Nokia: Selling phone business to Microsoft painful but necessary

Outgoing CEO Stephen Elop, who’ll head back to Microsoft with the $7.2 billion acquisition, says Nokia didn’t have enough clout on its own to rise again in the mobile market.   The decision to sell Nokia’s devices and services division to Microsoft

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iBall Launches Andi4a Projector Phone For Rs 19,000

The phone features a 4-inch screen, dual-core CPU, and 8 megapixel camera. Domestic brand iBall, known for its tagline “Your i-ball view Our technology new” with brand ambassador Karina Kapoor has launched a phone with built-in projector. Called the Andi4a, this new

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Mercedes Vehicles Have Night Vision That Can Recognize Animals Now

  Mercedes’ vehicles have had night vision capabilities, and automatic object recognition, for years now. And while they can accurately recognize street signs, and other lifeless hazards, its only now that the company’s fleet-starting with the 2014 Mercedes S-Class-will be able to

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These Incredible New Buses Are Charged Wirelessly by the Road Itself

  Imagine an electric vehicle that can travel endless distances without ever needing to stop at a recharging station.That sounds impossible, right? Because electric vehicles run on batteries, and at some point, you need stop and charge those batteries. Not this one.

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Groundbreaking New Particle Could Make Hard Drives 20 Times Smaller

  There are many reasons why we still have size limitations on technology, but when it comes to data storage, one thing really stands out. You can only squeeze particles so close together before they start bumping into each other and screwing

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iPhone 5C leaked specifications point to dual-core CPU.

  We’ve seen the low-cost iPhone or the iPhone 5C a number of times in multiple colours thanks to leaked videos and images. However, not much is known about the hardware specifications of the phone except that it might feature internals similar

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Micromax’s biggest, most expensive phone launched

Micromax launches Canvas Doodle 2 (A240)   Micromax has rolled out the successor of its Canvas Doodle smartphone.  The new handset, dubbed as Micromax Canvas Doodle 2, is now available on snapdeal.com for Rs 19,990. The A240 Canvas Doodle 2, which is

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Google Search Gets Improved Dictionary Definitions With Sample Sentences, Synonyms, Translations And Usage Stats

Here is a small but cool update to Google Search: Google’s dictionary definitions — which you can invoke by using a query like “define crunch ” — now feature significantly more information about virtually every word in its catalog. The update, Google says,

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Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet :: TheMech.in

  In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to

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Android grabs 80 percent of global smartphone market in Q2 2013

There are a ton of studies about smartphones done every month, but here’s an interesting one. A study by Strategy Analytics has found that Android is the most dominant operating system on smartphones in the world. The study states that around 80

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