New Delhi: Dell has come up with its new XPS 13 Ultrabook in India at a starting price of Rs 79,900. The XPS 13 is engineered with second-generation Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, Intel HD 3000 graphics and a bright high definition WLED 300-nit display. It comes with a 128GB or 256GB solid state hard drive and also has an available option of up to 100GB of...
06:03 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: A series of sneak peeps into new books by top Indian writers will be the cornerstone of a festival of literature, "Spring Fever", to be held March 16-24 at the India Habitat Centre. An annual feature of Penguin-Books India, the festival will preview several new titles by authors like Vikram Seth, Gurcharan Das, Shobhaa De, Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Amit Chaudhuri and Devdutt Patnaik, who will discuss their books...
03:36 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Corporate Affairs Minister has ordered an inquiry into its books following complaints from numerous investors against real estate major DLF. The senior officials of the ministry say they've received several complaints alleging that there are anomalies in the company's books. Sources says that SEBI has sent a reference to the Ministry in this regard. The Companies Act empowers the ministry to call and scrunitise a company's books....
06:32 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: When tech behemoths like Samsung, HP and others have been coming up with ultrabooks, Fujitus India has launched four new notebooks in India. Targeting primarily SMBs, all notebooks are powered by Intel core processors. The Fujitsu Lifebook LH531 is the cheapest of all. Priced at approx. Rs 25,000, the device weighs 2.2kg and features a 14-inch display that boasts an HD anti-glare display with LED backlight. It is...
03:35 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia announced a new e-reader app for its Lumia range of Windows Phone devices called Nokia Reading at the ongoing Mobile World Congress at Barcelona. The Nokia Reading app will compete with Amazon's Kindle app for Windows Phone 7. The app which will start rolling out for UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia and Germany markets from April has been designed to be a reading hub and users will...
03:30 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New York: Harry Potter e-books are coming to schools and libraries, at a date to be determined. OverDrive Inc., a leading distributor for the school and library markets, announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with J.K. Rowling's Pottermore website to make downloads of the seven Potter books available for students and library patrons. The mega-selling series will be available to more than 18,000 schools and libraries, in more...
10:53 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Oscars for the Best Short Film (Animated) went to William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg for 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'. Here's the onstage speech by Joyce and Oldenberg. William Joyce: Like look, we're just these two, like swamp rats from Louisiana and this is incredibly grand. We love the movies. We love the movies more than anything. It's been a part of our lives...
03:33 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: US based publishing company, Qbend has launched its ebook service in India. The company is not only offering users to buy ebooks from its website but also one can publish their books for a nominal fee. Using the services, customers can now buy eBooks or Electronic Books from a variety of Indian as well as international authors right form the Qbend store. The publications sold on Qbend are...
11:01 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Kabul: President Barack Obama apologised to Afghans on Thursday for the burning of Qurans at a US military base, trying to assuage rising anti-American sentiment as an Afghan soldier gunned down two American troops during another day of angry protests. The US-led military coalition says the Muslim holy books were sent by mistake to a garbage burn pit at Bagram Air Field and the case is under investigation. The explanation...
03:38 AM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: South Korean Samsung Electronics Thursday launched its Series 5 Ultra Notebooks, priced between Rs.48,990 and 54,390, in the Indian market. The notebooks are powered by Intel Core i5 processors and available in 13-and 14-inch sizes. "The launch of Samsung Ultrabooks will strengthen our NotePC (personal computer) offering in the consumer space and together with our enhanced NotePC lineup will help us to significantly consolidate our position in the...
06:49 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Exiled Bangladeshi author and feminist Taslima Nasreen has courted controversies by her repeated criticism of Islam and religion in general. Radical Muslims have criticized her for saying Islam and other religions oppress women. She describes herself as a secular humanist and criticises religion as an oppressive force. On Twitter, Nasreen has been a champion of causes that affect women and often her scathing posts have upset celebrities opposed...
07:09 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Bangalore: IT bellwether Wipro Infotech Tuesday unveiled what it claimed to be India's first and slimmest ultrabook for the domestic market spanning enterprise and retail segments. Powered by the second generation Intel core i5 processor, the 14-inch e.go Aero Ultrabook is a mobile computing device designed, developed and manufactured to suit every Indian customer's need. "The e.go is a high-tech product for the progressive Indian on the move. We recognise...
11:58 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: HP has come up with its first ultrabook - the HP Folio 13 - which is touted to feature a thin and light design. The device is claimed to deliver up to 9.5 hours of battery life. The device measures less than 0.75-inch thin and features a 13.3-inch diagonal high-definition display with a pixel resolution of 1366 x 768. It weighs 1.5 kg. It is powered by the...
10:06 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: From a politician and a lawyer Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal is also a poet. Sibal's second anthology of poems will be released in Delhi this week. Four years after releasing his first anthology of poems, he's back with his second, 'My World Within', published by Roli Books. "It's what I see in life, in politics, everyday life, misery, God, love. If there's one theme, it would be love,...
09:30 AM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: Apple has been awarded a fresh set of 19 patents bu the US Patent and Trademark Office, of which one is for the design of the MacBook Air, a product design that has inspired a number of clones. Initially among netbooks and now in ultrabooks. Apple has been involved in a number of legal battles, most significantly with Samsung alleging that the South Korean electronics giant copied the...
02:16 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: HP has introduced the redesigned HP ENVY 15 notebook PC. The notebook is touted to sport all-metal chassis with rounded edges in a classic black and silver finish, and accented by subtle red details. The ENVY15 features the Radiance Backlit keyboard that provides illumination using individual LEDs dedicated to each keycap. The keyboard also includes an advanced proximity sensor to illuminate when it detects a user approaching the...
03:56 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: For a generation that has learnt to articulate thoughts in 140 characters and knows its smartphones and tabs, e-textbooks are only the next step. But some infrastructure bottlenecks need to be taken care of before that education revolution takes place in India, experts say. Technology giant Apple recently launched an app for digital textbooks that saw an astronomical 350,000 downloads globally in the first three days. Educationists agree...
03:51 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Tasleema Nasreen's book launch in Kolkata was cancelled at a book fest after protests by Muslim groups. ...
11:19 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Jaipur: Muslim organisations in Rajasthan on Tuesday said they had not posed a life threat to controversial author Salman Rushdie during his proposed visit to the recently concluded Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). "Ever since the Jaipur Literature Festival ended with a fiasco on January 24, an impression is being created that Muslim organisations of Rajasthan had issued threats to the life of Rushdie or threatened to disrupt the prestigious literary...
01:13 AM, Feb 01, 2012
