Mobile handset company Karbonn Friday announced the launch of a “Kochadaiiyaan” Signature Phone Series to bring Rajinikanth’s magic closer to his fans. The series, based on the forthcoming Tamil period drama, includes the Android-based Karbonn A36, the Karbonn A6+ and the flagship Titanium S5i along with two feature phones – the Legend 2.4 and the […]
World’s biggest mobile messaging service WhatsApp intends to add voice calling feature to its free messaging service in the second quarter of 2014, it was announced Monday. The move is aimed at enabling WhatsApp users to be able to make calls, just as they can now text messages. The latest announcement answers some of the […]
West Bengal Friday observed ‘Language Martyrs Day’ and paid homage to those who had laid down their lives for the cause of Bengali language in Dhaka in 1952. The day is now celebrated as International Mother Language Day the world over. The day began with ‘prabhat pheri’ (morning choir) as employees of the Bangladesh Deputy […]
Enthusiasts can now explore 360 degree online imagery of 30 Indian heritage sites, including the Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar and Red Fort, which were released by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and Google. The launch was the result of Google and ASI’s joint initiative to make 100 of India’s most important heritage sites more […]
New Delhi The Archaeological Survey of India and Google allowEnthusiasts to now explore 360 degree online imagery of 30 Indian heritage sites, including the TajMahal, QutubMinar and Red Fort. The launch was the result of Google and ASI’s joint initiative to make 100 of India’s most important heritage sites more accessible for the world to […]
A woman in China, who spent many hours peering at her smartphone in the dark, found that her right retina had become detached. Liu felt her right eye had been “veiled” since last week. Liu habitually plays with her smartphone for two to three hours each day in the dark, Xinhua reported Saturday. “When the […]
Yes. It’s possible as engineers have developed a way by which your smart phones battery would recharge itself without the need for an electrical cord. Incorporated directly into a cell phone housing, the team’s nano-generator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface into power for the phone. “We believe this development could be […]
London, Feb 20 Do you turn on ‘beautiful but sad’ music when in sad mood? You do the right thing as this can help people feel better when they’re feeling blue. The research probed the effects of Self-Identified Sad Music (SISM) on people’s moods – paying particular attention to their reasons for choosing a particular […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20 World-renowned physicist Rajendran Raja, who passed away Feb 15 at his home in Illinois in the US at the age of 68, was a simple person and one who loved Kerala culture, according to his family. In a chat with IANS, his first cousin Sathy Varma said he was indeed the global […]
Toronto, Feb 20 The attraction lies in the voice, not the face. People prefer those who have a similar accent and voices that sound like their own, say researchers. Men with deeper voices and women with slightly higher voices were thought to sound more attractive, because they suggest a bigger or a smaller body. “There […]