NEW DELHI: Microsoft announced the Windows 10 last year, a news that elated scores of Windows 8 users who finally had a better version of Windows to look forward to. The Redmond-based tech giant incorporated a number of changes to the new version of Windows, including the new task view, Continuum, universal search, etc. Windows…
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and France-based Gfi Informatique – a value-added IT services and software vendor – on Tuesday said they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement on smart cities to meet the requirements of digital initiatives in public transportation, water, and energy. The French company will include Intelligent Urban Exchange – an…
New Delhi: A super-fast alternative to WiFi known as ‘LiFi’ has just been tested in the real world and has been proven capable of sending data at up to 224 GB per second and has the potential to revolutionize internet usage. Which means you can download 18 movies of 1.5 GB each second. LiFi, or light fidelity,…
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics. In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra…
Q. Should I update to Windows 10 now that I’ve gotten used to Windows 8.1? How big a change is it? A. Windows 8.1 has more in common with Windows 10 visually than does Windows 7, but there are differences. For one, Windows 10 includes the voice-activated Cortana assistant software, which can respond to commands…
Just about every major tech company, like Apple and Microsoft, has some sort of wearable computer. Caeden, a wearable tech start-up, thinks that with most of these smartwatches and fitness accessories, an important first step was skipped: They don’t look like something you would want to wear. On Tuesday, the one-year-old company is opening orders for Sona, its…
Flowers could be blooming on the International Space Station (ISS) after the New Year, thanks to NASA’s first flowering crop experiment on the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated the Veggie plant growth system and its rooting “pillows” containing Zinnia seeds on the space station on Monday. Growing Zinnias in orbit will help provide…
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft was once the epitome of everything wrong with security in technology. Its products were so infested with vulnerabilities that the company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month and focus on fixing the bugs in software they had already built. But…
When Google was officially announced, it’s an understatement to say the device bombed. tech enthusiasts everywhere, while they probably liked the idea behind the hardware, just couldn’t come to grips with having to wear half a pair of glasses on their head all the time. And though the less than welcome reception has put Google Glass…
NEW DELHI: Want 1TB storage on Google Drive for free? Google is offering its users a chance to win that. Online search giant Google is updating its Local Guides programme for Google Maps that can get you 1TB storage on Google Drive for 2 years for free. Taking the help of locals to gather information…
