New Delhi: At an event in New Delhi, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop unveiled the latest phone in the company's Asha series - the Asha 501. The Asha 501 runs on a new software platform.
The Asha 501 has a 3-inch QVGA TFT capacitive display and includes 128 MB of inbuilt flash memory and includes a 4GB memory card and the memory is expandable up to 32GB.
The Asha 501 has been launched at a price of $99 and should be available in India at about Rs 5,500 from June. The phone will be launched via 60 operators in 90 countries.
Nokia also announced that Nokia Asha users will be able to access Facebook through a standalone app for free on partner operator networks. The Asha 501 is the first Nokia device at such a low price point to use a micro-SIM. ...
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12:57 PM, May 09, 2013
New York: Research firm IDC said more smartphones than "dumb" phones are being made this year, a milestone in a shift that's putting computing power and Internet access in millions of hands worldwide. Manufacturers shipped 216 million smartphones worldwide in the first three months of this year, compared with 189 million regular cellphones, according to a study IDC released recently. IDC said smartphones made up 51.6 percent of the 419...
12:21 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: After launching Graph Search and the new News Feed, Facebook has now introduced one more feature that lets users reply to comments, which is said to be designed to improve conversations. It allows users to reply directly to comments left on their Page content and start conversation threads, which will make it easier for them to interact directly with individual readers and keep relevant conversations connected. The most...
11:39 AM, Mar 26, 2013
It's the second Oscar for Lee, who won in 2005 for 'Brokeback Mountain.' He becomes only the 19th director to win the honor multiple times. ...
07:47 AM, Feb 25, 2013
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has unveiled a new feature - LinkedIn Jobs, as per a blog post. LinkedIn's Vaibhav Goel elaborates that the new LinkedIn Jobs is an attempt at helping users find their dream job. ...
03:35 PM, Feb 17, 2013
The four new phones unveiled at an event at New Delhi are the Rex 80, Rex 80, Rex 70 and Rex 60. ...
02:42 PM, Feb 14, 2013
The social networking giant is testing a new status composer that lets you express your activities with smileys to enunciate your status ...
02:38 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Facebook has launched a new feature called Graph Search that allows users to search anything their Facebook friends have shared, including photos and posts. However, the feature is yet to be made public. ...
09:54 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new feature to help its users search for people and places within the social network, in the company's first major product launch event since its May initial public offering. ...
01:17 AM, Jan 16, 2013
Gauri Shinde's 'English Vinglish' starring Sridevi is one of the runners-up of the Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival, according to an official release on the festival's website. ...
03:07 PM, Jan 14, 2013
LG Electronics introduced a new feature, Panorama Note, on the Optimus Vu II for the first time at the 2013 International CES, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new feature Panorama Note allows users to create extra wide 3:1 ratio memos and drawings directly on smartphone displays. ...
11:51 AM, Jan 09, 2013
Nearly a week after Facebook launched its New Year's messaging feature, the social networking site was on Monday forced to drop the app following a flaw that allowed anyone to see and even delete personal messages intended for others. The popular website had last week launched its Midnight Message Delivery feature to allow users to send New Year's messages to friends that automatically arrive on the stroke of midnight. ...
08:26 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Kolkata: South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung is aiming to capture 50 per cent market share in value terms of India's overall mobile phone market by 2013, a top executive of the company said here Friday. Currently, the electronics major enjoys 40 per cent share of the country's Rs 45,000-crore handset market. "Next year, we will like to have 50 percent market share in overall mobile phone market, including smartphones...
11:31 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: With the iOS and Android versions of Facebook, one could practically do as much as its desktop counterpart. In a bid to improve the mobile versions of the social networking service, Facebook has informed TechCrunch that the 'Share' button will be rolled out to the mobile site, and will come soon to the Android and iOS apps. The report states that this feature will allow people to share...
03:42 PM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: It seems like Facebook is on a revamping spree. After sound-alert notification and one-column timeline design features, another new feature that Facebook is experimenting with is the "reply button on comments". According to a report from Mashable, Facebook is testing a new feature that would allow users to reply to a comment instead of replying to the original post. "We are testing a new way to add comments...
04:20 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: Using only your voice, you can make a phone call, respond to a text message, search the web, open an app, or take an audio note on Windows Phone 8. Learn how you can use the speech features on your Windows Phone 8 smartphone. ...
12:58 AM, Oct 30, 2012
A Cnet report confirms that Facebook is slowly pulling its Questions feature out of the picture. A Facebook representative said that the decison has been made so that Facebook could focus on other things. The Questions feature will be unavailable for user access soon, it will still be available on Groups and Pages. Facebook Questions, which was launched in beta in 2010, allowed users to ask their friends and other...
12:22 PM, Oct 21, 2012
