New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged all public universities and the colleges under them to apply for aid from the Atal Incubation Centre (AIC), an innovation funding scheme formulated…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Mobile apps are becoming the most preferred way for getting telecom services for customers while local mobile retailers and company stores are falling out of favour, a new survey revealed…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Global IT spending is projected to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017 — a 2.4 per cent increase from 2016, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. Global spending on devices…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Aiming for a larger pie of the premium segment in India, Taiwanese electronics giant ASUS has unveiled its flagship ‘ZenFone AR’ smartphone — the world’s first Google Tango-enabled and Google…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) After lowering the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) charges, the State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday reduced charges for National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)…
London, July 13 (IANS) Criticism by documents posted by global whistleblower WikiLeaks on Twitter played a key role in the failure of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US presidential race, an…
Tokyo, July 13 (IANS) A Japanese tech company on Thursday launched a device that allows people to self-test their sweaty exteriors for three categories of smell, the media reported. The pocket-sized detector called Kunkun Body…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Cloud communications provider Knowlarity on Thursday launched “Knowlarity Artificial Intelligence Experience” (KATIE) platform that will help business communications and the commoditised cloud telephony industry achieve a paradigm shift. “We have…
Beijing, July 13 (IANS) On its 30th anniversary in China, fast food restaurant chain KFC has partnered with Chinese mobile manufacturer Huawei to release a red-coloured smartphone that has the face of KFC founder Colonel…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) E-wallet platform Paytm on Thursday announced it has acquired a majority stake in Insider.in, a ticketing platform of events company OML Entertainment, for an undisclosed sum. Paytm has been expanding…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Apple has now added the support for online payment gateway PayPal for purchases through its ecosystem, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music and iBooks across iPhone, iPad and iPod…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Now that Bluetooth speakers have almost become a necessity, the segment is witnessing a boom as well as bringing new technologies and features to give music aficionados…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Pitching for a free and open Internet for everyove, Facebook, Google, Amazon and other tech giants participated in a day-long online protest organised by advocacy groups in the US. Titled…
New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) In its bid to connect people in markets where mobile internet connections are slow, Facebook on Thursday rolled out the “lite” version of its Messenger app in India. “Messenger Lite”…
Geneva, July 13 (IANS) UN agencies are starting to work together to track and help deal with a soaring amount of electronic wastes worldwide, the International Telecommunication Union (ITS) said. As technologies change at great…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Microsoft has released a free iPhone app that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to tell the blind what is around them. If the phone is pointed at a park, the camera…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Facebook has brought livestreaming to virtual reality (VR) by enabling people to share live video with each other using Facebook Spaces virtual reality app. Launched in April, Facebook Spaces is…
San Francisco, July 13 (IANS) Apple, in partnership with a local data management firm, is set to open its first data centre in China that complies with new laws that require global companies to store…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) A BJP leader was arrested on Wednesday by West Bengal police’s Criminal Investigation Department for allegedly uploading a fake video on social networking site Facebook. Tarun Sengupta, the party’s Information Technology…
New York, July 12 (IANS) Hyperloop One on Wednesday announced the successful completion of the world’s first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment. It was the first phase of a multi-phase programme which…