HTC J Butterfly: 5-inch 1080p Smartphone Launched with LCD 3D Display Review

Confirming the previous rumors, popular smartphone manufacturer HTC has announced J Butterfly, the first smartphone from the company with a full HD display. The new smartphone features a 5 inch Super LCD 3D display which supports a resolution of 1920×1080.

The device will be released on Japanese Telco au by KDDI.HTC representatives have informed that J Butterfly will go on sale in Japan during December this year. The company however has not mentioned any details regarding the international release of the smartphone.

Activision celebrates 50 years of James Bond with 007 Legends for consoles, PC

To commemorate 50 years of James Bond, Activision has unveiled a new Bond game titled 007 Legends. The game is out now across major retail outlets in North America and is scheduled for an October 19 release across Europe and will be reaching Australia on October 31.

How to Track Your Train with the New App? lanched by Indian Railway, Download

Quite occasionally, Indian Railway travelers have felt the need to know more than train running status or arrival time at a particular station. Besides the usual usage scenario of live train tracking on the web, here is a new app which has come up to track the trains in India – RailRadar– announced by the Center for Railway information service (CRIS).

Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in Indian Retails Review

Overview FDI

First of all, FDI means Foreign Direct Investment which is mainly dealings with monetary matters and using this way they acquires standalone position in the Indian economy. Their policy is very simple to remove rivals. In beginning days they sell products at low price so other competitor shut down in few months. And then companies like Wall-Mart will increase prices than actual produc

t price.

Kapil Sibal: No Roaming Charges in India from 2013

Here comes the good news for commuters who travel frequently between states within the country, today Indian government has confirmed that it will withdraw the roaming charges from 2013.

Earlier this year, the Minister of Communications and IT, Kapil Sibal announced a plan named‘One nation-free roaming’, which will have no roaming charges all over India. Now, the Telecom Minister has confirmed that the mobile phone users need not pay any roaming charges from 2013.

What austerity? Big fat govt delegation will travel biz class for study tour

The government says it is in austerity mode, but 57 officials will travel business class to Canada and Japan for a 15-day study tour. The trip has the nod of both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

North-East exodus: Facebook, Twitter to be shut in India?

Bangalore, Aug 17: It seems that the central and state governments' appeal to North East people not to leave Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and other cities fell on deaf ears. The exodus of North Eastern people continue to leave for their home states, despite assurances. Amid the grave situation, many have started demanding to shutdown social networking sites in the country for some time to prevent the spreading of such rumours.

Joining Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil, a Samajwadi Party MP, Ramgopal Yadav also stated in Rajya Sabha that social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter should be closed for a few days to prevent the spreading of rumours that are prompting thousands of Northeastern students and people to flee to their home.

India test BrahMos missile with new systems

Balasore, Jul 29: In a bid to enhance indigenous missile manufacturing capabilities, India on Sunday successfully test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the integrated test range at Chandipur off Odisha coast. The 32nd test-firing was part of the development trials of the missile which has already been inducted into the Army and the Navy. 

Pranab to get a swanky Mercedes Benz Limousine

New Delhi: After becoming the 13th President of India, Pranab Mukherjee will not only have a change in designation and address, but also in his mode of transport. In place of his favourite bullet-proof Ambassador, Mr Mukherjee will get a swanky Mercedes Benz limousine to go around.

Mr Mukherjee, who has always officially travelled in the Defence Ministry registered white Ambassador car, will now occupy the black S600L 'Pullman' luxury saloon which is the official carrier of the head of the nation.

While the limousine is escorted by the elite Presidential Body Guards (PBG) during ceremonial events of the President, it zooms down from the Raisina hill with a bevy of VIP security vehicles when the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces travels otherwise.
The Mercedes car, best-in-the-class in terms of comfort and security, had come to the Rashtrapati Bhavan during the tenure of President Pratibha Patil and has a host of dynamic features which are essential for the secure travel of a top dignitary.

source: NDTV

Narendra Modi to visit Japan, will also meet Suzuki leader

Jul 20: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is set to leave for Japan on July 22 on a four-day tour in response to an invitation from the Government of Japan. A big delegation of top industrialists and businessmen, who have set up partnership with Japan in different sectors, will accompany Modi.

It is perhaps for the first time that the Japanese government has invited a chief minister of a state of any country to visit its country. Japan was a partner country in the two previous editions of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit, the flagship event held in the state every two years. The Japanese delegation was clearly impressed by the all-round development of the state.

Zardari's letter to Manmohan Singh: Pakistan President lauds move to revive India-Pakistan cricket ties:

Islamabad: President Asif Zardari has said that the revival of bilateral cricket ties with India will help improve people to people level contacts between the two countries. This he said in his letter addressed to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The letter has been sent through Pakistan High Commission in India.
 
Following is the text of President's letter to the Indian Prime Minister:
 
Excellency, You would recall that in my recent visit to India, we discussed resumption of cricket ties between Pakistan and India.

NASA offers training for Indian astronauts

Dublin: The world's largest space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now seeks to partner with the Indian Space Research Organisation for future space endeavours and has offered that India could use its top class facilities of the astronaut training program of the Indian astronauts. The offer has come at a time when Indian origin Astronaut Sunita Williams gears up to head for her latest rendezvous with the International Space Station.

India successfully tests nuclear-capable Agni-I missile

Bhubaneswar: India on Friday successfully test-fired indigenously-developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile from a military base in Odisha, a defence official said.

The missile, which can strike a target 700 km away and can carry a one tonne nuclear warhead, was tested by the armed forces from a facility on Wheeler Island near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, 170 km from Bhubaneswar.

TCS and Infosys compare on Q1 earnings

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys, the two largest information technology companies in India, declared their June quarter earnings on Thursday, one before stock exchanges opened, one after, as has been their respective practice.

Infosys, the second ranked IT and ITeS firm in the country, reported lower-than-expected numbers for the quarter ended June early morning, sending markets down a 300-point chute in intra-day trading.Shares in Infosys fell a precipitious 8 per cent to Rs 2,264, its lowest in three months, while the broader 30-stock Sensex closed 1.47 per cent lower at 17, 232.55 points after having taking a battering due to Infosys’ lower-than-expected earnings.

No Kim Davy? India decides to dial down diplomatic relations with Denmark

New Delhi: Danish diplomats will no longer be entertained by senior government officers in India. The decision to scale down diplomatic relations with Denmark comes days after Danish authorities refused to appeal in their Supreme Court against a decision of a lower court which said Kim Davy, wanted by India for the Purulia arms drop case, would not be extradited to India.

Initially, Denmark had accepted India's request for extraditing Mr Davy but he challenged their decision in a city court in Copenhagen which ruled in his favour.

Infosys Q1 net at Rs 2,290 crore, below estimates; stock tanks 10%

Infosys, India’s second largest information technology company, has cut its sales forecast for this fiscal to 5 per cent, much lower than 8-10 per cent it had predicted at the end of the March quarter. The sharp revision in outlook, which comes amid worries that clients will reduce spending on outsourcing services, disappointed investors.

Sadananda Gowda resigns, Jagadish Shettar to be new Karnataka Chief Minister

New Delhi/Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda met BJP president Nitin Gadkari in Delhi this morning and submitted his resignation to him. Rural Development Minister Jagadish Shettar will replace him, Mr Gadkari announced soon after.

Mr Shettar will be formally elected by the BJP's MLAs in Karnataka. He has been handpicked by the BJP's strongman in the state, BS Yeddyurappa, much in the way the latter had picked Mr Gowda as his successor last year. For  many months now Mr Yeddyurappa has been flexing some serious political muscle in his bid to oust Mr Gowda and the party leadership finally  gave in. Senior party leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh will go to Bangalore tomorrow as observers as the new CM is elected. Karnataka votes in a new Assembly in less than a year and the sub text of Mr Gadkari's words is that the BJP not only needs to end the rebellion in its ranks but also needs to get its caste calculations right if it has to have a chance at retaining the only state it rules in south India.   

Over 50 million opted for mobile number portability till May

The total number of subscribers opting for mobile number portability (MNP) has risen to 50.16 million, with Karnataka receiving the maximum number of 5.8 million requests till the end of May, says TRAI.MNP allows users to switch operators while retaining their mobile numbers.
"By the end of May 2012, about 50.16 million subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number," a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report said Wednesday.

900 commandos pulled from VIP security for terror ops training

For the first time in many years, the country's elite counter-terror force NSG has decided to pull out its over 900 commandos rendering VIP security duties and put them to perform specialist counter-terror and counter-hijack operations.

The 'black cat' commandos of the National Security Guard (NSG) are segregated into five units, two Special Action Groups (SAGs) manned by officers and jawans from the Army and three SRGs (Special Rangers Groups) comprising personnel from paramilitary forces.

Wipro's Premji takes pay cut; CEO Kurien gets 5-times hike

IT giant Wipro's Chairman and Managing Director Azim Premji saw his remuneration falling by nearly one-third to Rs 1.9 crore last fiscal, but the group's IT business CEO T K Kurien's pay package grew over five times to Rs 4.5 crore.Premji's annual remuneration declined from Rs 2.8 crore in the fiscal 2010-11 to Rs 1.9 crore in the latest fiscal ended March 31, 2012.

During the same period, the total remuneration rose from Rs 80 lakh to Rs 4.5 crore for Kurien, who assumed the role of Wipro's IT business CEO in February 2011.