Daily Archives: March 28, 2016
ELECTRONICS 
March 28, 2016 Hewlett-Packard Job Cuts Reflect the Toppling of a Tech Giant
Hewlett-Packard Co.’s decision to cut payroll by as many as 33,300 more jobs is the latest reminder of the decline of a pillar of the U.S. computer industry and underscores Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman’s urgent efforts to gird the company against nimbler rivals. It was just seven years ago that Hewlett-Packard almost doubled its […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 Personally Tech With Soft Machines CEO Mahesh Lingareddy
What are the different tech gadgets and apps that leaders from different walks of life are using? We try and find out in our weekly column Personally Tech, where we talk to the people behind our favourite services and products. Some of these include authors like Shweta Taneja, and restaurant bosses such as Sbarro head […]
ELECTRONICS 
March 28, 2016 Apple’s OS X El Capitan v10.11 Now Available: Six Noteworthy Features
Apple’s OS X El Capitan v10.11, which releases Wednesday via the Mac App Store, won’t offer dramatic changes, but rather refinements and enhancements to the current OS X system, called Yosemite. In real life, El Capitan is a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. It’s as though the new OS X isn’t big enough to […]
COMPUTERS 
March 28, 2016 Windows 10: 7 Default Settings You Should Change Immediately After Install
Released on July 29, Windows 10 is the newest desktop operating system from Microsoft that is nowrunning on over 110 million devices. It comes with a plethora of useful new features including a revamped Start menu, digital assistant Cortana, and Action Center. Also, in terms of functionality and performance, the new operating system offers substantial […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 Amazon India Festive Sale: The Big Offers From Day One
Amazon’s Great Indian Festive sale has begun. As expected, there’s something on offer for everyone. A large number of deals across all possible categories are now live. Here are a few quick tips to help you sail through all Amazon Great Indian Festive sale: 1) Some of the best deals would be available as Lightning […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 HP, a Silicon Valley Icon, Is Ready for Its Break-Up
One of the nation’s most storied tech companies will split in two this weekend, another casualty of seismic shifts in the way people use technology – and big-company sluggishness in responding. Hewlett-Packard was an early pioneer of what became the model for Silicon Valley startups: Founded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates in a Palo […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 Whitman Readies Slimmed Down HP for Duel With Bulked-Up Dell
Meg Whitman long resisted a breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co., saying that selling computers to consumers and businesses was the best way to keep the Silicon Valley pioneer alive. Now, with personal-computer demand in decline and companies flocking to the cloud to run their operations, she’s on board with a split taking place next week. The […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 Acer Wants to Shed Budget Image With Predator Series
In India, and to an extent globally too, Acer is popularly known for its budget-friendly PC solutions, be it tablets, notebooks or all-in-ones (AIO). It’s an image Acer would like to shed now, and to that end, the company hosted an event earlier this month in conjunction with Microsoft, to show off some of its […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale Day 4: What’s on Offer
It’s the fourth day of the Flipkart Big Billion Days Sale, and while the madness of day 3 might be behind us, there are still plenty of deals on popular electronics. Friday’s best offers include deals on tablets, audio equipment, laptops, and more. But before we get into the deals, here are some tips: 1) […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 She Made Hard-Drive Wiping a $2 Million-a-Year Business
One day in May 2004, Elizabeth Wilmot tried to throw away an old computer and looked around for someone who could properly wipe sensitive data from the hard drive and recycle it. She couldn’t find anyone online who would do that at a residential level, and a business idea germinated. So at the beginning of […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 Must Read: How a 1985 ‘Computerbabble’ Defined Tech Terms Everyone Knows Today
We know that computers have led to a whole army of developments and changes in the English language. “Friend” is now both a noun and a verb, a “sandbox” can be for developers, and a “tablet” is no longer just an ancient relic. But not all of these changes are recent: The word “e-mail” has […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 Why Google’s New Quantum Computer Could Launch an Artificial Intelligence Arms Race
Ever since the 1980s, researchers have been working on the development of a quantum computer that would be exponentially more powerful than any of the digital computers that exist today. And now Google, in collaboration with Nasa, says it has a quantum computer – the D-Wave 2X – that works. Google claims the D-Wave 2X […]
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