Category: IT News

  • Gideon Sundback, inventor of zipper featured in Google Doodle

    Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer, has been featured in a Google Doodle today. Mainly known for his work in the development of the zipper, Soundback was born in Sweden in 1880, later he moved to Germany after finishing his schooling and joined a polytechnic school. Gideon Sundback emigrated to United States in 1905 and…

  • Nexus Prime Video and Pictures Surface

    Just a few days ahead of it’s official launch on October 11th, 2011 (or maybe event may get delayed due to Steve Job’s death), pictures and video of Samsung Nexus Prime – Google’s next flagship device – has hit the internet. Earlier complete specs of Nexus Prime were leaked by two different sources that contradicted…

  • Samsung Nexus Prime smartphone launch on hold – because of Steve Jobs

    Samsung’s Nexus Prime, unlike its Wave, seen here, will stay shrouded for at least another week. Photograph: Manu Fernandez/AP Samsung, the biggest rival to Apple in the smartphone business and which is involved in a number of bitter courtroom battles with the US company, has abruptly postponed its scheduled launch of a new top-end phone…

  • World mourns passing of Apple visionary Jobs

    Andreas Raptopoulos, of Palo Alto, looks upon the flowers, candles and apples which adorn the sidewalk outside the home of Steve Jobs in Palo Alto, California.—Reuters Millions of people paid emotional tribute on Thursday to the late Steve Jobs, praising the Apple founder’s vision and creative genius which has left behind a world transformed by…

  • Steve Jobs Is Dead

    Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We…

  • Made in India, world’s cheapest tablet Aakash launched

    The world’s cheapest tablet PC, priced at around Rs 1,200, will now be available to students in the country as part of the government’s programme to expand education through information technology. The tablet PC, named Aakash, will cost the government Rs 2,276. It will be given to students after subsidising the price by up to…