New Delhi: Indian companies are expected to continue investing in IT infrastructure despite global economic challenges and the country's IT spending is projected to grow 9.1 per cent to USD 79.8 billion in 2012, according to research firm Gartner. This is against an IT spending of USD 73.1 billion in 2011, it added. "Businesses are increasingly looking to IT to help support the challenges of enhancing customer support, supply chain...
06:35:13 PM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Tolmol.com, online product comparison firm in a joint venture with Malaysian digital Islamic products maker ENMAC Engineering, Monday launched GSM mobile handset MQ3500 also called 'Quran mobile' to cater to the Muslim community in the Indian market. Priced at Rs 3,950, the dual SIM phone has in-built features like complete Quran recitation in voices of world's top seven recitors, auto silent mode during prayer times, Quran translation in...
04:17:33 PM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Corporate espionage has been made easy by social networking websites as a well-devised strategy can result in the leak of valuable business secrets by employees and ex-employees, according to a study by Cyberoam, the security vertical of IT company Elitecore Technology. "You just need to get into the social network of the company, worse still, you just need to be an Internet search expert to get information that...
04:04:08 PM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: Handset maker Motorola is back with the new version of its best-selling smartphone 'Razr', which is sleeker and more powerful than the earlier models. The latest version of the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) device is equipped with a 4.3-inch super AMOLED display, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass screen, 1 GB RAM and a dual-core 1.2GHz processor. It also has a front-facing 720p HD video camera and 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. The...
03:45:36 PM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: A first year engineering student, Sareddy Chiman Prakash and another teen, Nikhil now have an Android 2.3 powered tablet to their credit. On Saturday, amidst much fanfare, Andhra Pradesh Information Technology and Communications Minister, Ponnala Lakshmaiah launched the 'high-end' Ave tablet at Hyderabad, which is being offered for Rs 12,999, confirms a Hindu Business Line report. The Ave tablet will be manufactured by a U.K.- based company, Sareddy...
11:47:19 AM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: It seems like Facebook has decided to surprise its users at intervals. After launching the 'Subscribe' button and 'Smart Lists', followed by changes to 'News Feed', Facebook has now announced an update to photos uploader that makes it faster and easier to share photos on Facebook. Now, when photos are uploaded to an album, users can see each photo as it uploads and watch the upload progress in...
10:50:37 AM Nov 21, 2011
Bangalore: Canada-based smartphone maker Research In Motion will provide free aptitude test application on its BlackBerry phones for students in India in partnership with content providers Ipomo and mobile operator Vodafone. "We are looking at the way a student can utilise his time for productive work on mobile phones. Hence, we have decided to give students Aptitude Competition for Excellence (ACE) applications free so that he can utilise his time...
10:19:22 AM Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: India's federal police on Saturday conducted searches at Vodafone's Indian unit and Bharti Airtel's offices seeking details on spectrum allocation by the government to operators between 2001-02. The searches were in regard to possible irregularities in allotting spectrum during the previous government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), now in opposition, Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) spokeswoman, Dharini Mishra told Reuters. "All our documents are in complete...
10:04:40 AM Nov 21, 2011
Milagrow thanks IBN live for the technical review of the world's only TabTop, which has been designed to replace a computer and other tablets. We thank the fact that the journalist recognises this in the following words " something that increases the utility of the device. And that is the number of additional hardware features on the right side of the device. It has an HDMI port, USB 2.0 interface,...
09:49:17 AM Nov 21, 2011
New York: Facebook has reportedly admitted tracking which sites its users visit even after they log off, thanks to plug-ins and cookies. Facebook, which has more than 800 million active users, also keeps close track of where millions of non-members of the social networking site go on the web, even after they visit a webpage for any reason only once, the 'USA Today' reported. To do this, the company relies...
03:10:11 PM Nov 20, 2011
Dubai: Seeking to capitalise on the increasing fascination for smartphones, a young Sharjah-based Indian poet has come up with a mobile application containing poems from his collection and detailing his work. Mystic writer Mujeeb Jaihoon's mobile application, iJaihoon, dubbed as the 'App for the eye within,' was launched at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2011 by American poet and songwriter Michael Rothenberg. He expressed hope that such endeavours will pave...
02:53:10 PM Nov 20, 2011
Moscow: The co-founder of Google, Sergei Brin, has donated $500,000 to Wikipedia's foundation, Wikimedia, the foundation said on its web site Saturday. Brin granted $500,000 from The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, the charity fund run by him and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, reported RIA Novosti. The money however will not cover all Wikipedia's annual budget of $28.3 million. This week Wikipedia started its annual fund-rising campaign that is due to last...
01:24:02 PM Nov 20, 2011
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI is likely to come out with its final recommendations on blocking lost and stolen mobiles by December to provide relief to people who fear the misuse of stored data and personal information in such events. The initiative is a part of the regulator's efforts to crack down on the illegal handset market and discourage the rampant theft of handsets, a senior TRAI official said. "......
11:22:00 AM Nov 20, 2011