Information Technology (IT)

The social media app is also introducing a new feature that will allow users to upload longer videos, some up to an hour long. 06:34, UK, Thursday 21 June 2018 Image: Instagram is to introduce longer video app Instagram has said it now has more than one billion active users, less than a year after it reported reaching the 800 million mark. The number highlights the surging growth of the Facebook-owned social network which allows users to share photos and video. The announcement was made at an event hosted by Instagram chief Kevin Systrom in San Francisco. Mr Systrom said: "Since our launch in 2010, we've watched with amazement as the com...

John McAfee claims he was the victim of an alleged death plot and posts two photos of him connected to tubes in a hospital bed. 13:13, UK, Saturday 23 June 2018 Image: This image was posted of John McAfee lying in a hospital bed. Pic: @officialmcafee Anti-virus software pioneer and former US presidential hopeful John McAfee has said he was unconscious for two days after "enemies" tried to kill him. The man who founded McAfee technology in the late 1980s claimed the rivals had "spiked something" that he consumed and he has now made a threat that they "better be gone". He spoke of the alleged death plot on Twitter along ...

If there’s one thing Apple has consistently done with its iPhone is enhancing the camera performance with every passing year. Even the harshest of Apple’s critics and detractors would admit that camera is a strong point for Apple. However, it looks the company is about to take the camera to another level. The Cupertino-based tech giant’s latest patent reveals that Apple might be working on a new type of flash module that will work similar to D-SLR cameras. According to the patent, the flashlight module is called Dual Lens Camera Focusing Lighting Module’. This module will users to change the direction of the LED Flash. Also, users will be able to set the intensity of the flash as needed and also change the angle of beam of the flashlight. The patent filed by Apple at the US Patent and Trademark Office revealed, “A lighting module which provides adjustably controllable illumination of a camera field of view of a camera module includes an adjustable collimator wh...

The first sign that Infosys was dismantling the structure created by its former CEO Vishal Sikka came in October. One of Sikka’s pillars of growth was to be acquisitions and Infosys would spend as much as $1.5 billion in buying companies. However, his biggest buy–the $200 million acquisition of Israeli firm Panaya–turned out to be his undoing. When cofounder Nandan Nilekani returned to become the chairman of the Infosys board, he promptly took the axe to the onsite power centre that Sikka had created–Palo Alto. “I think this is a strategy, which has come about by a process of both top-down and bottom-up work. It’s a strategy which everybody has bought into. We see Palo Alto office as a listening post to the latest developments in tech happening in Silicon Valley ,” Nilekani said in October. Nilekani’s step took Infosys back to its roots–to an Indian power centre–a tactic practised by Indian IT companies for decades but one that’s holding them back now. Expe...