Smartphone manufacturer HTC Monday launched its first tablet in India — HTC Flyer — priced at Rs.39,890.“We saw an opportunity to create a tablet experience that is different, more personal and productive,” said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.According to the company, the…

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Wednesday launched its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India.“BlackBerry PlayBook comes in an ultra-portable design and features industry-leading performance with real-time multitasking and symmetrical multiprocessing,” the company said in a statement.“It delivers high-fidelity web browsing including support for…

India will Wednesday witness the darkest lunar eclipse of this century with an expected duration of 100 minutes, considered by astronomy institutions to be one of the longest.“This will be one of the longest-duration eclipses, of 100 minutes, and also the darkest as the…

Google’s Android devices have become most popular smart phones in the US, said a Nielsen survey Tuesday, a day when Nokia shares tanked more than 15 percent on weaker quarterly outlook.Nielsen said Tuesday its April survey of 65,000 users showed that 36 percent mobile…

Chinese mobile handset maker G’Five Mobiles Tuesday said it will launch its range of third generation (3G) enabled Android and Windows based tablet computing device in India for less than Rs.10,000 by June-end.“G’Five plans to launch its range of tablet computing devices in Indian…

India’s mega geostationary satellite GSAT-8 was spinning in an elliptical geo-synchronous transfer orbit early Saturday after an Ariane-V rocket successfully lifted it off the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, said a top official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).”The Rs.260-crore advanced communication satellite was…

Apple has overtaken Google as the world’s most valuable brand, ending a four-year reign by the internet search leader.The iPhone and iPad maker’s brand is now worth $153 billion (£93bn), almost half Apple’s market capitalisation, the annual BrandZ study of the world’s top 100 brands…

It’s a phone, a laptop, a PC and recognises its owner by his fingerprint. Motorola’s ATRIX is being marketed as the world’s most powerful smartphone packed full of tech wizardry “any aspiring spy can be proud of”.The ATRIX smartphone can be plugged into a…

State-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has built a supercomputer which is fastest in terms of peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating point operations per second), the space agency said Monday.“The new graphic processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputer named ‘Saga-220′ at Vikram Sarabhai…

India will launch five satellites by June, including one for advanced remote sensing and two for communications, say officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).The first launch, scheduled for April 20, will be of Resourcesat-2, intended for study and management of natural resources…