Contacts+ Contact management is often a mess, especially with the multiple accounts that people often have to juggle. Contacts+ is a good solution for cleaning things up and linking those in your contact list to social and communication networks. The Contacts+ app syncs the contacts' profile dat

BANGALORE: Indian IT firms have been trying to scamper up the 'value chain' in the past few years, and the resultant increase in focus on verticals such as product design and emerging technologies like mobile and cloud is sending these tech giants on a talent hunt to the country's arts and design sc

A US company is planning to build an 'Outernet' — a global network of cube satellites broadcasting internet data to all the people on the planet — for free. The idea is to offer free internet access to all people, regardless of location, bypassing filtering or other means of censorship, according to

LONDON: An internet security firm has stumbled upon a "mind boggling" and "Godzilla-sized" cache of personal data put up for sale on the online black market by hackers. One of the hacker attacks stole over 105 million records making it the single largest data breach in cybercrime history. The

Given the condition of the economy and job market for the better part of this last decade, there are really two kinds of people in the workforce: those who are looking for a job and those who might well be looking for one very soon. There is no longer any such thing as real job security, but there a

Messaging app bought by Facebook for $19bn last week makes further advance on mobile operators' territory WhatsApp, the free texting app acquired by Facebook for $19bn last week, will open a new front in its war on the cost of mobile communications by introducing free voice calls within months.

Job Details Business Unit: Technical Job Category: Engineering & Projects Location: Abu Dhabi Country: United Arab Emirates Contract Type: Full Time Closing Date: 31-Mar-2014 About the Position: We are seeking a highly motivated Civil Enginee

Nokia has announced its first-ever smartphones based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), that can run Android apps and are powered by Microsoft and Nokia services. Nokia X and Nokia X+ are dual-SIM phones that come with 4-inch 480x800 displays and are powered by 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Sna

Samsung unveiled two new computerized wristwatches on Sunday, this time including health sensors and related fitness features to give people a reason to buy one. Samsung's first Galaxy Gear smartwatch came out last fall amid much fanfare, but it landed with a thud in the marketplace. Samsung and

Let us say you want to have a very small hand-held computer for limited usage in travel to do some complex engineering calculations for which the laptop is bulky and the calculator is not enough, or maybe you wish to control your home appliances through wireless but cannot afford to put a laptop 24/

Your quality resume opened the door, but it’s only the first step in securing that dream job. Today’s HR departments have a burgeoning array of tools to assist them in the candidate-selection process. They’re crunching data on psychometrics, IQ, EQ, physical appearance and aptitude to uncover the

London:  Death of the comma? One of the most commonly used elements of written English - the humble comma - could be abolished as a punctuation mark without doing much damage to the language, a US academic has suggested. Professor John McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative

If you want to learn Kannada and have fun doing it, just log in to the many websites and become a guru. If knowing two languages is like possessing a second soul, then in our increasingly global village, all of us would have multiple souls. While learning a language can be done in many ways, from c

Multiple vulnerabilities have been detected in popular web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and cyber security sleuths have advised Internet users in the Indian cyberspace to guard against arbitrary activities on their systems. In view of these suspicious virus-based activities, Interne

MUMBAI: How different is a course in digital communication from one in digital communications? Or a diploma in travel & tourism from a diploma in travel and tourism? Yet, these are listed as separate courses in the All India Council for Technical Education's manual guiding engineering studies.

Nokia's anticipated first Android phone, believed to be dubbed Nokia X (and codenamed Normandy), has again been listed on a Vietnamese online retailer. The alleged Nokia X has been listed with model number A110 and is priced at roughly $110 (Rs. 6,800 approximately). However, there is no word on

MUMBAI: Soon students will be able to make more informed choices on the courses they wish to pursue. A system to accredit individual programmes offered by colleges and universities is being put in place by the Union human resources development ministry. Under the Rashtriya Ucchatar Shikshan

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