, with its release online at the same time it debuts in theaters, it has a new role: A test for a new kind of movie release.'The Interview' stars...

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A hacker group has shared 13K passwords of sites like Amazon, Walmart

Hacker group Anonymous has released a file containing about 13,000 'passwords'. The stolen account information has been posted to internet file sharing site Ghostbin.That's not the biggest password hack we've ever seen. With millions of passwords in...

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10 things to do with your old smartphone

Google Maps and navigation is free on your Android phone and you've probably used this while driving. If you prefer, you can also get Maps by MapmyIndia — in many situations, MapmyIndia has better localised maps with better house and street-level detail...

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Here's why investors want to fire Twitter's CEO

What a difference a year makes.Last year, a newly-public Twitter saw its stock explode to $73.31 a share. This year, the stock is stuck around $37, and investors are talking about firing CEO Dick Costolo."The people who work at Twitter know the potential,...

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Working to fix e-comm payments post-Uber case: RBI

MUMBAI: US taxi-hailing company Uber Technologies violated Indian regulations by "bypassing" rules when it used an overseas gateway to conduct transactions in the country, Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan said in a television interview.The...

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella meets PM Narendra Modi

NEW DELHI: World's biggest software maker Microsoft's chief executive officer Satya Nadella met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday in the national capital. He is the third major tech executive to meet PM Modi, after Amazon's Jeff Bezos and...

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Foxconn labour union plans forced entry stir

CHENNAI: Stalemate between representatives of Foxconn India and employee union continued today at the fifth round of tripartite talks held in the presence of labour department officials at Sriperumbudur."Since the management has been maintaining their...

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AT&T expects India to remain 'strategic priority'

NEW DELHI: US telecom giant AT&T expects India to remain a 'strategic priority' in Asia to provide global connectivity services to multinational businesses."We provide global virtual private network (VPN) connectivity and applications services to...

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Sony working on 12.9-inch tablet: Report

NEW DELHI: Sony's tablet portfolio is reportedly going to see a huge jump in terms of screen size soon. After Xperia Tablet Z2 (10.1-inch) and Xperia Tablet Z3 (8-inch), Sony is gearing up to launch its largest-ever tablet, with a screen measuring 12.9-inch.According...

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Kodak set to launch smartphones, tablets

NEW DELHI: Photography pioneer Kodak is all set to enter the smartphone and tablet industry next month. In an official statement, the company said that it will showcase its first product — a smartphone — at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,...

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Oldest Facebook user dies at 114

NEW YORK: Anna Stoehr, one of the oldest living people in the world at age 114 who lied about her age so she could get a Facebook page, has died in Minnesota, US.She lied about her actual age as the earliest birth year listed on Facebook to create a...

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Sony asked to divulge hack details by US democrat

WASHINGTON: The top Democrat on the powerful US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked Sony Pictures Entertainment to hand over details of what he describes as the "devastating cyberattack" recently suffered by the Hollywood studio.In...

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GT Advanced to sell sapphire furnaces

GT Advanced Technologies said it is pursuing the sale of its sapphire furnaces and will pay former partner, Apple, a portion of the cash it gets from the sale.The furnaces were installed to make sapphire glass for Apple, which loaned GT Advanced $439...

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Sony asked to divulge hack details by US democrat

WASHINGTON: The top Democrat on the powerful US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked Sony Pictures Entertainment to hand over details of what he describes as the "devastating cyberattack" recently suffered by the Hollywood studio.In...

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