European Union (EU) Competition Commission approved Facebook – WhatsApp deal worth 19 billion US dollar on 3 October 2014. The Commission cleared the deal saying that the Facebook-WhatsApp deal would not hurt competition. The deal was disputed by telecom companies as soon as Facebook had announced to acquire whatsApp earlierContinue Reading
Amazon has expanded its Kindle eReader range by unveiling its 7th generation Kindle. Supplanting the second-gen Paperwhite as Amazon’s premium eReader, the Kindle Voyage is billed as the company’s most advanced eReader yet, coming in lighter and thinner than any previous model and sporting a more advanced display and userContinue Reading
WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data planContinue Reading
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world’s first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which moves the Asian giant a step closer to achieving wearable devices with flexible – even unbreakable – screens. Curved displays are on the frontlines of Samsung’s innovation warContinue Reading
Google names next Android mobile software version ‘KitKat’ San Francisco: Google said the next version of Android will be called ‘KitKat’ in keeping with its penchant for giving tasty names to its software for powering mobile devices. Android is the operating system that powers over 1 billion smartphones and tablets.Continue Reading
At events across the country, the long awaited iPhone 5 has been launched in India. Featuring a larger 4″ screen and a much more powerful A6 processor, the iPhone 5 is a major step up from the iPhone 4S. The phone is now incredibly slim with a thickness of justContinue Reading
Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system: Windows 8 heralds the biggest change to the industry’s dominant operating system in at least 17 years with attempts to bridge the gap between personal computers and fast-growing tablets with its touch-enabled interface. Microsoft Corp put its Surface tablet center stage at its Windows 8Continue Reading
Turn Your Mobile Phone into a TV Remote Have you ever wished you can use your mobile phone as a TV remote too? Then get ready to change your handset into a universal remote that you can control Air Condition, CD Player,DVD, Hi-Fi,Home Theater, TV and VCR. irRemote turns yourContinue Reading
Google launched Drive, a cloud-based storage, on Tuesday. The service would allow users to store up to 5GB data in Google’s servers for free. According to Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president for Chrome and apps, wrote on official blog “Today, we’re introducing Google Drive – a place where you canContinue Reading
Cloud-based services are those services in which software is accessed over internet by a company, and maintained at data centres of the service provider, instead of a company’s computers.Continue Reading
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