Now Amazon Kindle is set to face competition by "Wink" which is supposed to be "India's first e-book reader". Launched by Bangalore based EC Media this device will be easily available at all electronic stores across India.

The company has even partnered with Croma to ensure its availability in the country.

On the content part also the company has bought around 2, 00,000 titles ranging from newspapers, magazines and journals.

It will also feature the books written in Indian languages like Hindi and Marathi which will be further extended to other languages as well.

The recent advancement in the field of browser based market comes from the Bangalore based firm Hidden Reflex who proclaims of launching its own browser "Epic".

Epic is the first Indian made web browser, which is based upon Mozilla platform and offers a plethora of India-centric features.

The landline telephone services providers will be offering a price cut in case of the major connections, following the pressure mounted by the telecommunications regulator, Ofcom.

It is stated that the prices will drop from £33 to just £2 in cases. It follows from the price cut that is termed as the "early termination" which is charged by up to 85 percent.

According to an Ofcom statement, "We very much welcome the reductions made by BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media, which means that consumers will face much lower charges if they wish to end their contracts early."

An alternative version of Gmail could be expected as the new avatar will be without the 'Conversations' features, according to reports from Business Insider.

The step has been taken in lieu of the 'confusion' factor as Gmail administrators state that they have been receiving complaints from users who find the feature confusing.

This feature aids in integrating all e-mails with same subject lines into one folder that makes the user to follow an easier conversation.

Android market has got one more addition- the one-click payment mode, this one contributed by the Software maker Zong, as reported by New York Times.

Currently in its beta phase this mode of payment solution has been developed for Android-based smartphones and the trial version is already being tested by selected developers.

CEO of Zong, David Marcus, said that the company is looking out to work with several internet organisations to provide solutions for carrier billing with customer's credit, debit or prepaid cards.

O2 will start selling the recent tablet from Dell- Streak from today and in addition to this it will proffer an in-contract upgrade on the smartphone, presumably on the smaller 16GB model, for as little as £299.

This news has been corroborated by the recent incident when a woman called up the O2 customer service asking to cancel her contract by reselling as she was not satisfied with her current handset. This was followed by a proposal for instant in-contract upgrade, instead of offering the normal fee. The upgrade offer is yet not cleared whether it applies to both 18 months and 24 months contracts.

The Web Security lab has warned that number of Facebook users are facing the trouble of fake page. They are now encountering an attack called as 'clickjacking'.

As per reports, some of the Facebook users are now getting new links by their friends like World Cup 2010 live coverage or any celebrity's personal phone number. But when they click on that link, it leads to a fake page. There has been number of cases of the same problem.

Internet search giant Google has decided to launch Android-based television software this month.

Google said that its Android-based television software will permit the users to access TV via internet.

The new software is specifically made to open STBs, televisions and other devices to more content from the internet.

Moreover, the software is pulling interest from associates comprising Sony Corp., Intel Corp. and Logitech International SA, which are likely to introduce products, which back up the software.

Google Monday grabbed a top Canadian startup that initiated a 3D interface technology for Macintosh and Windows PCs.

Called Canada's newest software startup, Toronto-based BumpTop has been buoght by Google for around $30 and $45 million.

But, the financial details of the deal were not disclosed yet

Established just three years back, BumpTop has found touch-screen software, which permits use of multiple fingers simultaneously on a multiple touch screen.

Iran may build missiles capable of striking the United States by 2015, an unclassified U. S. Defense Department report has said.

The report, leaked to national media and reported by Israel's Arutz Sheva news agency, said, "With sufficient foreign assistance, Iran could probably develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States by 2015."

"Iran's nuclear program and its willingness to keep open the possibility to develop nuclear weapons is a central part of its deterrent strategy," the report further added.

Melbourne, Apr. 14 : India’s Infosys Technologies has bagged a three-year IT outsourcing deal with technology giant Microsoft that covers 104 countries.

Infosys will manage Microsoft''s global internal IT services including helpdesk, desk-side services, IT infrastructure and applications support, reports The Australian.

The value of the deal was not disclosed, but analysts believe it could be worth more than 100 million dollars.

Infosys says it will run Microsoft''s in-house services for applications, devices and databases in 450 locations. It has partnered with Unisys to provide global desk-side support and service desk services.

Turmeric ended higher buoyed by enquiries from the overseas market and depleting stocks. Encouraging enquiries are coming from Dubai and it is supporting prices. Prices may escalate further from these levels. Arrivals in Nizamabad were 12,000 bags of 70 kilogram each compared with 22,500 bags Thursday. Turmeric yesterday we have seen that market has moved 1.52%. Market has opened at 11654 & made a low of 11365 versus the day high of 11880. The total volume for the day was at 9170 lots and the open interest was at 10590.Support for turmeric is at 11241 below that could see a test of 11045. Resistance is now seen at 11756 above that could see a resistance of 12075.

With a desire to better the image quality and enhance the performance by four times InVisage technologies have created a new technology which helps in better photography.

The California-based company has made an image sensor using quantum dots instead of generally used silicon. As the company states its technology multiplies the sensor performance by more than four times. This means the ones who wish to click snaps at marriage or picturesque landscapes won't nab that they don't have a good camera.

The copyright battle between Viacom and Google intensifies as it has now become one of the biggest lawsuits ever filed. It’s now pegged at $1 billion.

The battle raised by Viacom against Google’s YouTube blamed Google to possess videos which belonged to Viacom. Viacom held Google responsible for illegally taking the videos and posting it on its subsidiary website- YouTube.

Tech-based movie Hubble brandishes an exuberance of the upcoming mode of entertainment 3D.

3D or the 3 Dimensional viewing is slowly converting into a widely popular platform. It is a way of visual presentation that involves the movements and helps in recreating moving images of the third dimension. It all began in 2007 when 'Scar' hit the theatres promising a different atmosphere of movie entertainment. Till date movies such as Avatar, Hubble etc bring a jittery feeling in the body.

According to Informer magazine reports, the FPS game Portal 2 has been made compatible for the Mac2 platform.

Apart from Xbox360 and PC, this game's actual version -Portal was released in 2007 as a part of Orange box's compilation of Valve games.

Portal is a riddle which allows players to create portals in game, to teleport and thus solve the puzzle. The physics centric game allows in-game teleporting which enables the player moving to next level.

San Francisco, March 6 - Google is to add automatic captions to the tens of millions of English-language videos it hosts on YouTube, the web search giant said Friday.

The move will make the videos more accessible to deaf viewers but will also help Google index the content and supply relevant ads alongside it, analysts said.

Software giant Microsoft is all set to roll out own cellular phones in United States later this year as it aspires to challenge the increasing smartphone supremacy of its main competitors Apple and Google.

The chandsets will hit the market by July exclusively on Verizon, the biggest cellphone carrier in United States, and will be directed at heavy users of social networking sites, said the report, which featured what it stated were leaked effigies from the cell phones marketing campaign.

Changing habits of readers have forced the various major publication houses to change their tactics. Penguin Books CEO John Makinson believes that in future, media device can replace the text-based publications. People are becoming more tech-centric. Hence e-books can be a possible and praiseworthy inclusion to this new era of information and technology.

Makinson commented about the technology overpowering the print market while he was addressing at FT's Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference in London. He has also shared some details of the future strategy of the company over its e-book initiative.

Bio-fuel is found to be inferior as compared to fossil fuels so far as the environmental impacts are concern. The forests have been cleaned up to produce the biofuel crops.

A study in UK revealed that fossil fuels are better than to clean the forest to produce the biofuel crops. The study also claimed that commonly-used biofuel crops such as rape seed, palm oil and soy have failed to meet the sustainability standard of the European Commission.