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Big TV launches High Definition DVR set top box in India
Big TV, the DTH arm of Reliance Communications on 5th May 2010 launched India’s first ever High Definition (HD) set top box equipped with Digital Video Recorder (DVR) priced at INR 7,490. The set top box will be the first to bring recording facility to a High Definition set top box in India and…
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TataSky+ remote recording feature now available
The much awaited dual access remote recording feature in TataSky+ STB is now available. Using this feature, you can record TV shows to your PVR from either your GPRS/3G enabled mobile (which should also support Java applications – so no to iPhone) or from the web! Upon logging into mytatasky.com, TataSky+ users will notice a…
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Details of the upcoming solar powered rickshaw – Soleckshaw
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi (don’t bother clicking through, their site sucks) have come up with an eco friendly solar powered rickshaw for India.
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Check out the swanky new (beta) version of irctc.co.in
irctc.co.in brought a revolution in India when it first launched the facility to book tickets for Indian Railways over the internet. Although the site has been updated a number of times to upgrade on functionality and looks, it still lacks the elegance & intuitiveness of a modern day web 2.0 site. Subsequently, many tech savvy…
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Full HD 3D LED TVs make their way to India
After introducing Full HD LED TVs in India, electronics giants LG and Samsung are introducing Full HD 3D LED TVs in the market. While Samsung has launched the 3D TVs under series 7 and 8, LG is going to launch them under the “Infinia” brand.
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Tata Sky+ launches three new features to compete with Airtel Digital TV PVR
In an attempt to compete with Airtel’s Digital TV PVR with remote recording functionality, TataSky+ has launched the following three features on it premium PVR set top box: Video-on-Demand (VoD) service Dual access remote recording Auto standby
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Be careful when you buy a DTH connection under exchange
Sun Direct HD DTH set top box exchange offer has raised some eyebrows in the industry, Economic Times reports. According to rival DTH companies, consumers are not at the liberty to exchange their set top boxes as, apparently, they do not own them. Remember the time when DTH set top box used to cost around…
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Apple updates Macbook Pros with Intel Core i5 & i7 processors
Apple has updated the 15 and 17 inch Macbook Pros with Intel Core i5 & i7 processors. 13 inch Macbook & Macbook Pros have not been updated. 15 inch MBPs now have 4GB RAM, switchable Intel HD and NVIDIA GeForce Graphics and a choice of i5 or i7 CPU. The 17 inch comes with i5…
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Adobe’s Flash platform evangelist says “Go Screw Yourself Apple”
Apple announced its latest iPhone OS this week and also released an SDK for developers. What many of us do not know is that the updated SDK agreement carries an extra condition which bans "applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer”. This basically means is that applications ported…
