New Delhi: The much-awaited Sony Xperia Tablet Z is now available for pre-order on online shopping sites Flipkart.com and Infibeam.com for Rs 44,990. While Flipkart has listed the first week of June as the estimated release date, Infibeam, on tht other hand, mentions, the Xperia Tablet Z will be released on June 3.
The tablet was unveiled in India, alongside the Indian launch of the Xperia Z amd Xperia ZL smartphones, in March. While the phones hit store shelves in India starting March 2013, the tablet was scheduled to be launched in May.
The tablet is light in weight. It is claimed to be the world's slimmest LTE tablet. The tablet has a 10.1-inch HD Reality Display, powered by Mobile Bravai Engine 2. The tablet is both water and dust resistant.
The tablet runs Google's Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm's quad-core processor. It has a 8.1 megapixel camera with 16x digital zoom....
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04:20 PM, May 24, 2013
Paris: France coach Didier Deschamps has called up Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette for the first time to replace the injured Jeremy Menez for next month's friendly matches against Uruguay and Brazil. The French Football Federation said Thursday that Menez has pulled out because of back pains. The Paris Saint-Germain winger has not played since scoring the goal that clinched the league title in a 1-0 win at Lyon two weeks...
03:38 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Developments in the IPL spot-fixing scandal moved at a frantic pace on Friday, with sources telling CNN-IBN that BCCI chief N Srinivasan may step down if his son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan is arrested. Meiyappan has been summoned for questioning by the Mumbai Police after arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh told the police that Meiyappan is involved in betting on IPL matches. The CSK...
03:21 PM, May 24, 2013
From the French Riviera, we get you Hollywood actor Robert Redford sharing his secret of survival in Hollywood while promoting his shipwreck drama 'All is Lost' in Cannes. And look who popped out from the 'lost and found', our desi girls Ameesha Patel and Sherlyn Chopra walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. ...
02:05 PM, May 24, 2013
London: A brave scout leader 48-year-old Ingrid Loyau-Kennett has become an unlikely star after confronting two alleged attackers who beheaded a British soldier outside military barracks in Woolwich in London. Kennett arrived at the spot soon after the soldier Drummer Lee Rigby was beheaded and tried to convince one of the attackers to throw away his arms and surrender without any concern for her safety. According to Kennett she was...
01:25 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Just over a week after Google's announcement of the Galaxy S4 Google Edition, rumours have started surfacing claiming that HTC is also planning to come up with a stock Android variant of its flagship phone, HTC One, for release in the US. According to Geek.com, the company plans to cater those who prefer their Android to have a little more Google in the software department, and thus the...
12:37 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Altaf Raja has returned with a trendy song that he has sung for director Raj Kumar Gupta's forthcoming film 'Ghanchakkar'. The film stars Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan in the lead roles, and is set to be released on June 28, 2013. ...
12:29 PM, May 24, 2013
Los Angeles: Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, triggering a tug-of-war for the online video service. Satellite operator DirecTV and cable operator Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time...
10:32 AM, May 24, 2013
Cannes: Ritesh Batra's debut film 'Lunchbox' has bagged the critics week viewers choice award at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. Starring Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddique in the lead roles, the film received unanimous praise from the audience during its screening at the festival. "Just got the news the lunchbox won its first award at Cannes," Irrfan posted on Twitter. 'Lunchbox', which is one of one of the four films...
10:19 AM, May 24, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: As the Congress led-UDF government completes three years in Kerala, there are more reasons to worry than cheer. The simmering rivalry between Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and state Congress President Ramesh Chennithala has now become an open conflict. An interview given to the New Indian Express has now openly pitted Chennithala against Chandy. A key bone of contention has been Chandy's failure to induct Chennithala into the Cabinet. After...
10:10 AM, May 24, 2013
As Sanjay Dutt serves his jail term in Yerwada prison in Pune, his film 'Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke' also releases this Friday along with 'Fast and Furious 6' and Preity Zinta's maiden production 'Ishkq in Paris'. ...
09:57 AM, May 24, 2013
United States President Barack Obama announced steps to push for the close of Guantanamo detention center. Obama had repeatedly vowed to close the camp during his 2008 presidential campaign. ...
09:27 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: With Assembly election just months away, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked party leaders in Delhi to work unitedly to ensure a fourth successive victory for the party in the polls and sent out a clear message that indiscipline will not be tolerated by him. At around five-hour long interaction with separate groups of Congress workers at DPCC office in Central Delhi, Rahul underlined the need...
08:38 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Friday attend the silver jubilee celebrations of market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in Mumbai. A commemorative postage stamp and a book on the history of the Indian securities market will be released on the occasion. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister T Shanmugaratnam, who also holds the finance portfolio, will be the guest of honour. He is scheduled to deliver...
06:23 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will pay a three-day visit to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia starting from Friday, the first visit by an Indian foreign minister in the last five years, during which the kingdom's Nitaqat work policy, regional and international issues would be discussed. As many as 56,700 Indians face deportation from Saudi Arabia in the next one-and-half months and ten officials have been dispatched to the...
06:15 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: As many as 56,700 Indians face deportation from Saudi Arabia in the next one-and-half months and ten officials have been dispatched to the kingdom to help the Indian mission prepare emergency certificates for their exit, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on Thursday. "As of now, 56,700 Indians have registered with the Indian mission for getting exit permits as they have no valid passports or other travel documents,"...
05:05 AM, May 24, 2013
London: The Scotland Yard on Thursday arrested two more people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of a soldier on a busy London street by two suspected Islamist extremists, as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed the country would remain resolute in its opposition to terrorism. A man and a woman, both 29, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in relation to the Woolwich terror murder of...
01:06 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Thursday opposed scrapping of the provision which requires the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to seek government's permission for probing bureaucrats in corruption cases. The DoPT raised the issue during a power-point presentation at the maiden meeting of the Group of Minister headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram which discussed the issue of giving greater autonomy and more financial powers...
10:44 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Faced with the Supreme Court rap on the independent functioning of CBI, the Group of Ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday discussed ways to give greater autonomy and more financial powers to the agency. The GoM, at its first meeting, was given a power-point presentation by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in which it opposed scrapping of the provision which requires CBI to...
09:24 PM, May 23, 2013
