Category: News

  • Olive telecom launches India’s first 3G tablet

    Olive telecom has launched Olivepad-VT100 in India. Olivepad is the first 3G enabled tablet to be launched in India. The tablet will be powered by the Android OS and will support 3.5G HSUPA networks in addition to WiFi and Bluetooth. Weighing at 410 grams the Olivepad is powered by an ARM11 600MHz processor and is…

  • Indian Government builds INR 1500 personal computing device

    Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resources development in India unveiled a low cost personal computing device which, apparently, will be priced at INR 1500($35). If that’s not cheap, he expects the price to drop to $20 & eventually $10 when the device goes for mass production. The touch screen based device will have built…

  • Reliance planning to acquire majority stake in Notion Ink

    In an attempt to enter the personal computing space, Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Ltd. is rumored to be planning to buy a major stake in Notion Ink – the Indian tablet maker company founded by IIT alumnus.

  • Microsoft sells 175 million copies of Windows 7, gives free Windows Phone 7 to its employees

    Microsoft announced their results for quarter ended June 30, 2010 and they are solid! A 22% increase from last year. Thanks to Windows 7 sales figure! Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 has sold more that 175 million licenses to date. Quarterly revenues were $62.48 billion, 7% increase from last year.

  • Xbox 360 Arcade price slashed in India

    The price of Xbox 360 Arcade console in India has been dropped form INR 16,990 to INR 14,676. This is good news for all people who were planning to buy the console.

  • TataSky launches India’s cheapest HD set top box

    Back in 2008, TataSky broke the 100 rupees subscription price barrier and sparked stiff competition in the DTH space. They have done it again by launching India’s cheapest HD set top box priced at INR 2599. The new set top box delivers HD signals at 1080i in 16:9 format with 5.1 channel Dolby digital surround…

  • iPhone 4 coming to India through Vodafone

    Now that the much awaited iPhone 4 is announced. The iPhone lovers (read “Apple fans”) in India are craving to get a hands on this baby. (Count me in there) Vodafone has confirmed that it’s going to bring this amazing gadget to India in the coming months. Hope that’s soon.   We at woikr surely…

  • iPhone 4 is here, feature roundup

    The iPhone 4 and iOS4 got announced on June 7th, 2010. It’s pretty close (read as “same”) to the leaked iPhone prototype that Gizmodo “found in a bar”. As Steve Jobs said in the keynote, this is the “biggest leap since the original iPhone”. It indeed is, read further to know why

  • Government of India planning to develop its own Operating System and Anti Virus [OMFG + WTF]

    Apparently, Government of India is pissed off with all the cyber attacks on its servers and has decided to build its own Operating System and Anti Virus software. The government formed a high-level taskforce in February to devise a plan for building indigenous software, said a senior intelligence official who is a member of the…

  • Google’s new look

    The search giant Google has a new look for its search results page. The new look updates the visual looks and feel throughout and offers search tools in an all new left nav (click to enlarge):