Expanding its Lumia portfolio, Finnish handset maker Nokia Wednesday launched two new mobile phones including a Windows 8 phone priced at Rs 10,500. Lumia 520, Nokia’s most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone, with the same digital camera lenses as on Lumia 920, will be available in the market within a week. Lumia 720, which has [...]
New Delhi: Delivering its verdict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s conviction under the Arms Act but commuted his jail sentence from six years to five. Dutt had been given six-year jail term by the TADA court. As he has already spent 18 months [...]
New Delhi: The government on Thursday made English optional for those seeking to get into the Indian Administrative Service, and said aspirants will be able to write the exam in a regional language also. “A candidate will be allowed to use any one of the regional languages under schedule 8 of the constitution or English [...]
The Galaxy S3 Mini is yet to officially make an entrance in India despite being launched last year, and there’s already a Galaxy S4 Mini in the works. SamMobile has got hold of some live photos of the younger brother of the Galaxy S4 and this time too, Samsung has stuck to the formula it [...]
Wilmington: Photo service Shutterfly Inc has sued to shut down an Eastman Kodak Co app that lets users purchase photo albums made from pictures stored on Facebook Inc’s social media network, according to court documents. Shutterfly bought the Kodak Gallery online photo business for $23.8 million last year, and as part of the deal Kodak [...]
The Sony Xperia Z has been one of the most popular phones this year. Its water and dustproof body and the full HD display have propelled it up in the popularity charts. But soon users started reporting a weird bug in the phone, which would turn off the phone and only a hard reset (power [...]
YouTube says more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from clips of cute kittens to scenes of social unrest around the world. The milestone announced Wednesday marks another step in YouTube’s evolution from a quirky startup launched in 2005 to one of the most influential [...]
McDonald’s is adding a permanent new offering to its menu: chicken McWraps. The world’s biggest hamburger chain says the new sandwich wrap will come in three varieties — Chicken & Bacon, Sweet Chili Chicken and Chicken & Ranch. The company already offers similar wraps in other parts of the world, including Europe. The Oak Brook, [...]
Japanese auto giant Isuzu’s agreement to set up a manufacturing plant has finally brought some cheer to Andhra Pradesh, desperately looking for carmakers for nearly two decades, most of whom have set up shop in neighbouring Tamil Nadu. The state believes Isuzu’s plant finally breaks the jinx haunting it ever since the Volkswagen scandal in [...]
Approximately Rs 300-350 crore is riding on Sanjay Dutt’s finished and unfinished projects in the next one to two years. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Dutt’s conviction in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case and his sentence was reduced from six to five years in jail. Dutt, who has served 18 months, will now have [...]
The debut film, especially that of a film biggie’s son, will always be grand and all efforts would be made to ensure it is a hit. And if it is someone like Allu Aravind who is known for his mastermind strategies then there is no doubt. But then it is heard that Allu is having [...]
It is known that Mega Powerstar Ram Charan is making his Bollywood debut with ‘Zanjeer’. The film is the remake of 1973 Bollywood film of same name. Charan is playing the role of a deadly police officer in this remake which is shaping up under the direction of Apoorva Lakhia. Ever since the project has [...]
New York: HTC Corp said its latest smartphone, the HTC One, will roll out in three countries next week, but sales will be delayed in North America and other countries in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. HTC, which originally said it would launch the phone in 80 countries in March, recently said in a statement [...]
The government is all set to cancel the Aakash tablet – India’s low cost version of an iPad – that is suffering from delays in manufacturing, a faulty processor and low memory. The new Human Resource and Development Minister Pallam Raju made the decision of cancelling the tablets, which has been a dream project of [...]
Munich: Germany star Philipp Lahm dreams of winning the 2014 World Cup, but has stressed they cannot afford to look too far ahead and must focus on qualifying first. The Nationalelf currently sit atop of Group C with 10 points from four games, holding a three-point lead over Sweden, who have a game in hand, [...]
