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| Asus Lamborghini ZX1 Hits India |  | Asus recently announced the release of its high-end Lamborghini ZX1 smartphone for the Indian market, bringing both style and advanced functionality to mobile users across India. The ZX1 is the result of a collaboration between the Taiwan-based Asus and the legendary luxury car manufacturer Lamborghini.
Created from exclusive materials (like carbon fiber and stainless steel) to bring in mind the unique look of all the Lamb ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Three New and Slim LG Phones Launched in India |  | The mobile division of LG has recently announced the availability of three new handsets for the Indian market, targeted for different categories of users: LG KF510, LG KP320 and LG KP110.
The most expensive (and advanced, at the same time) of them is LG KF510, a slider that c ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo to Change Its Search Engine |  | As all of us know, the Google search engine is one of the most used search engines on the web. There are a number of websites that come integrated with the powerful Google search engine. This is just to show how popular Google really is. It seems that none of its competitors can provide users with a real alternative for a search engine. Nevertheless, this might change soon, as Yahoo rolled out, in India, a new search option.
I ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rocket Launches Record Number of Satellites: 10 |  | The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched by the India Space Research Organization yesterday at 03:50 GMT from the Sriharikota space station put into orbit no less than 10 satellites in an attempt to overpower the other major competitors in the multi-billion-dollar space market. India benefits from a space program spanning over 45 years and has demonstrated that it is able to put a satellite into a precise orbit although the launcher was ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intex IN 2222, New Affordable Handset For India |  | Intex Technologies unveiled its latest mobile phone, named Intex IN 2222, a candybar that looks pretty nice and brings several useful features, at a very affordable price (like the other recently launched Intex phone, the ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPhone Gets Official in India, From September |  | Apple's iPhone seems to finally make its official entrance to the Indian market, but only in September 2008, and coming exclusively via Vodafone.
For the beginning, just the 8GB version of the handset will be available, the 16GB one being planned for a release in 2009. Ac ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 13:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HTC P3470 Launched In India |  | HTC P3470, the latest handset unveiled by the Taiwan-based Windows Mobile smartphone manufacturer, is now available in India through authorized resellers, for a suggested retail price of 19,900 INR (about $500 or 310 Euro).
The new HTC is one of the smallest and most affordable GPS-enabled smartphones. The handset measures 108 x 58.3 x 15.7 millimeters, weighs 122 grams and runs on Windows Mobile 6 Professional. The built-in ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Indian Government's Computers Hacked |  | Chinese hackers seem to be quite experienced these days as they manage to infiltrate into any vulnerable system found out there, connected to the web. After lots of reports concerning Chinese hackers who managed to broke into a certain computer, here's another one: the network belonging to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs got hacked a few days ago. The bad guys may come from China.
According to IRNA, the hackers in ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Regional Nuclear War Would Destroy the World |  | Global or not, a nuclear war would kill us all. And if nuclear weapons didn't do the job, then the Sun would. According to recent studies, a regional global war would cause the ozone layer of the Earth to be destroyed in as little as a decade, all living beings being at the mercy of the Sun's ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet light has the ability to alter the human DNA, but other organisms may be at risk as well.
100 Hiroshima-s ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LG KF600 "Touches" India |  | LG launched its KF600 fashion mobile phone in India, targeting young users who want to have both style and advanced functionality in one handset.
LG KF600 is a sleek slider phone that will easily attract users, first with its fancy look, then with the unique features it brin ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dual SIM Samsung 2ON Released |  | Samsung 2ON is one of the latest mobile phones released by the South Korean producer in India. The handset comes with two SIM slots, allowing you to use it on both GSM and CDMA networks, at the same time, being the first phone with this feature to h ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola's Handset Division Might Be Bought By Videocon |  | Videocon, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates, recently revealed its intention to buy Motorola's handsets division, valued at more than $3.5 billion. This comes shortly after the American giant announced it will divide its business into two independ ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Origin of Zero |  | We are so accustomed with seeing the perfect circle, the zero that we cannot imagine it had to be invented. In fact, the invention of zero was a real revolution.
Imagine how the Romans made calculations. For example, when building a villa, how much did they have to pay for 18 rows of 44 poles of 12 sexterts (Roman coin)? That meant XVIII by XLIV by XII... This calculation took one hour using an abacus. Today, a 10-year old ki ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 10:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HTC TyTN II, Now In India |  | HTC TyTN II, one of the best Pocket PCs out there, is finally available in India, at authorized dealers across the ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Loves India, Too |  | Google Local Search has always been a pretty useful solution for those business owners who want to bring some new consumers to their companies. Too bad it is not available in all the countries around the world. However, the Mountain View super giant Google struggles to expand it in more and more countries, so every new day may bring a new addition to the service.
And the Indian business owners should consider themselves lucky ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte Soon Available In India |  | Nokia will soon bring its 8800 Sapphire Arte phone to India, offering users evolved features packed in a luxury device that will surely attract everyone's look. Besides entry-level, affordable handsets, the continuously emerging Indian market also needs more ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Starts the Chinese, Indian Markets Offensive |  | System vendor Dell is currently pitching at distributing its PC offerings on the Chinese and Indian markets. According to the company's CEO and founder Michael Dell, the company experiences high demand on the Asian markets.
More and more computer manufacturers are designing their products for the Chinese market. Dell and Lenovo are only a few of the PC vendors that introduced low-cost computers targeted at the rural and e ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2008, 21:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Meet the Two-Faced Girl |  | We do not know if it's the Bhopal accident or just a large population pool, but India comes with really weird human newborn cases.
An Indian woman has just delivered a baby girl with two faces. The girl had four eyes, two noses and two mouths. The six-day old baby girl, whose parents are Vinod and Sushma Singh, is already being regarded as a reincarnation of the Hindu God of wisdom Ganesha (the elephant-headed god). The ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung and Aamir Khan Launched 5 New Handsets |  | Samsung released 5 new mobile phones in India and at the same time it announced the appointment of Aamir Khan, the famous Indian actor, as its brand ambassador for the South Asian country.
The new handsets released by the South Korean company are Samsung SGH-G ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2008, 12:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World's Longest Ear Hair! |  | You may have heard about many freak records (and the Guinness Book of World Records is full of them) and now you can add another one: Radhakant Bajpai, a grocer from the city of Kanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, northern India, has the world's hairiest ears.
Bajpai's ear tufts were already 13.2 cm (5.2 in) when he broke the record in 2003 and now the man is really unbeatable: his ear hair has grown to almost 25 ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Kerala's Schools to Use Only Linux |  | Kerala will become the first state in India to completely switch from Microsoft Windows to only GNU/Linux free software to be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations.
Until last year, the students could take the test either by using Windows or Linux. From now on, the use of GNU/Linux free software w ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| World's Oldest Bunny: It Lived 53 Million Years Ago! |  | Bunnies may look like fluffy eared rodents, but they are not. They have their own zoological order called Lagomorpha, which comprises hares, rabbits and a Guinea pig-like family of mammals called pikas.
Now, scientists have found what appears to be the oldest remains of an ancestor of today's rabbits and hares. The 53-million-year-old fossils are made of small ankle bones and they were uncovered in Gujarat (central Indi ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Guru100, the New Affordable Candybar |  | Samsung Electronics announced a new mobile phone for the Indian market, Samsung Guru100, an entry-level handset that brings a set of useful features at an affordable price.
The new phone offers a CSTN display with a resolution of 128×128 pixels and 65,0 ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MWC 2008: The World's Cheapest Mobile Phone Comes for Less Than $20 |  | Spice Corp Ltd., a leading Indian telecommunications company, showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the world's cheapest handset, dubbed the "People's Phone". This new device comes without a display and it's clearly targeted for those who only want to make phone calls and do not care for other features.
The People's Phone is "just a phone", similar to a landline ph ... [read more >>] | | 14 February 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 7 Amazing Issues About Indian Civilization |  | 1. India was one of the cradles of the civilization. Here emerged two religions of high philosophical and moral content: Buddhism and Brahmanism. Indian literature started over 3,000 years ago with the sacred books called Vedas and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata; it was profoundly religious and poetic, and comprised various genera: theater, tales, novels, poetry. Kama Shutra was written 1,500 years ago by the Indian scholar Mallana ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Extends its Business In India, Opens Two New Development Centers |  | IBM has been reported to open two new offshore outsourcing centers in India. It may seem surprising, but the company is facing serious problems regarding workforce availability, since finding and retaining quality IT staff has become a challenge.
The company announced that it has already opened the gates of a new global delivery center in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Moreover, the "Big Blue" also plans to open another facil ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 12:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Will Pour Yet Another $Billion Into the Indian Economy |  | Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will invest ove4r $1 billion in India during the next three years. Intel is willing to manufacture here its low-cost personal computers in a joint-venture with Indian and offshore hardware companies.
"We have committed to spend over a billion dollars spread over next three years plus. We are focusing on a number of new initiatives for enabling easy availability of personal com ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 10:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| India, Google’s Haven and Heaven |  | No need talking once again about the way Google dominates the Internet with its services and about the tremendous effort that its employees have to put into that. That’s being paid for and very well, but what’s interesting to observe is the nationalities that contribute the most. Microsoft was asked at a time to learn how to say "Thank You!" in Romanian, because it was the second most spoken language in the company, whi ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 18:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cisco Will Certify 360,000 New Network Engineers in India |  | Cisco has released a plan to boost the Indian number of networking engineers from about 60,000 as available today to 360,000 within five years. The new engineers will be trained by Cisco and certified on Cisco networking gear and technologies. There have been rumors recently that alleged that Cisco is having financial difficulties and ceased any employments.
According to Cisco representatives, the company has already establish ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 06:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| This Man Has a 32.5 cm (1.1 ft) Long Tail! |  | If you do not have a proof of our evolutionary past, here comes this tea estate Indian worker: Chandre Oram, from Alipurduar of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal has a 13 inch (32.5 cm) long and one inch (2.5 cm) thick tail. Far from being frightening, this tail attracts thousands of poor people worshiping him as a human incarnation of Hindu monkey god Hanuman. The 5.6 ft (1.68 m) man enjoys climbing trees and eating bananas fo ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| India Launches Israeli Spy Satellite |  | The launch that took place from the Sriharikota space station, at 03:45 GMT, was carried by the Indian authorities in the greatest secrecy, as the vehicle carrying the satellite has not been publicly announced or scheduled for launch. This represents the second successful launch of a foreign satellite by the Indian Space Research Organisation, after the launch of the Italian satellite back in April last year. India has as priority to join ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 10:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Brings Women in Engineering Award |  | Many women have come up with wonderful inventions throughout the history and mythology, but their work was recognized way too rarely. Google decided to set things straight and launched in December its India "Women in Engineering Award." It decided to let the whole world know about it now on the Official Google Blog, because the last day for applying is drawing near and it looks like the project is a success already, judging by th ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Had Its DNS Stolen? |  | Wouldn’t it be shameful for a company the magnitude of Google to be forced to admit that somebody stole its Domain Name System (its most basic task is to translate hostnames to IP addresses, in case you didn’t know that)? Yes it would, don’t even try to think about another answer, because it’s just no point. Yet that’s what it seems to have happened last night in India, where typing Google.com would redirect users to SoGoSearch, ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cricket for One and All from Google |  | All right, old chaps! Time to gather round ye old Internet and jot down the scores ye find there, be it that you will not miss one single run. Or, however they might have said it back in the days, I wasn’t there to listen to it, so I’m just guessing.
This is a 20 percent project, meaning that it has been worked upon in the one day a week that the Google engineers are allowed to spend working on projects that are not necessari ... [read more >>] | | 21 December 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM to Get $1 Billion from the Indian Business |  | India has become more and more appealing for big hardware and software corporations that raced in setting development, research or manufacturing units on Indian territory. AMD has recently opened a new research and development engineering facility in Bangalore, while IBM got quite a ... [read more >>] | | 17 December 2007, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Shuts Down Hardware Facility in India |  | Dell made the news of closing down the Bangalore hardware division official at a meeting with the company employees. The Bangalore center will remain active, but will shift its operations from hardware design to software development. The company will contract other manufacturers able to do designs for the company's products.
Hardware design will be shifted from the old Bangalore facility to other design centers located i ... [read more >>] | | 08 December 2007, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Metal 5, the Thinnest 5 Megapixel Mobile Phone |  | Samsung Electronics just announced the release of Samsung Metal 5, presented as the world's thinnest 5 Megapixel camera cell phone. Created to offer high quality photography and multimedia features packed in a stylish metallic case, the new Samsung is the latest pho ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Three Issues About HIV |  | 1. AIDS is a huge menace for the public health, but in Africa it also has a deep impact on the economical side. With about 28 million cases of HIV positive and 2 million annual deaths, HIV epidemic in the sub-Saharan Africa is going to cancel the progresses registered in social and economical development. African companies face the increasing employees' absenteeism and death caused by AIDS.
A national railway company lost to AIDS ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Going from Internet to Paper |  | I read a book a while ago about the importance of the positioning of the ads, be it at eye level, higher or lower, and the way the positioning on skyscrapers influences the targeted public in looking that product up. In the case at hand, as it can be viewed in the picture on the left, I’d say that the ad should be placed slightly below eye level, in order to maximize its impact. Without passing any judgment, various people worki ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AMD Ponders Over New Chip Plant in India |  | AMD has begun to munch over strange ideas lately. First, the AMD guys considered that it would be at least nice to grab Ageia and their PhisX engine for their own graphics technology, but things have gone in a nasty direction, so they postponed it.
Threatened by the idea of being kicked out of the world’s top 10 chip manufacturers, AMD are now thinking that a new Indian plant to spit chips would suit them perfectly. This woul ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Where Did Gypsies Come From? |  | You come across these people in many countries; they do not have a national territory or their own government. Legends describe their arrival from Egypt, but these are only fairytales. Ignorant people in the west associate their origin with Eastern Europe, like Hungary and Romania. That's false, even if indeed large gypsy populations are to be found there (in Bulgaria they represent 15 % of the population, 10 % in Hungary and 7 % in R ... [read more >>] | | 28 November 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia 5610 and 5310 XpressMusic Hit India |  | Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and Nokia 5310 XpressMusic will be available from now on in India as well. With this, the handset producer makes a strong push on the market, as it already has the leading position.
The Indian market keeps receiving a great number of evolved music phones. Nokia's latest releases in this line of devices will also be out in stores, ready to start playing Indian music as well. Both mobile phones have ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spice S-7 Music Phone Unveiled in India |  | One more mobile phone from Spice has just been introduced to play Indian music at best quality from now on. The S-7 handset is low end, but this could turn out as being just one more reason for it to reach high-sale figures.
Spice S-7 is part of the producer& ... [read more >>] | | 22 November 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Nseries Brings Digital Playzone in India |  | Nokia Nseries is about to bring Digital Playzone on Indian grounds. The challenge is being held in seven countries across Asia, including India as well from now on.
Digital Playzone is the place where potential Technoholics compete for the top place as being inseparable from their mobile phones< ... [read more >>] | | 16 November 2007, 09:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Ericsson W910 Hits Indian Market |  | Sony Ericsson W910 just got a new release, this time on the Indian market. The device has already been available in UK stores for quite a while now and it was time for it to start going global.
The W910 music phone coming from Sony Ericsson had a bumpy release up to this point. The first shipment that hit UK stores has been ... [read more >>] | | 16 November 2007, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| India's Odd Drug |  | Radio advertising encourages people to use it. On TV, magazines and newspapers, cinema stars present it as a product that makes you live an exciting and honorable life. Only an announcement written with small letters warn the consumers that its use affects their health. It's about a substance that produces dependency.
Paan is consumed in Southern Asia, especially in India and Myanmar. Its traditional formula consists in ... [read more >>] | | 09 November 2007, 15:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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