Nisan Motor Co. has revealed a zero-emission conceptual two-seater electric car Monday, a vehicle resembling a go-cart. The mini car is not yet ready for sale, but the company said it was planning to assemble about 250,000 Leaf electric cars a year, with the first deliveries set to begin in December in the U.S. and [...]
India has backed off from its threat to ban popular Blackberry services, after it has expressed serious concerns about the access to the company’s encrypted information such as e-mails and messaging. According to a press release issued by India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, the Canadian phone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has agreed to provide [...]
Yahoo Inc has begun rolling out a spruced up version of its free web-based e-mail service on Tuesday in an attempt to convince its users to spend more time browsing its website. Beginning on Wednesday you can try out the new beta version of the Yahoo mail product that boasts, among other things, more social [...]
The Wall Street Journal has published a report suggesting that the popular social networking site MySpace may be sharing user information with its advertisers. MySpace, however, does not think this poses any problem as the information they shared with the advertisers would not identify a person, mainly because they do not require the members to [...]
Over 244,000 German households have requested that Google should make their homes undistinguishable in its popular Street View program when it launches in Germany in November this year. Google says only 3 percent of all households in Germany requested that the images of their homes should not be featured on Google Maps. At the same [...]
The teenage owners of mobile phones prefer short text messages to dialling a number and taking on the phone, according to the recent Nielsen report. The American researchers have found out that an average U.S. teen sends over three thousand text message a month. The experts from the Nielsen research company have analyzed cell phone [...]
According to some media reports Internet giant Google is working on a fully automated car that would drive itself with the help of Google’s very own mapping technology in addition to laser range finders, radar sensors, and video cameras. It sounds like Google has been secretly developing artificial intelligence that would be capable of controlling [...]
While the world’s leading manufacturers are aggressively turning their cell phones into cameras, the Japanese camera maker Panasonic has decided to go the opposite way. Panasonic has just unveiled its new line of Lumix cameras with a built-in cell phone at the CEATEC gadget expo near Tokyo. The device looks more like a camera than [...]
Apple is rumoured to have begun working on a 5th generation of its iPhones. In addition, anonymous sources have suggested that it will be based on a different form factor than the current iPhone 4 model. Apple has been forced to start working on a new phone just weeks after it launched its latest iPhone [...]
Japan’s Sharp Corporation is determined to enter the e-readers market no later than December this year, by introducing its very own two e-reader models. The Sharp’s ambitious plans have been confirmed by the promise to sell no less than one million e-readers in 2011. The Sharp e-readers will be presented to the world under a [...]
