Freshdesk, a SaaS-based customer support platform, has announced a new feature that will help businesses integrate traditional customer support with the Facebook messages on the ‘brand pages’. Now customers, who are interacting with companies via Facebook, won’t have to change their support pl Continue...

Geodesic Ltd, a products and solutions provider for content, communication, collaboration and electronic computing has announced its partnership with Omnesys Technologies (P) Ltd, a provider of multi-asset trading software and systems to deliver Indian business TV channels which include CNBC TV18, C Continue...

Is the PC era really over? The success portable computing devices including smartphones and PC tablets has some speculating that the dominance of the desktop PC, and even the laptop, may be coming to an end. Gartner research analyst Nick Ingelbrecht and Mikako Kitagawa recently conducted a series of Continue...

It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. Their child doesn’t come home one evening and is missing for several days. When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track Continue...

After a lot of rumours doing the rounds, Samsung has finally unveiled the third generation of Galaxy S smartphones. The new smartphone is called Galaxy S III and it comes with the tagline ‘Designed for humans and inspired by nature’. The pricing of the device is not yet available but it will be  Continue...

The Indian Tablet market has witnessed the entry of a number of new players in the recent past and lots of them have opted to target the low-price segment with cheap Tablet offerings. The latest to join is Telmoco Development Labs Pvt Ltd, a technology startup company based in Kerala’s IT hub Tech Continue...

DataWind has finally announced the commercial launch of the UbiSlate series of low-cost Tablets (although its three months behind schedule) called the Ubislate 7+ and Ubislate 7c. Both the Tablets run on the Android operating system (OS) and are priced at Rs 2,999 and Rs 3,999 for Ubislate 7+ and Ub Continue...

Apps and mobile devices are increasingly becoming tools for savvy air travelers, according to a new survey that showed nearly half of all fliers use them to check the status of flights. Thirty per cent of air passengers are now using smartphones to check in, up from 17 per cent last year, and more t Continue...

After Micromax, another Indian mobile handset manufacturer has entered the country’s Tablet market with the announcement of a 7 inch Tablet called Karbonn Smart Tab 1. The Tablet runs on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system and will be targeted at the low-price segment of the Tabl Continue...

DataWind has entered into a strategic partnership with Yahoo! India, to enable Yahoo! services on its Tablet Ubislate7+, which will be commercially launched on April 26, around three months behind schedule. The Tablet will come pre-loaded with Yahoo! Cricket as the exclusive cricket application alon Continue...