IBM working on carbon nanotubes to replace silicon in computer chips
Researchers, including an Indian origin scientist, have developed a new technique to mass produce dramatically smaller and faster carbon nanotubes that can replace silicon chips in computers.A carbon ‘chip’ with more than ten thousand working transistors and made of nano-sized tubes could replace silicon in computer chips to create smaller, More...
Apple to sell Philips’ Hue smart bulbs that can be controlled by mobiles
Forget the burglar alarm, a light bulb can come to your aid! Researchers have developed a new light bulb that you can switch on and off with your mobile from anywhere in the world to deter burglars. The ‘Hue’ More...
Nokia’s future hangs on Windows Phone 8 rollout
For Nokia, it comes down to this Is Microsoft’s new phone software going to get it back in the smartphone race, or is it going to be too late? After being the top seller of cellphones in the world for 14 years, More...
A robot that plays table tennis like humans
Researchers have developed a robot that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them.Katharina Muelling and colleagues at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany suspended More...
Apple unveils $329 iPad mini, updates the full-sized one
Apple Inc. on Tuesday revealed a smaller version of its hit iPad tablet computer that will start at $329 and comes with a screen that’s about two-thirds the size of the full-size model.Apple starts taking More...
Price the big question ahead of Apple’s iPad mini launch
The price tag remains a big question mark as Apple prepares Tuesday to unveil what is expected to be a smaller iPad.Apple hasn’t said anything about the device, but the veil of secrecy that the company throws More...
I’d be at Microsoft if no Facebook: Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has opened up about his startup experience and said that if Facebook hadn’t happened, he would have probably landed at Microsoft.The social networking mogul shared his experience in a talk More...
Google, Samsung to sell Chromebook for $249
Google is dangling a low-priced laptop computer in front of consumers as rivals Microsoft and Apple prepare to release their latest gadgets. The lightweight computer unveiled Thursday will sell for $249 and is being More...
Microsoft launches Ed-vantage educational programme
Microsoft Corporation India Wednesday announced the launch of a new education resourcing programme, Microsoft Ed-vantage, in response to strong feedback received from academic institutions in India.“The key More...
After Surface launch, Microsoft becomes ‘frenemy’ to PC partners
With the launch of its Surface tablet computer, Microsoft is becoming a genuine “frenemy” – part friend, part enemy to its longtime manufacturing partners.Since its founding 37 years ago, the Redmond, More...