London: A new mobile service will soon give parents control over their children's cellphone use, whom they chat with or text and also allow them to switch off their phones, wherever they are. Mobile phone company Bemilo is offering the service to parents worried about text bullying, sexting and the disruptive use of phones in schools. It will operate on Vodafone network. Campaigners say the phone deal, which is intended...
10:10 AM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: If you are looking for a budget-friendly smartphone, which not only has a solid form factor and rich features, but also has some brand value attached to it, then you should not ignore RIM's BlackBerry Curve 9220. The company launched this feature-rich affordable smartphone last month, and after using the device for almost a month, I am a satisfied user and believe the phone offers good value for...
04:55 PM, May 21, 2012
London: Britons seem to be doing away with their traditional good manners, as a survey has found two out of three people in Britain wouldn't mind answering a call on their cellphone despite being on a dinner date. According to a poll, carried out by mobile phone firm Recombu, once revered for our good manners, Britain has become more 'Rude Britannia' since the introduction of smartphones. Almost two third of...
10:38 AM, May 17, 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 Delhi: American comedian Jay Leno donned a cream coloured 'sherwani', resplendent with delicate embroidery to welcome a Tata Nano car to his 17000-square-foot garage in southern California. Leno even invited Bollywood dancers for the inauguration of the white Nano with the Indian tricolour displayed in the background and painted across the body of the car. The host of 'The Tonight Show' has a weakness for electric and hybrid vehicles...
02:17 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Fly Mobiles has launched a new phone Fly Vision E 370, which has been priced at Rs 5,099. The phone features a 3.7-inch (9.5cm) HVGA 262K touchscreen with a resolution of 320 X 480 pixels. Powered by the feature phone turbo chip processor ARM 9, the handset is claimed to allow faster webpage loading and smoother UI transitions. The phone sports a 5 megapixel camera. The phone comes...
11:26 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Beijing: Believe it or not, 1,500 kg of gold, one million kg of copper and 30,000 kg of silver can be extracted from the 100 million discarded mobile phones in China. People's Daily reported Thursday that about 400 million mobile phones were discarded each year, China accounting for nearly 100 million. According to the daily, a mobile phone has various precious materials including 0.01 per cent of gold, 20-25 per...
05:26 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: About 58.8 per cent of households in Maharashtra have TV sets while 13.3 per cent have computer/laptop and 69.1 per cent have telephone/mobile in their households, as per the data on "housing, amenities and assets" in the 2011 census. The respective figures at national level are 47.2, 9.5 and 63.2 per cent, Ranjit Singh Deol, director Census operations, Maharashtra, told reporters in Mumbai. The share of households having two...
10:59 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: The judicial custody of seven accused, including three doctors, arrested for their alleged role in the recent leak of post graduate medical entrance exam papers of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), was on Wednesday extended till February 14 by a Delhi court. All the accused were produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal after expiry of their judicial custody remand. The Crime Branch of...
06:51 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: High-end mobile phones with powerful camera and bluetooth devices were the tools used by three young men to scan the AIIMS post graduate entrance exam paper and send it to an email id outside the exam hall. How did they manage to smuggle the devices in? An apparent lack of frisking at the examination centre in Sector 28 Noida helped the three accused secret in their Sony Xperia...
08:24 AM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: It's day two of the Auto Expo 2012 in Delhi on Friday, but car lovers will have to wait another 24 hours before the gates are opened for the general public. Toyota will launched its revamped Etios on Friday. 50 car markers from around the world will unveil over 55 new cars till January 11. The hot wheels on display on Thursday included Maruti Suzuki's SUV, Hyundai's three-door...
09:18 AM, Jan 06, 2012
Bhubaneswar: In something unique from the Indian Science Congress, a group of students have successfully built a car from scrap. For impressing the girls, if your parents won't buy you a car, you can now build one. "The unique thing about this is that all the parts came together from unconventional places. The tyre is specially manufactured in Pune. The suspension is from a motorcycle. The steering mechanism is from...
09:07 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Mobile handset maker G'Five today said it has slashed product prices between 10-30 per cent across the board against the current trend of hiking rates by competitors due to depreciating rupee. "G'Five is one of the biggest manufacture of mobile handsets in China. Unlike other companies, we don't need to buy from a third party. Though depreciating value of rupee has certainly impacted our margin but by slashing...
05:05 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Panaji: Tablets and mobile phones are the future platforms of documentaries and short films, president of the Indian Documentary Producers' Association (IDPA) Mike Pandey said Saturday. The wildlife film maker, who was speaking to reporters at the 42nd International Film Festival of India here, said that the IDPA in association with the union ministry for information and broadcasting was also looking at starting a pan-India and global movement of screening...
05:01 PM, Nov 26, 2011
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