NEW DELHI: India’s great internet dream which sank the hopes and dollars of hundreds of ambitious dotcoms in the early 2000s could finally be turning into reality. More than half of Indians who access the internet reside not in the metros but outside India’s eight largest cities, or in other words, in Tier II and…
Vodafone has teamed up with leading web brands to bring services usually associated with broadband-enabled PCs to UK mobile customers. The mobile operator, the world’s largest by revenues, has inked deals with a long list of big hitters including AOL, eBay, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!. In February a tie-up was announced with News Corp’s MySpace…
VIA Technologies announced its new NanoBook UMD (ultra-mobile device) at Computex Taipei 2007, which, according to the company, packs the performance, connectivity and functionality of a notebook PC into a sleek and light ultra-portable clamshell form factor that weighs less than 850g. The VIA NanoBook is powered by the ultra-low-voltage 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor and…
June 08, 2007 Yahoo Inc. late yesterday released a new version of its Messenger instant messaging client to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that let attackers grab control of a Windows PC with little or no help from the user . The bugs in Messenger’s Webcam ActiveX controls were reported Wednesday by eEye Digital…
Samsung Electronics Co. has squeezed 4GB of storage into a mobile phone chip set that the manufacturer believes could eliminate the need for external memory card slots. The embedded multichip system, called moviMCP, packs several memory functions into one unit, removing the need for an external expansion slot and thus freeing up space in tightly…