Jajpur: Investigation into the sale of a baby boy by his mother in Odisha's Jajpur district has revealed curious details " the money was used to buy a mobile phone and a pair of jeans among other things. "Rakhi Patra of Mundamala village who sold her 17-month-old son for Rs 5000 purchased a new mobile phone, a pair of jeans, few new tops (to go with the jeans) and memory...
11:50 PM, Oct 03, 2012
London: More and more people - around one in four - are now turning to electronic devices like mobile phones or tablet computers to check the time, and wrist watches may soon fall out of fashion, a study has found. According to the Daily Mail, the percentage of people preferring to check the time on mobile devices has gone up from 18 per cent just a year ago. Among people...
01:07 PM, Sep 29, 2012
New Delhi: Don't want to be annoyed by unwanted commercial calls and SMSs? Here's all that you should know about Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) new regulations to give your mobile phone a little rest. Under the guidelines issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), consumers can choose their preference to receive or not to receive commercial communication from seven pre-defined categories. Commercial communications, other than transactional messages...
02:45 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Hyderabad: For all their publicity, the cell phone companies, with their celebrity ambassadors, seem to be a little lax in adhering to norms. A number of cell phone towers, said to be in hundreds, in the city are illegal, according to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). The civic body is mulling action against the erring companies if they fail to regularise these towers by coughing up the relevant fee...
01:33 PM, Sep 25, 2012
San Francisco: As the mobile computing wars heat up, chipmakers that supply the crucial components inside smartphones and tablets aim to grab more of the glory. Not content to remain in the shadows of hot consumer brands like Apple or Samsung, chipmakers - including Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia - want consumers to get to know the processors that power their mobile devices. They hope to build brand loyalty in the...
01:38 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Washington: Scientists are developing a new ultrathin lens which could lead to smart phones as thin as a credit card. The new lens is flat, distortion-free and so small that more than 1,500 would fit across the width of a human hair - capable in the future of replacing lenses in applications ranging from cell phones to cameras to fiber-optic communication systems. In a study published in journal Nano Letters,...
04:50 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Wednesday said it will levy financial disincentives on operators for contravention of mobile number portability (MNP) regulations ranging from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. "In order to ensure compliance of MNP regulations by access providers, the authority has decided to amend the regulations to incorporate the provisions for levying financial disincentives where contravention is established in rejection of porting requests and...
11:46 AM, Sep 20, 2012
Seoul: A handful of smartphone apps that began as basic instant messaging services have amassed several hundred million users in Asia in just a couple of years, mounting a challenge to the popularity of online hangouts such as Facebook as they branch into games, e-commerce, celebrity news and other areas. Among them is Line, which has grown to 60 million users, mostly in Asia including at least 29 million in...
10:48 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: Epson launched its Android-powered wearable display device the Moverio BT-100 in India. The see-through mobile viewer on the Google Android 2.2. The Epson Moverio BT-100 projects an 80-inch perceived 'floating' display 5 metres away from the user and it can be used for for web browsing, playing games, watching videos and interacting with content privately. The device also allows the user to see what's around with its see-through...
02:09 PM, Sep 14, 2012
San Francisco: A new iPhone is getting much of the attention, but Apple's older phones will get a software upgrade this fall as well. A new operating system sports a different mapping service and a built-in bond with Facebook. Apple has said that its iOS 6 software will sport more than 200 new features, though some won't be available on all devices. It will be a free upgrade for iPhones...
10:39 AM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: You can now upload images directly from your mobile browser to Twitter. The social networking site has begun integrating image uploads into its mobile website. This new feature will allow users accessing Twitter via its mobile website to attach images to their tweets. Clicking on the image button allows you to capture an image using the camera or select a file from your gallery. It seems the new...
03:39 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Karur: Parents and enraged people laid a siege on the Panchayat Union Middle School, Vayalur, near Kulithalai, on Monday alleging that a teacher took voyeuristic photographs of schoolgirls on his cellphone. According to a section of the public, some of the girls complained to their parents that the teacher, K Paramanandam, took their photos on his mobile phone. The parents demanded that the authorities initiate action against the teacher and...
01:43 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: T-Mobile USA, the only "Big 4" phone company that doesn't sell the iPhone, now wants to snag used ones from AT&T. Starting Wednesday, when Apple is expected to reveal a new iPhone model, T-Mobile will start advertising that AT&T iPhone owners who are out of contract can switch to T-Mobile. "We expect that consumers will start trading in older devices," said Harry Thomas, T-Mobile's director of marketing. "For...
10:24 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom subscriber base fell to 944.81 million in July from 965.52 million a month ago, the first ever decline in the country. The subscriber base report for the month of July released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) shows that overall telecom user base of the country dropped by 20.71 million subscribers over June. "This is the first time we have seen decline in overall subscriber base,"...
05:09 PM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. "Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, through SMS, within 10 days of the date of issue of this direction, that ISD facility of the subscribers shall be discontinued after sixty days," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
11:14 AM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. "Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, through SMS, within 10 days of the date of issue of this direction, that ISD facility of the subscribers shall be discontinued after sixty days," Telecom Regulatory Authority of India...
01:20 AM, Sep 09, 2012
Tokyo: Japan's Sony Corp said hackers have accessed the email addresses and names of as many as 400 of its mobile unit's customers in China and Taiwan held on servers owned by a third-party vendor. No credit card information was compromised in the attack, which hacking group NullCrew claimed in tweets to have perpetrated. Sony does not yet know the source of the attack, company spokesman George Boyd said in...
02:23 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has hiked the value added tax (VAT) by 0.5 per cent, a move which will make ACs, refrigerators and other such goods costlier. The decision was taken at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and would be applicable after issusance of the notification on Wednesday, official sources said. As per the decision, in addition to 12.5 per cent VAT, which is imposed on certain items, additional...
01:00 PM, Sep 05, 2012
New Delhi: Karbonn Mobiles has announced its flagship mobile device " the Karbonn Smart A18 - which runs Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' OS. The smartphone is powered by a 1 GHz processor and comes packed with a 1500 mAh Battery. The phone is priced at Rs 12,990, however the e-commerce site Flipkart is selling it for Rs 9,790. It is a dual SIM phone where SIM 1 supports 3G...
04:32 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: As per guidelines that were made effective only recently, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked service providers to not provide mobile connections exceeding 3 months to foreign tourists in the country. The guidelines further instruct service providers that while issuing a SIM card to a foreign tourist, the latter's passport with a valid visa ought to be considered as the proof. This move by the government, evaluated...
12:46 PM, Sep 03, 2012
