Multinational e-Commerce company Amazon was gearing up to introduce its own brand of Smartphones. However, it seems the world will have to wait a little longer than the earlier envisaged release period of second quarter of 2013. The official manufacturing partner for the said smartphone is none other than Chinese company Foxconn International Holdings (FIH). Incidentally, the same company manufactures...

Mobile devices are fast becoming the place where numerous technologies converge, thus creating useful services and applications for consumers and enterprise-level customers. With the growing rise in smartphones and Internet video services and consumption, it can be easily said that mobile video has been largely adopted all across the globe. Improving economic conditions and the relatively cheaper costs...

eBay came to India when the e-revolution was on the brink of breaking out. Amazon reached India and was active much before any sort of credibility was set in the e-commerce market. These global online businesses are giants of the e-commerce world and till some time back, no Indian e-commerce website could think of competing with these giants even in the Indian market let alone on a global scenario,...

Owing to the increasing number of complaints over invasion of privacy by apps and sites, The Federal Trade Commission has issued a set of guidelines for makers of mobile platforms and developers of applications for mobile telephones and tablets to help observe truth-in-advertising and basic privacy principles. However, the guidelines are non-binding; they are a set of recommendations issued with the...

Amazon is all set to take on Apple iTunes. Today, music has gone digital. Gone are the days of CDs, cassettes and any hardware music device. People purchase, access and listen to their songs online or offline albeit digitally. Amazon has been the online shopping go-to platform since the late 1990s. When music had still not gone digital (Steve Jobs had not thought of iTunes and digital music just yet),...

Google has been dominating the online ad segment for quite some time now. That may all change now that many other established companies are launching their own ad exchanges. Facebook launched its Real Time Bidding exchange some months back and this new development has been predicted to make quite a bit of advertising revenue for the social network. Now according to a report in Adweek, Amazon may be...

Nokia has launched a new flagship location and map service- HERE for all its devices and beyond i.e. the service would apply to devices beyond its own products. HERE is touted as the next gen location, navigation and mapping based service which, as decipherable from the Nokia move is aimed to run across all platforms. Nokia Ovi Maps is already one of the most dependable services among localized mapping...

We first heard about Microsoft’s Xbox music service at this year’s E3 gaming expo. At that time most analysts thought that it was a bad attempt on the software giant’s part to replicate iTunes. This past Sunday Microsoft revealed new information about the service and it seems that Xbox Music is aiming for a lot more than merely aping iTunes.   The service, which will be available for the...

The Government of India’s recent decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up to 51% in multi-brand retail trading has a clause that virtually puts a spanner on online operations. The clause states, retail companies who have multi-brand operations may open up physical shops with a domestic partner & have a controlling stake in it. However, these retail-chain owners cannot sell their merchandise...

Amazon may have stormed the market with the launch of the new Kindles but it has bigger plans. The company announced on its official mobile developer blog that it has already released their own Maps API which provides Interactive Maps and Custom Overlays as of now. The API shows 2 capabilities. Interactive Mapping: Using the new API, developers can integrate map views  in their apps. Users can pan,...