Washington: President Barack Obama, hoping to spur US innovation in the explosive field of mobile communications, on Wednesday ordered all major federal agencies to make many more of their services available on mobile phones within the next year. "Americans deserve a government that works for them anytime, anywhere, and on any device," Obama said in a statement. His administration is eager to hasten government adoption of new technology since showing...
10:41 AM, May 24, 2012
London: Now your garden plants need not die of neglect, thanks to an iPhone application that tells you when they need watering. The Koubachi Wi-fi plant sensor and application costs a steep 99 pounds. It requires a sensor which sits with the plant, monitoring it and checking its vital signs against a built-in botanic encyclopedia. The app knows everything about nearly all your typical garden or house plant, from growing...
10:26 AM, May 21, 2012
Brussels: An explosion of people checking into social networks is being exploited by mobile application makers and private detectives, who say they can use people's online chatter and photos to track them and find out where they live. In March, Apple stopped downloads of a "stalker" mobile application that told men where women around them were "hanging out", using only publicly available information from social networks. But other readily available...
02:25 AM, May 14, 2012
Brandon: It took a return to the South to get me back on Foursquare. Months later, I'm still not sure why I need it, yet I can't seem to stay away. Foursquare, of course, is a social network that lets you tell friends and family where you are - whether it's a bar, a park or an airport. Through a smartphone app, you broadcast your whereabouts, or "check in" to...
11:56 AM, May 10, 2012
Mumbai: Nokia India announced partnerships with Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to offer solutions from Nokia Store to customers of these two telecom operators. "This will enable purchase of Nokia Store applications through an operator billing process. This would also offer significant monetisation opportunities to developers and galvanise local content development," Vodafone India's chief commercial officer Sanjoy Mukerji said. Vodafone and Airtel consumers can now download local and global paid content...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook Inc unveiled a new hub for consumers to find games and other apps on the social network, including its first storefront for selling paid apps, in the company's latest effort to expand the ways it makes money from its massive audience. The new App Centre, which Facebook said will launch in the next few weeks, comes as the company is preparing an initial public offering that would...
10:59 AM, May 10, 2012
Singapore: Nestle, purveyor of the decades-old KitKat snack, has launched an app it says addresses a growing problem among young social media users - giving them a break from the stress of posting updates by doing it for them. The software, Social Break, automatically sends random updates to users' Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. It will be officially launched in Singapore later this week and is free to download from...
05:49 PM, May 08, 2012
Lebanon: I'm one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram, the free camera app that makes tweaking and sharing photos miraculously easy. While it's wildly popular and the target of Facebook's $1 billion takeover deal, Instagram isn't the only camera app worth having. I've been hooked on taking photos on my iPhone and sharing them using Instagram since I bought my first iPhone last fall. With Instagram, I...
08:12 AM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft has finally made available the full version of Skype app for Windows Phone platform. Using the Skype app for Windows Phone, users can engage in voice calls, video calls and texting with their contacts. This is in line with what Peter Wissing, director for Windows Phone at Microsoft, promised earlier this year. The Skype app v1.0 seeks permission from the user to access the device's phonebook and...
02:12 PM, Apr 23, 2012
London: Ads within smartphone applications such as the popular puzzle game Angry Birds are turning into a key driver for mobile advertising, as apps become the main distribution method for media on mobile phones, according to a report. In-app spending by advertisers in the United States and western Europe, where there is a high concentration of smartphones owned by affluent consumers, is set to overtake spending on display ads on...
11:26 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New York: I was skeptical, even horrified, when I first heard about the photo-sharing craze Instagram more than a year ago. As a journalist trained to reject alterations in words and pictures, I didn't get the concept of a social network built around modifying photos. I quickly warmed up once I gave Instagram a try this week, after Facebook announced plans to buy the free service for $1 billion. I...
10:24 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Given the experience on how clueless our politicians seem to be in the matters of technology it always makes news when a politician does something that gives him a semblance of tech-savviness. Even if you may, or may not, agree with his politics, Narendra Modi's e-initiatives do give him an apparent advantage over other politicians. Half-a-million users follow Modi on Twitter, his blog is regularly updated and so...
05:15 PM, Apr 11, 2012
London: Scientists have come up with an app to let you create your perfect dream, by playing a 'soundscape' that seeps into the sleeping mind. Users can choose from peaceful rural settings, busy street scenes, or even dramatic space adventures. Richard Wiseman, professor of psychology at Hertfordshire University, who helped develop the programme, believes it could be a boon for sleeping disorders or depression. Wiseman plans to collect thousands of...
12:05 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The popular photo taking, editing and sharing app Instragram which just recently made a successful entry into Android will soon become Facebook property. The news of Instragram being acquired by the social networking giant was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook timeline. The latest Facebook acquisition will add the excitement as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May....
11:37 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Popular global social networking website Facebook has released an all new updated application for the iOS based devices. The application is fully compatible with New iPad's retina display and along with that the developers have also improved the application a lot to give users a better, all-round experience. The interface of the Facebook app has also been tweaked to match the high resolution that the display offers. Besides,...
03:40 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New York: iPhone-less hipsters rejoice: The popular photo-taking and photo-sharing app Instagram is now on Android. The app has already been available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, where it's been downloaded more than 30 million times. Free to use, Instagram lets people apply various filters to the photos they snap with their mobile devices. Some of these make the photos look as if they've been taken in the 1970s...
11:04 AM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: Global car manufacturer, General Motors (GM) is making a smartphone application which is said to revolutionise cars' navigation system. Named GogoLink, the app will be priced at $50 (about Rs 2,500). According to GM, the app will project smartphone's navigation system onto car's touchscreen dash board. Drivers can control the the system through the touch screen which will also show maps. Voice directions will further make drivers' task...
02:11 PM, Mar 30, 2012
London: Facebook is not just about reaching out to friends but also foes as a new application allows you to add enemies to your profile. EnemyGraph is a new application, available for free to all facebook users, which lets you add enemies to your Facebook profile, including real victims from your friends list, or from other users of the application. You can also declare 'war' on any product, person or...
05:29 PM, Mar 27, 2012
