Mumbai: Actress Priyanka Chopra, who has been appointed as brand ambassador for home entertainment brand Digital Direct Broadcast (DDB), says she is a geek's fantasy. "I love technology...I consider myself geek's fantasy. Any new gadget in the market and I need to have one," Priyanka told reporters at the event here. Explaining about DDB, she said, "The DDB is so simple...its like a file, its like a folder where I...
02:23 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: From July 1, it will become mandatory for all TV viewers across the four metros to get digital set top boxes. But even as the process of mandatory conversion of analog cable signals to digital continues across the metros, industry experts have flagged off the need for introducing and implementing some critical steps to ensure the revival of the television industry, which has come under steep financial strain despite...
08:58 AM, May 01, 2012
Come July 1 and it will mandatory for all viewers to get a digital set top box, and for operators to offer channels in a digital and addressable format. The move will spell a big relief for TV broadcasters as well as the government, both of whom have been losing out on revenues because of the massive under-reporting of subscribers by local cable operators. According to a report in The...
04:54 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: Amazon.com Inc's stellar quarterly results are helping convince skeptics on Wall Street that a bout of intense spending is beginning to pay off for an Internet retailer trying to transform itself into a technology company. Shares in Amazon leapt 15 per cent on Friday after it reported first-quarter earnings and margins well above investors' most bullish expectations, tacking on some $10 billion in market value and marking its biggest...
12:40 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Aleph Book Company has announced its first list of titles. The twenty five fiction and non-fiction titles on the company's launch list will be published across five seasons, and will comprise original works by established authors as well as new voices. Ex-Penguin Canada President and novelist David Davidar, Ravi Singh and Kapish Mehra whose company Rupa Publications has partnered Davidar to launch Aleph, talked about their strategy...
04:18 PM, Apr 10, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc is getting into the eyewear business with a pair of thin wraparound shades that puts the company's Web services in your face. The experimental "augmented reality" glasses - from the same team that is developing self-driven cars - can snap photos, initiate videochats and display directions at the sound of a user's voice. The prototype digital glasses, unveiled on the company's Google+ social network on Wednesday,...
09:52 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Noida: Here's some good news for gamers. This suburb of the national capital is set to host first-of-its-kind digital games carnival from April 6. The three-day event will see international and national gamers competing with each other under one roof. The India Gaming Carnival (IGC) is being organised by WTF Eventz Pvt Ltd and will house all the latest digital and online games including Need for Speed, Fifa Soccer, Tekken,...
11:19 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Considering Samsung's love for Google's Android operating system, it won't be a surprise if one day Samsung comes up with Android-based digital cameras. However, if Engadget's report is to be believed, this might turn into reality soon. According to the report from Engdaget, Samsung is mulling over an "open" camera operating system. Samsung R&D team has been researching on how to bring Android to its digital cameras. But...
12:39 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Chicago: Hours after Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time in more than 200 years, someone among the editing minions of free online rival Wikipedia made an irony-free note of that fact. "It was announced that after 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print, instead focusing on its online encyclopedia," the entry read. The book-form of...
10:45 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New York: In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia still in print is moving solely into the digital age. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said on Wednesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. The flagship, 32-volume printed...
10:50 AM, Mar 14, 2012
This week is Holi, the festival of colours. On Tuesday we also celebrate the culmination of another colourful festival - elections. On Holi you will ...
09:36 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Washington: New Age guru Deepak Chopra's "Kama Sutra and the Seven Spiritual Laws of Love," a lavishly illustrated book, is now available across a number of digital E-Book & App platforms. The book is fully illustrated with lavish paintings created by a group of Indian artists hand selected by Chopra, according to publisher Liquid Comics and online site Intent.com, "The Kama Sutra is many things: a manual for lovemaking, a...
02:24 PM, Feb 19, 2012
London: Parents could be putting their children at risk if they upload digital photos that are automatically "geotagged" by their camera, a study reveals. Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media, including photographs. The tools are often built into camera and camera phones and either use the mobile networks or global positioning system (GPS) to pinpoint a given photo. Researcher Joanne Kuzma from the University...
12:15 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Rochester: Picture it: Save for a few disposable point-and-shoots, Kodak is exiting the camera business. Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in a move that marks the end of an era for the beleaguered 132-year-old company. Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was known all over the world for iconic cameras such as the Brownie and...
10:46 AM, Feb 10, 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
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