Orlando, Florida: Research In Motion Ltd on Tuesday offered initial software tools to developers looking to create applications for its new BlackBerry 10 platform, moving a step closer to perhaps the most crucial launch in its history later this year. Aiming to reverse huge market-share losses to Apple Inc and Google Inc's Android, RIM is essentially starting from scratch with its next-generation BlackBerry 10 devices. The new platform will be...
08:46 PM, May 01, 2012
BANGALORE: Not many from the state and Kerala are applying for the State Selection Commission Exam (SSC) for group B and C Central government jobs, said Staff Selection Commission Regional Director S Gopalan.Addressing a news conference here on Wednesday, he said the approximate salary offered in a city like Bangalore will be will be Rs 36,500. The state received 1.5 per cent of the total 3.1 lakh applications from across...
10:36 AM, Apr 05, 2012
London: The spurt in the number of forgeries detected in the student visa applications lodged in New Delhi during 2010 had prompted the British high commission to stop accepting new applications, official sources said. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) said that 6,388 forgeries were detected in the New Delhi office, which was a considerable increase compared to the number of such cases detected in previous years: 2,846...
11:33 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The US is expecting nearly 14 per cent annual increase in visa applications from the country following implementation of streamlining of the application process as part of President Barack Obama's strategy to boost tourism from emerging countries like India and China. "We expect 14 per cent year-on-year growth in visa processed between now and 2020. We expect visa application process to reach 2.1 million by year 2020," Minister-Counsellor...
04:44 PM, Jan 27, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook is adding a bevy of new applications to let users share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner, to details on what they are wearing, to what concert they scored tickets to. The world's largest online social network unveiled more than 60 new apps Wednesday that let users share the tiniest details of their lives on their Facebook profiles, now known as their Timeline. Facebook...
11:32 AM, Jan 19, 2012
London: Social network Facebook has launched a new application through which a user can post one last message on his "wall" after his death. But there is a catch - three "trustees" have to confirm the person is actually dead. The free application is called "If I Die", the Daily Mail reported. It, however, has no option to automatically post a person's "last words". A user has to appoint three...
11:51 AM, Jan 15, 2012
New York: Facebook, the social networking site, is probably not the first place that comes to mind when contemplating new career opportunities. But Monster.com, the career search website, hopes to change that with BeKnown, a professional networking app that allows users to build their professional identities within Facebook. "People are spending so much of their time on Facebook and at the same time companies are trying to find creative and...
03:45 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Mumbai: Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd (AMDL) launched an application which offers remote patient monitoring system that can be accessed on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. The application - eTraq - has been launched by AMDL Health, the healthcare division of Advanced Micronic, an Opto Circuits Group company. AMDL Health, supplier of medical equipment and devices, said though eTraq doctors can access local patient monitors connected to a hospital's central monitoring system. The...
04:29 PM, Dec 10, 2011
Shanghai: Popular Apple iPad news application, Flipboard, said on Tuesday it has partnered with China's Sina Corp and Renren Inc to launch a Chinese edition of the application to woo users in the world's largest Internet market. Flipboard's chief executive tweeted in May this year that the application, which integrates Facebook, was blocked in China. Beijing fears that unfettered access to the Internet will lead to social instability and thus...
02:16 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Toronto: Looking for the dress you saw on a hit television show or the jerseys worn during a football game or soccer match? An iPad app aims to help viewers shop while watching TV. Unlike television shopping channels, Watch with Ebay is a new feature in eBay's iPad app that lets users buy items related to the program they're currently viewing. "The idea is to provide a new form of...
04:09 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Bangalore: Jaxtr, set up by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, today announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, an open texting application which allows users to send free SMSes across the world. "JaxtrSMS is completely unique in terms that a mobile user can send a text SMS to any mobile phone in the world without requiring the receiver to have the JaxtrSMS application installed on their phone," the company said...
12:05 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Bangalore: Canada-based smartphone maker Research In Motion will provide free aptitude test application on its BlackBerry phones for students in India in partnership with content providers Ipomo and mobile operator Vodafone. "We are looking at the way a student can utilise his time for productive work on mobile phones. Hence, we have decided to give students Aptitude Competition for Excellence (ACE) applications free so that he can utilise his time...
10:19 AM, Nov 21, 2011
Dubai: Seeking to capitalise on the increasing fascination for smartphones, a young Sharjah-based Indian poet has come up with a mobile application containing poems from his collection and detailing his work. Mystic writer Mujeeb Jaihoon's mobile application, iJaihoon, dubbed as the 'App for the eye within,' was launched at the Sharjah International Book Fair 2011 by American poet and songwriter Michael Rothenberg. He expressed hope that such endeavours will pave...
02:53 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Mumbai: Research In Motion India (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has said it sees huge opportunities in mobile applications development in India. The Canada-headquartered RIM currently has over 55 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts, and BlackBerry AppWorld is available in over 100 markets worldwide. "We see huge opportunity in mobile application development. BlackBerry App World currently has 26,000-odd registered developers from India, against 5,000 two years ago, with the applications...
02:32 PM, Nov 13, 2011
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