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Financial Times allegedly hacked by Syrians

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:37:49 -0400

Britain's Financial Times was hacked last week by a mysterious group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. The newspaper's technology blog was hacked to display a slogan saying: "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." Several Twitter feeds run by the Financial Times were also plastered with similar slogans. The FT later said its blogs and social media accounts had been compromised ...

Hackers target important Saudi websites

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:36:20 -0400

The Saudi Arabia state news agency has reported a coordinated attack on the country's government websites. Several government websites in Saudi Arabia came under heavy cyber attacks last week, shutting them down for a short time. The attacks have been traced to IP addresses from a number of countries. Saudi investigators found the attacks had been launched from hundreds of Internet ...

Broadband tablets apps and iPlayer add to the BBC’s online appeal

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:49 -0400

The BBC Trust's report (PDF) was published today and followed up on early summaries in 2008 and 2010. This is the first time that the online services have been reviewed together. Overall the appraisal was that the BBC is a popular source for news and telly, but could be easier to navigate. The BBC has a target to reach 65 percent of the UK online population by 2014. It is on its way, but so ...

Nokias Lumia 925 is more expensive than the Samsung Galaxy S4

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:44:48 -0400

. In comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S4 can now be picked up from £552.00 SIM-free, while Apple's cheapest iPhone 5 is priced at £529.00. The website is also selling the handset on two year pay monthly contracts with T-Mobile and Vodafone, with the cheapest tariff priced at £37 a month. This will get buyers a free Nokia Lumia 925 handset, 600 minutes, unlimited texts and ...

A brilliant trip back to the technological future

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:52 -0400

Lem concluded we should abandon analysis for creative activity (Image: Aleksander Jalosinski/Forum/Reuters/Corbis) WHEN Germany occupied Poland during the second world war, a young Pole was scratching a living under false papers as a car mechanic. The man, Stanislaw Lem, who was to become one of world's most famous science fiction writers, used to "mend" German vehicles so they ...

Yahoos blog finds new home at Tumblr

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:21 -0400

Along with its billion-dollar intent to purchase Tumblr, Yahoo finds a new home for official blog -- and tries to drive home the message that all will be ...

LG to demo bendable unbreakable smartphone screen

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:15 -0400

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) LG Display is preparing to demonstrate a new, flexible smartphone panel that promises to be unbreakable. The new screen is set to pop up at the Society for Information Display's annual ...

Acer accidentally outs the first 8in Windows 8 tablet

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:30 -0400

longstanding brothers, the Iconia W8 and the Iconia W7 tablets, the Iconia W3 is featured on the product webpages at www.acer.fi despite never having been previously announced or launched. Upon asking an Acer representative what was going on, we were told the firm "does not comment on products that have not been launched", and it seems that it doesn't comment on products that ...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt will meet with David Cameron

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:30 -0400

and Google chairman Eric Schmidt is set to meet with British prime minister David Cameron, just as Google is embroiled in another UK tax avoidance row. Ever since Schmidt gave up his CEO post at Google to become chairman, he has been busy meeting politicians on Google's behalf. His latest stint of glad-handing will occur this week ...

Intel sees GPU shipments drop while AMD and Nvidia see gains

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:29 -0400

Intel saw its GPU shipments fall while AMD's remained flat overall and Nvidia posted an increase despite falling PC shipments. As Intel's reliance on the PC industry has been revealed with falling PC sales, the firm's GPU chip sales have also declined. According to analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, Intel's GPU shipment figures are down 5.3 percent from last year, while ...

Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1-billion vows won’t ‘screw it up’

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:21 -0400

This Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated ...

Tumblrs David Karp Home-schooled Yahoo billion-dollar visionary

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:34:06 -0400

Facebook and Twitter. Karp told the paper such things "really poison a whole community".The son of a composer and a teacher who separated when he was 17, Karp grew up on Manhattan's upper west side. He was building websites for businesses by the age of 11, and his interest in computing was sparked by the work of animation house Frederator Studios. Homeschooled from the age of 15, ...

40 years ago Ethernets fathers were the startup kids

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:31:00 -0400

IDG News Service - Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today. "Beards, Birkenstocks, blue jeans, T-shirts," Metcalfe said earlier this month, recalling how he and his colleagues looked and dressed when they went to work at the cluster of modern, low-slung ...

Chesapeake Taps Anadarko Exec as New CEO

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:52 -0400

Anadarko Petroleum as chief executive, filling the post vacated by co-founder Aubrey McClendon.Lawler, who is senior vice president of international and deep-water operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake on June 17, the company said.McClendon's departure on April 1 came after a tumultuous year in which a series of Reuters investigations led to civil and criminal probes of the ...

Why Yahoo bought Tumblr and what it needs to do

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:27:25 -0400

NEW YORK: Yahoo! geared up for a major announcement Monday said to be a $1.1 billion deal to take over popular blogging platform Tumblr, a move that could bring a younger, hipper audience to the struggling Internet pioneer. The deal, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, if confirmed would be the largest for Yahoo! ...

Look who topped in PC sales in India

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:27:24 -0400

India PC shipments rose by 7.5 per cent to 2.71 million units in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the previous quarter, research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said. The branded desktops witnessed execution of a few large deals, primarily in BFSI, IT and government verticals, supporting the overall commercial growth in Q1 2013, IDC said. However, consumer market remained largely ...

Yahoo buys Tumblr promises to not screw it up

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:29 -0400

raises concerns among some Tumblr fans that the site could end up being cluttered by the ads that brings in billions of dollars a year to Yahoo. Tumblr CEO David Karp has resisted the use of traditional display advertising on Tumblr to this ...

Yahoo buys Tumblr blogging site for $1.1B

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:23:55 -0400

Yahoo announced Monday that it will pay $1.1B cash to purchase Tumblr, a blogging service that says it has massed more than 50 billion posts from 108 million blogs. (Fred ...

Wordpress CEO says 72000 blogs left Tumblr after Yahoo deal

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:26 -0400

(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET) Wordpress CEO Matt Mullenweg said that his company saw a major uptick in Tumblr defections after news of the $1.1 billion acquisition was reported on. Writing on ...

GCHQ talks of Assange sex scandal fit-up

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:19:35 -0400

Julian Assange has revealed some instant messages from Britain's espionage agency, GCHQ, which discuss the possibility of the Swedish sex scandal being a "fit-up". Julian Assange is wanted for questioning over allegations of sexual assault in Sweden. He believes it is part of a ploy that would ultimately see him extradited to the United States, where he could be detained. ...

Thousands of Tumblr users migrate to WordPress in wake of Yahoo acquisition

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:10 -0400

Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr , tens of thousands of Tumblr users have already cast a vote of no-confidence in the deal by migrating to WordPress, according to WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg. Evidently Yahoo's ...

Confirmed Yahoo to acquire Tumblr for about $1.1 billion

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:08 -0400

Yahoo will acquire blogging site Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion, the companies confirmed Monday. Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business, with David Karp remaining CEO. The service will continue to be developed separately "with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators," according to the announcement from the companies. The deal ...

Apple hits record revenues per visitor says analyst

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:14:27 -0400

revenues per visitor of $57.60 during the first quarter , according to Asymco's Horace Dediu. The number of visitors rose by 7 percent from the prior year's first quarter. As such, the average revenue per Apple store reached $13 million for the quarter, the highest number ever for a non-holiday quarter, Dediu revealed. The average number of visitors per store hit 250,000 per quarter ...

Ford shows off its 3D Cave automatic virtual environment

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:41:30 -0400

Ford has let us poke around its 3D Cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), a simulated cavern where vehicles are designed and tested digitally to increase manufacturing efficiency while reducing the costs of building physical prototypes. Based at Ford's research and development centre just down the road from the firm's production line in Cologne, Germany, CAVE acts as "an ...

Microsoft warms up for Xbox 720 launch

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:41:30 -0400

Microsoft is going to launch its next generation Xbox console tomorrow. The firm has been revving up its hype machine for weeks and rumours about the console have been swirling for months. It was codenamed Durango and apparently one was for sale on eBay, but now it seems that the next generation Microsoft games console will be named the Xbox 720. A countdown to the Xbox 720 launch is slowly ...

Gadgetwise Blog QA Getting Passes for Passbook

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:12 -0400

Passbook feature for iOS 6, you can get passes -- electronic tickets, boarding passes, coupons, loyalty cards and the like -- from other sources. Businesses that do not have their own stand-alone iOS apps can ...

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:29:29 -0400

Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...

Dell to Icahn Cannot disclose more information

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:28:27 -0400

Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself unless the board determined that their proposal was "superior" to founder Michael ...

Desi tablet makers eye Rs 210 crore opportunity

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:28:26 -0400

NEW DELHI: A barely-masked populist move by the Rajasthan government, just six months ahead of the assembly elections, is giving hope to Indian tablet makers who see an opportunity to increase their share in the country's fast-growing tablet market. Last week, the Congress government in Rajasthan, led by Chief ...

PC shipments rise 7.5 in Jan-Mar quarter IDC

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:28:25 -0400

Google tax Why UK is not feeling lucky

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:28:25 -0400

UK's famous parliamentary committee hearings, though they really can't do much to change laws or take punitive action, can sure make headlines and influence public opinion. Unlike Indian JPCs, UK MPs are known for being rather acerbic at times. It was a parliamentary committee that ...

James Bond Watch Found At Car Boot Sale

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:23:13 -0400

James Bond's geiger counter wristwatch from hit movie Thunderball has turned up following years of mystery about its whereabouts after it was found at a car boot sale. The prop, one of the many gadgets used by 007 during his half century on-screen - was key to the plot of the film as it helped the secret agent locate stolen atomic weapons during underwater scenes in the 1965 film. The ...

UPDATE 1-Dell says cannot disclose more information to Icahn yet

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:47:50 -0400

Mon May 20, 2013 7:47am EDT * Dell says board to evaluate if Icahn's offer is "superior" * Says Icahn affiliates have made number of requests for information * Company has asked for details on Icahn's proposed offer May 20 (Reuters) - Dell Inc said in a letter to suitors Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management that the company would not provide more information about itself ...

Kepler or not well find life in space

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:02 -0400

>Editor's note: Meg Urry is the Israel Munson professor of physics and astronomy and chairwoman of the department of physics at Yale University, where she is the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.(CNN) -- On Wednesday, NASA officials announced a serious problem with the Kepler satellite, the world's most successful planet-finding machine. Since its launch four years ...

China trying to manage exposure of corruption online

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:43:42 -0400

Reuters © Liu Tienan, then head of the National Energy Administration and deputy chairman of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), attends a news conference about Spring Festival transport in Beijing in this January 8, 2012 file photograph. The latest bureaucrat to fall from grace thanks to the Internet was Liu Tienan, sacked from his job last week as deputy chief ...

Jolla announces its first Salifish OS smartphone

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:42:50 -0400

Jolla announced the first smartphone to run its Salifish mobile operating system (OS) on Monday, ahead of its European release later this year. Despite us thinking the firm had named the phone "The Movement" as if it was a rapper or wrestler, the phone apparently is named, somewhat confusingly, Jolla. Its specifications are a bit more straightforward though, with the handset boasting a ...

Lawmakers seek Google Glass privacy plan

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:32:16 -0400

Computerworld - Eight members of Congress have written an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page that outlines privacy concerns about the Internet vendor's computerized ...

Is business breakup is what Sony needs

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:29:10 -0400

Nowhere is the opulence of Old Hollywood more palpable than on the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City. Arching just inside the front gate is an eight-story rainbow. This grand $1.6 million sculpture, a condition of a lot expansion, rose last year and became a symbolic link between past glories - "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed here - and current ones. Years of cutbacks have taken the shine ...

Infosys visa cost jumped 50 in FY13

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:29:07 -0400

MUMBAI Stricter norms and higher rejection rate of work permits have pushed up the visa-related cost of country's second largest software services company, Infosys by more than 50% to Rs 308 crore in 2012-13 fiscal. According to Infosys' Annual Report 2012-13 , the company's overseas travel expenses included visa charges of Rs 308 crore for year 2012-13. Compared to visa charges of ...

Bond watch found at car boot sale

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:00 -0400

Breitling watch was picked up for 25 but is now to be sold by Christie's in London with an estimated price of up to 60,000.The Top Time model by the ...

Hardware | At Google IO Glass and Android Get All the Love if Not All the Money

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:22:15 -0400

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10 Questions | Beyond Surveillance Envisioning the Future Drone Workforce

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:22:15 -0400

The Connective is a crowd-sourced digital magazine made in just 48 hours, chronicling how our conversations with our things are thoroughly changing our world. Learn more ...

U.S. Defense Department Approves Apples iOS Devices for its Networks

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:17:36 -0400

Devices built around Apple's iOS operating system have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense for use on its networks, as the department moves to support multivendor mobile devices and operating ...

Yahoo-Tumblr 7 ways to evaluate the union

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:17:36 -0400

More profit Tumblr may add a few percentage points in quarterly revenue in the next year, and potentially a few drops of profit, but not enough to move the needle unless the service continues its user growth rate and increasing rate of revenue growth. The real profit will come as Tumblr scales and improves its ad targeting, which Yahoo's technology can help nurture. In addition, Tumblr ...

Yahoo Japan admits to possible heist of 22 million users data

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:45:54 -0400

Yahoo has revealed that its Japanese users might have had their data stolen. Yahoo Japan sent out a wooly note saying that many of its users might possibly have had their personal data compromised, but stopped short of actually confirming it. Yahoo is playing the safe, not sorry, game. Yahoo Japan warned users that an unauthorised attempt to access its admin systems could have exposed 22 ...

Sonys Xperia Tablet Z is now available with stock Android in tow

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:45:54 -0400

Sony's UK store and we're still greeted with the message that the tablet will be available "at the end of March", but this is likely to be updated any minute now. For those looking to order the tablet, Sony is offering 16GB and 32GB WiFi models priced at £399 and £449, respectively, while a 16GB LTE 4G model is available for £499. O2 will also be offering ...

Apples iPhone joins Samsung and Blackberry with Pentagon security approval

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:45:53 -0400

Apple's iPhone and iPad have received security approval from the US Department of Defense (DoD), following in the footsteps of Samsung and Blackberry. Earlier this ...

Gadgetwise Blog Skullcandy Cuts the Cord and Offers Better Sound

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:38:55 -0400

its new audio line . Like other headsets in this line, the Plyr1 (pronounced "player one") is designed for casual gamers. At $180, it's more expensive than rivals, but it does offer a few advantages. For starters, the headset is wireless, which means no cables snaking across the floor. This allows you to roam while playing without fear of tripping over or pulling out a cable (a ...

TCS US immigration bill a big headwind for IT sector

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:32:51 -0400

US immigration bill is one such headwind, and we are closely watching it, Chandrasekaran told ET Now. "We need to see how these things develop. We should be ready to change in the way we position our business model," he said. With technology becoming increasingly relevant for every business, Chandrasekaran feels that TCS has had a good run as a company. "I have always maintained ...

ZTE looking at Indias telecom market for growth

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:32:50 -0400

ZTE India posted a small rate of growth, realising revenues of $700 million, around half the $1.5 billion it received in 2009, a write up in the state run China Daily titled "ZTE banks Indian telecom market" ...

Microsoft bets big on new Xbox gaming console

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:32:49 -0400

Microsoft is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry. But the small device faces some big competition from the PlayStation 4 by Sony Corp and the Wii U by Nintendo in a shifting market. Gamers are gravitating to online ...

Fill er up at Blu ... with natural gas

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:30:12 -0400

If you drive down I-15 past State Highway 160 in Beaver, Utah, you'll see a 30-foot-tall silo with white letters that spell out "Blu." Next to it is a truck stop. It is no ordinary truck stop. The silo contains liquefied natural gas (LNG) chilled to -200 F and ready to fuel specially outfitted 18-wheelers. The facility is owned by Blu Transfuels, a partnership between ENN, one of ...

US government seizing medical records

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:25:51 -0400

the French backed Junta which took control of the English colony of Virginia is desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens using its award winning "no taxation without representation" laws. A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, claiming that they seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans under the ...

Germany sets wi-fi speed record

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:25:49 -0400

of German researchers from the Fraunhofer Instiute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has come up with a new technique to boost wi-fi speeds, much like MW-50 injection on interceptor variants of Kurt Tank’s FW-190. Their technology uses what they simply call "better hardware" and it works on a high radio frequency of 240GHz. It can deliver speeds up to 40GB/s to a distance ...

Youtube celebrates its eighth birthday

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:49:28 -0400

Youtube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years. The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single video. Now, 100 hours of video are uploaded per minute. "When Youtube's site first launched in May 2005, we never could have imagined the endless ways in which you would inspire, inform and ...

Iceotope shows off fully immersed liquid cooled servers Video

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:49:27 -0400

its fully immersed liquid cooled server system that's in operation at the University of Leeds. Using a non-conductive liquid, the liquid cooling system has a low dielectric constant such that, as far as the electronics inside are concerned the liquid acts like air, meaning the electronics can be submerged in it. However, as there are no fans or moving parts needed to pump the liquid around ...

Former Google exec says he has 100000 emails exposing immoral tax avoidance

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:42:42 -0400

Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has "cheated" British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of ...

Chinese telcos bitten by EU watchdogs

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:35 -0400

that Huawei and ZTE are dumping their products on the European market. If the EU takes action against the two, then they could lose their most important trading partner. Chinese exports of goods to the 27-member bloc reached $372 billion last year but cheap capital for these Chinese companies creates a distorted playing field, De Gucht said. Huawei denied it had broken any rules, claimed that ...

IBM upgrades COBOL server

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:33 -0400

tinkering under the bonnet of its ancient COBOL server platform and updated the mainframe platform so it can host cloud based applications and services. Biggish Blue's latest update adds XML Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform. According to the company this update will extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by regenerating it towards the cloud computing arena. ...

More Foxconn suicides reported

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:32 -0400

Foxconn suicide saga was winding down, reports have emerged that three more workers have killed themselves over the past three weeks. According to China Labour Watch, the first in the latest series of suicides occurred on 24 April, when a 24-year-old male worker reportedly jumped to his death off a dorm building. Apparently he had been working at Foxconn for just two days. On 27 April, a ...

Yahoos board approves $1.1bn Tumblr acquisition

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:32 -0400

Yahoo reportedly is in talks to buy blogging service Tumblr for a cool $1.1bn, and is said to have been given approval by its board. Tumblr, a place for posting cat memes and duck faces, is apparently in Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's ...

Yahoo agrees to buy Tumblr for $1.1bn

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:47:53 -0400

Christopher Williams - 20 May 2013 US web giant Yahoo! is to buy Tumblr in a $1.1bn (EUR850m) deal that will net the founder of the blogging network a $250m fortune at the age of just ...

Mobile banking on USSD likely to get delayed

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:41:08 -0400

KOLKATA: Full-scale mobile banking services over the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform, a text message-based interactive backbone could hit a roadblock with both GSM and CDMA operators at loggerheads with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on the revenue-sharing model. Mobile phone companies have spurned NPCI's offer of a "paltry 25 paise per ...

Government wants Skype to set up servers in India

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:41:07 -0400

servers in the country if they want to continue offering this facility here. The move is aimed at allowing law enforcement and security agencies get access to newer forms of communications that cannot be tracked by traditional monitoring systems. The Centre has also decided to ask internet service providers and mobile phone companies to 'segregate Internet Protocol (IP) addresses on a state ...

RPG Group Yes Bank to sort out hacking issue

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:41:06 -0400

RPG Life Sciences (of Harsh Goenka) are blaming each other for the Rs 2.4 crore the company lost due to the second reported hacking of a current account of a corporate. The bank says that it is the responsibility of the account holder to prevent misuse at its end and it (the bank) is responsible only for the back-end which it claims is safe. Executives from Yes and RPG Life will meet to settle ...

Yahoo board signs off on Tumblr deal

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:34:11 -0400

has written a rumoured $1.1 billion cheque to by the social blogging site Tumblr. The Tumblr deal was rumoured last week and it looks like it is accurate if ...

Software developers suffer two percent pay cut

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:34:10 -0400

jobs market might have grown by nearly 64,000 jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers' pay checks declined by nearly two percent. According ...

Infosys visa costs jump 50 in FY 13

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:10 -0400

Why days of lower phone tariff may be over

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:48:09 -0400

NEW DELHI: Indian mobile telephone companies have come a long way and no longer perceive lowering prices and increasing subscribers as tools for survival. To ensure their sustenance, telecom players in India are slowly hiking call rates and doing away with promotional offers. "The reason behind increasing call rates is that none of the players has a serious incentive to lower prices. The ...

Xbox Next What to expect at Tuesdays Xbox Reveal event

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:44 -0400

(Credit: Microsoft) Much has changed in the video game landscape since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360 in 2005. Back then, Microsoft was a clear underdog, hoping to cut into the leads held by rival consoles from Nintendo and Sony. ...

CTIA 2013 preview Spring show quietly fades away

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:43 -0400

(Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) LAS VEGAS -- When Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Lopez are the biggest draws for a technology show, there's a problem. The CTIA Wireless trade group's spring show officially kicks off for the last time on Tuesday. It marks an unceremonious end to the conference, which next year will merge with its sister show in the fall to better align itself with the ...

Your phone bill may soon go up

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:30 -0400

ARPU (average revenue per user) might not be significant. But average revenue per minute will be impacted and it will go up, he added. "It is too early to say whether ARPU will actually go up or go down, but the average revenue per minute will definitely increase. It will take atleast another quarter or so to see whether it is impacting an operator's revenue. Some of the operators have ...

Changing face of Silicon Valley

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:29 -0400

Tesla Motors , making cutting-edge cars, to Solaria, making solar panels, manufacturers are drawn to Fremont by incentives including a five-year waiver on business taxes, an expedited regulatory process, proximity to Silicon Valley firms and a skilled labor force. Those were key factors for Sanjiv Malhotra, president of Fremont-based fuel cell maker Oorja Protonics, which looked at several US ...

Soon your phone will be ‘beamed’ onto your palm

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:54:28 -0400

new technology that puts the mobile phone on the palm of your hand -- literally. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and two rotational ...

The changing face of mobile photography

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:43:04 -0400

(Credit: Craig Swatton/iStockphoto) In just a few short years, smartphone photography has reached critical mass. It used to be the case that a camera module on a phone was a curious anomaly rather than the rule, but now you would be hard pressed to find a mobile device without a lens on it somewhere. To demonstrate just how much mobile photography has permeated contemporary society, take a ...

Infosys to appeal against Rs 577 crore tax demand

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:02:38 -0400

BANGALORE: Infosys, country's No. 2 software services exporter, said it would challenge a Rs 577 crore ($105.3 million) income tax demand raised by income tax department earlier this month. The demand relates to certain tax benefits on income from software development done overseas at the clients' location and revenue from special economic zones in ...

Infosys to challenge latest tax demand of $105.3 million

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:09:04 -0400

View Photo Reuters/Reuters - An Infosys logo is pictured on one of the company's office buildings at their IT campus at Electronics City in Bangalore, February 28, 2012. Picture taken on February 28, 2012. ...

Oil Holds Above $96 on US Economic Data

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:29:36 -0400

U.S. crude futures were steady in early Asian trading on Monday, holding above $96 a barrel after rallying last week on positive economic data in top oil consumer the United States. U.S. consumer sentiment in early May rose more than economists had expected, with more Americans giving favorable views about their financial and economic prospects, particularly among upper-income ...

Google Nexus 4 review A killer smartphone

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:26:36 -0400

Google Nexus 4 has finally made its way to India. Though it is being sold by LG and remains unavailable on Google Play Store as of now, we are glad that the much-awaited flagship Nexus smartphone of Google is finally retailing in the domestic market. It is widely known that Nexus 4 has top-notch hardware (at least as per last year's standards, when it was launched) and is priced much more ...

2 men arrested in killing of teen over iPad in Las Vegas

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:51 -0400

According to investigators, Marcos Arenas, 15, was walking down a street with an iPad on Thursday when a passenger got out of a vehicle and tried to steal the device from ...

Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:45:57 -0400

The headquarters of Unit 61398, center, in Shanghai. The unit of the People's Liberation Army is believed to have resumed its attacks on American companies and government ...

Computer visionary says he knows who invented Bitcoin

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:52:58 -0400

baffled even core developers for the virtual currency. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or group of people who came up with the original idea for the electronic cash system in 2008? After contributing thousands of lines of code and hundreds of posts on Bitcoin, Nakamoto sent a note to a developer in April 2011 saying that he had "moved on to other things." Later ...

Adobe unplugs Creative Cloud sync tool during transition

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:05 -0400

The company apologized after an Instability forced it to take the preview version of a synchronization tool offline earlier than expected. The service syncs files on mobile devices, the Web, and ...

Disruptions Disruptions Robots as Home Health Care Aides for the Elderly

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:46:44 -0400

Robot & Frank ," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going to a medical center for Alzheimer's treatment when the son interrupts him. "I brought you something," he says to Frank. Then the son pulls a large, white humanoid robot from the trunk of his car. Frank watches in disbelief. "You have got ...

Google Americas third political party

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:25 -0400

(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Congress is a dog that won't go for a walk. We can tug at its leash as hard as we want, but it sits in the middle of the sidewalk, barking a defiant "no." It's not a purposeful no. It's just a refusal for the sake of it, couched in principle. Then along comes America's most ambitious politician. No, it's not Paul Ryan or ...

Twitter will damn your soul Saudi cleric says

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:55:00 -0400

(Credit: Twitter/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Life becomes more meaningful when someone from a long way away reflects your own thoughts. It makes you feel less alone, less forlorn on your island of one. I was, therefore, lifted to heights previously unimagined on hearing that the head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste ...

Rate your AV receivers autosetup program

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:23:05 -0400

I've had a run of bad luck with some of the latest AV receivers' autosetup programs; they set the subwoofer volume way too loud, or misidentified the "sizes" of the speakers (one receiver tagged our ...