Some 108 union parishads have already been connected with the optical fiber network as part of the government’s plan to expand the network to all union parishads, Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister told Parliament on Monday. With a view…
Director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Prof Rolf-Dieter Heur on Monday said he often wonders why Satyendra Nath Bose was not given the Nobel Prize. “Prof Higgs (Peter Higgs) together with Englert (Francois Englert) won the…
A robotic mannequin that can run, sit and even mimic the movement of a soldier has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.
By Mark Ward The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before.
Around the same time, the official Gmail blog put up a 205-word post explaining the latest update to the Gmail app for Apple devices that run on iOS 7.
In just two weeks since its release on the iPhone, FireChat already has provided a flicker of hope for people pining for more effective, secure and affordable ways to communicate.
Dubbed Amazon Fire TV, the device is a small black box similar to Apple TV. It will cost $99 (£59) and is available immediately in the US.
By Leo Kelion The voice-controlled app, named Cortana, uses both the firm’s search engine Bing and data stored on the handsets to make personalised recommendations and carry out tasks.
The Canadian company said it will continue to provide service and support to existing customers on T-Mobile’s network or those who will buy products from the carrier’s inventory.
Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a “hack in” button on LinkedIn profiles.
The High Court on Tuesday ordered the country’s mobile phone operators to deactivate all the unregistered SIM cards as soon as possible. It also directed the mobile operators to provide details of SIM card users who demand toll over phone.
The trial will mark the latest round in a long-running series of lawsuits between the two tech giants that underscore a much larger concern about what is allowed to be patented.
SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said it will start selling the Galaxy S5 on Thursday, two weeks before the scheduled sales launch on April 11.
NEW YORK — The spotting of ocean debris by satellites during the search for the lost Malaysian airliner has drawn attention to those orbiting platforms.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that Facebook is hiring “key members of the team” from Ascenta, a U.K. company whose founders created early versions of the world’s longest-flying solar powered drone.
The rise was blamed on an increase in users, but the company also said more governments were starting to “exercise their authority to make requests”. In releasing the data the search giant renewed its calls for government surveillance reform. Last year, 53,356…
They are warning exposure to lights from phones and other devices like computers, tablets, and flat screen TVs can lead to long term damage. It comes as a survey of 2,000 people suggests under 25s check their phones thirty-two times…
By Leo Kelion The HTC One (M8) also features a bigger screen and louder speakers than the previous model.
The start-up’s flagship product, the Oculus Rift, is a goggle-like “immersive” headset for video gaming.
By Mark Ward The database has been created to help investigators cope with the vast amount of images abusers typically amass.
In 1908 in Manchester, some 500 people gathered in a lecture theatre to see prominent Egyptologist Margaret Murray supervise the unwrapping of a body from the Tomb of the Two Brothers from Manchester Museum’s mummy collection.
Cloak uses public location data from other social networks, Foursquare and Instagram, to determine the locations of others you know.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, said Sony had been working on the technology – called Project Morpheus – for three years.
The out-of-court settlement brings to an end a dispute that began in 2007.
Journalist and programmer Ken Schwencke created an algorithm that automatically generates a short article when an earthquake occurs.
In a blog post on Wednesday, Instagram announced a sizable update to its app for Android smartphones. The update, available now in the Google Play Store, will make the app load much faster, according to the blog post, and also…
By Zach Epstein, BGR Apple released iOS 7.1 to the public on Monday afternoon, and it came right on time, as per BGR’s exclusive report from back in December of last year.
Mystery continues to surround the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared without trace more than a week ago.
Speakers at a function here on Sunday underscored the need for the increased use of ICT and enforcing related laws effectively, aiming to stop violence against women in the country. They were addressing the concluding ceremony of a two-day anti-corruption…
By Paul Rincon At the weekend, the satellite-tagged fish, called Lydia, crossed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which marks a rough boundary line between east and west.