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Google Maps isn't exactly Google's most controversial product. It's taken a lot of heat over Google Books, Street View and others. In some parts of the world though the mapping service is causing quite an outrage at an international level and Google is forced to maintain its impartial stance while also... |
23 October 2009
06:22 GMT |
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Taiwan-based mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has announced recently that its new HTC Touch2 handset, powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, has just been launched in India on Reliance Communication’s GSM network. The new handset can deliver a full touch experience to any mobile phon... |
15 October 2009
10:00 GMT |
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Social networks haven't exactly lost their image as teen hangouts but these days teenagers are hardly the dominant population on any social network including Facebook or MySpace. And there isn't a greater example of how social networks are going mainstream than LinkedIn, a social network dedicated to profes... |
15 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Twitter really took off as a web service and many of today's users started with the website and moved on to desktop or mobile clients. But, when it started out, text messaging was an integral part of the service and the reason why the 140 character limit is in place (text messages are limited to 160 characters).... |
15 October 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Telecommunications infrastructure vendor Nokia Siemens Networks announced on Monday that it has won a deal with Unitech Wireless’ to supply the company's GSM network for operations in six areas in India, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. The company wi... |
13 October 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Research In Motion's CDMA based Blackberry Tour smartphone will soon become available for purchase in India, announced Reliance Mobile, the carrier that will have the handset on its airwaves. The new device is the latest addition to a lineup that already includes the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130,... |
7 October 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Google manages to attract the biggest audience all over the world and its collection of sites leads in many of the sectors it operates in. Overall, Google has the most visitors and enjoys most of the time spent online. Still, while Google's dominance in places like the US and Europe may seem disconcerting, there... |
15 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced on Tuesday that its third Android-based mobile phone, the HTC Hero, was launched in India. The handset, as many of you might already know, is considered the most appealing Android phone to date, and sports a sleek design complemented by the HTC Sense, an experien... |
9 September 2009
03:54 GMT |
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The Indian space agency has announced that it terminated its Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon on Saturday, 14 months ahead of schedule. Launched last October, the orbiter had been revolving around Earth's natural satellite at an altitude of about 200 kilometers (124 miles), then it began to show signs of errors... |
31 August 2009
05:55 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced recently that two of its new smartphones were introduced on the mobile phone market in India, namely the Samsung Omnia HD i8910 and the Samsung Omnia PRO B7320. The two high-end Omnia handsets will soon become available for purchase in the country, most probably withi... |
13 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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In the first-of-its-kind assessment, conducted on a swath of land spanning regions in Pakistan, India and neighboring Bangladesh, it was revealed that the continent is losing groundwater reserves at an alarming rate. Specialists say that the 54 cubic kilometers of groundwater lost annually mostly goes into irrigation... |
11 August 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Giving birth to twins is a relatively rare phenomenon, in that it does not occur in half of the births around the globe or more. And when many twin births happen in the same, small village in a certain country, India, to be precise, researchers start wondering as to what the causes for this might be. According to a n... |
6 August 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Telecom service provider Airtel and Research in Motion announced on Tuesday the launch of the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone in India. The new mobile phone adds to the already available BlackBerry Curve series of handsets, delivering capabilities like email, messaging, social networking connectivity, music and ... |
5 August 2009
09:26 GMT |
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More than 4,000 objects bearing the symbols characteristic to the Indus Valley Civilization have been discovered in the past century, a wealth of information that should, at least in theory, mean that archaeologists know everything there is to know about the time. However, that is not the case. Since the earliest sym... |
4 August 2009
13:31 GMT |
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In a study released by PHPClasses, the number of PHP developers originating from India has been steadily growing in the last tree years, and the website is anticipating that it will dethrone the United States as the main provider of PHP development workforce around the Globe. Since industry giants like Facebook, Yah... |
30 July 2009
04:09 GMT |
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India's central bank, called the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has released new mandatory guidelines for the way online credit card transactions are processed, requiring the implementation of an additional verification system based on cardholder details not available on the card itself. The Internet & Mobile Asso... |
17 July 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Indian mobile phone maker Spice Mobiles announced today the release of Spice C-5300, a new CDMA device. The handset is reportedly coming to the market with enhanced usability and with a wide range of entertainment features, and is able to prove itself as one of the best options on the open market CDMA segment. The de... |
13 July 2009
10:03 GMT |
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Nokia N97, the high-end smartphone from the Finnish mobile phone maker, has reached the Indian market too. The device comes to the country on the airwaves of wireless carrier Vodafone, and seems to be on a mission to fulfill the needs of any mobile Internet enthusiast in the country. In addition, the handset also com... |
6 July 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Security researchers from web security vendor Finjan report that the website of India's Institute of Remote Sensing has been compromised by hackers. An injected IFrame loads exploits from the LuckySploit attack toolkit against visitors. "Last week, we detected that another website from the Government of India &... |
30 June 2009
06:23 GMT |
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HTC Corporation and Bharti Airtel announced recently that the second mobile phone in the world to run under Google's Android operating system, the HTC Magic, was launched in India. The HTC Magic is the first Android-powered handset to become available for purchase in India, the two companies added. The availabil... |
24 June 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that the Nokia Life Tools service has been launched commercially in India, after a successful pilot Maharashtra. According to the company, the service will become available in this state at first, in association with the Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Boa... |
12 June 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Despite the fact that leprosy only affected Europe after 1,000 AD, albeit with devastating consequences, archaeological pieces of evidence now seem to suggest that the disease is actually at least 4,000 years old. Remains of a victim were found in India, a discovery that could provide experts with more insight into t... |
27 May 2009
05:53 GMT |
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At the moment, the big hardware and software creators active on the videogames market are focusing their efforts in territories like North America, Europe and Japan, trying to sell as many consoles and games as possible to those who have a culture of playing videogames for more than 20 years.But, demographically spea... |
16 April 2009
02:56 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, mobile phone operators in India have announced recently that all mobile phones in the country that do not have a unique IMEI serial number, or which make use of Chinese style blank IMEIs will be aggressively disconnected in about ten days. The measure was ordered by the countr... |
6 April 2009
09:38 GMT |
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According to the latest news on the Web, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is preparing the launch of its Comes With Music online portal on a new market, namely India. As many of you might already know, the company already launched the service in a few markets around the world, including UK and Singapore, and it is al... |
10 March 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Very poor areas of the world, as well as conflict zones, make for regions that usually teachers avoid, either because they fear for their lives, or because they know that they will never get paid for what they do. The bottom line is that the children in those places need education just like any other kids in the worl... |
5 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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China announced on Thursday that its efforts of combating global warming and climate change would not be weakened by the global financial crisis, and that the country would respect its promise of employing measures that were bound to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and methane the Asian nations pumped into the at... |
19 February 2009
05:16 GMT |
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A village in rural India has been home to something that seems to be taken directly from the story books, namely the wedding of a two year-old infant to a dog, so as to avoid possible attacks from tigers and other such beasts. The ritual is not recognized in the country, but many in the poorest regions still practice... |
18 February 2009
10:16 GMT |
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Local media in India is reporting that the Ministry of External Affairs is dealing with a security incident on its computer network, after a number of computers have been found to be compromised with spyware. The malicious software has been sending copies of internal e-mail messages to a rogue address. The MEA netwo... |
17 February 2009
05:28 GMT |
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A group of self-defined “pub-going, loose and forward women” from India, tired of being discriminated against by members of the Sri Ram Sena, a Hindu militant group, decided to finally end their tyranny and to send them thousands of pink knickers for Valentine's Day. In addition to dispatching the un... |
16 February 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Despite initial beliefs, it looks like the $10 laptop recently unveiled in India isn’t actually a laptop after all, but rather a handheld device that will allow its users to connect to the Internet and access educational resources. Moreover, it seems that the touted price point of $10 has also been somewhat far... |
5 February 2009
02:38 GMT |
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As expected, India’s $20 laptop was officially unveiled yesterday, despite ongoing worries that the device won’t become available at that price point. Officials responsible for what is now known as the “Sakshat” laptop have declared that this portable system will be priced at $10. Availability... |
4 February 2009
02:30 GMT |
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Back in mid-2008, the media was ablaze at the news that somewhere in India people were developing a portable computer system designed for educational purposes, which would carry out a price tag of only $10. The project was immediately put under scrutiny, especially given the astonishing low price of said laptop. Howe... |
30 January 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Using a radar instrument aboard the Indian lunar space probe Chandrayaan-1, the American space agency managed to get its first glimpses at what's inside the Moon's polar craters, which are not visible from Earth, and remain shadowed all of the time. The mini-SAR synthetic radar sent back its first transmiss... |
19 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Research In Motion (RIM) announced the introduction of its new BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone on the Indian market. The phone was launched in India together with Airtel, Reliance Communications and Vodafone. The company expects the handset to enjoy the same attention from users as the previously rele... |
16 January 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Approximately 15,000 people in India protested on Tuesday against the expansion of protected areas, inhabited by the endangered Indian tigers. Despite governmental insurances that existing homes will not be destroyed or moved, people still went out and protested, even if this type of tigers can only be found there, a... |
30 December 2008
10:58 GMT |
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The highly popular Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot phone is reported to have finally made it to the Indian market. The dual-front slider, a pioneer from Sony Ericsson, comes with an 8.1-megapixel camera and is said to be able to open a new perspective on the way you can click pictures from a mobile phone. The device f... |
30 December 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Because in recent years worldwide carbonated drinks have decreased, the Coca Cola franchise has moved a large part of its activities in the bottling of tap water sector. The “Dasani” brand is owned by the company, which has managed to keep up its international sales at very high levels, among other produc... |
23 December 2008
04:00 GMT |
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The very name of the first lunar vehicle built by the Indians, Chandrayaan-1, says a lot about their hopes and efforts for the future. This is a statement that the probe is just the first in a series of similar bold attempts, which will place India among the largely-developed super-powers of the world who have their ... |
15 December 2008
03:41 GMT |
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Rajo Devi, a 70 year-old Indian woman, gave birth to a perfectly healthy girl on November 28th, the doctor in charge of the procedure announced on Friday. The birth was successful after years of tries failed the couple. In-vitro fertilization was used to produce a viable embryo that was to have any chance of survival... |
8 December 2008
08:21 GMT |
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India is definitely one of the Asian nations which have the potential of a remarkable growth in a lot of fields. One of them is the gaming market, as small developers are appearing everywhere in the country and are producing some very interesting titles, which, sadly, are available only on the local market, as most o... |
2 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Early reports suggest that Challa Krishnamurthy, an Indian organic farmer, started growing his crops on a 20-acre surface, in an attempt to set an example of sustainable agriculture to the entire region. Supposedly, he was shot by a garbage truck driver who was illegally dumping residual waste on the farmer's pr... |
14 November 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Weather experts and climatologists in India warn the central government that authorities should take immediate steps to secure the country's food and water supplies, as the rise in temperature that will affect the nation is unprecedented. Due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, India will soon join China in b... |
11 November 2008
03:14 GMT |
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A state-run Indian company has announced its intentions of using waste water byproducts, coming from the hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) production industry, to bottle and sell pure water, in an attempt to address the ever-increasing difficulties that the country faces in supplying its population with enough water.Currently... |
3 November 2008
07:52 GMT |
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We reported a few days ago that the Indian branch of major software and gaming corporation, Microsoft, announced that it wouldn't be releasing the Xbox 360 version of the upcoming RPG (Role Playing Game), Fallout 3. This decision, coupled with the fact that the PC and the PlayStation 3 versions of the game aren&... |
26 October 2008
23:34 GMT |
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India is now on the list of countries to see the new line of MacBooks from Apple, Tech Gadget reports. The new notebooks have had a great start in the States, so we expect to hear nothing but the best of Apple's “unibody” laptops in this territory as well.The new MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro both ... |
24 October 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Fallout 3 is going to be a very popular title – with the massive community of Fallout fans eagerly anticipating it – bound to have some big sales. The upcoming action RPG (Role Playing Game) will have its action set about 200 years after the one from the second title in the series, in and around a bombed ... |
23 October 2008
03:14 GMT |
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The most common sight in India, the wooden rickshaw, pulled by people for a fee, could soon be replaced by modern, electric counterparts, as part of India's effort to reduce the heavy pollution it is facing, as well as its dependency on fossil fuels. New Delhi has hosted this month the exhibit of the first solar... |
14 October 2008
06:56 GMT |
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On Wednesday, October, Samsung Mobile launched in Bangalore India its first 8 megapixel camera phone, the Samsung Innov8. At the same event, the company also announced plans to bring more high-end phones to India, and to introduce another nine mobile phone models this year.Samsung's Mobile Country Head, Sunil Du... |
2 October 2008
05:17 GMT |
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India's largest mobile carrier, Bharti Airtel, has recently announced the release of a new Windows Mobile Pocket PC: i-mate Jama 101. Not quite a great looker, i-mate Jama 101 runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional, and is targeted at business users. The features of i-Mate Jama 101 include a 2.4-inch... |
29 September 2008
11:02 GMT |
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