Scientist of Indian origin designs Nano-batteries

Researchers led by Pulickel M. Ajayan at Rice University, USA, have managed to package lithium ion batteries into a single nanowire. Pulickel M. Ajayan did his B. Tech in metallurgical engineering from Banaras Hindu University in 1985, India and Ph.D. from Northwestern University US in 1989. A nanometre is only one billionth of a metre, if a source of power can be packed in such a small space,... By shashwatdc gupta

Overall teledensity in the country is 70.89: TRAI

TRAI has presented its Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report for the Quarter ending March 2011. The report indicates that as on 31st March 2011, the overall teledensity in the country has reached 70.89. The number of telephone subscribers has increased from 787.28 million in Dec 2010 to 846.32 million at the end of Mar 2011, registering a sequential growth of 7.50% over the... By shashwatdc gupta

Huawei plans worlds first LTE TDD data card

By the third quarter of this year, Huawei may become the worlds first company to launch a LTE TDD/UMTS/GSM/CDMA multi-mode data card. According to an official announcement from Huawei, its new datacard, E392, will be commercially available in the third quarter to LTE TDD network operators worldwide. The Huawei E392 comes in the shape of a USB data card and supports LTE TDD technology. It is... By shashwatdc gupta

Are you still using a paper calendar?

These days most people have been won over by electronic calendars, but there could be a few who are still hovering between paper and smartphone-based calendar apps. A cloud based digital calendar can be accessed from anywhere, anytime. Obviously, you dont enjoy the same advantage with a paper calendar. Perhaps the biggest drawback of using a paper calendar is that you have to write with a pencil... By shashwatdc gupta

Internet Explorer users might be dumb: AptiQuant

AptiQuant, the self-proclaimed world leader in the field of online psychometric testing, whatever that is, has managed to aggravate many folks who have been using Internet Explorer for all their life. Believe it or not a new research done by AptiQuant seems to indicate that the users of Internet Explorer are much more dumber as compared to Chrome and Firefox users. So how did AptiQuant come up... By shashwatdc gupta

The secret behind leaks of upcoming handset models

Too many upcoming handset models are getting leaked these days. It seems as if every international handset maker has a really bad security system to safeguard its research and development facilities. They cant even keep their upcoming models secret any more. Otherwise how can the pictures and videos of models that are still under development keep finding their way to technology websites? The... By shashwatdc gupta

Google unveils Page Speed

Page Speed, the new service unveiled by Google, can help load web pages much faster. The service works by fetching web sites through Google's servers, automatically rewriting them using web performance best practices and then running them back through Google's servers to the end user. This might sound as if lot more work is being done, but the truth is that rewriting usually translates into... By shashwatdc gupta

Apple corners two-thirds of mobile phone profits

Apples net share of the international mobile market stands at mere 5.4 percent. In smartphone sales, its share is only 18.5 percent. Yet Apple is able to grab a whopping two-thirds of the entire profits from sale of all kinds of handsets around the world. This observation has come to light from an analysis published by the market analyst, Asymco. After gathering data from the latest quarterly... By shashwatdc gupta

Apple, Samsung sprint ahead of Nokia

Once Nokia Corp. was the undisputed leader of the mobile handset market, now it has the third position, behind Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. The struggles of Nokia in the highly competitive smartphone market are clearly highlighted in the new data released by market research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple's share of the smartphone market rose to 18.5% in the second quarter from 13.5% a... By shashwatdc gupta

To beat stress play video game: Deepak Chopra

To most of us a video game would conjure the impression of adrenalin packed entertainment, where you blow up entire spaceships full of evil aliens, and battle all kinds of monsters. However, new age guru Deepak Chopra seems to dwell on some other kind of video game. His idea of a video game is of something that is so serene and peaceful that it will help people relieve stress and achieve inner... By shashwatdc gupta

Samsungs profits falls by 18%

Weakness in semiconductors and liquid crystal displays are countering Samsungs growing strength in smartphones, making it difficult for the company to maintain its profit margins. In its regulatory filing, the electronics giant declared that it earned 3.51 trillion won ($3.33 billion) in the three months ended June 30. During the same period of the last year, the company had earned 2.28 trillion... By shashwatdc gupta

No link between cell phone use and cancer

A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute says that there is no correlation between cell phone usage and the risk of developing brain tumours. To reach their conclusion the researchers studied the effect of radiation upon 1000 participants, many of whom were children, as the younger users are thought to be more prone to phone emissions. Cell phone usage by children... By shashwatdc gupta