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New Delhi: IBM is helping Aditya Birla Group-owned online fashion retailer abof.com target millennials by providing them customised style tips, fashion content and trends, the US tech giant announced on Monday. IBM has delivered customer engagement and order fulfillment capabilities to abof.com that will allow the portal to constantly refresh the e-commerce experience and seamlessly […]

New Delhi: Chinese smartphone manufacturer Coolpad on Friday launched a new smartphone that comes with a “dual-system” feature which allows users to have an additional secure internal system which encrypts the user’s sensitive data such as calls and text messages. The Rs.24,999 smartphone also has a unique SIM management feature that enables users to have […]

London: In this scorching heat, chilled beer is what comes to your rescue but what if it has gone stale, threatening to spoil your party? No worries as now there is a smartphone app that can tell you if your beer is fresh to be gulped down tonight. Chemists from the Complutense University of Madrid […]

New Delhi: LG Electronics India Limited said on Friday that the pre-booking for its G5 smartphone, which the company claims to be the world’s first modular smartphone, will open from May 21. LG G5 smartphones will be available for pre-booking at mobile stores, LG brand shops and online exclusively on Flipkart from May 21 to […]

New Delhi: European cyber security provider F-Secure on Friday launched a new intrusion detection and incident response service to uncover cyber attack threats in the corporate network. The managed service combines decoy sensors, threat intelligence and 24/7 monitoring by a team of cyber security experts to help companies fight cyber attacks. F-Secure promises to notify […]

New York: A lawsuit against Facebook has been filed in a US court, alleging that the social networking giant may have violated federal privacy laws by scanning private messages, a media report said on Friday. The lawsuit, certified for class action in Northern California District Court, claims that Facebook follows the practice of scanning and […]

New Delhi: In a bid to take on video-sharing website YouTube, social networking giant Facebook is planning a new feature called “Slideshow” which will include music from Warner Music Group to help users create “soundtrack options”. Facebook, with 1.59 billion users worldwide, is exploring new ways to work in conjunction with the music industry, the […]

Beijing: Chinese police have launched a smartphone app to encourage witnesses to report the whereabouts of missing or trafficked children. More than 5,000 anti-trafficking police will provide updates to the app on receiving new reports of missing children, according to a statement from the criminal investigation bureau of the public security on Sunday. Users near […]

London: British researchers have designed a smartphone app that can help people manage their problems — anxiety and depression — based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The ‘Catch It’ app uses psychological approaches to mental health and well-being through CBT — a therapy that can help individuals manage problems by changing the way one thinks […]

New York: A team of US researchers has developed a new technology that can safely and precisely drive robot arms, giving them the delicacy necessary to pick up an egg without breaking it. The new hydrostatic transmission combines hydraulic and pneumatic lines. This transmission has almost no friction or play, offering extreme precision for tasks […]

Mumbai: Google on Monday celebrated renowned Indian cartoonist Mario de Miranda’s 90th birth anniversary with a doodle honouring the artist. Miranda who developed his own independent style of creating cartoons and characters, is remembered for his lavish works in The Times of India and The Illustrated Weekly of India, besides several other newspapers, periodicals and […]

London: At a time when global warming is threatening a rise in sea levels across the world, Silicon Valley giants Facebook, Google and Cisco may be more concerned as their campuses are now at the risk of being flooded. A fresh forecast by a team of scientists has warned that these companies face the prospect […]

Beijing: Playing a disruptive force again, global internet and technology conglomerate LeEco on Wednesday launched three “superphones”, a range of television sets and the world’s first driverless concept Super Car here. The three superphones — “Le 2”, “Le 2 Pro” and “Le Max 2” — are loaded with USB Type-C audio port feature CDLA (Continual […]

New Delhi: In a bid to take the gaming experience to a new level in India, Taiwanese smartphone and notebook maker ASUS on Wednesday launched six NextGen gaming devices under its flagship Republic of Gamers (ROG) series. Powered by Quad core 6th Gen Intel core i7 (Skylake) and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series graphics, the […]

New York: Social media website Facebook may soon add a news section to its Android and iOS smartphone apps that may look like Facebook Paper — a standalone mobile app created only for iOS. Facebook confirmed to Mashable tech website that it is testing the new, sectioned news feed, in addition to the current format, […]