New Delhi: Facebook isn't an epitome of originality. Even its origin is mired in controversy. Facebook might be the world's largest social networking service, but it can't pause on innovation in the want to keep its billion plus users hooked. Innovation isn't easy but it is, of course, easier to imitate what others have already implemented successfully. The latest popular Twitter feature that Facebook has aped is the hashtag. While...
04:54 PM, Jun 13, 2013
New Delhi: The first Apple iPhone was available more than a year before the first Android phone made its appearance. While the iPhone changed the definition of and expectations from what consumers identify as a smartphone, it is Android that democratised this new smartphone experience, more so in emerging economies such as India. The Nexus 4 is the new revered leader in this Android democracy. For many technology enthusiasts, the...
01:36 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: In tune with India Cements, the owner of the Chennai Super Kings, distancing itself from Gurunath Meiyappan, the Chennai Super Kings' official website seems to have scrubbed all references to the BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law. The India Cements statement said Gurunath Meiyappan "is neither the Owner, nor CEO/Team Principal of Chennai Super Kings," but numerous pages (now deleted) on chennaisuperkings.com referred to Meiyappan as 'Owner' or 'Team...
07:17 PM, May 24, 2013
A hundred years ago when Dhundiraj Govind Phalke organised the first public screening of his film Raja Harishchandra, the publicity posters didn't have any images on them, but that changed soon after. A film's publicity poster also became an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid and able artists highlighted those selected images from the movie that could draw the audiences to inside the dark theatres for more than two-hours...
06:25 AM, May 03, 2013
In India, cinema isn't just a passion. It is an obsession. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man who started it all, 99 years ago - the Father of Indian Cinema Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (1870-1944). Dadasaheb Phalke as we better know him as, held the first show of Raja Harishchandra what is widely considered to be the first Indian feature film at Bombay's Olympia Picture Palace on...
06:20 AM, May 03, 2013
Back in 1973 Motorola was very categorical in rejecting the assumption that mobile phones cold replace landlines. ...
04:59 PM, Apr 03, 2013
New Delhi: This is a social networking addict's dream come true. Facebook is testing a new feature that will allow a select class of users, whom Facebook calls 'Advanced Facebookers', to earn while using the social networking service. According to sources close to the programme, Facebook plans to pay the top 4 per cent of the first batch of selected users up to $1 per activity during the initial global...
12:01 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Exactly seven years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The face of an Indian woman with a little red bindi on her forehead holds centrestage in the International Women's Day doodle. ...
05:53 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Today (January 12, 2013) is the 150th birth anniversary of one of India's most revered philosophers and religious leaders. One of the landmarks of Swami ...
01:47 PM, Jan 12, 2013
Protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is growing. One of the fears highlighted by the protesters is the threat of seismological activity on the nuclear power plant.Most of India falls in the moderate risk to very high risk seismic zones and so do a majority of India's nuclear reactors. The map below plots India's nuclear power plants on a seismic map. ...
01:24 PM, Sep 13, 2012
New Delhi: The story of the battle of the browsers reads like an edge-of-the-seat thriller. The beginnings of the browser wars were murky with many shots taken below the belt. It was a David vs Goliath battle and Goliath, after an initial setback was winning. Netscape put up a brave fight, but could not withstand the might of the Microsoft Corporation. Then in the second round came Mozilla Firefox, which...
06:35 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Many Windows versions ago, I discovered that the mouse settings could also be modified for left-handed users. Otherwise the world in its rightful righteousness ignored ...
04:58 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: Seventy five years after her disappearance and 115 years following her birth, Google is honouring the pioneering American aviator (and author) Amelia Earhart. The aviation heroine's end still remains an enigma. The doodle on Amelia Earhart's 115th birth anniversary shows her climbing up her Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane, Earhart's yellow scarf fluttering in the wind. The Google letters take the place of the original registration number of the...
12:01 AM, Jul 23, 2012
He was arguably Hindi cinema's first superstar who evoked a kind of fan frenzy never witnessed before. Rajesh Khanna died at 69 on Wednesday at his Mumbai residence leaving behind a string of superhit films that were often characterised by their timeless music. He acted in over 150 films and as a tribute to Kaka, we have put together a Rajesh Khanna mosaic made up of 1500 images from different...
05:46 PM, Jul 18, 2012
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