Indian Army Chief V K Singh today launched the digital version of Indian War Comics (IWC), which will be available for users of upcoming version of Aakash tablet PC to be supplied by Datawind. "This particular idea itself is not … Continue reading
Born in a remote Odisha village in 1942, Satyanarayan Gangaram (Sam) Pitroda — the man who heralded India's communication revolution — does not know his exact date of birth. Simply because his village did not have a hospital neither did … Continue reading
BEIJING: China's first supercomputer built with "domestically-produced" microprocessors and capable of performing around one-thousand-trillion calculations per second has become officially operational. The supercomputer 'Sunway BlueLight' was installed in September 2011 at the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in east China's city … Continue reading
WASHINGTON: Internet giant Google has been by Fortune magazine as the best place to work in the US. The Mountain View, California-based company hired about 7,000 people in 2011, the most intense hiring spree in its 13-year history, which moved … Continue reading
BERLIN: Tinkerers can transform a discarded smartphone into an internet radio with just a couple of manipulations and then the device can be connected to the computer speakers through the headphone ports, according to Chip magazine. In order to hear … Continue reading
SHANGHAI: China Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred. Enter RedPad … Continue reading
LONDON: A quiet internet revolution begins on Thursday. Organizations can begin applying to name and run their own domains instead of entrusting them to the operators of .com, .org, .gov and others. Up to 2,000 applications are expected to be … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey arrived on a visit to China and complained of the blocking of his popular service in an online exchange with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. "Hello, Shanghai. Twitter is blocked here in China so I … Continue reading