
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

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

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

Los Angeles: Google unveiled its much-anticipated digital music store on Wednesday, opening a new front in its battle with Apple to provide services over mobile devices. For the first time, Google Inc. will sell songs on the Android Market, its online store for apps, movies and books. The service is available over the next few days to customers in the US, but it aims to roll it out eventually to...

08:36 AM, Nov 17, 2011

California: Google Inc is expected to unveil on Wednesday an online music download store featuring songs from three major music companies, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Sony Corp's Sony Music Entertainment, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group and EMI Music are expected to have deals with Google in place in time for a Wednesday afternoon announcement in Los Angeles, the Journal reported. The Google Music...

08:40 AM, Nov 16, 2011

San Francisco: Apple Inc. has removed a mobile app, called "Jew or Not Jew?", from its online App Store in France. The app let users consult a database of celebrities and public figures to determine if they are Jewish or not. Its removal follows a complaint from a French anti-racism group that threatened to sue the iPhone and iPad maker. The app, "Juif ou pas Juif?" in French, was selling...

01:12 PM, Sep 15, 2011

Beijing: China's top search engine Baidu Inc launched a new mobile application system on Friday, seeking to bolster its presence in the mobile web as competitors including Alibaba Group increase their mobile offerings. The platform, named Baidu Yi, will enable third-party application developers to create apps such as games, maps and other tools that they can distribute in the Yi store in a similar way to Apple Inc's App store....

12:58 PM, Sep 02, 2011

Beijing: Authorities in China's southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorized Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company's store in the city sparked an international storm. China's Administration for Industry and Commerce in the Yunnan provincial capital said the stores have been ordered to stop using Apple's logo after Apple China accused them of unfair competition and violating its registered trademark, state media said on Thursday....

01:27 PM, Aug 12, 2011

Kunming: Chinese officials in Kunming ordered two fake Apple shops to close, a local newspaper reported on Monday, an apparent reaction to a storm of media attention about an unauthorized and elaborate hoax store in the southwestern city. A total of five self-branded "Apple Stores" were found to be operating without authorisation from Apple Inc according to the Metropolitan Times report, posted on the Kunming government website. Two stores were...

02:41 PM, Jul 25, 2011

Kanpur: The Indian army is likely to add a new NBC or Nuclear-Biological-Chemical suit to its artillery which would proved effective against any kind of dangerous weapons or chemicals and protect the soldiers from any kind of negative effect. "DMMRDI(Defence Material and Stores Research Development Establishment) of Kanpur has developed a new NBC or Nuclear-Biological-Chemical suit that would be proved effective against any kind of dangerous weapons or chemicals and...

03:34 PM, May 11, 2011