Thursday, August 4, 2011
RIM tilts at iPhone with new BlackBerry phones
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion unveiled two new versions of its touchscreen BlackBerry Torch on Wednesday as it seeks to regain ground it has lost to Apple and Google with powerful consumer-friendly models.
Investors reacted favourably, pushing RIM's deflated stock price up more than 5 percent. But some analysts were sceptical, given delays leading up to this launch. They said a radically new software package due next year would be RIM's big test.
Google cries foul on Apple, Microsoft mobile gang-up
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Google Inc, fresh from losing a bid to buy thousands of patents from bankrupt Nortel, lashed out at its biggest rivals on Wednesday and accused them of banding together to block the Internet giant in the red-hot smartphone arena.
In a rare public outburst, Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond blasted Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and "other companies" for colluding to hamper the increasingly popular Android mobile software by buying up patents, effectively imposing a "tax" on Android cellphones.
Revealed! The secret of why diets don’t work
IF YOU are on a diet and are frustrated that it is not working well, here is some food for thought. The reason behind difficulty in sticking to a diet plan may lie in strange behaviour of brain cells that regulate appetite, latest research has revealed.
"When we don’t eat, hunger-inducing neurons in the brain start eating bits of themselves. This act of self-cannibalism turns up a hunger signal to prompt eating,” says research to be published in the August issue of journal Cell Metabolism.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
I am not married: Vidya
Vidya Balan
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