Ever since Marissa Mayer took over the control at Yahoo, the company's managed to grab some attention from the media. This time, it's about Yahoo's plans to buy Tumblr - the rapidly growing blogging / content generation platform. AllThingsD blogged that they've learned from the sources closer to the situation that Yahoo's board will meet on Sunday night whether they should really consider snapping Tumblr with $1.1 Billion all-cash offer. New York based Tumblr, is said to be looking for more and...
The Indian Government is looking to it that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is develops the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System or the IRNSS to provide two important services. One is the Standard Positioning Service on land, air and water open for civilian use and the Restricted Service, encrypted one, for authorised users. News has it that this Navigation Satellite System-1A, which is India's first, will be launched from the home-grown rocket, PSLV-C22 XL at 1.01 am...
Announcing the launch of one of the most alluring laptop-tablet hybrid running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean at $480 in the US, HP is banking on the fact the split will make a difference. HP SlateBook X2, as the laptop is called, will feature the Nvidia's super-powerful Tegra 4 SoC clocked at 1.9 GHz with 2GB of DDR3L RAM while weighing just 1.4 kg (docking station weight included). Competing directly with the ASUS's mega-popular Transformer Series, HP's SlateBook X2's feature overview tells us that...
Though not on the day one, but Google I/O has now been able to tell us enough about Google Glasses, so that we can all go ga-ga over them. Launching their own apps for the Google Glasses, Facebook and Twitter have got their developers to do the needful to get a hang on the eyewear that has held most people out there by awe. So now, along with many major news organizations who have their own apps for the Glass, which has only been made available to developers and a limited selection of...
What we proudly call the 'King of Small Cars', the company that has been selling the most number of passenger cars in India for decades is now foraying into something new. Yes, you guessed it right. Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), India’s largest car maker is now entering the country's Light Commercial Vehicles segment with a new LCV temporarily codenamed and called Y9T. So, we can say that Maruti Suzuki Y9T is up against the existing large car makers Tata Motors who have Ace and Mahindra...
Stanford engineers have succeeded in combining multiple layers of flexible materials to create a new type of pressure sensor. The final sensor is thinner than your currency note and the team believes that one day, it would be possible for them to completely monitor patient's heart conditions in real time. Zhenan Bao, professor o Chemical Engineering at Stanford led the team to create this innovative electronic skin that can be worn on the wrist and can help track stiff arteries and...
I remember having removed the mud-guard from my bicycle just to make it look 'sporty'. Though I achieved to looks, I ended up spray painting almost everyone who rode behind me during the rainy season. How I wished we had a quickly removable mudguard! Dynamic duos - Dan McMahon and Patrick Laing have figured out a way to do it - through 'The Plume'. They've taken a different approach by creating a mudguard the winds up like your metallic tape when you don't need it. Check out following video...
Panasonic India has today launched its new 'out of the world' smartphone called the Panasonic P51 at Rs. 26,900/-. If you're someone who keeps an eye for the gadget-related news, you can easily see that with the launch of Google Nexus 4 priced at INR 24,990/-in India, there is a cut-throat competition between these tech giants, as far as price is concerned....
If you're done waiting for the official launch, here's the news that will cheer you up. Google fans, now you can pre-order the Google Nexus 4 smartphone from Flipkart at a price of Rs. 25,990/-.
Just when we are done covering all the scoop from Google I/O Conference at San Francisco, the news of 16GB model of Nexus 4...
Oh, yeah. That's a word. Among many wonderful developments and enhancements that Google announced for its products today, Google+ enjoyed a major share of it. First things first, Google informs us that 190 million users are currently active on Google+, since 2 years of launching of the social networking site, even though "active" seems to be subjective here. In any case, they have got the number, all they need is to pull them in. Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering at Google, says that...
