The Nokia N97 mini is a smaller mobile computer with stainless steel cues, featuring a tilting 3.2-inch touch display, QWERTY keyboard and customizable homescreen. This device delivers Internet experience in a compact handset based on the design of the Nokia N97, the vendor said. The Nokia N97 mini is expected to begin shipping in... More

Acer has just officially launched the Aspire Revo Ion PC in India and having just fiddled around with it, I must say I’m impressed. For those who have been following Nvidia’s Ion platform, we had caught a glimpse of the Revo couple months back and now we finally have it. For me it wasn’t a complete surprise since... More

Offers 1 Mbps surfing speeds at Rs. 1,699 per month. The broadband war is all set to heat up as Bharti Airtel slashes rates. Subscribers will be able to experience 1 Mbps surfing speeds from Airtel at Rs. 1,699 per month, which is Rs. 100 more than current 512 Kbps. The 512Kbps speed plan will now cost Rs. 1,099, which is Rs. 200... More

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has partnered with Ahmedabad-based Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd to develop an integrated geographic information system and image processing software (IGiS) to analyse satellite pictures and data. The low-cost software is an indigenous seamless geomatics application for geographical information... More

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc’s top executives had been talking about a search advertising partnership for months but only knew they had a deal on Monday, the CEOs of both companies said on Wednesday. The two companies finally announced a 10-year ad partnership to take on Google Inc early on Wednesday, apparently ending a saga... More

Macs made up a whopping 91 percent of the $1,000 and up computer market in June, up significantly from early 2008 when Apple’s premium market share was 66 percent, according to new data released this week. As first reported at Betanews, the latest sales figures from NPD Market Research show Apple with the lion’s share... More

Microsoft has announced plans to create a series of anime short films based on the Halo universe. Halo Legends will be produced by Microsoft’s 343 Industries and is expected to feature “creative direction” from anime pioneer Shinji Aramaki of Appleseed EX Machina fame and Mamoru Oshii, director of the Ghost in the... More

Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Forty years ago mission commander Neil A. Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. walked on the moon while command module pilot Michael Collins orbited above. Today however, marks the 40th anniversary of the day people really reacted... More

A total solar eclipse began its flight on Wednesday across a narrow swathe of Asia, where hundreds of millions of people watched the skies darken despite thick summer clouds. The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century was visible along a roughly 250 km-wide (155 miles) corridor, according to the U.S. space agency NASA,... More

Google’s plan to release its own operating system based on its Chrome browser is at once audacious and laughable. Microsoft Windows represents slightly less than 90% of the personal computer operating system market, a position it has held for years. Google’s industry ally, Apple, has managed to steal a few percentage... More

Mumbai, June 26, 2009: RCom is set to give dozens of streaming channels to its GSM users. The company is in advanced state of talks with Apalya Technologies to provide the services to its GSM service users. Apalya Technologies Pvt Ltd. is a company based in Hyderabad, India. The company was formed to take advantage of the growing... More

If it closes its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle will become an operating system and hardware vendor, two things it has expressed little interest in doing in the past. Doing so has its appeal, however, since Oracle could integrate an application, operating system, middleware, and database on top of its own hardware. That... More

The most popular hybrid car on the market is the Toyota Prius. The Prius has been around a decade now, and Toyota will launch a new and larger than the Prius in 2010 provides greater functionality and better fuel economy. A first test drive in 2010 showed that the Prius achieved 52.5 mpg. Toyota will be the price of the third generation... More