New Delhi: Gionee has announced the launch of its new smartphone - Gionee P1 - which features a 3.5-inch display. The P1 is powered by a 1GHz Cortex A9 processor and comes with a 2 megapixel camera. It also has a front VGA camera. This dual SIM phone has a 1500 mAh battery. The P1 comes has an internal storage space of 512MB; its memory can be expanded up to...
11:33 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Chandigarh: The Border Security Force (BSF) in the past two days has seized heroin worth Rs 250 crore in the international market from the Khemkaran sector near Amritsar. On Tuesday 18 kilogram heroin was seized which was worth Rs 90 crore and on Wednesday another 32 kilogram heroin was seized worth Rs 160 crore. This drug haul comes after the massive one in Mohali in which heroin worth Rs 130...
09:27 AM, Apr 17, 2013
San Francisco: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted on Tuesday that there will be more than a billion smartphones in use featuring its Android software within the next six to nine months. Schmidt also noted that Google had no intention of blocking access to a new app from Facebook Inc, saying he was "phenomenally happy" with the app from Google's rival, which replaces the homescreen on Android phones. The new...
08:17 AM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry announced on Tuesday that Olympic medallist Vijender Singh's samples tested negative for drugs. The boxer was alleged to have consumed recreational drugs with sparring partner Ram Singh. The Beijing Olympics bronze medalist had submitted his blood and urine samples to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after being directed by the Ministry. "Vijender Singh along with four others was subjected to an out of competition test...
05:24 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Olympic medallist Vijender Singh can heave a sigh of relief after the sports ministry announced on Tuesday that the boxer's samples tested negative for drugs. The boxer was alleged to have consumed recreational drugs with sparring partner Ram Singh. The Beijing Olympics bronze medallist had submitted his blood and urine samples to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after being directed by the ministry. "Vijender Singh along with four...
04:17 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Electronics major Panasonic today unveiled four new durable and secure mobile computing devices ideal for mobile workers, combining highly secured data and device management. The company plans to target highly mobile workers in fields like military, construction, public safety, healthcare, utilities, retail, maintenance, supply chain logistics and insurance, Panasonic said in a statement. These devices are designed to give mobile workers reliable and secure access to their data...
11:14 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: Lava has announced that it is now rolling out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Iris 501. This brings a number of new features to the smartphone, with one of the most prominent ones being Google's triple-buffering technology dubbed Project Butter, which will make the phone's interface considerably smoother. You can get the update on your Iris 501 by going into the Software Update section in the...
12:36 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Huawei launched two new Android smartphones in India - Ascend G510 and Ascend Y300. Running on Android 4.1 JellyBean platform, with dual-core processors, both Ascend G510 & Y300 come with Huawei's new Emotion UI. Housed in a slim 9.9 mm slim design, the Ascend G510 has a 4.5-inch FWVGA display with 854 x 480 pixel resolution. It is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU and has a 1750mAh...
12:34 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New York: When I got my first smartphone in 2010, I checked Facebook obsessively. But over time, the novelty wore off and opening Facebook's app to check photos, links and posts from friends turned into a chore. In a sense, I'm the ideal target for Facebook's new Home app. Those photos, links and posts I couldn't be bothered to check on the social network's app automatically come to the screen...
06:49 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Mumbai: After weeks of leaks, Google has begun rolling out a new design for the Play Store. The Store now sports a cleaner user interface, all the categories are now neatly grouped together, and the payment process has undergone some improvements. In a blog post showing off the swanky Card-based layout, Michael Siliski, Group Product Manager for Google Play said that the store was not only simple and clean now,...
02:42 PM, Apr 10, 2013
San Francisco: Microsoft is skewering Google again with ads and regulatory bashing that say as much about the dramatic shift in the technology industry's competitive landscape as they do about the animosity between the two rivals. The ads that began Tuesday mark the third phase in a 5-month-old marketing campaign that Microsoft Corp. derisively calls "Scroogled." The ads, which have appeared online, on television and in print, depict Google as...
10:14 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Brussels: Companies including Microsoft and Nokia have stepped up pressure on EU antitrust regulators to take action against Google, accusing it of blocking competition in mobile telephony. The complaint comes as Google attempts to resolve a two-year long investigation by the European Commission into its internet search practices and avert a possible fine that could hit $5 billion, or 10 per cent of its 2012 revenue. More than a dozen...
08:38 AM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: After the Galaxy Star and Pocket Neo, Samsung has now quietly announced a new smartphone named "Galaxy Win". The phone has a 4.7 inch WVGA TFT LCD display and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Powered by a 1.2GHz quad core processor, the Galaxy Win has 8GB of internal storage. Its memory can be expanded up to 32GB using a microSD card. The Galaxy Win comes packed with a...
04:20 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The much-awaited Samsung Galaxy S4 is likely to be launched in India on April 25, however the phone will be available in stores from April 27, said a source with knowledge of the Galaxy S4 launch plans in India. He also said that the phone will be available for under Rs 40,000, while its MRP will be around Rs 42,000. Unveiled on March 14, the Galaxy S4 has...
01:37 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: Two new Samsung smartphones - Galaxy Young and Galaxy Y Plus - are now available on Snapdeal.com for Rs 8290 and Rs 6290, respectively. The Samung Galaxy Young is a dual SIM smartphone. It runs Android v4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and is powered by a 1GHz processor. It has a 3.27-inch screen with HVGA resolution. The phone has a 3 megapixel camera and a 1,300mAh battery that...
11:54 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: HTC has finally announced the launch of the much-awaited HTC One in India. The phone will be available in India by the end of April at a price of Rs 42,900. The phone runs Google's Android software, but HTC is grafting its own home screen on the phone, one that's similar to that of Microsoft's Windows Phone software. The new HTC One has a 4.7-inch (12-centimetre) screen, making...
10:33 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New York: Ready for the battle of the phones? This year's crop of high-end smartphones is starting to emerge, like bear cubs crawling out of their burrows, sniffing the spring air. First out is the HTC One, a handsome, powerful animal that should do well this year. The HTC One belongs to the big camp of smartphones running Google Inc.'s Android software. Collectively, they're the big alternative to the iPhone,...
08:25 AM, Apr 09, 2013
