Beijing: Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday. The Chinese company said it is asking for similar action in more than 20 other cities. The dispute with Shenzhen Proview Technology threatens to complicate Apple's efforts to sell its popular tablet computer in China, its fastest-growing...
04:37 PM, Feb 13, 2012
New York: Having found this holiday season that they cannot beat iPad, iPhone and iPod, toymakers have decided to join them, lining up a host of playthings that come to life when hooked up to the devices, gadgets that kids love to play with. Industry insiders call them "AppCessories," and expect a wide array of these items to be on display at the American Toy Fair, which officially kicks off...
11:37 AM, Feb 11, 2012
New York: A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple Inc. is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March - the same week Apple announced the iPad 2 last year. The report cites unnamed people familiar with the device. Apple declined comment Thursday. It's not known whether the new...
10:43 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Los Angeles: Karaoke lovers typically fall into two categories: Those who enjoy it, and those whose arms have to be twisted to get up and sing in public. Enter Soulo, a software and microphone kit that can turn an iPad or other Apple device into a karaoke machine. It gives you instant karaoke in the privacy of your own home, or wherever you carry your Apple gadgets. That's the idea,...
11:38 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Panaji: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari's recent two-day visit to Goa appears to have done more damage than good to the party's image, ahead of the March 3 assembly election. When Gadkari flew down to Goa on February 4, one of his major agendas was to cap the aggravating feud between two party heavyweights - North Goa MP Shripad Naik and state assembly's leader of opposition Manohar Parrikar...
05:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Beijing: China has ordered a probe into the alleged iPad trademark infringement dispute between US-based gadgets maker Apple and a local company. The probe came over a month after a Chinese court rejected Apple's lawsuit accusing a local company of infringing on trademark "iPad" that could have resulted in it's having to sell it under a new name or cough up USD 1.6 billion. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court in...
12:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Panaji, Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has announced a list of 22 candidates for the forthcoming Goa polls. The list, which was announced on Sunday night, includes names of its prominent leaders, except its Member of Parliament Sripad Naik, who has refused to contest. Party's central election committee, which met in Delhi on Sunday night, with the party national president Nitin Gadkari as its head, finalised the list. Ananth Kumar, party's...
11:00 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Mumbai: Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces on Monday said several hotels from its portfolio have been rated as best in Asia and the world in the TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Awards 2012. Not only does Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur steal the show as being the best hotel in Asia and ranking 16th in the world, it also ranks second for the best service in the country, Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces...
10:53 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a German court has ruled against it in a patent suit with Apple Inc over mobile technology, the latest verdict in an intensifying global legal battle between the two technology giants. The ruling by the court in Mannheim covered one of three patents Samsung claimed Apple violated and follows Samsung's defeat last week. The court will decide on the third patent...
02:54 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Bangalore: Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia. The iconic maker of the iPhone, iPad and iPod has barely scratched the surface of the region, home to around 60 per cent of the world's population - a fact that Apple itself alluded to in reporting an eye-popping set of earnings this...
02:19 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New York: Tablet computers using Google's Android software narrowed the lead of Apple's iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter, growing 2-1/2 fold from 10.7 million a year earlier, the research firm said. "Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as...
12:34 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Panaji: BJP's move to disallow party MP Sripad Naik from contesting the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state has not gone down well with the Parliamentarian, who is yet to decide on campaigning for the party. Naik said on Thursday that he is yet to decide on whether he would campaign for the party in Goa. "There is still time for campaigning. Let the list of candidates be declared. I...
04:22 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Mumbai: Fifth standard students engaged in studies - no big deal. However, they are not studying on text books but on swanky apple iPads and this is not a concept classroom. At a universal school in Mumbai every student has an iPod and an iPad most of their teaching is done on iPad applications. They don't even have a computer class but all students have recently been given Macbook airs....
07:21 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New York: Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalise the US education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad in that sector. The consumer electronics giant has been working on digital textbooks with publishers Pearson PLC, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a trio responsible for 90 per cent of textbooks sold in the United States. The move pits the...
12:35 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Los Angeles: The great white shark is lurking in cyberspace, in the form of an iPhone application launched this week that allows users to track a dozen of the predators as they roam around the Pacific Ocean. The California-based Marine Conservation Science Institute launched the app, which the non-profit describes as the first shark tracker of its kind, to raise funds for its research. Great white sharks have scared and...
01:32 PM, Jan 13, 2012
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