NEW DELHI, INDIA Electronics major Videocon Wednesday launched nine more handsets, including a triple SIM CDMA phone, thus enhancing its current offering from 12 handsets to 21. Other key highlights of the new range are a QWERTY keypad dual SIM with optical track pad, attractive touch screen devices and dual SIM multimedia, camera and music [...]

Network World The leading trade group for wireless telecoms is defending carriers right to charge early termination fees to customers who break their contracts early. FCC needs to smother eight burning wireless service fires Responding to the Federal Communications Commissions inquiry into early termination fees, the CTIA said that the fees were an integral part [...]

PC World For a service as photo-oriented as Facebook, the simple act of downloading photos is annoyingly complicated. In fact, there is no download option; you have to view each photo in turn, right-click it, and choose Save Image As or Save Picture As depending on your browser. So what happens if a friend posts [...]

IDG News Service With the replacement of Léo Apotheker as CEO of German ERP giant SAP, company officials are hoping to rebuild customer relations and ignite more innovation within the company, according to a conference call held with co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner on Monday morning. Analysts, aware of the companys recent stumbles in the [...]

IDG News Service SAP AG reported a 9% year-on-year decline in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009, with net income dropping 12% from its record level a year earlier. But the company said today that it expects a return to growth and improvements in operating income this year. Walldorf, Germany-based SAP reported quarterly revenue [...]

IDG News Service Days after announcing hed managed to hack Sonys PlayStation 3 console to run his own software George Hotz has released the exploit online. Hotz, who is best known for cracking Apples iPhone, said in a blog posting that he had decided to release the exploit to see what others could do with [...]

BANGALORE, INDIA As the World Cup football febrile disease is spreading world over, with the exiting climax fast approaching, FIFAs by authority website, FIFA. com, has chosen Google as the search engine to fleet queries. With all these people looking for the latest and greatest steady their favorite sport, were pleased that FIFA has chosen [...]

Billy Bragg among the signatories Photograph Hannah Johnston/Getty Images A group of senior public figures have called on the government to abandon its plan to push through controversial digital economy bill before the election, amid claims that the move could “sidestep” the democratic process. Earlier this week the government revealed that it wants to force [...]

NEW DELHI, INDIA Comics publishers, once lamenting dropping sales as youth turn to the internet and other media for entertainment, are now laughing all the way to the bank for providing their works on mobile phones to attract the generation put the move. According to industry estimates, two major comics publishers Amar Chitra Katha and [...]

Security software vendors stand to constrain a killing throughout the rest of 2010 and into the midst of the decade. As CIOUpdate reports, the scourge of new malware and cyber attacks targeting enterprises and consumers has propelled deposit applications to the top of most IT administrators priority list. Gartner reports that the consumer assurance market [...]