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 …

      Huawei has launched two new smartphones under its Honor brand in India, the recently introduced Honor 4C, as well as a new ‘made for India’ handset, the Honor Bee. The company also launched a power bank in India, the Honor AP007. The firm has priced the Honor 4C at Rs. 8,999, and the Honor Bee (seen below) …

    Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday its new $14 billion South Korean chip plant, which is expected to help drive growth as smartphone earnings slow, will start production sometime in the first half of 2017. The world’s No.2 chip maker by revenue did not specify what products will be made at the new production line, which will …

  IBM and Facebook announced Wednesday they would collaborate with marketers to develop better online advertising targeted to specific customers. The companies said in a statement they would work together on data analytics for “tailored marketing capabilities that reach the right people at the right time.” The statement said IBM will use “deep analytics,” on top of Facebook’s anonymized and …

          The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the building of a new communication satellite – the GSAT-18. The structure of the satellite, weighing about 3425kg, will be similar to the GSAT-10 satellite, a statement said. “The GSAT-18 spacecraft will provide replacement capacity supporting the existing television, telecommunication, Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) and VSAT services in …