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Microsoft launches Windows Phone in India

New Delhi, Oct 14 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has launched the Windows Phone in India.  With an all new rich and dynamic user interface of Live Tiles and Hubs, Windows Phone enables people to quickly find, connect and consume the things that they care about the most. The new OS [...]

Nigeria, July 27 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): A recent study by a proponent of Artificial Ozone Layer Recovery says the Ozone layer needs to be healed artificially since it will take too long to heal itself naturally. David Stephen of Theoretical Research Place, Lagos stated in his research on ‘Ozone Hole Repair’ about various measures [...]

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Rome, July 20 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS) The buzz around the recent findings on  AIDS research  and a possible vaccine in the future  for the disease that has been in focus for the last 30 years has made the atmosphere around the ongoing 6th IAS (International AIDS Society) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Rome an “exciting” one [...]

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Washington, June 14 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): A new study by two non-profit organisations WorldFish Center and Conservation International (CI) concluded that the key to future global food security lay in sustainably-farmed seafoods. The analysis has found that, from the 75 species-production systems reviewed, more production means more ecological impact, but that compared to other [...]

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Jan 27 (Calcutta Tube / IBNS): Even with a response that is nearly nowhere as groundbreaking as it was initially hype-projected to have by some, mobile number portability services in India have ushered a new era of customer freedom. Sample this exchange between a disgruntled user, who shares his anguish with his network provider over [...]

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San Francisco, Nov 17 (DPA) Google’s forthcoming Android operating system will work with a new chip that allows users to tap their phones on in-store terminals to pay for purchases, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has revealed. News of the new technology coincided with Tuesday’s announcement by three major US wireless carriers that they were [...]

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London, Nov 16 (Calcutta Tube) Online social networking website Facebook has launched a new messaging service for its 500 million users, predicting the traditional internet communication system email will soon become extinct. The new system, which integrates all web and text-based communications and works instantaneously, can be used by the social network users through a [...]

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New Delhi, Oct 21 (Calcutta Tube) Indian mobile handsets company Micromax Wednesday launched a touch screen smartphone, modu T, in partnership with Israel-based modu Limited to tap the ‘aspirational’ segment of the consumers. The 3.5G modu T was awarded the Guinness World Record for being the lightest touch phone in the world. Priced at Rs.12,000, [...]

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Mumbai, Oct 14 (Calcutta Tube) Reliance Mobile will telecast live all ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 matches through its specially-created ICC zone on R-World VAS platform, a company official said here Wednesday. Reliance Mobile customers will be able to keep a track of the 49 matches through WAP and SMS alerts. They will be able [...]

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Mahabalipuram (Tamil Nadu), Oct 13 (Calcutta Tube) As a whopping 271 nuclear power reactors are being planned in Asia, there is an urgent need for cooperation among countries of the region to the meet the various technological and infrastructural challenges and proliferation concerns, a top industry official said here Monday. ‘The Asian nations have to [...]

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