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I am Sherly, living in the city of Alappuzha, which known as the 'Venice of the East'.

The Internet in 2025: Blazing Speeds Could Enable Futuristic Tech

The Pew Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., recently posed these questions to experts in a range of Internet-related fields. Predictions about what the future Internet landscape could look like in the year 2025, with blazing-fast connectivity, ran


Vodafone seeks urgent allocation of spectrum won in February’s auction

British telecom major Vodafone‘s Indian arm has asked the government to allocate immediately the spectrum it won in the February auctions. The operator has written to regulator DoT calling for the allocation of airwaves including 900-MHz spectrum in Mumbai, Kolkata


Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ Turns Your Living Room Into A Video Game

Microsoft’s IllumiRoom project has expanded beyond a single-Kinect set-up and is now called “RoomAlive.” RoomAlive turns an enclosed area into an interactive gaming space, with enemies and puzzles projected on walls, floors and objects for residents to take out with


Microsoft hosting cloud-focused event on October 20

Microsoft has scheduled its next event, and instead of focusing on the company’s inability to count this one will be all about the cloud. “Join us to hear what’s ahead for Microsoft’s Cloud,” reads an invitation with the date October


HTC postponed smartwatch Plans to ‘get it right’

HTC is holding an event on October 8 at which it’s expected to reveal the new HTC One M8, but don’t hold your breath for HTC’s smartwatch to appear as well. The Taiwanese company at some point had planned to


Intelligence Bureau asks DoT to block ‘We Phone’ application

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to block the Skype-like low-cost international calling app WePhone as it allows spoofing of caller ID making it difficult to identify or locate the actual caller, reports PTI. The


Blue LED inventors awarded Nobel Prize

The three Japanese scientists who invented the first efficient Blue LEDs in the mid 1990s have received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics. The invention of efficient blue LEDs was a foundational step in the creation of the bright white


Nokia to shut down Chennai plant on November 1, as Microsoft terminates service agreement

Nokia Tuesday said that it will be suspending manufacturing of all its devices at the Chennai plant from November 1. “Microsoft has informed Nokia that it will be terminating the manufacturing services defined in the agreement with effect from 1


Google Play Music for Android passes 500 Million Download Barrier

Google’s Play Music app is a big deal in the Android world and it is getting bigger by the day. The folks over at Android Police recently noticed that Play Music shot past the 500 million download mark in Google


MTS cuts mobile Internet rates by about 33%

New telecom operator MTS India has reduced rates of mobile internet by up to 33 per cent, a development that might trigger a price war in the segment as older players have been hiking charges frequently for some time now.