Solar Impulse (Si2), the solar plane on a mission to fly around the globe without a drop of fuel, is all set for a challenging 8,000-km journey on Tuesday, flying non-stop from Nanjing in China to Hawaii in the central Pacific, a media report said on Monday. For Si2, which is powered by more than 17,000 solar …
Micromax Canvas Doodle 4 With Android 5.0 Lollipop Reportedly Launched at Rs. 9,499
Micromax has reportedly launched the fourth variant of the Canvas Doodle series, the Canvas Doodle 4, in India at Rs. 9,499 (MRP Rs. 9,999), as tipped by an established Mumbai-based retailer. The company is yet to make an official announcement or list the device on its India site. According to retailer Mahesh Telecom, who posted the details of …
Google Aims to Get 20 Million Indian SMEs Online by 2017
Google India will get 20 million small and medium enterprises (SME) online by 2017 by using a simple mobile-based app called ‘Google My Business’, that will help businesses to create and manage their information across Google products for free in both Hindi and English, a company statement said on Tuesday. With over 300 million plus Internet users and …
HTC One M9 Tipped to Receive Guest Mode and More in Next Major Update
Since its launch at MWC conference this year, the HTC One M9 has been runningAndroid 5.0 Lollipop out-of-the-box. However, some Lollipop features, such as Guest Mode, were seen missing from the handset. Now, an HTC developer has tipped that the next major update for the smartphone will bring that feature, alongside the colour temperature feature. According to LlabTooFeR, …
Chrome for Android Goes Open Source; Now Anyone Build a Chromium Browser for Android
Following the Chrome for Android team’s announcement on Reddit AMA last week, Google has now uploaded the remaining Chrome for Android source code to its Chromium repository. This would let any developer build an open source browser based on Chrome for Android. The announcement came via Reddit where a Chrome for Android engineer posted, “After lots of work …
Google Not Launching A Nexus Tablet This Year, Sticking With Two Nexus Phones Instead
A new rumor from inside sources has mentioned that Google will not launch a successor to the HTC Nexus 9 tablet later this year. It is said that the Mountain View company will simply stick to the rumored LG and Huawei Nexus smartphones instead. The LG Nexus phone is believed to be carrying a 5.2-inch display while …
Exoplanet Hunters Will Comb Starlight With Lasers
This picture shows the spectrum of light.You may have seen similar images in the past, but this one is something special-because it’s made of star light. In April 2015, two so-called laser frequency combs were installed at the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) planet-finding instrument of the European Southern Observatory’s 3.6-metre telescope at the La …
Zebronics Blue Connect Gives Gadget The Power Of Bluetooth
Everyone wants to go wireless these days, and hence we are seeing a whole lot of action in this space. Luckily for us, the growth in demand has also brought down the prices of the Bluetooth-enabled devices from where they were few years back. The only way to upgrade from wired-to-wireless was predominantly based on you upgrading to …
Google Opting For Two Nexus Phones Means Curtains For Tablet!
When Google I/O is around the corner, all we can hear is the jibber jabber around the possibility of next Android flavour and what it might be called. And there are also interesting nuggets floating around the Nexus range of devices. Google did manage to give a Nexus tablet in 2014, but as per some of the reports …
Asus Zenbook UX305 Review: A Great Laptop For Its Price
What Is It? A 13.3-inch MacBook Air-styled laptop running Windows 8.1 instead. Thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air, but not as stupidly thin as Apple’s latest MacBook. Incredible build quality and specs for a machine this cheap. The processor’s nothing special-a relatively weak Core M-but where else are you going to find 8GB of RAM, 256GB of solid state …