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09:53 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) will launch around 15 BlackBerry premium stores across the country by the end of this year to expand its business in India. The firm launched a store in Gurgaon Friday. It had opened one in Delhi last month. "We will be launching almost 10 to 15 BlackBerry premium stores by the end of the year covering all the top metros including...
11:08 AM, May 12, 2012
Mumbai: Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata along with his designate successor Cyrus Mistry launched an e-commerce portal for the group's retail arm Infiniti Retail which runs the consumer durables and electronics chain stores under the Croma brand. The move comes amidst the fast-growing e-commerce space attracting funds from private equity and venture capital investors. "With the higher penetration of Internet connectivity, online sales are catching up in a big way....
11:33 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Nineteen years after the failed attempt to restore hope in Somalia, it appears the West is getting ready for another crack at Africa's Horn. The ...
01:31 PM, Apr 23, 2012
San Francisco: Maybe Lord Voldemort put a spell on Amazon.Com Inc on Tuesday. On the same day that Amazon started selling Harry Potter e-books in a landmark deal, buy buttons on the company's dominant Kindle e-book store disappeared for several hours. Top-selling e-books, including The Hunger Games series and the Fifty Shades trilogy, instead had bigger green buttons saying "This title is not available for customers from: United States." Several...
11:32 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: They constantly interrupted each other to get in an urgent quip and often finished each other's sentences with perfectly timed guffaws. More than once they threatened to take over the interview as I tried to get in a word. They ignored me, of course. Note to self. When you are talking to two of India's most promising stand-up comics, Gursimran Khamba and Tanmay Bhat, you run the risk...
11:27 AM, Mar 27, 2012
San Francisco: More than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's app store. A news piece released from Apple on Monday said the downloads came from more than 315 million iPhones, iPads and iPod touches. The app store has more than 550,000 apps, some of which are free. Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China, downloaded the 25 billionth app and won a $10,000 iTunes gift card. The app store launched...
12:43 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: 7Seas Entertainment, a Hyderabad-based mobile game developer, has announced the availability of its 17 mobile games on the Nokia Store. The 17 mobile games that are now available on the Nokia Store include Alexia The Great and The Fight 3D (action), MobiXonix, The Jars-I and The Jars-II (arcade), Moto Rider and Rally Drive (racing), Air War 3D and Shoot Out (shooting), Catches Win Matches 3D (sports), 3D Sudoku...
12:14 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Mumbai: If you were of the thinking that incidents of hacking were predominant abroad, then you're sorely mistaken; read on. Reportedly, the latest victim, in a long series of hacks is the high-profile website of the Indian Microsoft Store. The store suffered a hack, carried out by a team of hackers called 'Evil Shadow Team'. WPSauce first reported about the incident, and according to a statement in the report, "It...
11:27 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: Cultural ties between India and Britain received a new boost with leading London-based literary agency Tibor Jones and the prestigious Foyles Bookstore honouring two emerging south Asian fiction writers, Sri Kumar Sen and Rohit Manchanda, with the maiden Tibor Jones South Asia Prize. The prizes, to be given annually, were awarded to the writers on the strength of their unpublished manuscripts, "A Place in the Mind" by Rohit...
07:13 PM, Jan 18, 2012
San Francisco: Over 100 million apps have been downloaded from Apple's Mac App Store since its launch in January, Xinhua reported. "With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world," Apple said in a statement Monday, adding that "Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry." Apple launched the Mac...
11:39 AM, Dec 13, 2011
Los Angeles: In recent weeks, Apple, Google and Amazon.com have each launched the missing puzzle piece in their wireless mobile music systems. Apple enabled storage and delivery of your songs over the Internet through iTunes Match. Google started selling music digitally. Amazon shipped an electronic-books device, called the Kindle Fire, that does much more than books. With those additions, each system now lets you buy songs, store them on faraway...
10:25 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New York: Social media and mobile communications will be the two big targets for Google Inc when it unveils a new music store for users on Wednesday, according to four people familiar with its plans. But the giant web search company's new music partners have already labelled the service "unexciting." Music executives had been hoping for a more ground breaking, fully functional cloud-based service; but after licensing talks broke down...
09:00 AM, Nov 17, 2011
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