Sony on Wednesday quietly launched the successor of its Xperia C3 smartphone, the Xperia C4, alongside its dual-SIM variant, the Xperia C4 Dual. The handset is almost identical to its predecessor in terms of design. While Sony did not reveal the price of the smartphone, it mentioned a June launch date this year. The Android 5.0 Lollipop-based Sony …

    Mitashi has announced the availability of its newest 50-inch full-HD Smart LED TV, the MiDE050v01. The new TV features an Android 4.4-based user interface for smart functionality and retails at Rs. 51,990. Apart from a 1920×1080 pixel 50-inch LED screen and Android 4.4, the new Mitashi TV also features a 500,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, USB plug-and-play functionality with …

  Apple has announced the ‘Made for Watch’ third-party bands programme for theApple Watch. The Made for Apple Watch programme specifies the requirements for certification of third-party bands by Apple, and includes both design guidelines and Apple Watch schematics to assist the accessory makers. This includes specifications for both bands and lugs that connect the band to the Apple Watch …

    Motorola Mobility said a U.S. jury ordered the company to pay $10.2 million (roughly Rs. 63 crores) in damages for using Fujifilm Corp’s patented technology in its phones without permission. Fujifilm Corp, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp, sued Motorola in 2012, accusing the company of infringing three of its patents on digital camera functions and a …

  After being listed on the company site, the Micromax Canvas Play (Q355) has now been made available to purchase via a third-party online retailer at Rs. 7,490. The dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) Micromax Canvas Play smartphone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop out-of-the-box. It features a 5.5-inch (480×854 pixels) FWVGA display. The smartphone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek (MT6582M) processor coupled …

  Earlier today, the director of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro claimed that Silent Hills, a PlayStation 4 game he was working on with Metal Gear Solid creator, Hideo Kojima and The Walking Dead actor, Norman Reedus is “not gonna happen.” “It’s not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart,” del Toro said during a Q&A at …

    Surfers catching waves and mountain bikers pedaling through forests are used to the occasional low flying pelican or diving hawk, but these days outdoor recreationalists can find what’s up in the air isn’t a bird at all, it’s a drone. This week top drone-makers, along with investors, regulators and inventors, are gathering in one of the most popular …

  “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3” is enlisting a few new recruits. The third installment in Treyarch’s popular military shooter saga is adding the option to play cooperatively with other gamers in the plot-driven campaign. The developer is also ditching traditional avatar customization in its multiplayer mode, instead opting for players to pick among nine distinct characters, each with …

  Immersive interfaces like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality are becoming ever more powerful, eliciting investment from the likes of Google, Samsung and Microsoft. As these technologies become commercially available, their use in education is expected to grow. Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, has studied immersion and learning technologies for twenty …

  A startup business that wants to link the realm of physical objects to the digital world of the Internet is basing its future on low-cost, highly engineered, one-of-a-kind plastic stamps. What began as a means to inform shoppers about the environmental consequences of their purchases has morphed into a company that makes unique plastic stamps that, when pressed against …