A Trinity Mirror Plc executive was arrested by U.K. police in connection with phone hacking as the almost decade-long scandal continues to engulf the publisher. London police said they arrested a man in connection with a probe into hacking at Mirror Group Newspapers. Lee Harpin, listed on his LinkedIn page as the Mirror’s agenda editor, was being questioned, said Harry …
Google Inc. is testing a new feature to let consumers purchase products by clicking through advertisements, seeking to expand options for mobile retail sales. The Internet-search company’s service, called Purchases on Google, will let users on smartphones click on select search ads that take them directly to a retailer-branded product page hosted by Google, according to an e-mailed statement. The …
Home-grown mobile handset player Intex Technologies today entered the wearable segment with the unveiling of a smartwatch priced at Rs 11,999, which comes with an in-built 3G SIM card slot. The company said it is the first Indian player to launch an Android-based smartwatch, which will be available in the market from August. The firm said that though the wearable …
Chinese handset manufacturer OPPO has launched its Joy 3 smartphone in India – OPPO Joy 3 will retail at a price of Rs 7,990. According to the in.techradar.com, the OPPO Joy 3 is a dual SIM 3G smartphone. It features a 4.5 inch IPS screen, 1.3GHz Quad-core processor and packs a 2000mAh battery with 180 hours of standby time. …
Nightfall in Minsk means Dmitry Naskovets begins working the phone. At 24, Naskovets is tall and skinny, and still looks like the college kid he recently was. He’s in his apartment’s kitchen, in a respectable neighborhood off the second ring road in the capital of Belarus. He starts around 6 p.m. and usually doesn’t quit until three the next …
Microsoft has announced plans for a celebratory debut this month of Windows 10 operating software designed to spread the US software titan’s offerings across a broad range of devices. Word that Windows 10 would be welcomed in grand style came less than a week on Monday after Microsoft said it will cut 7,800 jobs and write down the value …
They could have just washed her mouth out with soap, but instead Abu Dhabi officials threw Austrailian Jodi Magi in jail for posting a picture of a parked car online, Australia’s ABC News reports. It started in February when Magi, annoyed at a driver who took up two handicap parking spaces in her apartment’s lot, posted a photo (since removed, …
The progression of technology is a funny thing. While certain advances are easy to anticipate ahead of time, there will always be researchers out there developing projects that few would ever even consider. A group of scientists at Duke University have set out to answer a question that no one was really asking: is it possible to create a computer …
Data in its first call home since Tuesday’s flyby suggest the spacecraft experienced no upsets as it hurtled past the icy world at 14km/s (31,000mph). The signal came through a giant dish in Madrid, Spain – part of a Nasa network of communications antennas. The message took four hours 25 minutes to traverse 4.7 billion km of space. The tension …
What does artificial intelligence mean to you? If you believe the movies, AI is something theoretical, futuristic…far away. It’s a rampaging robot or a piece of malign code intent on world domination. Recent fears about AI raised by the likes of Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates have only served to feed that chilling – but pretty unlikely – …