Reliance Jio to offer high-speed data, voice services using 4G technology

KOLKATA: Reliance Jio Infocomm has said it would use the mix of airwaves it owns to offer both high-speed data and voice services, while scoffing at analyst comments that the company could find it tough to attract customers without providing voice options. The company is building "futuristic high-capacity infrastructure to handle huge demand for data and voice" using fourth-generation technology, a Reliance Jio spokesman said. "In addition to high-speed data, the 4G network will provid .. Read more at:htt...

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Infosys looks to rope in Israeli firm Goldratt Consulting to improve productivity

BANGALORE: InfosysBSE -0.54 % is in discussions with an Israeli management consultancy that counts top global corporations as its clients for a project to dramatically improve productivity in its business, according to people familiar with the matter. The Bangalore-based company, which is aiming for a return to industry-leading growth and margins under chairman NR Narayana Murthy, is considering engaging the Israeli firm to help its operations become more efficient while also accelerating its top line growth, the...

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Pc Vs Mac

      PC As the most popular OS for home and office PCs, Windows is a trusted brand that works on any device. The latest Windows 8 is also a lot faster, more interactive and easier to use than previous versions. MAC The defining element of a Mac experience is its OS. Fast, simple and reliable, the Mac OS is designed to work...

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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin get $1 salary while Eric Schmidt's package doubled

SAN FRANCISCO: Google paid co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin their customary $1 salaries last year while Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's compensation more than doubled to $19.3 million. Most of Schmidt's raise stemmed from stock grants valued at $11.4 million. Google issued them to make up for an administrative error in the handling of another large award given to Schmidt in February 2011, according to regulatory documents filed Friday. If not for the mix-up, Schmidt's pay package last year would have risen...

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Amazing Google Glasses Demonstration at Google

Google Glasses Live Demonstration - During the Google I/O 2012 keynote, the audience was about to experience an amazing demonstration of Google Glass...

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New Apple iPhone likely out in September:

TOKYO: Apple is likely to release its newest iPhone globally in September with a higher resolution and bigger screens, Japan's business daily reported Friday. The handset, expected to be called the iPhone 6, is expected to come in two versions with a 4.7- or 5.5-inch screen, up from the current four-inch panel, the report said, without citing sources. US-based Apple is ordering its higher-resolution liquid crystal display screens from Japanese electronics giant Sharp, Japan .. Read more at:http://econ...

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Microsoft unveils Office for iPad

NEW DELHI: Microsoft took its time but it has finally accepted that iPad and iPhone are popular devices. On Thursday it announced a change in how it offers its services and said that MS Office is now available to iPad users. In his first major press conference as CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella said that Microsoft will work to serve "users and organisations across devices" and not just those who use a computer or tablet powered by Windows. As the first example of Microsoft's new direction, Nadella then announced that...

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Competition Commission slaps Rs 1 crore fine on Google

NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission has imposed a Rs 1 crore penalty on Google for failing to provide information related to an investigation into the Internet major's alleged unfair trade practices in India. The fair trade watchdog also directed the company to cooperate in the probe. Read more at:http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/32796795.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst...

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Top E-commerce websites to save money

Coupondekho.com Karan Bajaj, ET BureauThe home page lists recent coupons so that it is easy to view which website is offering new deals/discounts. It lets you share coupons via mail or social networks Cashkaro.com It is the leading name in cash back segment in India. For every successful transaction, the retailer pays commission to Cashkaro.com. In turn, Cashkaro gives you back a certain amount.  Groupon.co.in Select a city and it will show deals across various categories. Most deals are time-bound and tend...

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Google Launches Managed Virtual Machines, Gives Developers A Middle Ground Between Compute And App Engine

Google is launching Managed Virtual Machines today, a new service on its Cloud Platform that gives developers the best new option for hosting their applications in the cloud. Instead of having to decide between using an infrastructure-as-a-service platform like Compute Engine or a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) service like App Engine, Virtual Managed Machines, the company says, gives them the best of both worlds. If...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 to be priced between Rs 51,000-53,000 in India

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Most-loved tech CEOs of 2014

Frank D'Souza, Cognizant Technology Solutions * 2014 approval rating: 90% * Overall rank: 24 What employees think: "Transparent and proper visibility to the management. Good employee benefit programmes. Smart market strategy for overall company growth." – Cognizant Technology Solutions quality assurance engineer (Atlanta) John Donahoe, eBay * 2014 approval rating: 91% * Overall rank: 19 What employees think: "The CEO...

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Mixpanel: iOS 7 Adoption At 90%, While Android Kit Kat Remains At Under 10%

Mobile analytics firm Mixpanel has iOS 7 adoption covering the vast majority of Apple mobile devices, with its real-time adoption stat tracker showing between 88 and 90 percent of devices on the latest major revision of iOS based on hourly browsing data. By comparison, you can see that according to its Android device information, only around 8 percent of those using Google’s mobile OS are using Kit Kat (4.4) or higher. This ...

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Apple shares to be fueled by new iPhone: Barron's

Apple Inc shares could rise by 20 per cent over the next year, fueled by sales of a new version of its iPhone smartphone that is expected to have a bigger screen, according to an article in the March 24 edition of Barron's. The iPhone 6, expected in late summer or fall, is certain to have a bigger screen than earlier versions, which could give iPhone users a major reason to upgrade or win back people who switched to other devices, according to the article. The article notes that Apple shares currently trade...

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Happy Birthday Twitter

Twitter's eight most amazing moments About 500 million tweets are sent a day by more than 241 million monthly active users, according to Twitter. Here are eight memorable moments in Twitter's life: 1. SXSW Even though the company launched nine months prior, Twitter's popularity took off at the 2007 South By Southwest conference. Live tweets about events were displayed on large screens in the hallways and daily usage of the service...

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8GB iPhone 5c Goes Up For Sale In Europe & Asia, As Apple Also Tweaks Global iPad Line-Up

As per the rumours we reported on yesterday, Apple has now added an 8GB version of the iPhone 5c to European stores (via 9to5mac). On the U.K. Apple store the 8GB device is priced at £429 unlocked, shaving £40 off the cost of entering into the iOS world. The 8GB iPhone 5c is also for sale on U.K. carrier O2′s website. Update: The 8GB iPhone is also now available on the French Apple store, where it will set buyers back €559,...

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Lenovo To Keep Buying Companies Until It Owns Everything, Everyone

Lenovo isn’t putting away its checkbook yet. The CEO of the Chinese PC giant said on Tuesday that the company will continue to acquire companies for overall growth. This comes as the company is closing two major deals. Lenovo recently purchased Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion. The company also picked up IBM’s server business for $2.3 billion, which seems only natural after Lenovo purchased IBM’s personal computer division...

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Motorola Introduces The Moto 360, Its First Smartwatch Based On Google’s Android Wear

Motorola is an early partner for Google’s new Android Wear smartwatch SDK, and that’s not surprising given that the company was Google owned until Lenovo began the procedure of buying it in January. The new Moto 360 has a round face, which is one of two options for Wear devices (square is the other) and features the “Ok Google” voice control highlighted by Google for its new spin-off mobile OS. The hardware features “subtle alerts...

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Nokia X Android smartphone launched at Rs 8,599

NEW DELHI: Nokia has launched Nokia X, the first phone from the company to run on Google's Android operating system. The phone, priced at Rs 8,599, will be available through online and offline retailers across India starting Monday. Nokia X was unveiled by Nokia on February 24, during the MWC at Barcelona in Spain, along with Nokia X+ and XL. Nokia X sports a 4-inch WVGA LCD display (480 X 800p, 233ppi). The dual-sim phone is powered...

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Facebook-WhatsApp deal may face detailed CCI scrutiny

NEW DELHI: Facebook's $19 billion deal (Rs 1,16,000 crore) to acquire WhatsApp may face a detailed scrutiny by the country's fair trade regulator CCI, especially since both players have significant presence in India. The world's largest social networking site Facebook has around 1.2 billion members globally while WhatsApp -- a platform that allows exchange of messages and files through mobile phones free of cost -- is estimated to have 450 million users worldwide. All merger and acquisition deals, involving companies...

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Former Apple CEO John Sculley to launch smartphone brand in India

NEW DELHI: John Sculley, the man who fired Steve Jobs, is targeting India's growing smartphone market by selling handsets at Rs 12,000 and less, starting next month. InflexionPoint, an investment and acquisitions company promoted by Sculley, has hired Ajay Sharma, former head of smartphones at Micromax, to head the Indian operations. Sharma had earlier worked with HTC India. Sculley, who was the CEO at Apple between 1983 and 1993, will fund the venture, Sharma told ET. The investments will flow into Dragon Technology,...

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450 million users is the magic number of WhatsApp valuation

A couple of weeks ago, Facebook announced that it was acquiring WhatsApp for $19 billion (Rs1.2 lakh crore). That sounded like an astoundingly high price to pay for a company with 55 employees and very little revenue in the most recent time period. While WhatsApp's messaging service has almost 450 million users, growing significantly by the day, the business model for WhatsApp, which emphasises that it accepts no advertising and charges users $1/year (after an initial year of free service) seems incapable of delivering...

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Apple’s iPhone Seen As More Desirable In Emerging Markets Despite Android’s Dominant Usage Stats

Apple has a prime opportunity in high growth emerging markets, according to a new study by Upstream, done in conjunction with Ovum, showed that among buyers in Brazil, China, India, Nigeria and Vietnam, Apple is the top brand when it comes to consumer wants, with 32 percent interest from the survey pool, with Samsung trailing at 29 percent and Nokia still demonstrating strong brand appeal in third with 13 percent. The usage stats are...

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Apple And Google’s Biggest Threat?

Long before there were wearable devices, there was Jawbone. The brainchild of founder and CEO Hosain Rahman, the hardware and gadgets manufacturer is now a multi-billion-dollar company that is becoming a personal electronics powerhouse and brand. Which is why we’re thrilled to announce that Rahman will be speaking at Disrupt NY in May. There’s been more attention on Jawbone of late as wearables gain traction among consumers — the company...

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Walmart Planning E-Commerce Marketplace To Enter India, Challenge eBay, Amazon

India’s e-commerce industry is on fire. After eBay doubled down on its India play by investing $133 million in Snapdeal a week ago, the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, is now looking to build a marketplace for tapping into the country’s e-commerce industry, which is expected to grow sevenfold to $22 billion over next five years. As this report says, Walmart has already hired a team of over a dozen professionals who are busy fleshing...

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Facebook launches election tracker app for India

NEW DELHI: In a bid to gear up for the general election, social media network Facebook India has launched a tracker for the upcoming polls. The 'India Election Tracker' is a new dashboard that will track mentions of candidates and parties throughout the election period. Those who log into the app can see the livestream of candidates for the 2014 elections as well as take a poll about the issues that matter the most to them in the election...

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Facebook In Talks To Acquire Drone Maker Titan Aerospace

Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a company that could help further that agenda. TechCrunch is hearing that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, makers of near-orbital, solar-powered drones which can fly for five years without needing to land. According to a source with access to information about the deal, the price for this acquisition is $60 million*. From our...

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Google Loses Emergency Bid To Keep “Innocence Of Muslims” Film Online

Google lost a bid to keep the controversial film “Innocence of Muslims” on YouTube. One of the actresses, Cindy Garcia, who wanted the film taken offline after receiving death threats, claims she has some copyright control over its distribution. The 9th Circuit agreed: “Garcia may assert a copyright interest only in the portion of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that represents her individual creativity, but even if her contribution is relatively...

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Zuckerberg's fortune grows by $15 billion as Facebook shares soar

NEW YORK: A sharp rise in share price of social networking giant Facebook has helped the personal wealth of its 29 year-old CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg soar by a massive $15 billion in less than two years.Zuckerberg 's fortune has soared to about $33 billion, from $18 billion on May 18, 2012 when the company went public. This has come on the back of investors showing huge interest in Facebook shares amid the company beginning to make money from its mobile platform. Within two years of entering the stock market, the...

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As India User Base Nears 100M, Facebook Hopes To Earn Big Revenue From SMBs

India is set to become Facebook’s biggest market in terms of number of users later this year, but don’t expect that to translate into ad dollars for the Palo Alto company anytime soon. India’s online advertising market maxes out at around $360 million, making it difficult for the company to translate this horde of users into a billion-dollar business. Companies like Facebook and Twitter are not new to this problem – their biggest user...

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Google Glass

Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project,[8] with a mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer.[1] Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format,[9] that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.[10][11] While the frames do not currently have...

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Apple Made Over $1B On The Sale Of Around 10M Apple TV Units In 2013

Apple’s TV business still consists only of an over-the-top streaming media box, and not a proper TV set despite longstanding rumors that kind of hardware was on the way – but it’s showing impressive growth nonetheless. The company sold approximately 10 million Apple TV units last year, according to estimates based on figures Apple CEO Tim Cook offered up at the annual Apple shareholder meeting today. Apple made over $1 billion in revenue from sales of its Apple TV devices and content in 2013, Cook explained during the meeting...

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