Miscellaneous

New Delhi, Dec 22: A friend in need is a friend indeed: A hair-raising video that has surfaced on YouTube illustrates this proverb very well. In the video, a monkey could be seen trying to save another monkey lying unconscious on a railway track. The monkey in the video is surely impressing for its presence of mind and efforts to help its injured friend. One of the monkeys in the video fell

Nov 21: The L.A. Auto Show kicked off Tuesday with press days focused on the technology of the "connected car," which will eventually help lead to self-driving cars, like those that Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and recent auto-tech IPO Mobileye (NYSE:MBLY) have been working on. Volvo, for one, showcased in a news conference Tuesday that, like Google, its cars can drive themselves now — following lanes

Nov 18: Last week, WhatsApp introduced a feature which allowed users to view whether their messages were read or not with the help of two blue ticks. Some people found it interesting while the rest, were freaking out. A single tick indicted that the message was sent; two ticks indicated that it was delivered and two blue ticks proved that your massage has been read by the opposite recipient. It

New Delhi, Nov 10: Banking consumers will have to pay more if they are prolific with ATM transactions as State Bank of India (SBI) and its private sector peers HDFC Bank and Axis Bank have capped the free usage in six metros at three. The capping and additional fees on excess usage come following a recent circular by the Reserve Bank of India allowing banks to limit the number of free ATM

London, Nov 7: Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reportedly come up with a new "double blue tick" feature that allows users to know when their texts have been delivered and read. The blue tick appears as soon as the person at the receiving end has read the message. According to Daily Express, one grey tick means a message has been successfully sent, two grey ticks show it has been delivered

Bangalore, Nov 4: The frequency of car recalls by Indian makers has increased in recent times. Many such recalls have been for faulty systems that are critical to safety of the passenger. Now, an independent crash test by a global car crash test watchdog, Global NCAP, has revealed that one of India"s most popular and high selling cars, the Maruti Suzuki Swift is unsafe in many aspects as it failed

Mumbai, Oct 13: Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) today launched a Facebook-based instant fund transfer service wherein one can send money to friends on the social media network real time, for free. "This is a bank agnostic product, the sender and the receiver may not be our account holders. We have used the IMPS platform on the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) network

London, Oct 12: Tata group's Land Rover has forayed into an elite club of world's 100 most valuable brands as the only Indian-owned entity, while iconic Apple has retained its top slot with nearly USD 119 billion valuation. Land Rover, an iconic British car brand owned by Indian conglomerate Tatas, has been ranked 91st with a brand value of USD 4.47 billion and is one of the five new entrants on

Birmingham/England, Oct 11: Malala Yousafzai celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize where she always wished to be — in school. The Pakistani girl, once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education just like the boys, celebrated being the joint winner of the peace prize on Friday with her classmates at Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, the city in central England that she now calls

HTC has introduced its new suite of imaging products at its event in New York. The new range consists of the HTC Desire Eye smartphone with two 13 MP cameras, HTC RE hand-held camera, HTC Eye Experience enhanced imaging software and Zoe collaborative video editing community. The Desire Eye smartphone sports a 13 MP camera on the front as well as on the back side armed with BSI sensors and comes