Twitter Unveils ‘Fabric’ Platform for Developers

  Twitter on Wednesday set out to weave itself into mobile applications with a free "Fabric" platform to help developers build better programs and make more money.  Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo touted Fabric as "the future of mobile software development" while unveiling the platform at the one-to-many messaging service's first conference for makers of applications for smartphones or tablet computers. Fabric consists of software tools to tackle challenges such...

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The Best New Android Feature Is a Smarter Lock Screen

 Brand new design, better battery life, seamless device switching! The newest version of Android brings a lot to the table. But its best feature is a little further under the surface: Smart lock screens that will let you be super secure without ever entering a PIN again. Teased back at Google I/O but now appearing in the developer build of Android Lollipop, the new feature works like this: Pair a gadget with your phone-maybe a watch or a speaker or a pair of bluetooth headphones-and...

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Flipkart Beats Amazon In Terms Of Diwali Traffic

 The Indian e-commerce industry has already witnessed plenty of fireworks much before Diwali crackers have started bursting. As the online festive discount season draws to a close, it seems Flipkart is ahead of the rest in terms of traffic, in spite of the consumer backlash that it had to face on October 6. The biggest rival for Flipkart, Amazon, which concluded its week-long Diwali Dhamaka on October 16, witnessed a 200 per cent (two-fold) jump in its traffic on the first day of the week...

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iPhone 6 Owners Demand Answers on ‘Bendgate‘

After 180 complaints about bent iPhones - including one where the device apparently "caught fire" - one website is demanding that Apple provide an explanation Apple today came under further pressure from users of the iPhone 6 to provide more details on whether the handsets bend too easily. A website collating images of bent iPhones spotted on social media such as Twitter and Instagram claims to have 180 different examples, up significantly from Apple's earlier statement that it had seen...

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Gartner Predicts Positive Modi Effect On e-India

Prime minister narendra Modi’s much-hailed ‘Digital India’ initiative, which earned a vote of confidence from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who met the PM in early October) is expected to boost the government’s IT spending by 5 percent to $7.2 billion in 2015, estimates technology research firm Gartner. A chunk of these expenses is expected to be incurred in the revving up of external IT services and telecommunications, the development of broadband and cloud-based initiatives, and the creation...

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Google Offers Guide To Help iOS Users Switch To Android

  Designed for iPhone and iPad users, the new Switch website explains everything from transferring photos and music to setting up email and messaging. Google has launched a website called Switch that has one goal in mind: educate Apple iPhone and iPad users on how they can easily move their data to Android-based devices. Essentially a manual, it describes how owners of Apple devices, which run the iOS mobile operating system, can take photos and music and bring them to devices running Google's Android,...

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Rich List: Mumbai University Has More Billionaire Alumni Than MIT

 Who knew that Mumbai University would have produced more number of billionaires than some of the best universities in USA or UK. Wealth-X, in association with UBS, has released Billionaires census 2014, which reveals the top universities of the world that have shaped the maximum number of billionaires. The Top 10 universities list is filled with American schools, other than the number 9 and 10 spot. Mumbai University features at the ninth place that has produced 12 billionaires. Surprisingly,...

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4G Rollout Is A Tough, Costly Job For Telecom Operators

 Network deployment for 4G LTE is a complex and expensive task for telecom operators, especially in emerging economies such as India which have low average-revenue-per user (ARPU), Jon Penrose, a US-based telecom industry consultant at Teradata said. Deploying LTE networks in India and globally is a hugely complex and expensive task for mobile network operators. Enhanced capabilities and benefits like bandwidth-on-demand require complex go-to-market and customer management strategies, Penrose...

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7 Things You Did Not Know Your Browser Could Do

 The most-used program on your computer is your Web browser, but there's a good chance you don't know much about it besides how to visit your favorite sites. In fact, there are a lot of myths about browsers,some of which I've dispelled in the past. Today, though, I'm helping you get the most out of your browser with a few simple tricks that you really need to know. 1. Choose your home page What's the first thing you see when your browser starts up? If you're using Internet Explorer, it's...

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Father Son Duo Sue Facebook, Ferrari

A Swiss father and his son who gained millions of Facebook Inc followers through their Ferrari SpA fan pages sued the social media company and the carmaker claiming they teamed up to illegally seize control of the websites. The lawsuit filed in California state court follows earlier legal spats in Europe between Olivier and Sammy Wasem and the sports car company over their "Ferrari Fan Page" and a "Formula 1 Vision" page. "Ferrari wanted it," the Wasems said in a complaint filed October 14 in San Mateo County Superior Court. "So, with Facebook's...

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Photo Sharing Site Twitpic Is Doomed After All

 It's been a pretty tumultuous couple of months for photo-sharing site Twitpic. Early last month, the company announced that it was shutting down on Sept. 25, citing a trademark dispute with Twitter. A couple weeks later, the company announced that it had been acquired, and would no longer be shutting its doors. In a blog post on its site today, Twitpic founder Noah Everett announced that Twitpic is, in fact, shutting down after all: It's with a heavy heart that I announce again...

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Lenovo To Form New Company With Focus On Smart Devices

Lenovo to form new company with focus on smart devices The Chinese tech giant will form a new subsidiary that will have a different name and branding with an aim to sell directly to customers in China via the internet. It appears Lenovo wants in on the lucrative online sales action that Xiaomi's been enjoying so far. The Chinese tech company known globally for its notebooks will be setting up a new subsidiary next year on April 1 to focus on smart devices and Internet sales in China. Lenovo's press...

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Cisco Chairman John Chambers Bullish On India

 Pinning hopes on the new NDA government, global tech major Cisco chairman John Chambers today said he is is quite bullish on India and expressed confidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will drive reforms and deliver. "The change in government, I think Prime Minister Modi is going to be a great leader...I am extremely optimistic about this leadership change in India and the future of the country," he said at the Internet of Things (IoT)...

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Micromax To Develop New Phones On Modified Android OS

 Home-bred handset maker Micromax Informatics plans to initially invest Rs 100 crore on services and innovation as it tries to move beyond the business of mobile phone hardware that has become more or less standardised. As part of the exercise, the Gurgaon-based company is developing a new set of smartphones on a forked version of the Android operating system, people privy to the development told ET. The venture, code named Project Yureka, is likely to be formalised...

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Google Launches New Text Messaging Apps Competing Facebook Messenger

 Google is introducing a text-messaging app called "Messenger" with the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop, the new version of its mobile operating system. That, obviously, will be confusing because it has the same name as Facebook's existing messaging app, Messenger. Do not expect folks at Facebook to jump for joy at this news. Facebook Messenger is a juggernaut: it's currently No.1 in the app store charts, according to App Annie. It has more than 200 million users, and that number...

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AMD Cutting 7 Percent of Jobs After Poor Q3

 The 700 or so layoffs come a week after Lisa Su takes over as CEO of the world's second-largest chip maker. Advanced Micro Devices' restructuring will continue, with executives saying Oct. 16 that the chip maker will cut about 700 jobs. The announcement from President and CEO Lisa Su came a week after AMD surprised the industry when Rory Read, who had led the company for more than three years, stepped down, giving way to Su in an amicable transition. It also came as executives...

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Former Google CEO: Here How To Build A $300 Billion Company

 To be successful in the technology-driven internet age, a company has to attract "smart creative" employees and then create an environment where they can thrive. At least that's the argument that Google's Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg make in "How Google Works." In the new book, executive chairman and former CEO Schmidt and former SVP of product Rosenberg outline what they learned while building Google into a company now worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The duo created a fun,...

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