Netflix Inc said on Wednesday that it had launched a website to check the speed of a mobile or broadband internet connection. The service, called fast.com, works like other internet connection meas…
I/O conference: Smart-home speaker, VR system, chat service from Google
Google I/O conference: Attendees take photographs during the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California. (Reuters) Google I/O conference: Google is showing off a new smart-h…
Google IO: Google Assistant is your own personal AI
Google has announced Google Assistant, showing off the conversational AI helper at Google IO 2016. Backed by ten years of language processing, Google Assistant’s big sell compared to digital …
Apple CEO Tim Cook hobnobs with corporates, app developers, Bollywood
Tim Cook met Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry, TCS managing director N Chandrasekaran and Vodafone chief executive Sunil Sood at the Taj Hotel and held a meeting with ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochha…
Millions of LinkedIn passwords put up for sale following 2012 hack
There’s bad news for some LinkedIn users, as a ton of account details for the social network have just gone on sale, even though they were pilfered in a security breach that happened years ag…
Apple Inc to open development centre in Hyderabad tomorrow
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who arrived in the country last night, is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this week. (Reuters) Apple CEO Tim Cook will inaugurate its development centre here…
Fitbit buys mobile payment technology from Silicon Valley startup
Fitbit Inc said it bought wearable payment technology assets from Silicon Valley-based startup Coin, as it looks to allow users to make payments through its popular line of wearable fitness devices…
‘Benign duty regime for IT hardware can create 10.5 lakh jobs’
According to the study, average IT hardware products made in India are 15.9 per cent more expensive than similar imported products and this issue can be fixed if the government adopts a similar str…
1 lakh women benefited from Internet Saathi initiative: Google
Google India, along with Tata Trusts, also said it is now expanding the Internet Saathi programme to four more states — West Bengal, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura. About one lakh women in …
Ex-Googlers rev up plan for self-driving trucks
A former member of Google’s autonomous car team and other Silicon Valley veterans today introduced a startup devoted to self-driving trucks. Anthony Levandowski and Lior Ron, a fellow “…