Samsung India to invest Rs 500 crore in mobile plant

Samsung India to invest Rs 500 crore in mobile plant: Sources Samsung is planning to invest over Rs 500 crore to ramp up its mobile production capacity in India, industry sources said. NEW DELHI: South Korean electronics majorSamsung is planning to invest over Rs 500 crore to ramp up its mobile production capacity in India, industry sources said. "Samsung is working to invest Rs 500 crore in its mobile production facility...

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Under pressure, you tend to miss Dhoni: Virat Kohli

Under pressure, you tend to miss Dhoni: Virat Kohli Kohli assessed that there was marked change in the behaviour of the wicket when West Indies batted. (AFP Photo) KINGSTON: Stand-in captain Virat Kohliadmitted that he missed the vast experience ofMahendra Singh Dhoni during pressure situation against West Indies as India lost a close encounter by one wicket in their first match of the Tri-series. Dhoni, who...

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Facebook removing ads from controversial Pages

Facebook removing ads from controversial Pages The social network would prefer if advertisers' messages appeared only alongside brand-appropriate content, which means no more ads on Pages that hawk adult products. In an effort to appease its advertisers, Facebook plans to more aggressively remove ads from Pages and Groups that host content of a violent, graphic, or sexual nature, the social network said Friday. The change, which...

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Smartphone market share consolidates at top, study shows

Smartphone market share consolidates at top, study shows Apple and Samsung continue to dominate smartphone makers, while Google's Android and iOS remain the top platform, according to ComScore, with the rest of the leaderboard ceding share to them. The smartphone market leaders are more entrenched, and that's bad news for the underlings, based on a new study from ComScore. ComScore's latest MobiLens report had no shifts in status...

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Windows 8.1 vs. Apple: Twofer or tablet?

Windows 8.1 vs. Apple: Twofer or tablet? With Windows 8.1 comes scads of hybrids from PC makers eager to show the world that you really don't need to carry around that iPad anymore. Steve Ballmer holds a Lenovo ThinkPad Helix hybrid tablet-laptop at the Build Conference on Wednesday. Will new Windows 8.1 hybrids finally expose the iPad for what it really is, a mere tablet? That's what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested this week. When...

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Insult someone on Twitter or Facebook? A crime in Grenada

Insult someone on Twitter or Facebook? A crime in Grenada Lawmakers on the island of Grenada are tired of online "mischief." So they've banned it. How might this affect the nation's discourse? Grenada, an online grenade-free zone. (Credit: Videobuster09/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Honestly, that free speech thing can be tiresome. People end up endlessly expressing themselves and, every second of the day, someone's going...

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Despite Windows 8.1, PC market prospects aren't pretty

Despite Windows 8.1, PC market prospects aren't pretty The PC market continued to slump in May. More signs of worse-than-expected negative growth for PCs this year. HP Spectre XT TouchSmart. More touch PCs with Windows 8.1 are coming but that may not change the outlook for the moribund PC market. Windows 8.1 may fix Microsoft's dot-zero release but it may not fix the PC market. After Citi Research revised its PC market growth forecast down...

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Nokia reportedly agrees to buy Siemens' stake in joint venture

Nokia reportedly agrees to buy Siemens' stake in joint venture The Finnish handset maker will pay less than $2.6 billion for the half of Nokia Siemens Networks that it doesn't already own, sources tell Bloomberg. Nokia has agreed to purchase Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks, the companies' joint venture, according to a Bloomberg report. Nokia could announce as early as Monday to purchase Siemens' 50 percent take in the joint...

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4 Comfort foods for the monsoon

4 Comfort foods for the monsoon 4 Comfort foods for the monsoon In India, monsoons are much cherished and with the first rains comes an array food to welcome the rains. And this 'rain' comfort food differs from region to region. For example, the Bengalis love to have their share of khichuri during the rains. As the popular saying goes, "Brishti manei khichuri aar elish maach bhaja!" This homemade one-pot dish khichuri...

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Why Google is the best workplace in India

Why Google is the best workplace in India We have an incredibly empowering environment and let people figure out how they get to their goals, says Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India. MUMBAI: Flying in from all corners of the country, braving monsoon rains and traffic jams in Mumbai, the HR chiefs and CEOs of leading companies queued up at a suburban hotel, with one question in mind: How had they fared in...

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MS Dhoni named captain of ICC Team of the Tournament

MS Dhoni named captain of ICC Team of the Tournament The ICC team has seven players from India and runners-up England. (AP Photo) LONDON: Mahendra Singh Dhoni was on Monday named captain of the ICC's Team of the Champions Trophy, which has four other Indians including stylish batsman Shikhar Dhawan. India won the last edition of the Champions Trophy after edging past England by five runs on Sunday. The ICC team has seven...

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Apple to cut iPhone orders for rest of year, claims analyst

Apple to cut iPhone orders for rest of year, claims analyst Based on inventory checks and other factors, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek believes Apple will slash its iPhone orders for the third and fourth quarters.   Apple may trim its iPhone build orders for the rest of 2013, at least according to a new report from analyst Peter Misek. In an investors note released Sunday, Misek said Apple has already revised its build plans....

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Microsoft, Oracle join forces to stomp on cloud rivals

Microsoft, Oracle join forces to stomp on cloud rivals "Frenemies" Microsoft and Oracle just cemented a new partnership. Here's what is really new and worth knowing about the alliance. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft and Oracle announced a lot of piece parts with their June 24 partnership around Azure and Oracle databases and middleware. Here's your Cliff Notes version: Oracle apps are now certified to run on...

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Ravindra Jadeja delivers by keeping it simple

Ravindra Jadeja delivers by keeping it simple Unlike many in this present Indian team who thrive on talent, Jadeja seems to revel in the simplicity to his cricket. LONDON: "O reyo Ravinder Jadeja, ja autograph leva (look, there's Ravindra Jadeja, go get an autograph)." Gujaratis in the United Kingdom can be as enterprising, if not more, than those in Western India who make for a very prosperous community. To see a fellow...

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Facebook To Become A News Paper For Mobiles Soon

Facebook To Become A News Paper For Mobiles Soon Bangalore: Facebook is secretly working on a project to become a newspaper for mobile devices.   The project internally called as Reader, will display content from Facebook users and publishers in a new UI tailored for mobile devices, reports The Wall Street Journal. Facebook has been working on the project for more than a year now, and it resembles like Flipboard,...

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Huawei introduces Ascend P6 as "world's slimmest smartphone"

Huawei introduces Ascend P6 as "world's slimmest smartphone" China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology.The company says the device, at 6.18 mm thick, is the world's slimmest. It has a 5 megapixel front-facing camera,...

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