So friends 14th of february has arrived, and for all the readers of comptalks.com who are still unsure of what to gift your valentine this year, we have brought for you a list of gadgets that can be impressive gifts for this special occasion: 1. HEART-SHAPED USB FLASH DRIVE: This flash drive of $24.72 has 32 GB of memory to keep your most precious photos and videos close to your heart, as it can be worn [...]
Indian Railways decided to further simplify the process of booking a train ticket, after it announced that it would treat sms as equivalent to printed ticket. Now to book your ticket, you would have to do the registration and download the genuine IRCTC software on your mobile. This move has long been expected by the Indian Railways, and is quite late in our opinion. Tickets can be booked on the mobile website:- http://www.irctc.co.in/mobile. A confirmatory message [...]
The ShowStoppers event at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas saw Intel announcing of first smartphones that will have the 1.6GHz “Medfield” processor from Intel- The Lenovo K800. Thus Intel has kept its promise made earlier of entering the smartphone area, which until now was heavily dominated by the UK based ARM processors. The phone will not be available in US for now, but will be launched in China in the second quarter this year. The show-piece available [...]
Microsoft on 6th of december announced the launch of its very own app store. Unveiled at Windows Store preview event in San Francisco art gallery by its vice president of web services Mr Antoine Leblond , it is expected to arrive in late february next year, to be launched simultaneously with the test version of its next OS – Windows 8 beta. The Windows App Store will have both consumer as well as enterprise apps [...]
Mozilla celebrated the 7th birthday of Firefox with release of new Firefox 8 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android yesterday [Nov 9th]. Earlier this year , after the launch of Firefox 4 in March, Mozilla adopted a policy very similar to that of Chrome of regular updates coming every six weeks. Since then the numbers have lost their significance and Firefox 8 is no exception as it is very similar to its predecessor Firefox 7, visually speaking. Opera [...]
The much awaited Transformer Prime from Asus was unveiled yesterday (8 Nov). The design factor is very similar to the last model. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer will sport a 10-inch display and the ability to transform into a notebook with the addition of a keyboard dock which also acts as a battery extender. It will be available for sales from december at $499 (32GB) and $599 (64GB), with the optional keyboard dock priced at [...]
Reports suggest that Mukesh Ambani’s RIL-Reliance Industries Limited is all set to launch 4G services in India, early next year. Here it should be noted that the 4g spectrum of the country was auctioned by Govt of India, in June 2010. Bigger players in the telecom market – Bharati Airtel , Aircel and Vodafone only possess 2G and 3G spectrums in select regions of the country. Reliance along with BSNL is the only company which has [...]
