VHS has come unspooled. It has been taped over. The screen has filled with static, then gone blank. This month will see the last videocassette recorder (VCR) produced in Japan, according to reports. Once no home was complete without a library of chunky black cassettes and a recording device withContinue Reading
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul has announced that the state will have its first Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) Centre in Itanagar very soon. “Through STPI, we hope to provide skill training to the youth, while empowering them digitally and economically,” said Chief Minister Kalikho Pul and hopedContinue Reading
This week, Pocket FM 2.0 has been launched. Pocket FM is a portable FM radio transmitter that enables people in crisis regions or developing countries to communicate without internet, mobile phones, television or when electricity is unavailable. Despite technological innovation, local radio continues to be a vital source of informationContinue Reading
Biometrics, the collection and use of biological data and behavioural characteristics, could be the next big leap in the world of financial servicesContinue Reading
KOLKATA: In a bid to make children’s commute to and from schools safe, a team at IIT-Kharagpur has designed an electronic tracking system through radio frequency identification (RFID) tags which would soon be flagged off at a school here. The low-cost technology will help address concerns of parents and arrestContinue Reading
The Indian government has committed 980bn rupees ($14.5bn; £10.9bn) to a flagship smart cities’ programme, but the social entrepreneur behind the country’s first smart village thinks they’ve missed some low-hanging fruit. City-dwellers tend to take electricity for granted, says Ashok Das, but for the roughly 200 million Indians living off-grid,Continue Reading
India’s internet companies are racing to cut costs amid a cooling of investor sentiment towards the sector, which had been one of the most conspicuous targets for a global surge of funding into technology start-ups over the past two years. Grofers, whose smartphone app allows users to order groceries fromContinue Reading
Apple has been granted a patent for technology that could stop smartphone cameras being used at concerts. The patent describes a smartphone camera receiving coded infrared signals beamed from emitters in public places. The handset could then offer on-screen information or disable the camera functionality to stop pictures being taken.Continue Reading
The $4 Indian phone that some thought might never materialise reportedly does exist, but only because the startup producing it is making a loss on each one. The Ringing Bells Freedom 251, initially announced at a price of £5, is apparently set to ship this week to customers who preorderedContinue Reading
Sewage water may soon become Kerala’s next source of electricity as a team of scientists has developed a technology to tap power generation from the same. Developed by Amrita School of Biotechnology, the technology, called Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), converts chemical energy of feedstock into electricity by exploiting the metabolismContinue Reading
