Asia Bizz: Search engine giant Google’s Android platform has definitely become one of the most popular platforms; surprisingly it has also become popular in a price sensitive market like India. The Apple iOS based platforms are still considered as the most expensive for the main stream consumption in the Indian market, but this is not [...]
Asia Bizz: After the massive earthquake in Japan last year, giant piles of debris have accumulated at the northeast coast of the Asian country. Now that the cleanup process is underway, it is feared that the rubbish may be contaminated by radiation. After the earthquake, followed by a deadly tsunami in the month of March [...]
Asia Bizz: Kobian has recently announced their new Mercury mTab Neo for the Indian market. The new entrant in the tablet PC segment of the country runs on a 1 GHz dual core processor and runs on the operating system Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The other connectivity features of the new tablet include Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, [...]
Asia Bizz: Social networking site Twitter recently announced that it could remove tweets in certain countries which have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. But it seems like the idea hasn’t gone down well with the Twitter users, who have now threatened to to go on a one day boycott. The social [...]
Asia Bizz: In some bad news for the officers in the Indian army, reports state that they have been directed to quit all the social networking sites. Orders have been issued to all its men who have joined the social networking sites like Facebook or Orkut following a recent confidential information leak online. Officers who [...]
Asia Bizz: Bajaj Auto, in collaboration with Austrian manufacturer KTM, has launched its Duke 200 bike in the Indian market on January 24, 2012. The new KTM Duke 200 bike has been priced at Rs. 1.17 lakh ex-showroom New Delhi. The managing director, Rajiv Bajaj, said that with the help of the KTM Duke and [...]
Asia Bizz: Karnataka transport minister R Ashok announced on on January 23, 2012 that the new Volvo hybrid buses will soon be launched on the roads of Bangalore. The New Volvo bus was launched at the recently concluded Delhi Auto Expo 2012 in India. The new bus will have a two month trial run in [...]
Asia Bizz: Mobile phone manufacturer Samsung has announced a new operating system update for its Samsung Galaxy Ace SmartPhone in India. This has indicated that the company is updating its Android operating system to Android 2.3.6 for Galaxy Ace S5830. Reports state that the update is available through Samsung’s dedicated software Kies; but the update [...]
Asia Bizz: After a long wait, the auto rickshaws in Delhi will soon be fitted with GPS systems . DIMTS, the entity incharge of the project, has been asked by the transport department to empanel vendors who will be supplying the GPS devices to the three wheeler auto rickshaws. The process of the empaneling will [...]
Asia Bizz: Search engine giant Google and social networking site Facebook are among many of the websites which have been dragged to court by the Indian government for derogatory content. For the time being, the websites can take a breather as the hearing of the case has been adjourned till February 2, 2012. The petition [...]
