Social networking isn’t confined to the fully-abled community anymore — the sites have opened up new avenues to connect the hearing impaired and deaf communities. Rajesh Ketkar, a 32-year-old hearing impaired person, who heads a Vadodara-based NGO, Mook Badhir Mandal (MBM), has found a solution to problems faced by the hearing impaired in RockeTalk — [...]
As the rest of the world raves about 10-inch tablet PCs from Samsung and Apple, Indian vendors seem to be betting on cheaper 7-inch tablet PCs to lure buyers. But these tablet PCs have begun to crowd retail shelves, with a new model being launched every month. The most distinguishing feature of these low-cost tablet [...]
Sony’s new tablet computers failed to excite gadget reviewers and analysts who criticised the pricing and quality of the devices, underscoring the battle Sony faces regaining its consumer electronics crown. Sony Corp is already late to the game with its first tablet, which hits stores this month, more than a year and a half after [...]
World Economic Forum includes three Indian companies in global list of 25 ‘Technology Pioneers’. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has nominated three Indian companies –Attero Recycling (Noida), First Energy (Pune), and FINO (Mumbai) — as ‘Technological Pioneers’, also termed by WEF as “visionary companies in the fields of information technology and new media, energy/environment and [...]
Sony’s new tablet computers failed to excite gadget reviewers and analysts who criticised the pricing and quality of the devices, underscoring the battle Sony faces regaining its consumer electronics crown. Sony Corp is already late to the game with its first tablet, which hits stores this month, more than a year and a half after [...]
US computer giant IBM said Wednesday it is buying i2, a British firm that makes software for crime and fraud prevention. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Cambridge, England-based i2 has 350 employees and more than 4,500 customers in 150 countries in sectors such as banking, defense, health care, insurance, law enforcement, [...]
Orly (France): An airport in France is experimenting with ‘virtual’ boarding agents in a bid to jazz up its terminals with 21st century avatars who always smile, don’t need breaks and never go on strike. The pilot project at Paris’ Orly airport began last month, and has so far been met with a mix of [...]
New Delhi: His clarion call made thousands take to the national capital’s streets, defying the inclement weather for the past few days, but Anna Hazare’s eulogies on the worldwide web are anything but unchallenged. Aminiscule section of netizens is voicing opinions against the stir on grounds ranging from subversion of democratic institutions to plain blackmail. [...]
Given the tonnes of sewage and filth that have accumulated in the Ganga over the years, this may seem to be a drop in the ocean. Nevertheless, technology major IBM India is working with IIT-Kharagpur to develop data models that can help predict floods, the movement of water tables, the shifting of water beds, floods [...]
Smartphones have gotten smarter. Get to know the processors on which they function before buying yours. Ramesh Vyas is having a tough time selecting a smartphone. Just when he thought all smartphones were equal, the iPhone being the only exception, he realised that some processors had more power (a 1GHz processor is faster than a [...]