NEW DELHI: Sony has launched the PlayStation 4, its new gaming console in the Indian market for Rs 39,990. The console will be available in stores starting January 6, 2014. Sony also said that the PlayStation camera will be retailed at Rs 4,990. The PS4 controller has also been priced at Rs 4

India's second largest software services firm Infosys will hire up to 16,000 engineers next year, the company's Chairman NR Naryana Murthy said on Wednesday. "We have already started the hiring process for next year. We will be hiring around 15,000-16,000 engineers for next year and are alrea

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space Thursday, hoping to produce the most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way and to better understand the evolution of our galaxy. The satellite was lifted into space from French Guiana at 6:12 a

A new GPS-enabled smart watch that allows parents to track their kids' location and send them texts has been developed in the US. The FiLIP watch, designed for children aged 4 to 11, is hooked up to an app on a parent's phone. Using the FiLIP app, parents and other pre-authorised adults can tr

NEW DELHI: Recruitment of minorities in central government services fell from 11.56% of total hires in 2010-11 to just 6.89% in 2012-13, according to data collected from nearly 70 Union ministries and departments. The government, which released the data in reply to a Parliament question on Th

Cardiologist Eric Topol says he knew medicine had reached a turning point when patients started emailing him the results of do-it-yourself electrocardiograms. With the help of a smartphone, a software application and a portable device that reads a person's heart rhythm, anyone can get an instant EK

A US design firm claims to have developed a revolutionary new desk with a built-in cycle, pedalling of which generates electrical power to charge devices such as laptops. The design firm Pedal Power created two such cycling generators that produce electrical power known as Big Rig and Pedal G

The Central Placement Cell of Bangalore University has taken a small step in making its students more employable. It conducted a skill assessment test for as many as 120 MBA students recently. The objective of the test, conducted on a pilot basis, was to assess the ability of the students in reas

It’s amazing to think about the ways LinkedIn has changed the way we interact – not only with each other, but also with our own data. LinkedIn has become the pre-eminent professional networking site amassing nearly 260 million users in 200 countries—and accomplishing all of this in just under

Your Android smartphone, more often than not, carries a lot of personal data, including e-mails , passwords, photos and videos, messages, contacts - and even sensitive office documents. It is therefore important that you keep your handset from prying eyes. Equally crucial is a contingency plan,

  Print media has lost its popularity as a preferred hiring channel and there is a heavy reliance on job portals who account for a majority of the overall hiring among Indian organisations, a survey says.  According to a People Matters-CareerBuilder survey, among the channels used by Indian

LG has unveiled its curved-screen smartphone G Flex in India, the first curved handset to be launched in the country. G Flex has a big 6-inch display that curves from the top to bottom, making it easier to hold and offer a better video viewing experience. It also has a self-healing rear panel,

Researchers, including those of Indian-origin, have developed a new programme that helps computers to learn common sense through pictures, enabling them to scour the internet and label images on its own. The computer programme can make associations between things to obtain common sense inform

My column from last week on the "reverse brain drain" phenomenon, highlighting the recent trend of NRI's returning to India, seemed to hit a particular nerve among Indians and NRI's alike. The article produced strong opinions from all angles. On one end, NRI's that have not returned to India

After being leaked in full via images, prices and specifications, Samsung's latest smartphone the Galaxy S Duos 2 is now official. The smartphone is now listed on the Samsung's India online store for Rs. 10,999. However, there is no word on the availability of the device, with the page providing

NEW DELHI: Mobile towers and mobile phone radiations have no health risks and do not cause cancer, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert said. "WHO studies have already proven that mobile phones do not affect human health. Cancer or brain tumour apart, it doesn't cause even headaches or slee

Ecommerce major Flipkart has stormed the IITs emerging as the largest recruiter in the first three-and-half days of this placement season. Dozens of other, lesser-known startups including Unbxd, Wooqer, Edudigm, ZeMoSo Labs are also making a significant number of hires, getting the better of

Security experts say passwords for more than 2 million Facebook, Google and other accounts have been compromised and circulated online, just the latest example of breaches involving leading Internet companies. Some services including Twitter have responded by disabling the affected passwords. But t