Tata Communications on Monday announced a video network partnership with China Telecom Global to enable and manage media content for customers in China and globally. The new partnership enables China Telecom Global to leverage its worldwide reach, along with Tata Communications’ Global Video Network to offer live sporting events in China, a company release said. The partnership …

    The Timex Ironman Move X20 is special. It is the only fitness band in India from a watchmaker. In fact, it seems the American company has realised that it is better off bringing its global image to India than perpetuating the gold watch culture that it got caught up on in India. The Move X20 is meant for …

Hello, and welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the first-look gadget column with more style than any of the Met Gala’s attendees. Except maybe Beyoncé. And all the other invitees. The guest list this week includes a virtual reality headset with added Smell-o-Vision, a case that charges smartphones using radio waves, and a physical, secure Bitcoin wallet. As always, these …

    Your mobile phone, laptop, and portable media player all have digital-to-analogue converters (DACs) in them. This is the component that accepts the digital signal from your media and converts it into an analogue signal that your speakers and headphones can comprehend. However, in most cases, this is a small component that is no larger than your fingernail, and …

      More details about the next Samsung Galaxy Note-series handset have emerged alongside a new dual-edge display variant codenamed Project Zen. Samsung is said to launch just one Galaxy Note smartphone this year unlike last year that saw both Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Note Edge launch at the same event. Currently rumoured to launch as …

    The Apple Watch is fueling the emerging smartwatch market and is expected to be the top seller in the segment for next few years, a market research report showed Wednesday. The IHS Technology report said the smartwatch market will grow to 101 million units by 2020 from just 3.6 million last year. Apple Watch shipments this year will …

    Swedish telecoms group Ericsson announced Friday it was stepping up its pursuit of Apple for alleged unlicensed use of its technology in iPhones and other wireless devices by filing lawsuits in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. “Apple continues to profit from Ericsson’s technology without having a valid license in place,” Kasim Alfalahi, Ericsson’s chief intellectual property officer, said …

      Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia Friday said it has partnered with HP,Microsoft and Telefonica for collaboration in IT infrastructure and workplace space. The transformation is planned to be completed during the first quarter of 2017, Nokiasaid in a statement. “With the new cloud-based architecture in place, the company will be in a unique position to harness the …

      Google Drive has been using OCR (optical character recognition) technology to allow scanned documents uploaded to the cloud storage service to be edited and indexed. Google on Wednesday expanded the OCR capabilities within Google Drive by adding support for over 200 languages. Google stressed that the reason to expand the OCR capabilities is that most of the …

    It appears that Rockstar Games, creator of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series, has a different definition of the term “exclusive”. On the release of GTA V on PC, the company claimed that the Rockstar Editor, a video editing tool that shipped with the PC version of the game, would be exclusive to the platform. However a recent …