Srinagar: Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day Thursday. Mobile phone services in Srinagar were withdrawn to prevent separatists from triggering electronically-controlled remote devices. "This is part of the standard security drill. The services will be restored immediately after the official parade ends here," an intelligence officer said. ...
10:55 AM, Jan 26, 2012
Geneva: A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger and the appearance of a Web page. The technology will be used immediately for planning changes to equipment but it could take two years to show up on consumers smartphone, tablets and other...
04:04 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Las Vegas: The wireless industry is looking at new ways to deliver mobile video services and charging consumers as it tries to boost usage without overloading networks, a top Verizon Wireless technology executive said. The shift, which will happen as early as this year, involves a new concept the executive, Shadman Zafar, described- as drip-casting, where video is sent gradually to devices such as tablets. This will come hand in...
12:54 PM, Jan 13, 2012
Las Vegas: The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets? Don't they get any love? Actually, one machine at the show is designed to help recycle gadgets, giving old phones a fitting end, or a better home. Drop your phone into the EcoATM, and the machine will pay you what it believes the...
11:21 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Las Vegas: Sure, today's phones can deliver the sound of a heartbeat. But how would you like to actually feel the throbbing? A few companies want to replace the crude vibration motors in today's phones and tablets with something that provides a much wider range of sensations, allowing you to feel the rumble of a Harley or the reverberation of a shotgun blast. The new technology can even let you...
11:12 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: Mobile phones and tablets often suffer cracks or scratches that are too small to detect, causing malfunction. Researchers have now come up with a new quick-fix method to take care of these. A team from the universities of Pittsburgh and Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), the US, have come up with a "repair-and-go" approach to fix such malfunctions. "Anything that's a machine with a surface is affected by these small-scale cracks,"...
08:08 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Your mobile phone charger will soon carry energy efficiency ratings. The government is in advanced stages of finalising the guidelines for providing energy efficiency ratings for mobile phone chargers. "We are working on it. The draft proposal is being discussed and we hope to introduce ratings for mobile phone chargers this fiscal itself. "Initially, the system would be introduced on a voluntary basis," an official at the Bureau...
12:48 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New York: TV stations have been locked out of the screens we carry with us every day - those of cellphones. On Wednesday, they gained a foothold in the wireless world, though it's not yet clear whether there's real consumer demand. MetroPCS Communications Inc. became the first cellphone company to announce plans for a phone that can tune in to live, local TV broadcasts. The capability will be part of...
08:58 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Beijing: Passengers travelling by the metro in Shanghai can now access all kinds of information, including maps, stations, routes and even the location of toilets, through a newly-launched mobile phone application. Metro operator Shanghai Shentong launched Sunday the free applications on mobile phones, initially on Apple, offering information about the city's 11 metro lines, the Shanghai Daily reported Monday. Through the application, passengers can also get "real-time" advice on which...
02:30 PM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Mobile video service Vuclip has announced an independent mobile movie portal for Indian films. Called Starlight Cinema, the portal offers more than 9000 movie clips in 13 Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Punjabi, Oriya, Rajasthani, Kashmiri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Starlight Cinema includes clips, trailers and first looks of upcoming and released films including trailers of Hollywood movies. Commenting on the reason behind launching...
08:13 PM, Nov 17, 2011
Johannesburg: Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe. For Kitongo, her cell phone also serves as a radio, library, mini cinema, bank teller and more. The Kenyan-Ugandan who just finished marketing studies in South Africa is an urban, cosmopolitan, on-the-move face of cell phone users on the continent, where a...
05:01 PM, Nov 09, 2011
The first of the Nokia Windows Phone Mango devices will hit the Indian markets very soon and we thought it was the time to take a closer look at the operating system that the struggling mobile phone giant was betting so much on. I have been playing around with a Mango phone over the last few days and can say for sure that it does have the punch in it....
07:44 PM, Nov 08, 2011
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