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Telecom players eye higher call rates for survival
NEW DELHI: Indian mobile telephone companies have come a long way and no longer perceive lowering prices and increasing subscribers as tools for survival. To ensure their sustenance, telecom players in India are slowly hiking call rates and doing away with promotional offers.
"The reason behind increasing call rates is that none of the players has a serious incentive to lower prices. The intens... |
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50 billion download applications at apple app store
NEW DELHI: Apple Inc has said that its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008, as per a news wire report.
As per the company the 50 billionth download was a game called “Say the Same Thing” by Space Inch.
The App Store had 500 apps when it first opened. It now has more than 850,000 individual apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod T... |
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EGoM, GoM on telecom matters may meet within 10 days
NEW DELHI: Two ministerial panels on telecom matters --EGoM that will decide on the third round of spectrum auction, and GoM that will take a call on revival of BSNL and MTNL-- are likely meet in the next 10 days, sources said.
The EGoM would take a call on the number of telecom circles in which the third round of spectrum auction should be conducted in order to comply with a Supreme Court orde... |
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Now, shoes that generate electricity
HOUSTON: Four US students have developed shoes that extract energy with every step to power portable electronics and, perhaps someday, life-preserving medical devices, US media reported.
Four mechanical engineering students at Rice University in Houston, for a project required for graduation, created PediPower shoes, which deliver 400 milliwatts of energy through wires that connect the shoes to... |
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Google CEO Larry Page discloses rare vocal cord problem
WASHINGTON: Google's CEO Larry Page on Wednesday disclosed that he is suffering from partial vocal cord paralysis, but said he is fully fit to attend work.
Revealing his health condition, 40-year-old Page wrote on his blog on Tuesday that it was in the last summer that he learned that his second vocal cord has also reduced movement.
The problem for Page started about 14 years ago when he got... |
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Soon, solar panels as cheap as paint
WASHINGTON: The cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels is so high that most people and businesses cannot afford to place them on their rooftops.
Fortunately, that is changing because researchers such as Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo assistant professor of electrical engineering, are helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost le... |
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New type of 'superwheat' to increase productivity
LONDON: British scientists have claimed that they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30 percent.
The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient ancestor of wheat with a modern variety to produce a new strain, the BBC reported.
In early trials, the resulting crop seemed bigger and stronger than the current modern whea... |
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Facebook eyeing $1 billion Waze GPS app deal
PARIS: Social media giant Facebook is in talks with Israel-based GPS mobile app Waze for a deal worth a whopping one billion dollars.
In a report by France24, the app will help Facebook expand its reach to the larger community of drivers by helping them deal with traffic jams and get directions online.
While Facebook refused to comment on the report, if the deal is made it will be second in ... |
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YouTube starts paid subscription service
LONDON: YouTube has launched a trial scheme for paid channels on its website.
Under the pilot programme, a small number of content makers will offer the channels for subscriptions starting at 0.99 dollar a month. Each channel will offer a free 14-day trial and many will have discounted annual rates, reports the BBC.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, said the launch was part of an effort to ... |
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Metro commuters can now recharge smart cards online
NEW DELHI: In a bid to ease ticketing and recharge facilities for commuters, Delhi Metro today launched online recharge facility for smart card users.
"With this new facility, commuters will now be able to top up their smart cards using debit or credit cards. However, recharge using net-banking facility is not available yet," a DMRC official said.
Metro commuters can top up their smart cards... |
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