Satyamev Jayate app launched for iOS

Satyamev Jayate app launched for iOS New Delhi: The official app for Satyamev Jayate, a TV series featuring Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, has been released for iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod. The app will users stream songs and watch videos. With each episode, the app will be updated with the new song and video showcased during that episode. The app is available on iTunes for $1.99 or Rs 110 approximately and has been developed...
11:18 AM, May 26, 2012

Google revamps search app for iPhone

Google revamps search app for iPhone Mumbai: After a long time, Google has pushed a totally revamped search application for the iPhone. The new Google Search app, which carries a redesigned interface, promises faster search results, spruced up image search and simpler access to other Google services from a single screen. The new Google Search App v 2.0.0 is available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad running iOS 4.2 or higher. The app comprises of the...
12:39 PM, May 25, 2012

'Ant-Man' is Marvel Studios' next animated film

'Ant-Man' is Marvel Studios' next animated film Los Angeles: 'Ant-Man' movie project has been given a go ahead by Marvel Studios following the massive success of 'The Avengers'. Details about the long-awaited movie are still scarce for now, but it has been said that Marvel president Kevin Feige is eager to move forward with the project, reported Ace Showbiz. 'Ant-Man' follows biochemist Dr Hank Pym, who uses his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create...
04:09 PM, May 21, 2012

Google launches Schemer for iPhone

Google launches Schemer for iPhone New Delhi: Google's social collaboration service, Schemer, is now available for iOS operating system based devices like iPhone and iPad. Schemer, which was launched last year, is a social service that allows users to create schemes and let others join it. The Schemer service allows users to find out or explore both popular and not so popular places along with recommendations as well if any. Schemer will even suggest the...
05:26 PM, May 17, 2012

Android gains share in smartphones

Android gains share in smartphones Helsinki: Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - in the 12 weeks to mid...
04:21 PM, May 15, 2012

Apple to drop Google Maps in 'iOS 6'

Apple to drop Google Maps in 'iOS 6' San Francisco: Apple will drop Google Maps in its upcoming mobile platform iOS 6 in favour of its own mapping system, it was reported Friday. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps programme on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster and more reliable experience, said technology news website 9to5mac, citing its sources. Over the...
05:42 PM, May 12, 2012

NASA tests the next generation Mars rover 'Curiosity'

Members of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team test out an engineering model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed 'Curiosity', in the desert near Baker, California.According to a press release from NASA, the rover is 89 days away from its August appointment with Mars.Launched on November 26, 2011, it is due to touch down near the base of a mountain inside Gale Crater, on the Martian equator, in August 2012.
05:36 PM, May 11, 2012
Reinventing jazz classics: Pak band touches new chords

Reinventing jazz classics: Pak band touches new chords

Lahore based 'Sachal Studios' first shot to fame for its rendition of Dave Brubeck's 1959 jazz classic 'Take Five'. ...
10:57 AM, Apr 20, 2012

Nagarjuna starts studio to attract Hollywood

Nagarjuna starts studio to attract Hollywood Hyderabad: Three decades after his father, legendary Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao, started the Telugu film industry's migration from Madras (now Chennai) to Hyderabad, his actor son Akkineni Nagarjuna has embarked on an ambitious plan to attract Bollywood and Hollywood to 'world-class production facilities' in this southern metropolis that has grown into another destination for technology companies. By setting up integrated film shooting floors and production facility at his Annapurna...
02:05 PM, Apr 17, 2012

Review: Narendra Modi app is a half-baked effort

Review: Narendra Modi app is a half-baked effort 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

Karma app simplifies gift giving

Karma app simplifies gift giving Toronto: Whether it's choosing the right present, selecting the proper size or style, or digging up a current mailing address, gift giving can be difficult. Karma, a new app for iPhone and Android, aims to simplify the process with its service that lets people send gifts instantly via SMS, email or Facebook. The app recommends gifts based on the recipient's demographic profile and interests, which it garners from Facebook. After...
05:18 PM, Mar 26, 2012

T'puram: Automatic ticket kiosks in museum, zoo soon

T'puram: Automatic ticket kiosks in museum, zoo soon THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Automatic ticket kiosks will be installed at the Museum and Zoo in the city, Museums and Zoos Minister P K Jayalakshmi told the Assembly in a written reply on Wednesday.The Department of Museums and Zoos has contacted C-DIT for the purpose and an estimate of Rs 38.85 lakh submitted, she said in reply to a question by V D Satheesan, Benny Behanan, Anvar Sadath and A T George.SUMMER WOESThe...
09:01 AM, Mar 22, 2012

UP: Akhilesh keeps bulk of ministries for himself

UP: Akhilesh keeps bulk of ministries for himself Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday kept the bulk of ministries, including the key Home and Finance, with him. Interestingly, controversial independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, who was jailed by previous chief minister Mayawati and against whom there are pending criminal cases of attempt to murder, kidnapping and abduction, has been given Prison department. In portfolio allocation by Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi in...
10:05 PM, Mar 18, 2012

Forget Bollywood, Mumbai enjoys fight nights

Forget Bollywood, Mumbai enjoys fight nights Mumbai: The small wooden door in a film studio complex deep within the heart of Mumbai creaks open to pumping music, a beer-guzzling crowd and two men raining punches and kicks onto each other in the makeshift ring. Welcome to India's very own fight night. First started around three years ago by Full Contact Championship (FCC), a company founded to promote mixed martial arts, fight nights are slowly gaining popularity...
06:33 PM, Mar 15, 2012

Android tablets will overtake iPad by 2015: IDC

Android tablets will overtake iPad by 2015: IDC New Delhi: According to a report from IDC, Android tablets will overtake Apple's iPad by 2015. As the sole vendor shipping iOS products, Apple will remain dominant in terms of worldwide vendor unit shipments, said Tom Mainelli, research director, Mobile Connected Devices. "However, the sheer number of vendors shipping low-priced, Android-based tablets means that Google's OS will overtake Apple's in terms of worldwide market share by 2015." The company expects...
07:14 PM, Mar 14, 2012
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