Technology

Few would dispute the argument that the Internet has empowered us considerably, especially in the last decade or so. But that freedom, call it digital empowerment if you may, will soon be snatched away by a cartel that masquerades as a trade body. This bloc, comprising telecom companies, presents a clear and present danger to our freedoms that, in the context, can be simply summarised as Net Neutrality. So, what’s up? The issue at hand is a consultation paper put out by the Telecom Regulatory...

Hi-tech times call for hi-tech solutions. That's the impression one would get from Bosch's innovations that are geared towards minimising road accidents in the country. Its Smart Emergency Crash Notification (sECN) app can provide rapid assistance to motorists involved in collisions. The company is also working on its Bosch Accident Research Project to collate and analyse accident data. That's because official statistics in India are not sufficient enough for analyses of traffic safety-related...

There are many reasons why Bangalore remains the startup capital of India. And one of those is that the young here are workaholics, and the lines between their personal and professional lives are blurring fast. Market expansion advisory firm Zinnov has come up with numbers that, the organisation contends, point to this trend. About 49 per cent of respondents to a recent Zinnov study in the 21-30 age bracket use tablets for work. This is reckoned to be signify a younger generation that is leaning...

Most were bitten by the bug of the moment, happily so. And those not bitten ended up being the most bugged of them all. Yeah, one's talking about the "My Facebook Movie" that has been a raging craze for the last two days. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Facebook has been inviting users to make "My Facebook Movie" by visiting a special website while being logged in. A short video, featuring a collection of most-liked photos, posts and life events, would be automatically produced and posted on...

The world has been turned upside down since the advent of the Internet. If there is something that apparently hasn't changed overwhelmingly in these two decades of upheaval, to quite an extent, it has been the browser. Yet, there is one that intends being a game-changer, and has been at it quite silently for the last four months. This browser is called Coast by Opera; one that is nothing like the conventional Internet browsers that people use across devices — it takes a quantum leap from what...

Nokia on Monday released its first 6-inch Lumia smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 1520, into the Indian market. The Nokia Lumia 1520 comes with a 1080p Full HD screen, a 20MP PureView camera with optical image stabilisation, oversampling technology and zooming capabilities, enabling people to easily capture and edit high quality pictures and tell better stories. The company, which lost considerable ground and quite fast at that after the advent of Android smarphones, claims that the newest phone in...

Mysore will host India's first exclusive film and digital arts festival, which will showcase a buffet of curated films, and the latest in game cinematics, and visual effects. The ABAI Fest 2013, organised by the Association of Bangalore Animation Industry (ABAI) is aimed at professionals and aficionados of cinema and television, and computer games developers to give them and the audience a taste of what it is to be part of this revolutionary new world of digital content creation. The two-day...

Things and times certainly have changed. Definitely from the times when you ordered a custom-configured computer from a manufacturer. Now, one can configure a high-end luxury television, and that too with a mobile app. The company that has come up with this cutting edge innovation is US-based Vu Technologies, that also operates out of Mumbai. One of the R&D centres of the company, which is known for its super TVs, is located in Bangalore. Vu Technologies CEO Devita Saraf, who was in the city for...

The standard of students entering the IT sector at the entry level in India is well below the industry requirements, especially when it comes to testing of softwares being developed by IT majors. Now, Hewlett-Packard wants to bridge this gap with a software university, one that will make students industry-ready. Explaining the rationale, Michael Garrett, vice-president of WW Software Professional Services, HP, said, "We are seeing a big demand for skills in the application space. Clients are not...

Businesses across India can now deploy graphics-accelerated virtual desktops for their employees. And this, they will be able to do cost-effectively anywhere, across platforms and on any device with the adoption of NVIDIA's Grid technology. Servers from IT majors like Dell, Cisco, HP and IBM have started incorporating NVDIA's Grid into their desktop virtualisation solutions. Combined with enterprise virtualisation software from Centrix, Microsoft or VMware, these solutions can deliver GPU...