With mobile phones and laptops boasting of embedded maps and GPS features, one would think that personal navigation devices (PND) would make a graceful exit from the market.
A recent entrant in the Indian market, Acer is banking to find a footing with affordable Android phones, most probably touchscreen devices, among the 500 million mobile subscribers in India.
What you need to flaunt this season are touchscreen phones that are smart and sassy.
Don't be fooled by their diminutive looks - these babies have enough megapixels to portray in detail your picture-perfect moments.
VoIP services come in real handy to make cheap overseas calls.
The market potential is huge. with over four billion global mobile users as compared to approximately one billion PCs.
While pay-per-second tariff plans seem attractive, there's a lot you need to know before switching over.
Users are increasingly taking to dual-SIM handsets, which enable two connections on a single device.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, has set the ball rolling for web addresses in scripts other than Latin. This will allow uniform resource locators, as web addresses are called in virtual parlance, in languages other than English, including Hindi, Tamil or Bhojpuri.
If Apple Computer has its way, this is precisely what you may get in some years to come. Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the company, has aptly titled the patent application as 'Advertisement in an Operating System'. And he has listed himself as an 'inventor' of the application (US Patent Application 20090265214).
If you have been holding off buying a new computer, then Windows 7, the latest operating system from Microsoft, will give you a good excuse to buy one. Windows 7, or Win 7, is largely believed to be better than Microsoft's previous OS Windows Vista and way more advanced than the last generation Windows XP.
Banks and corporations see value in 140 characters.
Pricing almost the same as Vista; cheaper for some editions.
Children in India received Rs 664-cr pocket money this year. The economic slowdown hasn't dented this market, courtesy indulgent parents. Indian children received Rs 664 crore pocket and gift money so far in 2009, up 39 per cent compared to the whole of 2008.
Quattro is the first BPO to have secured permission for this model from DoT. "This is a provisional permission. Once the company is able to meet all our security concerns, we will grant them a license," confirmed a senior DoT official on condition of anonymity.
Bluetooth speakers are elbowing their way in and we are saying this because of the recent launches that will spoil you with choices.
Hi-end smartphones are all set to make a huge splash this year. Relatively new players like Acer are throwing down the gauntlet to established smartphone makers such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson. And, all this is only going to make your decision-making tougher.
With the Wii console, players can use the motion sensor, the game controller remote, as a tennis racket or even a baseball bat during a gameplay.
Realising that raising money for charity will only get tougher in the present economic environment, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has decided to harness the ever-increasing mobile users in India.
Creative is no newcomer in the consumer electronics market -- they have been making audio and video products for ages -- but it still doesn't take an expert eye to conclude that Creative's Vado, a pocket-size camcorder, is strikingly similar to the popular Flip camcorder from Pure Digital. After Sony, Pure Digital and Creative launched their pocket camcorders, Kodak too carted out the Zi6, a diminutive camcorder, in the market.
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