TECH

As we enter 2013, all eyes are now focused on early June 2013. That's when the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo will be held in Los Angeles, and it's also when many believe Microsoft and Sony could launch their next-generation game consoles.Just before the end of 2012, the penultimate issue of Xbox World magazine presented a story that went…

Facebook announced a new "Graph Search" feature on Tuesday that will answer all the questions that the social network's Newsfeed and Timeline do not."Today we're going to take a little trip to our roots," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, in making the announcement.He described Facebook as a huge database before pointing out that "just like a…

With the holiday shopping season behind us, it's clearer than ever tablets are cutting deeply into traditional PC sales, even after the launch of Windows 8.According to Gartner, PC sales fell by 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to the same quarter a year earlier. Lenovo and Asus actually managed to grow their PC shipments by…

NEW DELHI: Micromax was first to market with a 5-inch, budget phablet — the A100 Canvas smartphone.The A110 Canvas 2 is its successor and features several hardware and design upgrades. The phone is overall slimmer (9.7mm vs 11.9mm), even though the weight remains unchanged at 168 grams. It now has a dual core processor instead of the single core…

NEW DELHI: Samsung's new Galaxy Camera is a testament to innovation: proof that the successful Galaxy series & not-sosuccessful cameras can be merged to create something both unique & useful. It's hard to say whether it is more a Camera or a 'Galaxy' — both compete for space and yet complement each other so beautifully. On one hand, it's…

The next generation of Intel Core series processors will bring “the most significant” battery life capability improvement in Intel’s history, the company revealed during a demonstration of the technology at this week’s CES. The processor line, codenamed Haswell, will likely power the next round of Mac laptops and consumer desktops when it is…

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday that global sales of its Galaxy S smartphones surpassed 100 million units since the first model in the series was released less than three years ago.Samsung said it has sold more than 25 million Galaxy S smartphones, 40 million Galaxy S II smartphones and 41 million Galaxy S III…

Apple Inc has cut orders for LCD screens and other parts for the iPhone 5 this quarter due to weak demand, the Nikkei reported on Monday, in a further sign the US firm is losing ground to Asian smartphone rivals.Shares of the Cupertino, California-based company fell more than 4 per cent to $498.20 before the bell on Monday. They closed at…

Nepal Telecom (NT) has said it plans to start WiMax broadband internet service for general users from early January. The telecom giant is doing the final preparations to import consumer premise equipment (CPE) to start the data service. The device enables individual users to connect to the WiMax technology-based internet service which NT launched…

Work on laying an optical fibre connection between Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan is scheduled to begin from early next year. The Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) said it would select an international contractor by December for work inside Nepal.The project, named South Asian Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC)…