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| Google Can Sleep Tight |  | Indians' preferences when it comes to navigating on certain websites are definitely inclined towards Google. The company's websites were the most popular in India in May 2008, as a comScore report shows. With almost 20 million visitors, Google manages to overpass Yahoo!, which was first in the Indian rankings in the same month of 2007.
While Google scored a 35% growth in the number of unique users, its rival, Yahoo! ... [read more >>] | | 23 July 2008, 11:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| India Gets the Sony Ericsson W350i |  | Sony Ericsson W350i, one of the newest Walkman handsets, was officially released today in India, the world's second largest mobile market.
[admark=1]Coming in a stylish semi-flip case, the W350i is a device that combines the ease of use with a set ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 16:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spice S-707n M-Commerce Phone Announced for India |  | Spice Mobile, the handset division of Spice Communications Limited, has recently announced the upcoming Indian release of a new m-commerce mobile phone named Spice S-707n.
Spice S-707n is a candybar that comes with a simple design, hence it& ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 08:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BlackBerry Curve 8330 Released in India |  | After releasing the BlackBerry Curve 8330 in Mexico, via Iusacell, Research in Motion has announced the availability of the new smartphone for the Indian market too. The Curve 8330 is offered in India together with Reliance Communications, in its World Edition. This means it can oper ... [read more >>] | | 11 July 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Data Security Talks Spurred in India after BlackBerry Scandal |  | The Indian authorities are very concerned about the fact that e-mail messages sent through BlackBerry devices cannot be intercepted and the encryption cannot be broken. Why would the Indian Government want access to such private information? It seems that this method of communication was recently used by militants and the government is worried it could happen again. All this talk about data encryption and privacy has brought the issue of ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 09:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung i780 Now in India |  | Samsung announced the release of its i780 smartphone (also known as SGH-i780) for the Indian market, in a partnership with The MobileStore, one of India's largest chains of mobile retail stores.
[admark=1]Running on Windows Mobile 6.0, Samsung i780 is a business-oriented ha ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 07:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virgin Mobile India Released the vBling Clamshell |  | Virgin Mobile has announced the availability of a new affordable (but at the same time fashionable) mobile phone named vBling. This is a clamshell that features a mirror finish and it's the second basic phone to be released by Virgin in India in the last two weeks, after the vTrendy ... [read more >>] | | 08 July 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Ericsson C902 Now in India |  | Shortly after the release of Nokia's E71 and E66 smartphones, India gets another cool mobile phone: Sony Ericsson C902. This is the latest-released Cyber-shot handset and it's one of the slimmest 5 Megapixel mobile phones on the market.
[admark=1]The C902 is part of ... [read more >>] | | 08 July 2008, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia E71 and E66 Available in India |  | Nokia has announced the availability of its latest Eseries smartphones, the E71 and E66, for the Indian mobile market (the second largest in the world in terms of subscribers). The new handsets were officially unveiled by Nokia on June 16, when the Finnish company presented them as "email-optimized devices."
Coming to succeed the E61i and E65 models, the new E71 and E66 smarpthones bring a set of common features (in ... [read more >>] | | 07 July 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New PS2 Model Hits Europe and India |  | If you remember well, we brought you a while ago the news regarding the release of a new PlayStation 2 model in Japan (a really nice red one, too) - and it was not at all a big surprise to find out that Sony does something "Japan only". It seems that we were wr ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia 6220 Classic Hits India |  | Nokia has chosen India as one of the first markets to get its 6220 Classic candybar released, a nicely-featured device announced by the Finnish company back in February, during MWC 2008. We don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that Nokia has been recently recognized as India's ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 12:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Porsche P9521 Released in India |  | Porsche P9521, the first mobile phone to bear the Porsche name and logo, is now available across India, being targeted at users in need of more-than-ordinary handsets. The P9521 falls into the luxury category, due to the exclusive materials that it's built from: mineral glass and aluminum.
Already available across Europe since the end of last year, Porsche P9521 was created by the Porsche Design Group in collabor ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Fashionable Asus P320 Goes to India |  | Asus, the Taiwanese electronics producer, has announced the future availability of Asus P320 for the Indian mobile market. The P320 is part of Asus' 2008 line-up of Pocket PCs and comes to India after another two handsets, the M930 and the exquisite ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Indian Moble Users Can Now Pre-Register for the iPhone 3G |  | Apple's new iPhone 3G, presented by Steve Jobs on the 9th of June, will be available in India too, besides the other 70 global markets where it's planned to be released. Unfortunately, India won't be among the first 23 countries that will get the iPhone 3G on July 11, thus Indian users will probably have to wait until August or maybe even September in order to be able to buy Apple's new handset.
Two of ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 06:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spice Releases New Affordable Dual-SIM PDA |  | Spice, the Indian telecoms company that recently presented a Braille phone, has released a new Windows Mobile handset, named Spice D-1100, which will most probably be available only in India. The new device is presented as "India's first dual-SIM PDA", thus it come ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2008, 05:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Affordable vTrendy Released by Virgin Mobile |  | Virgin Mobile has just released a new mobile phone in India, the vTrendy, which comes as the sixth handset from the company's Indian line-up of products. The new vTrendy is an affordable candybar that costs only 1,499 INR (about $35 or 23 Euros).
It's very likely that the new phone is manufactured by ... [read more >>] | | 23 June 2008, 10:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Beats Colgate and Becomes India's Most Trusted Brand |  | Nokia announced a few hours ago, on its official website, that it had been named the "Most Trusted Brand in India" by The Economic Times, the famous Indian financial daily publication. This new "title" that Nokia has got comes after a survey undertaken by The Economic Times' Brand Equity, which involved more than 8,000 people of all ages, all social classes and from all around India.
The number one p ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Spice Braille Phone Coming This Summer |  | Spice Telecom, an India-based company, announced that it would introduce, in the next two months, an affordable Braille mobile phone for all the users that are visually impaired. The announcement came during the release of Spice's "People Phone", sold for only 599 INR and presented by the company as the cheapest mobile phone in India. Well, 599 INR means about 14 USD or 9 Euros, so the People Phone might also be th ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus M930 Released in India |  | Asus M930, one of the new smartphones from Asus' 2008 line-up, was recently released in India, offering mobile users a wide set of business and multimedia features in a device that wants to compete with Nokia's E90 communicator.
Although it has the same form factor as Nokia E90, Asus M930 is a bit smaller and lighter than Nokia's communicator, weighing 158 grams and measuring 113 x 54 x 18.7 millimeters (as o ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 11:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia N78 Released in India |  | Nokia N78, the latest Nseries handset launched by Nokia, is now available across India, bringing users lots of high-end features, specific to any Nseries phone produced by the Finnish company up to now.
Successor of the N77 model, which is still being sold, of co ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ericsson Launches Mobile Health Services in India |  | Ericsson has just announced that it will soon provide mobile health services across India, as a result of the collaboration with ATNF (the Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation), which is a member of Apollo Hospitals Group.
Grouped under the term of telemedicine, the fu ... [read more >>] | | 05 June 2008, 11:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xenitis Mobile Phones for Only $12 |  | Xenitis Group, an Indian company that produces electronics and motorcycles, announced the release of a new mobile phone that will have a retail price of 499 Indian rupees (INR or Rs.), meaning only 12 USD or 7.5 Euros. Besides this ultra-cheap handset, the company also said it wanted to introduce other 4 mobile devices that would have prices between 500 and 2000 INR.
Although on Xenitis' ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung U900 Soul Hits India |  | The Indian division of Samsung Mobile has released the U900 Soul phone, one of the high-end devices prepared by Samsung to conquer the global mobile market in 2008. Already available in several countries across Europe, the U900 is a slim and very good-looking slider that als ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia 2600 Classic and Nokia 1209 Available in India |  | Indian mobile users now have more choices when it comes to affordable phones, as Nokia just released the 2600 Classic and 1209 devices in India.
First announced in January, the handsets were, from the beginning, targeted for emerging Asian markets. Neither of the two phones off ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 11:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HTC Touch Diamond the Indian Way |  | HTC Touch Diamond, one of the hottest full-touchscreen handsets to be launched this year, will soon be released in India, via Airtel, the largest mobile operator in the country.
Officially presented to the world on the 6th of May, in London, HTC Touch Diamond is a stylish smartphone that combines an exclusive design and advanced features with the latest 3D ... [read more >>] | | 23 May 2008, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Video Portal Grows Up, Reaches New Countries |  | AOL has always been a company focused on the evolution of its products, so new regional versions of its services are announced every once in a while. Today, the New York-based company has announced the availability of three new regional versions of AOL Video, namely the Canadian, Indian and Taiwanese video portals. Moreover, the company plans to debut three more portals in UK, France and Germany later this year.
"As the ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Dies Slowly in India |  | We all know that Asian countries don't really dig the Xbox 360 because of various reasons and it seems that is going to continue, no matter what Microsoft does. However, the fact that the company is also having problems in India comes as a surprise for us - a surpr ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sagem Bleu 453x Announced for India |  | Sagem recently announced the future release of Sagem Bleu 453x, a new affordable handset for the Indian mobile market. The 453x comes after another Sagem from the Bleu series was launched in India, namely the 454x model, a device that came out in November 2007, via Pratham[A ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 11:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Guru200 Announced for India |  | The mobile division of Samsung India launched yet another affordable phone for the Indian market, the Samsung Guru200 (or Samsung Guru 200), a device that comes after the Guru100, which was released at the end of February. The new Guru200 is a bit more advanced in features than the first one and it also has a more attractive design (although it comes in the same classic candybar form factor). Speaking of design, the Guru200 seems ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 |
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