MapMyIndia, India’s mapping solution provider has launched version 8.0 of maps with advanced localized navigation. The latest update also boasts of several driver assistance features such as extended lane guidance, junction views, sign-posts, live traffic, city guides and rich points of interest. In order to have an expanded audience the updated version now offers regional voice guidance in...

As per a latest report from market research firm research2guidance, revenue generated with sensors connecting to an app will reach $5.6 billion by 2017. The firm believes that this segment of the market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 69 % and 61 million health sensors will ship in 2017. Sighting further insights the report says that mHealth app based business models, which rely on...

Continuing the global expansion of its Appstore for Android, Amazon has announced to take its store available in 200 countries including India, Australia, Brazil, Canada,  South Africa and Japan. The upcoming international expansion follows the launch of Amazon’s Appstore for Android in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Amazon says that the app store will be rolling out internationally...

Yahoo! has released two new mobile apps, for weather and email, suggesting that company is emphasizing more on mobile. The company has released a Mail app for iOS and Android tablet users and a Weather app for iOS. This marks the first time that Yahoo has released their own weather app, as well as their Mail app for tablets. “Today, we’re excited to introduce the Yahoo! Mail Apps for iPad...

In a bid to further expand its content for users, LinkedIn has acquired popular news reader app Pulse in a $90 million deal. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013. “We believe LinkedIn can be the definitive professional publishing platform – where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content,” said Deep Nishar,...

The online shopping scenario is changing with advent of mobile shopping aka m-commerce. A latest report by Draftfcb called “The Mobile Shopper: A 2013 Draftfcb Global Shopper Snapshot” confirms mobile’s march to dominance as a medium of choice for consumers. The report is based on interviews with 7,500+ consumers ages 18-64 in India, China U.S., U.K., Germany, Brazil, South Africa...

While a lot has been said about the helpful role that the Internet plays in our lives, we are now seeing questions being asked about how healthy the Internet is for young children. Does it play a positive role or is it hampering their progress towards maturity? The Internet has changed the way we do things for sure. While many say that it has unnecessarily virtualized the things and processes that...

Following close behind the launch of Nexus 7 16 GB WiFi version in India after a lot of delays, Asus has announced the launch of Nexus 7 32 GB WiFi+3G as well as WiFi-only model in India. The 3G version of the tablet will be available at an MRP of Rs. 21,999 whereas the Wi-Fi variant would be available for Rs. 18,999. It’s worth pointing out that this is the maximum retail price and the street...

Given the rising popularity of Android and a number of other competitors in the tablet market, it was only some time before Apple’s iPad sales would be superseded in the market that it had carved out for itself since 2010. A new report from research firm IDC (International Data Corporation) claims that tablets sporting Google’s Android operating system will outsell the iPad from its ‘throne‘...

Microsoft recently launched Internet Explorer 10 in Seattle to million of new users. The internet browser has a touch friendly operating system and is aimed to lure customers for Windows 8 based devices. Internet explorer has been pervasive as the PC dominated the computing paradigm with windows as the primary choice of operating system. While the browser has got generally good reviews, it has not...