Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is losing Indian market share as stated by StatCounter, an Irish metrics firm. Popularly known as IE, it has lost about 20% of Indian market share in the last 2 years. Its loss of market share in Europe is even more distinct as this month it lost 3 times more share than usual. This was so because Microsoft was imposed to order a ballot screen in its operating system Windows 7 b ...

Telecom major Vodafone Essar on Friday said it will launch Apple iPhone 3GS in the country beginning today, priced at Rs. 29,500 onwards. iPhone 3GS is the fastest iPhone yet and is equipped with a three megapixel autofocus camera, video recording and hands free voice control features. The handset also provides access to Apple’s App Store, which has more than 1.5 lakh applications ranging from games to soci ...

Talking to babies can boost their brain power, a study has revealed. Months before babies start to speak, words play an important role in their brain development. Even at the age of three months, words have a bigger impact on their minds than other sounds, including music. Baby talk: Hearing words helps them 'categorise' pictures better than those who heard tones. (Posed by models) The research showed that ...

Gartner Inc. has released its list of 10 mobile technologies which are expected to significantly evolve through 2011 impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. Investments in these technologies are expected to increase during the period. "We are highlighting these 10 mobile technologies that should be on every organization's radar screen," says Nick Jones, vice president and distinguishe ...

The annual Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest is underway, and on the first day Web browsers fell to attack. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6.2 on 64-bit Windows 7 and Safari on OS X all were forced to run exploit code. To add insult to injury, an iPhone was cracked and the SMS database lifted from it. The IE exploit is the most interesting because it bypasses both DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Ad ...

After the attractive tariff plans by MTNL and Airtel in Broadband segments, State Operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), country’s leading telecommunications service provider has now joined the competition and introduced a unique pan-India promotional offer to test the High Speed 2 Mbps Broadband with Unlimited data download at FREE of cost for 15 days. The Unlimited Free Broadband Promotional offer ...

Steve Jobs is dogfooding. Several emails from the Apple CEO to end users have been leaked in the last day or so, and he's been replying via his iPad. Jobs has been known to directly respond to end users in the past. Eating one's own dog food, also called dogfooding, is when a company uses the products that it makes. Apple is targeting business users as potential iPad customers, as shown by features designed ...

The Internet was all over a story on Monday that the iPhone was being sold sans contract, and unlocked (for a primo price). It turned out the unlocked part of the story was wrong, but iPhones are being sold without contract, for $499 (3G), $599 (16GB 3GS), or $699 (32GB 3GS). That's not the real story however. The real story is that this is a sign of a new iPhone coming. This is just a method of reducing in ...

Apple has quietly added the ability to "gift" an app from the App Store. The new menu item is shown above, and shows up if you drop down the "Buy App" sub-menu. Click "Gift This App" and you'll be presented an screen that has fields for the recipient's name, email, and a personal message. If you like, you can enter multiple email addresses and have multiple gifts sent. Naturall ...

Director of the UC Irvine's Beckman Laser Institute - Bruce Tromberg and assistant researcher Albert Cerussi have developed a Handheld Laser Breast Scanner (LBS) Instrument for better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer that can tremendously enhance the treatment and quality of life for breast cancer patients. UCI Laser Breast Scanner Instrument | Image courtesy - UCI Beckman Laser Institute The Handhe ...