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Still some time for 'Voice Over LTE' technology to arrive in India

‘Voice Over LTE’ technology, which will soon be deployed in USA shortly by some of the mobile companies, has still some time to yet arrive in India. Indian operators...

November 23, 2013

Father of IBM personal computer: William C Lowe dead

William C Lowe (72), who pioneered the conception and manufacturing of IBM’s first personal computer, passed away in Lake Forest, Illinois. William C Lowe: Lowe joined IBM in...

November 2, 2013

Charge for SMS alerts on actual usage basis: RBI to banks

The RBI, in its  Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2013-14, asked banks to charge customers for transaction SMS alerts on the basis of usage, instead of imposing...

November 1, 2013

Researchers discover ‘mini-neural computer’ in the brain

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, act as mini-neural computers by actively processing information to...

October 30, 2013

India Post joins hands with Wall Street Exchange to offer international electronic money transfer

The India Post unveiled instant electronic money transfer service in collaboration with Wall Street Exchange, (a company of UAE’s Emirates Post Group) in New Delhi. India Post inked...

October 14, 2013

World observed International Day of the Girl Child October 11, 2013

International Day of the Girl Child was observed globally on October 11, 2013 to recognize the girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. The theme...

October 11, 2013

"A4AI": Alliance aimed at bringing down cost of internet access launched

A number of government bodies, NGOs and private companies have formed a coalition named Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) which aims at reducing the cost of internet access worldwide. The...

October 8, 2013

Accounts of 2.9 million Adobe customers compromised

The network of the US –based software maker Adobe Systems which makes software such as Photoshop, Reader and Creative Cloud, was hacked by cyber attackers exposing financial information...

October 5, 2013

Google updates its search engine with 'Hummingbird'

Google has modified its Internet search engine to give better answers to the increasingly complex queries posed by Web surfers. The change has come as part of an...

October 2, 2013

Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, admits Bill Gates

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, has admitted for the first time that using the key combination of Control-Alt-Delete to log into a PC was a mistake....

October 1, 2013

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