Amsterdam: Next-generation software for BlackBerry's smartphones is "ready to compete", Research In Motion's new chief executive, Thorsten Heins, told more than 2,000 technical developers on Tuesday, expressing confidence in RIM's long-term future. The Canadian company has lost market share and market value after being comprehensively outplayed by technology giants Apple, Google and Samsung. But it is betting that yet-to-be-released products powered by its new QNX operating system will improve its...
11:04 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: Apple released the Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, an update to its professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that is touted to automatically sync up to 64 angles of video and photos; advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app; and enhanced XML for a richer interchange with third party apps and plug-ins that support the fast growing Final Cut Pro X ecosystem....
01:16 PM, Feb 01, 2012
London: People who have been "unfriended" on social network Facebook can now check out the person through a new software that can be installed in any internet browser. The software - called "Unfriend Finder" - also alerts users when someone rejects or ignores a friend request. It is free, and till date has been downloaded 44 million times, the Daily Mail reported. The script works in browsers such as Google...
12:09 PM, Feb 01, 2012
London: American intelligence agency FBI is reportedly developing new software to scan social networks Twitter and Facebook to look for emerging threats and predict crimes. The FBI has asked technology firms to create software that can effectively scan the websites for words, phrases and other suspected behaviour, the Telegraph reported. It will also be able to translate from foreign languages as well as detect patterns of users misleading the police....
01:07 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Boston: Anti-virus software maker McAfee warned that a flaw in one of its products could make customers' PCs vulnerable to attacks in which hackers used their computers to distribute spam. The company, which is a unit of chipmaker Intel Corp, disclosed the flaw in a message to customers on its website Wednesday. McAfee spokesman Ian Bain said t least one customer had fallen victim to such an attack, which leveraged...
01:26 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software. "This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest will follow," Yama Tough posted via Twitter. In the past week Yama Tough has released fragments of source code from Symantec products along with a cache of emails. The...
11:07 AM, Jan 15, 2012
Las Vegas: Research In Motion showed off a major update to the QNX-based software running its poor-selling PlayBook tablet and unveiled minor improvements to its legacy BlackBerry phone software at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday. But the Canadian company's products were left off the list of hot new devices being touted by AT&T, the second-largest US carrier, highlighting the challenges for RIM in reinvigorating its flagging fortunes in that...
04:15 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: French company Capgemini is setting up a software centre at the Technopark IT hub in the Kerala capital, said a Technopark official. M. Vasudevan, business development manager at Technopark, said the company has taken up space at the Leela Infotech campus. Paris-based Capgemini is one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 115,000 operating in 40 countries. Currently there are 245...
03:48 PM, Jan 06, 2012
HYDERABAD: A software engineer ended his life reportedly depressed over failure to reduce his weight even after medical treatment at Miyapur. The depression resulted in the engineer suffering from severe headache since the past few days, police said. The software engineer immolated himself while his wife had gone to her parent's house for delivery of their first child. The deceased, K Chandrasekhar (35) was working as a software engineer in...
09:14 AM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Kalyanmoy Deb is the winner of the Infosys 2011 Prize for his contribution in engineering and computer science. His unique software helps pick the right solution from millions of confusing choices. Though designed for industrial applications like car and cell phone manufacture, it can theoretically be adapted to much more personal uses. Choices are something we all have to make. Dr Kalyanmoy Deb is someone who helps making ...
08:56 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Kolkata: India has done a great job of developing the IT services business, but it has failed in world class product development for the software industry, says Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail.com. "While India has done a great job of developing the services business, in reality we have completely failed in product development. There is no product that is developed in India for the world market. And that is...
03:54 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: Engineers from Delhi and Bihar are the best when it comes to IT product, IT services, KPO, BPO, software testing and hardware networking roles, according to a survey. The National Employability Study 2011 by Aspiring Minds after analysing the employability scores of over 1.2 lakh final year engineering graduates reveals that while Delhi engineers are the best when it comes to IT services, BPO, KPO, software testing and...
12:27 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Mumbai: The depreciation in rupee's value is likely to benefit software exporters, but the global macro economic situation will pose a challenge for the industry next year, a top official of IT giant TCS said on Thursday. "This year has gone very well and better than what we expected. Next year it will be some kind of stressful environment and every government will try to avoid the Lehman kind of...
09:43 PM, Dec 15, 2011
The Hague: Google does not work with nor does it support Carrier IQ, the software maker which has been accused of violating millions of mobile phone users' privacy rights, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said. Carrier IQ makes software that operators including AT&T and Sprint Nextel install in mobile devices. The software transmits data that Carrier IQ says allows mobile operators to better understand their devices and networks. But it has...
10:34 AM, Dec 10, 2011
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