Software/Hardware News

Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Friday said software exports from the state touched Rs.12 billion for the last fiscal.

Sydney, May 6 (IANS) The thought of your call being diverted to a call centre thousands of miles away often arouses feelings ranging from uncertainty and insecurity to sheer disdain, but for one Australian it restored his faith in call centres.

Bonn, May 4 (DPA) Users of Adobe Flash Player are advised to update the latest version of the software after security gaps were discovered in early releases of the media viewer.

Mainz (Germany), May 4 (DPA) Most daily e-mails are not sent between friends or even business partners. Instead, 92 percent of e-mails sent between January and March 2008 were spam.

New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Bowing to the demands of the IT industry, the government Tuesday announced the extension of the tax benefit scheme given to the country's software firms.

London, April 23 (IANS) A computer that can interact with humans and react to their non-verbal gestures is being developed by a European team.

There was a time when you saw a movie in a hall with a modest-sized 35 mm screen. Then the screens got larger with 70 mm. Then came stereophonic sound and surround sound and later new techniques like the Circle Vision that used nine huge screens arranged in a circle.

Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) Despite fears of a global meltdown in the IT sector, India's leading software service provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a 19.3 percent growth in net profit at Rs.50.26 billion ($1.25 billion) in 2007-08 fiscal.

San Francisco, April 12 (DPA) IBM announced a new kind of computer memory Friday that could increase storage capacity 100-fold.

Mumbai, April 11 (IANS) Mumbai based Micro technologies have launched India's first laptop tracking system to locate stolen laptops.

San Francisco, April 8 (DPA) Hewlett Packard (HP), the world's largest seller of computers, unveiled a mini-laptop Tuesday that sells for $500 and is aimed at the education market.

The PDA-phone market is going to be a two-way race in 2008 as Apple's iPhone takes RIM's Blackberry head-on both in the corporate-IT and in the consumer tech space.

Imagine a future, where you can store 55 three-hour-long Bollywood movies in a palm-sized 64 Gigabyte hard disk. It is loaded with software that you can slip into a laptop computer – and it costs less than Rs 8,000.

Las Vegas, April 4 (DPA) Think that cellphone in your pocket is pretty neat? Think again. Spurred by the phenomenal launch of the iPhone, the prospect of a Google phone and open networks, inventors and entrepreneurs around the world are feverishly developing plans to expand what mobile phones can do.

FOLLOWING THE two recent cases of building collapse, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to monitor unauthorised constructions. To begin with, the civic body is launching software to detect and monitor unauthorised constructions and encroachments.

When the world is your target and every market in the world has its own peculiarities, what do you do? Naturally, make yourself relevant to each marketplace. Work to hold on to existing customers even as you try to break open new segments of customers.

Bangalore, March 10 (IANS) It's an event that links techies, development campaigners, agricultural scientists and others to help 'integrate the rural community into the digital world'. Welcome to the Baramati Initiative.

Pune, March 6 (IANS) The traditional Indian version of the cookie jar race is baby Krishna atop a human pyramid, reaching out to a pot of butter. It is enacted every year. This year, robots are going to do it, and they will be in a race.

Washington, March 5 (IANS) Computers may now enable people to experience the most realistic sense of touch, perceiving textures or feeling hard surfaces, with the help of a radical new touch-based interface.

Microsoft Corp released the latest version of its Windows operating system for powerful servers on Wednesday, thrusting itself into the red-hot market for virtualization technology that allows one computer to act like many machines.