Now be a musician with new app ‘Acapella’
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) A new mobile app is helping aspiring musicians to not only shoot videos of themselves singing songs but also pushing them to turn pop stars, a media report said. The…
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Satya Nadella to Visit Hyderabad next Month
Hyderabad, Nov 28 (IANS) Microsoft Corporation CEO Satya Nadella will visit his home town Hyderabad next month, an official said on Saturday. Satya Nadella 2012 A Telangana government official told IANS that Nadella will be…
NASA to Resume Cargo Flights to ISS from US Soil
Washington, Nov 28 (IANS) In a bid to resume NASA’s commercial supply efforts to the orbiting international laboratory, the first flight of Orbital ATK’s enhanced Cygnus spacecraft will carry more than 7,000 pounds of equipment…
At Facebook, New Dads to Get Four-Month Paternity Leave
New York, Nov 28 (IANS) When soon-to-be-dad Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to go on two-months’ paternity leave before his daughter is due, the corporate world took notice. Now the four-month paid paternal leave policy…
Tanla’s A2P Messaging Hub Processes over 5 Bn Messages
Hyderabad, Nov 26 (IANS) Tanla Solutions has announced that its A2P (application to person) messaging hub, Fastrack, processed over 5 billion messages in the month of October. It also set a record of processing more…
Google Celebrates India’s Milkman’s Birth Anniversary
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Honouring ‘Father of white revolution’ Verghese Kurien, Google on Thursday made a doodle of him on his 94th birth anniversary. Also known as the “Milkman of India”, Kurien made India…
‘Most Used Words on Facebook’ Game Stealing Users’ Data?
New York, Nov 25 (IANS) A famous app called “Most Used Words on Facebook” has been shared thousands of times but it may be stealing the information of those who use it, media reported. The…
Free Basics App Available on Reliance Network Across India: Zuckerberg
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Keeping up with its promise to make internet free for those who cannot afford it in India, social networking giant Facebook has chosen Reliance Communications Network to offer Free Basics…
NASA Finding Bolsters Indian Theory on Black Hole
Bangalore, Nov 24 (IANS) An Indian astrophysicist says the recent observation by NASA scientists of giant flares of X-rays from a black hole confirms his theory that the so-called black holes are not “true” black…
Google Makes Secret Star Trek Like Communicator Device
Washington, Nov 24 (IANS) Google has developed a prototype wearable device based on the communicator in Star Trek which uses a microphone to listen to a user’s voice and can use Bluetooth to send those…
Telangana Court Grants Divorce on Skype
A civil court in Telangana granted the divorce to a couple on Saturday after hearing the wife via Skype as she could not be present in the court at the time. This comes after the Hyderabad High…
New App Helps Seniors Play, Live Better
New York, Nov 22 (IANS) Researchers including one of Indian-origin have developed a new app that allows older people residing in independent living communities play various brain games and also helps them connect with health…
‘Electronic’ plants to herald new era for scientists
London, Nov 22 (IANS) A team of Swedish researchers, by using living roses, has created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, calling them “electronic plants”. The experiment demonstrates wires, digital logic and displays…
Emoji worth thousand words: Twitter study
New York, Nov 20 (IANS) The ‘face with tears of joy’ emoji — that was declared the ‘word of the year 2015’ by Oxford Dictionaries — was actually the most popular emoji used on Twitter,…
Assisted E-Commerce Players to Tap Huge Offline Market
Hyderabad, Nov 20 (IANS) The trust a kirana merchant enjoys in the neighborhood and the preference of Indian consumers to come in direct contact with sellers is opening the doors of next big wave in…
Google Glass Helps Cardiologists Open Blocked Heart Artery
London, Nov 20 (IANS) In a world’s first, a group of cardiologists has successfully used the eye-wearable device Google Glass to guide the opening up of a chronically blocked right coronary artery in the cardiac…
Epica Launches Glass Free 3D TV, Tab, Mobiles
Kochi, Nov 18 (IANS) Sharjah-headquartered Epica, the animation, VFX and 3D division of the Aries Group, has launched glass-free 3D products – Epica 3D TV, Epica 3D Tab and Epica 3D Mobile Phones – in…
Google Targets Start-Ups with New Cloud, Apps for Work
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Internet giant Google on Wednesday launched two new initiatives to target enterprises and start-ups with its new improved cloud and apps for work platforms. Under the two initiatives, Google will…
Kerala-Based Firm Launches eToilet Mobile App
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 18 (IANS) Eram Scientific Solutions, the only manufacturer of electronic toilets in the country, on Wednesday, unveiled a new eToilet mobile app for such toilets a day before the World Toilet Day on…
NASA’s ‘Chemical Laptop’ to Search for Alien Life
Washington, Nov 18 (IANS) NASA engineers are working on a unique “Chemical Laptop” – a portable, miniaturised laboratory that can help astronauts analyse samples for a presence of life on the spot as they enter…