Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs, M Venkaiah Naidu. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) The Urban Development Ministry on Tuesday announced 13 winners of the…
New York, May 24 (IANS) Indian students have won six awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the US where New Delhi’s Shreyas Kapur was declared the grand winner of the…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) More than 2,500 Twitter accounts have been compromised to tweet links to adult dating and sex websites, global cyber security leader Symantec said on Tuesday. There were a number of…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Indian smartphone maker Micromax on Tuesday launched two new devices ‘Bolt Selfie’ and ‘Canvas Selfie 4’ for the first-time consumers and selfie lovers. “With smartphones becoming the first device to…
Bengaluru, May 24 (IANS) Global software major Infosys on Tuesday said it has bagged a five-year outsourcing deal to manage IT operations of Germany’s second largest bank Commerzbank. “We will remodel the investment banking IT…
New York, May 24 (IANS) People tend to buy pricy goods in order to avoid the feeling of regret they might have if the same goods become unavailable in future, researchers have found. Consider someone…
London, May 24 (IANS) A team of researchers from Germany has set a new world record by transferring the contents of a conventional DVD in under 10 seconds by radio transmission with a data rate…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) The Urban Development Ministry on Tuesday announced 13 winners of the fast-track Smart City competition, with Lucknow topping the list. These cities can now compete to be a “Smart City”…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Chinese smartphone maker Meizu on Tuesday announced that it has received over three lakh registrations within two weeks of device’s launch. The device will be available on e-commerce website Amazon…
Bengaluru, May 24 (IANS) The sixth edition of India’s biggest social media festival Social Media Week (SMW) is set to be organised here on June 9-10 with an aim to explore how digital technology has…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) A decision to set up data centres in the country cannot be mandatory and it will be not be conducive for the eco-system, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on…
Shimla, May 24 (IANS) Dharamsala, the hill station in Himachal Pradesh that has lured hundreds of thousands of Westerners since Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama settled here, was on Tuesday again included in the central…
New York, May 24 (IANS) A new discovery regarding longer lasting batteries could give smartphones and cars a single charge that can work five times longer than current ones. A team led by Dallas Kyeongjae…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Micro-blogging site Twitter will soon roll out an automatic “Night Mode” user interface (UI) to its Android app that will swap out the white background and replace it with a…
New York, May 24 (IANS) Apologising for banning an ad that showed a model wearing a bikini, social media giant Facebook has reversed its decision that it took claiming the image in the ad was…
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Pushing its virtual reality (VR) dreams, social media giant Facebook on Tuesday acquired Edinburgh-based company Two Big Ears that specialises in spatial 3D audio in cinematic and gaming experiences. Facebook…
London, May 24 (IANS) The rise of user-generated content (UGC) – information submitted by members of the public or posted on social media – has made journalists harness a variety of new skills, thereby bringing…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Heating up the race of thin, lightweight and high-performance laptops, HP Inc’s latest offering – ultrabook Envy 13 – may take Indian consumers by surprise with its…
New York, May 24 (IANS) Reiterating that an internal investigation revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories in its “Trending Topics” feature, Facebook is set to revamp the…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) Chinese internet and technology conglomerate LeEco on Monday announced that the sale for its supertainment-loaded device Le 1s Eco will begin on Flipkart’s big shopping days from May 25 to…