Toronto: It took seven months, but Research In Motion has finally delivered on a promise made by co-founder Mike Lazaridis. Angry Birds is available on RIM's PlayBook tablet. The widely popular game, where birds destroy the pigs who stole their eggs with the help of a slingshot, has long been available on Apple and Android-based devices. But its absence had become symbol of the relative dearth of consumer-friendly applications available...
06:48:55 PM Dec 22, 2011
Budapest: A Hungarian software company unveiled what it said was the world's first bronze statue of Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs Wednesday, calling him one of the greatest personalities of the modern age. Jobs died on October 5 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. The bronze work by sculptor Erno Toth stands in the Budapest campus of architectural software maker Graphisoft. "He was one of the greatest (personalities)...
06:44:31 PM Dec 22, 2011
Vatican City: The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content. "This domain is not available because it has been acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican radio. It was not clear from his statement if the Vatican had tried to acquire the...
05:19:32 PM Dec 22, 2011
New York: Don't throw your wallet away yet. Many big-name retailers from Gap to Toys R Us are partnering with banks, payment processors and Google to let shoppers tap their mobile phones instead of swiping their credit cards to pay for goods. But the new mode of payment is not expected to take off in earnest for at least another couple of years. A KPMG study released on Wednesday found...
05:16:00 PM Dec 22, 2011
Helsinki: Some versions of Nokia's Lumia 800, the first flagship smartphone from the Finnish company using Microsoft Corp's Windows Phone operating system, have a software glitch that drains the batteries. "We can now confirm that, while the battery in the devices is fine, in some variants a software problem is preventing the phone from accessing the full battery capacity," a company spokesman said. He said the problem will be fixed...
03:34:14 PM Dec 21, 2011
Washington: A US trade panel judge found Motorola Mobility infringed a Microsoft patent in making its Android cellphones, the companies said on Tuesday. The patented technology makes it possible for users to schedule meetings using mobile devices. However, the US International Trade Commission judge found there was no violation of six other patents that remained in the dispute. In a complaint filed in October 2010 with the ITC, Microsoft accused...
03:30:57 PM Dec 21, 2011
Washington: An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR). "Nehru Place is reportedly one of the many markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods," said the report...
03:00:45 PM Dec 21, 2011
Taoyuan, Taiwan: HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC's chief executive voiced optimism over the company's ability to meet challenging market conditions. Speaking to media at the company's Taiwan headquarters on Wednesday alongside Google Inc's senior vice president of mobile, Andy Rubin, CEO Peter Chou said that the company would be working with...
02:28:56 PM Dec 21, 2011
Shanghai: Authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion over the weekend that injured dozens of people at the Shanghai factory of a supplier to Apple Inc. The government formed an investigation group and ordered safety checks at the Riteng Computer Accessory Co. factory, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple supplier Pegatron Corp., said Gan Shanjun, an official in the information office in Shanghai's Songjiang district. Critics have taken Cupertino,...
01:55:30 PM Dec 21, 2011
New York: Rebecca Black's infamous Friday video has topped all other YouTube videos of 2011 with 180 million views. The Google Inc. video-sharing site announced its most-viewed clips of the year Tuesday. The 14-year-old Black was turned into a viral video celebrity after her parents paid a production company to make the music video for her. Friday became an unlikely, off-key global hit. Because of a legal dispute with Ark...
01:32:21 PM Dec 21, 2011
San Francisco: Yahoo is deepening its connections with Facebook's online social network. The latest bond announced late Tuesday will enable Facebook users to share more of their activities on Yahoo's websites, including which stories they are reading. Yahoo Inc. introduced the Facebook-sharing option in its main new section three months ago. The same feature will now be available in 26 other parts of Yahoo's site, including its "omg" service for...
01:00:37 PM Dec 21, 2011
New York: Starting this week and continuing into 2012, virtually all Michael Chabon novels, stories and other writings will become available as e-books; news the author looks upon with pleasure and resignation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Chabon has been a published author since 1988, long enough to land on both sides of the legal and financial digital divide. Chabon controls e-rights...
11:42:11 PM Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Electronic chip maker Intel is betting big on evolution of new form factor of computer notebook, UltraBook, and expects it to replace laptops by 2013. "Our focus for next few years is going to be on energy efficiency, security and connectivity. Ultrabook as category was launched this year. This will change face of computing in next two to three years," Intel South Asia's Director of Marketing Sandeep Aurora...
07:07:33 PM Dec 20, 2011
Kolkata: India has done a great job of developing the IT services business, but it has failed in world class product development for the software industry, says Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail.com. "While India has done a great job of developing the services business, in reality we have completely failed in product development. There is no product that is developed in India for the world market. And that is...
03:54:49 PM Dec 20, 2011