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Top 10 mobile phone brands in India during year 2013 The 18th annual survey V&D 100 said that the Indian mobile handset market posted a revenue (FY12-13) of Rs 35,946 crore (Rs 359.46 billion) in 2012-2013, compared to Rs 31,330 crore (Rs 313.30 billion) in the earlier fiscal year. Indian mobile handset market has grown by 14.17% year-on-year in 2013, on the back of increasing sale of smartphones. Below are the top 10 biggest companies...

'Mars One project' - permanent settlement on Mars Around 1,800 Indians apply for the Mars One project to permanently settle on Mars Many of us may not be alive to see an Indian stepping on the Moon, but there’s a high chance we could see one stepping on Mars. According to a report, nearly 1,800 Indians have applied for the Mars One program, which will send a contingent of humans to the Red Planet in 2022 to settle there permanently. “This...

300GB discs by 2015 Sony, Panasonic promise 300-gigabyte discs by 2015 In Earlier Days there was CD (com),  which held 700 megabytes. Then the DVD, which held 5 gigabytes. And Now the Blu-ray disc, with 50 GBs. What's next? Sony and Panasonic hope it will be a 300-gigabyte disc they're jointly researching that could hit in 2015. But might we have abandoned discs altogether by then? Sony wrote up the joint-development agreement...

India become world’s 3rd largest internet population India overtakes Japan to become the world’s third largest internet population at 73.9 million......... In its latest report—2013 India Digital Future in Focus— ComScore has some interesting findings. According to the report, three- quarters of India’s online population is under 35. Below are a few more findings that give you an idea of the Indian online population demographic. Riding...

FIRST LOOK: GODZILLA(2014), MAN OF STEEL-2(2015) MAN OF STEEL-2 will bring together Batman and Superman. This film will release in June 2015. Here is official logo - EXCLUSIVE -Brand New Poster of GODZILLA showing his massive tail.This film will release in May 2014 - ...

Govt. to invest Rs 8,000 crore to distribute free tablets The government of India is planning to invest around Rs 8,000 crore in order to distribute over 20 million tablets for free to the senior school students across India before the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. For this project, the government will release an open tender soon, and it is expected that tablet vendors like Micromax, HCL Infosystems, Karbonn, Lenovo and Teracom will be...

UC browser no.1 in India UC Browser, an app available for all major mobile platforms including Nokia Symbian and Android phones, has become the top mobile browser in India. According to latest data from Stats Counter, the browser developed by UCWeb, a Chinese firm, powered 29.9% of total internet traffic coming from mobile phones in India in July. The Intelligence Bureau (I officials are reportedly wary of growing use of Chinese IT services...

Google goes down for 5 minutes, web traffic takes a dive Google's services, including the popular Google Search, suffered a rare outage on early Saturday morning. The outage was noticed around 4.20am IST and lasted for around 5 minutes. All Google services were disrupted. If a user tried to access Gmail or Google Search, the web browser returned 502 error.While the outage lasted just minutes, it caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter.I wonder...

Hackers target bank websites, steal crores A gang of crooks fraudulently obtained customer data by hacking into bank websites and used it to empty their accounts, police said. While the kingpin of the gang has been arrested, his aides, including a hacker, an accountancy specialist and a bank operations expert, have been identified and teams have gone to several states to nab them. The accused targeted foreign customers to avoid complaints...