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April 15, 2016 Datawind DroidSurfer 10, DroidSurfer 7 Android ‘Netbooks’ Launched in India
Datawind on Monday launched two budget Android ‘netbooks’ in the Indian market, under its ‘DroidSurfer’ series. Called the DroidSurfer 10 and the DroidSurfer 7, the netbooks are priced at Rs. 7,999 and Rs. 5,999 respectively, and will be available via retail distribution outlets in India. The devices arrive with free unlimited Internet browsing packs valid […]
ALL DEALS April 15, 2016 Xerox to Split Into Two, Icahn to Get Board Seats in One
Xerox Corp said it would split into two companies, one holding its legacy hardware operations and the other its business process outsourcing unit, in which activist investor Carl Icahn will get three board seats. Icahn, who first revealed a stake in Xerox in November, had said he would seek representation on the company’s board as […]
NEWS April 15, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
COMPUTERS April 13, 2016 C-DAC Plans Rs. 350-Crore Investment in Indian Language Computing
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) plans to invest Rs. 350 crores to develop technologies for computing in Indian languages. C-DAC Director General Rajat Moona said the thrust this year will be on bringing internet to the common man and implementation of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). While one can already register domain […]
NEWS April 13, 2016 Jupiter-Sized Planet Found in Triple-Star System
Scientists have discovered a rare triple-star system with a gas giant planet similar in size to Jupiter. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in US found that a binary system once thought to be a single star was actually a pair of stars orbiting one another, and are a part of the triple-star system. […]
HOME & GARDEN April 13, 2016 Isro to Start Monitoring Water Bodies in Tribal Areas
In a first, Isro’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) will monitor and map the water bodies in tribal belts in the country to help tackle irrigation crisis faced by tribal farmers, a union minister said on Thursday. The initiative has been taken up jointly by the tribal affairs ministry and of the NRSC of the […]
COMPUTERS April 12, 2016 AMD Plans to Enter India in a Big Way: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Chipmaker AMD plans to enter Indian electronics sector in a big way and has already tied up with HSMC for chip manufacturing in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. AMD CEO and President Lisa Su met Prasad and conveyed that the company is committed to transform India into electronics manufacturing hub. […]
COUPONS April 11, 2016 How many coupons in the Sunday paper?
MORE ON THIS Coupon Previews website 2016 Coupon Insert Schedule Harris Teeter Super Doubles rumor! Smart Shopper Sunday newspaper coupon database Coupsfortroops.org website How many coupon inserts will we have in the Sunday paper on April 3, 2016? There should be 3 total inserts this week including 1 Smart Source, 1 RedPlum and 1 P&G! […]
NEWS April 10, 2016 Red Faces, Raised Voices Over Late Hitch in Foxconn’s Sharp Deal
A late hitch to Foxconn’s takeover of Japan’s struggling Sharp Corp brought simmering distrust between the two close to boiling point, people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The two companies have eyed each other warily since Foxconn founder and billionaire Terry Gou pulled out of a planned capital tie-up and strategic partnership with […]
ELECTRONICS April 10, 2016 Foxconn’s Takeover of Sharp Reveals Intense Pressures in Global Electronics
The global electronics industry has shifted massively in the past decade, and it will not stand still for long. Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturing behemoth whose massive scale and cheap costs have helped make the iPhone affordable for hundreds of millions of people worldwide, announced Wednesday that it would acquire Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp for […]
NEWS April 8, 2016 HP Launches EliteBook Folio and Elite x2 1012 Business Devices in India
Following the announcement of HP’s new line of business printers in Macau, the company has launched the new EliteBook Folio business laptop which starts at Rs. 1,30,000 and the Elite x2 1012 2-in-1 laptop which starts at Rs. 84,599. Both devices are designed for commercial business uses and are available for order in India. We […]
ELECTRONICS April 8, 2016 Government Buying Boosts Tablet Sales in India: CMR
Thanks to government buying, the sale of tablet PCs in India rose marginally in 2015 with 4.4 million devices sold across the country – registering a growth of 13 percent over 2014, a report said on Wednesday. According to the “India Annual Tablet PC Market Review, CY 2015” by market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR), […]
