Tag: Technology

The company said that the new Ultrastar DC HC570 HDD is rightly timed for the Indian market as the country is witnessing massive data growth and, therefore, data center expansion.

By Bikram Keshari Jena “…the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter” Time Magazine, 2006 When the Time Magazine named ‘You’ as the person of the year in its famous annual list of newsmakers in 2006, it arguably generated some polarizing responses. […]

Bhubaneswar: Use of 3Ts – Technology, Transparency and Teamwork – should be used to bring transformation in the lives of people in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik instructed the newly appointed Odisha Civil Services officers in an induction meet held at Rabindra Mandap here today. A total number of 670 successful candidates joined Odisha Civil […]

San Francisco: Apple marks February as “Heart Month” during which the company will educate people about their heart health and bring an “Activity Challenge” for Apple Watch users. “Apple will host ‘Heart Health with Apple’ sessions in Apple Stores in New York, Chicago and San Francisco with celebrity fitness trainer Jeanette Jenkin where the attendees […]

San Francisco: Microsoft has launched a new app called “Emoji8” that allows users to compare their own facial expressions to emojis and get evaluated with scores. “‘Emoji8’ uses ‘Windows Machine Learning (ML)’ to evaluate your facial expressions while you imitate a random selection of emojis. You can play on the app even when you don’t […]

Madrid: The world’s most popular freeware instant messaging app confirmed its prior announcement that, as of Monday, any users who have not backed up their stored data and chats on Google Drive will lose their chat histories. WhatsApp, which is owned by tech giant Facebook, had reached an agreement with Google last August to store […]

Canberra: Australian scientists said on Friday that they have developed a nano filter that can clean contaminated water 100 times faster than the current technology, pointing to better access to the crucial resource worldwide. The filter removes oils and heavy metals including lead from water via an alloy that combines gallium-based liquid metals with aluminium, […]

Berlin: Huawei AI Cube, the first Amazon Alexa-powered smart speaker from the Chinese tech giant introduced at consumer electronics show IFA 2018 here, has the ability to make calls if it gets approval from local operators, cliams a top company executive. Unlike other smart speakers such as the Google Home, Apple’s HomePod or Amazon Echo […]

New Delhi: Samsung dominated the premium smartphone segment in India in the first half of 2018 with almost half the market share, a new report from CyberMedia Research (CMR) said on Friday. According to CMR India’s “Mobile Handset Review” report, Samsung (48 per cent) was followed by Chinese smartphone player OnePlus, which grabbed the second […]

Washington: The US today issued federal notification designating India as a Strategic Trade Authorization-1 (STA-1) country, paving the way for high-technology product sales to New Delhi. With this, India has become the 37th country to join the list of STA-1 category, the only South Asian nation. The notification relaxes America’s export control norms with regard […]

Bengaluru: Emerging e-commerce startup GS Farm Taaza Produce Ltd said on Friday it had raised $8 million (Rs 52 crore) in the first round of funding to invest in scaling its technology platform. “We have raised $8 million from multiple investors, including Hong Kong-based Epsilon Venture Partners to scale our business by using the fund […]

New Delhi:  Actress Sunny Leone, who will be attending the fourth season of Big Boys Toys Expo, says she has always loved gadgets and is fascinated with the way technology is having an impact on automobile, gadgets and electronic sector. “I love fast cars and sportsbikes and gadgets and I hear its all going to […]

San Francisco: Facebook will host a summit in June that is dedicated to health and aims to sell ads to the pharmaceutical industry, a media report said. According to a report in CNBC on Friday, the invitation-only summit is part of an initiative for advertisers called “Facebook Health”, run by a small team reporting into […]

London: Responding to the criticism that Facebook has been facing over dissemination of fake news on the platform, the social media giant’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) has said that the company is not an “arbiter of truth”. Speaking at BBC Newsnight, Sheryl Sandberg said: “We are really a platform and we take our responsibilities on […]

Bhubaneswar: Union Steel Secretary Aruna Sharma today batted for adoption of new technology to reduce the use of coking coal in the production of steel. “We have to adopt a new technology to reduce use of coking coal in steel making as India and most of Asian countries minus China do not have much coking […]