Oslo: Opera Software shares soared over 20 per cent on Tuesday on talks that Facebook was in discussion to buy the firm, while analysts said competition from Google and others could push the price tag of any deal over $1 billion. Shares of Oslo-listed Opera, coveted for its advanced mobile phone software technology, jumped as much as 26 per cent, valuing the firm at over $800 million. Opera's mobile technology,...
02:03 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia will soon be announcing its new range of Pureview and Lumia series of handsets but that's not all Nokia is working on at the moment. The Finnish handset giant is working on the implementation of the Superhydrophobic technology that is known to repel water with its handsets. With the use of this technology, Nokia aims at making the future handsets including Lumia and Pureview smartphones waterproof. While...
12:59 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Mobile phone manufacturers could cut handset prices this year to boost sales, research firm Gartner has predicted. Last quarter saw the first decline in handset sales worldwide in the last three years. While this is not good news for handset vendors, it can be good news for consumers as vendors start to lower prices to clear unsold inventory. Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 419.1 million units in...
02:30 PM, May 18, 2012
Mumbai: Samsung's mobile phone sales have reached 86.6 million units, a 25.9 per cent increase from last year, as it took back the world's number one smartphone position from Apple, selling 38 million units worldwide, research firm Gartner announced on Wednesday. The Korean major dethrew Nokia which could sell only 83.2 million units in the first quarter, a 22.7 per cent drop. "Smartphone sales are becoming of paramount importance at...
09:07 PM, May 16, 2012
New York: Some passengers on Virgin Atlantic flights can now call home from the air. The airline announced on Tuesday it is providing travelers with a new cellphone service to make and receive phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air. The service will allow passengers to send and receive text messages, emails and access the Internet on Virgin Atlantic's new Airbus A330-300 planes flying between London and New York....
03:38 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: In the recent times some surveys have pointed out that mobile phones have been ruining sexual life of people. But, that's just one side of the story because we all know that mobile phones do play an important part in developing a sexual relationship also, whether it's just flirting by phone or, for some, sending sexually explicit text and photos or sharing intimate videos with partners. However, so...
04:52 PM, May 15, 2012
Helsinki: Nokia launched two low-end cellphones on Tuesday, aiming to regain its footing in emerging markets. The Nokia 110 model will be sold for 35 euros and will start shipping in the second quarter. The 112 model will be sold for 38 euros from the third quarter, the Finnish phone maker said. The company has been losing market share not just in high-end smartphones but also in cheaper, basic phones...
04:42 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: A young guy starts a company and an international brand shows interest and snaps it for a huge sum of money - this is a common story in the US but not when it comes to India. But Abheek Anand's tech firm TagTile has just been acquired by Facebook. Polite and considerate, Abheek is nothing like the hot shot web entrepreneur. He has humble roots and he isn't...
08:52 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: From September, your phone will have to tell you how much of a danger it is to your health. A cell phone could ruin one's sex life. A JNU researcher did tests on male rats and found that cell phone radiation seriously reduced sperm count and testes size. But there are other, more obvious parts of the body that are affected by radiation. The phone antenna transmits and...
01:44 PM, May 08, 2012
Jodhpur: A top Rajasthan police official on Tuesday said it was not possible to put an end to use of mobile phones in prisons, but efforts were on to rope in service providers to curb their use by inmates. Reviewing the security arrangement in Jodhpur Central Jail in Jodhpur, Director General (Jail) Omendra Bhardwaj said curbing use of mobile phones in prisons remained a daunting task for officials and "it...
08:08 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI, which is the apex institution in the country to manage telecom services, has made it mandatory for service providers to provide at least one plan in their postpaid and prepaid offerings with "per second" billing. To make this compulsory, TRAI has made amendments in the Telecommunication Tariff Order. "After this amendment it has become mandatory for service providers to offer in...
02:09 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: India's GSM subscriber base grew by 1.04 per cent in March with addition of 6.87 million mobile phone users, with Bharti Airtel alone signing up over 2.5 million customers, according to data released by Cellular Operators Association of India. The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 664 million as against 657.22 million in February. Airtel currently has 181.28 million subscribers. Idea Cellular followed Airtel by...
11:33 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Patna: Nearly 56 per cent of families in Bihar have a mobile or landline connection, but about 77 per cent of the population lack toilets, says a census report, highlighting the paradoxes in the state which has taken big leaps in development but also lagged behind in key areas. "Till 2001, only 2.2 per cent families were using any kind of telecom facility in Bihar, now over half of its...
02:42 PM, Apr 20, 2012
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