Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on Tuesday launched what it said was the world’s thinnest smartphone, which it hopes will take on high-end rivals like Apple and Samsung in the global market. The Huawei Ascend P6 is 6.18 mm in depth and thinner than competitors like the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 (7.6 mm and 7.9 mm, respectively). This new model is now the flagship smartphone in Huawei’s...

India ranked fourth among countries targeted by phishing attacks and accounted for 8 % of the total phishing volume in April,says RSA, the security division of EMCndings in its May 2013 Fraud Report.  US topped the list of nations in terms of the total phishing attack volume, with a share of 46 %. The UK accounted for 11 percent of that volume while 48 other countries put together accounted for...

Unistal Systems Pvt. Ltd has launched ‘Activity Reporter‘, a software that records each and every activity, including internet monitoring, of a user on Android tablets without the knowledge of the user. The internet monitoring tool captures every internet activity like chat conversations, emails, Web sites visited, Web searches etc. It records all activities in real time and generates...

After hitting the 1 billion user mark in May, Facebook is now celebrating a new milestone. The social network has announced that it now has more than 1 million active advertisers. Facebook attributes this growth, not to big brands and marketers who have been using the Facebook platform to advertise for years, but to small local businesses that have turned to Facebook more recently as a way of reaching...

Chinese smartphone & networking equipment conglomerate Huawei is gearing up to invest heavily within the Indian market to create, establish & develop its Brand. Alongside the exercise, the company is planning to offload about a million smartphones before the year is out. The company’s roadmap was revealed by Victor Shan, Huawei’s President of India Device Business Development. He shared...

India presently has 4 supercomputers within its territory. But what’s more interesting is the fact that two of those have made it in the top 100 of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers. The list announced yesterday at the  International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany regarding the top 500 supercomputers in the world, featured Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) supercomputer...

Government organizations worldwide will spend a total of $449.5 bn on IT projects in 2013, a decrease of 0.1% from last year, analyst firm Gartner has estimated. The figure includes spending on hardware, software, IT services, and telecommunications. The top three areas governments want to spend are: mobile technologies, IT modernisation and cloud computing, while there is also “strong interest”...

India-based game retailer Game4u has begun accepting pre-orders for Sony’s next generation console PlayStation 4. The console can be pre-ordered from either Game4u’s brick-and-mortar stores or from the company’s website. Consumers looking to place the pre-order will have to deposit an amount of Rs. 3000. After the console will realise its official launch in the country(which is expected...

Google India has launched a ‘Start Searching India‘ campaign aimed at simplifying Internet usage for it’s users. “The objective of the campaign is to help simplify the Web for Indian users, showing how they can get instant answers to their most common queries,” Sandeep Menon, Director, Marketing, Google India, said. The campaign aims to share interesting tips about search...

Skype’s free video messaging service has exited beta and landed on Windows 8, Mac, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Skype’s video messaging feature lets you record and share a 3 minute personal video and send it to people on their contacts list if they are offline. The recipients will be able to watch the video message when they sign-in next time. Skype is calling the feature as a video...