ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 Amazon India Festive Sale: The Big Offers From Day One
By: sristy SahaAmazon’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
By: sristy SahaOne 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
By: sristy SahaMeg 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
By: sristy SahaIn 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
By: sristy SahaIt’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
By: sristy SahaOne 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
By: sristy SahaWe 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
By: sristy SahaEver 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 […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 Five Things From CES 2016 That You May Actually Want to Buy
By: sristy SahaCES, the largest consumer electronics show in the world, kicked off with a sneak peek at what some companies will be exhibiting on the show floor this week. Even with a smaller sampling of exhibitors, there was a dizzying amount of tech to take in – everything from drones to laser-powered gizmos that promise to […]
ELECTRONICS March 28, 2016 lack Friday Deals: Our Picks for Shopping From India
By: sristy SahaBlack Friday, which follows Thanksgiving, marks the beginning of the shopping season in the US, with most retail chains offering massive discounts to entice customers. While it may not have much of a cultural presence outside of the western hemisphere, anyone on the Internet can get in on the action, and grab some truly amazing […]
COMPUTERS March 28, 2016 CMD Commands Every Windows User Must Know
By: sristy SahaBack in the day, using a desktop computer meant typing in a range of commands. You have to realise that roughly two decades ago, there wasn’t any Start menu or a taskbar. The friendly graphics user interface as we know it today didn’t exist, and a black screen with a blinking cursor was all we […]
NEWS March 27, 2016 Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Price in India Revealed; Exclusive to Flipkart
By: sristy SahaThe Xbox Elite Wireless Controller was first unveiled by Microsoft at E3 2015. The controller sports hair-trigger locks, enhanced sensitivity, and swappable parts such as different directional pads. It also has the option to remap buttons as well. Needless to say, it’s not your average gamepad. What’s more is that it’s exclusive to Flipkart. While […]
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