Google’s Android operating system has gained more market share. What will Apple do next? New York: Google’s Android mobile operating system extended its dominance in smartphones in the US and other major markets in early 2013, according to a survey. Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said Android was used on 49.3 percent of smartphones sold in the [...]
Photo Expo 2013 kicked off in the City yesterday at Ramoji Film City. Here are three products to watch out for at the expo. Backup done right SD cards are boring pieces of plastic and metal which suck up most of the data from your camera, but they also tend to fail far too often. [...]
Samsung gives its flagship device a speedbump while adding many features, but is it worth buying? New York: The Galaxy S4, Samsung’s latest and greatest, has a cute feature we’ll probably see in a lot of phones soon: you can shoot both yourself and your surroundings at the same time, using the front- and back-mounted [...]
The technology developed by the studio beings motion controls to iPhone games
Bendable displays are definitely the future, but how soon before it becomes commonplace? The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists and in wrap-around glasses is just a step towards a bigger revolution in screens – those that can be bent, folded and rolled up. Once freed from today’s [...]
These games are not only entertaining but also educational. Here are some of the games that entertain you while you learn. Age of Empires and Civilization series These two games have been around for a long time and is one of the best ways to learn and understand history. While Civilization has a bit of fictional [...]
PC sales have seen the worst-ever drop ever in Q1 Sophie Estienne New York: Worldwide sales of personal computers slid 13.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2013, research firm IDC said Wednesday, the worst contraction since it began tracking the market in 1994. IDC said global PC shipments totaled 76.3 million units in the [...]
Gadgets, suits and other paraphernalia in sci-fi movies are cool, but the rides are the coolest. A lot is being said about the bubblecraft in Tom Cruise’s Oblivion. This is not the first time such crafts of fantasy have ignited similar talk. Let’s check out the rest that did.
Everyone’s rushing to get a digital set-top box so they can watch IPL in peace, but how much do you know about this transition that the industry is going through in India? What is Digital television transition It is a process of converting analogue terrestrial television to digital terrestrial. It also transition from analogue cable to digital [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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