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Why This Kolaveri: ISPs Block Access to Video and Torrent Sites Following Court Order
As per this report from the folks at Medianama, and personal accounts from the rest of the country, Airtel and Reliance have blocked access to video sharing and torrent sites, following an order from the Madras High Court following a complaint filed by litigant R.K. Productions, the producers of Tamil movies 3 and Dammu to prevent piracy.
NVIDIA unveils Tesla GPU based on the promising Kepler architecture
During the opening day, keynote presentation, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang showcased two GPU based on the Kepler architecture. This upcoming line of graphic processors will be sold under the moniker of Tesla, with the Tesla K20 releasing in the fourth quarter of 2012. NVIDIA also showed of the Tesla K10 GPU, which houses two GK104 Kepler GPUs to deliver 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth. The K10’s however, are designed specifically for oil and gas exploration companies for signal, image and seismic processing applications. Huang also announced that NVIDIA has released CUDA 5 Parallel Programming platform to members of NVIDIA's GPU Computing Registered Developer program to start exploring the Kepler architecture.
AMD unveil its response to Intel's Ivy Bridge
AMD's successor to the incumbent Llano architecture will be called Trinity, and we should expect to see stateside release of a laptop by Hewlett Packard called Envy Sleekbook, by as early as June.
Multiple Nexus handsets tipped for release with next version of Android
Sources at the Wall Steet Journal have revealed key plans for Google's future Android strategy with the Nexus brand of handsets. More than five handset OEMS are likely to get the source code of their next release, which means that the Nexus brand will no longer be exclusive to a single device.
Rumour: The next iPhone will have a 4-inch display
According to wire sources quoting Wall Street Journal, Apple plans to use a larger 4-inch screen on the next iPhone, an estimated 30% larger viewing area from the previous generation.
Twitter launches weekly email digest feature
After acquiring the teams and technologies of two startups, Twitter has launched a weekly email digest service, that delivers the relevant Tweets and stories shared by the people right to your inbox.
Sony Xperia U now available for purchase in India
The Sony Xperia U in now available for purchase in India via online retailers. Sony is yet to officially launch the device in the Indian market.
HTC officially announces its Desire C smartphone
HTC has finally officially announced its previously leaked Desire C, which is an low-end Android 4.0 ICS based device.
Press images of HTC Desire C show up on Vodafone Portugal's website
HTC will soon announce a new device called the Desire C, a low-end smartphone running Android 4.0 ICS. The device has been revealed on Vodafone Portugal's website.
Intel developing 14nm smartphone chips for 2014
Xbit managed to snag and post a couple of slides from an Intel presentation used by the CEO to discuss research and development of chip fabrication technology. The company’s mobile chip line-up will be split into a low-cost line headed by Atom 22000 carrying and XMM 5255 radio, and the high-performance Atom 22580 that will sport a XMM 7160 radio.
Karbonn launches new Android based A9 smartphone
Local handset manufacturer Karbonn has launched yet another Android device. This dual-SIM capable low-cost smartphone is called Karbonn A9, and it's one of the first to bring a 3.8-inch WVGA screen in a sub 10k price range.
Rumor: Nokia PureView 808 will sell for 30K
The Nokia PureView 808 caught everyone’s attention when it made its debut appearance with a whopping 41MP camera, making it one of the more talked about phones from Nokia in recent times. The Indian portion of the Nokia Shop has the 808 listed as coming soon, but it does not disclose its price. Some diligent scouring by Androsym through the website source code has revealed clues that indicated PureView 808‘s price at Rs. 29,999.
10 New Smartphones under 10k
Compare India's GDP with developed nations, it's no secret that affordable smartphones have a huge market in India. Hence, we bring you five of these devices which are priced below 10,000 INR and are worth your money.
RIM has plans for 15 BlackBerry stores in India
Research In Motion has revealed that it has plans to open a total of 15 premium BlackBerry stores in the country by the end of this year.
Samsung launches new Windows Phone device called Omnia M
Powered by a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the Samsung Omnia M sports a 4-inch Super AMOLED display of WVGA pixel resolution.
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