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by  Robin Sinha   ,  25 August 2015 Senior Vice President of  BlackBerry , Matthew Talbot, on Monday announced that the company's messaging service, BBM experienced very strong growth in the month of July. "Indeed, July was one of our strongest months on record for BBM growth," he said in a company blog post about BBM's mobile commerce momentum. He further explained that the growth was led by the release of BBM v2.9, which features an interface based on the Material Design theme introduced in  Android 5.0 Lollipop . Talbot stated that some part of the growth was due to the summer holidays when most of the youth was on vacation or off from school, and also due to 'strong word-of-mouth.' It was also  mentioned  that  BBM  saw "record new milestones" in its ad business as well. Some of the key advertisers on BBM included New York Times, TD Bank, Mint, Samsung, Smartfren (devices), Traveloca (travel), RedMart (retail) and Manu...

by  Ali Pardiwala   ,  25 August 2015 LG on Tuesday launched its 4K Oled TV range in India, and said the lineup is now available to purchase at select LG outlets around the country. The range includes two size options, with the 65-inch 4K Oled TV priced at Rs. 5,79,900, and the 55-inch model at Rs. 3,84,900. The TV range is the first from LG to combine Oled technology with a 4K resolution. Howard Lee, Director-Home Entertainment, LG India, said of the new range, "Once again LG has proved that it is a frontrunner when it comes to innovative technology. With the LG 4K Oled TV, we promise consumers in India the ultimate immersive cinematic experience. Time and again we have initiated ground-breaking innovation and raised the bar not only for ourselves, but for the industry as well. This latest Oled TV underscores LG's commitment to bringing the best in home entertainment to our consumers." Based on LG's proprietary WRGB panel technology, the 4K Oled T...

Whether you own a home, run a business, or manage a municipal building – there are many important advantages of installing solar energy panels on your property. Let’s review some of the biggest benefits. 1.  Solar Helps You Save on Your Electric Bill Probably the biggest advantage of solar energy is immediate electricity bill savings. No matter how small your installation, you begin receiving smaller monthly bills from your local utility company – from Day 1. But how large are these electricity bill savings? Answering this depends on 2 important factors: Solar energy is a modular technology, meaning you can install as many or as few panels as you like – whenever you like. Each new kilowatt of installed solar capacity brings you bigger electricity bill savings.  With a large enough installation, it’s possible to reduce your energy bill completely. Thanks to solar energy, countless Americans already pay $0 a month to their local utility. However la...

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is an important markup language used for web page creation. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British Engineer, Computer Scientist and Professor at MIT in 1991. Post his invention Tim Berners-Lee came to be known as the ‘father of web’. Berners-Lee is the founder of World Wide Web Foundation and is also the director of World Wide Web Consortium, W3C. A markup language uses a set of markup tags and these markup tags are used for describing web pages. The markup tags in HTML are called HTML tags. HTML tags come in pairs such as . The first tag is the start tag or the opening tag and the second tag is the end tag or the closing tag. Everything between the start tag and end tag is an HTML element. HTML tags are used by web developers for formatting different parts of a document. For example, HTML tags are used for specifying headings, lists, paragraphs and images tables. Images and objects can be embedded in HTML for creating inter...

Google needs no introduction. A popular search engine with a host of other applications, Google was invented by Sergey Bin and Larry Page in 1996. What started off as a research project by Larry and Sergey when they were pursuing their PhD at Stanford University, California went on to become one of the biggest internet companies in the world. Google’s main purpose was to enhance the search technology over the internet. Larry Page is a popular American computer scientist born in Michigan whereas Sergey Bin is a Russian American computer scientist and they studied together at Stanford University. The Home page of Google is easy and simple to use. It loads very quickly and brings out the best results. To increase the revenue, Google Inc. gave out advertisements related to search keywords in 2000. In 2004, about 80% of the search enquiries made on the web used Google. Google still needs to pick up as a search engine in Japan, China and South Korea. Google has ...

Mark Zuckerberg, an American software developer and computer scientist developed the social networking site Facebook in 2004 along with Duskin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Christ Hughes. Zuckerberg was born in New York and is currently the president and CEO of Facebook. Anyone who is 13 years or more can become a registered user of Facebook. Initially Facebook was limited to Harvard students, but it gradually opened up to other universities and high school students before opening up to the masses. Facebook is a leading social networking site. Users can create profiles with contact information, photos, lists of personal interests and other personal information. Their information is dynamically linked with others having similar information by Facebook. Communication between users is done through public or private messages and chat feature. They can also join and create groups of their interest and “like pages”, which are sometimes used for advertising by organizations...

The EDVAC, also known as Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer, was invented by John Presper Eckert and John William Mauchly in the year 1946, who were also the inventors of ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer). John Presper Eckert was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer who was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. John Mauchly was a popular American physicist from Cincinnati, Ohio. EDVAC was one among the earliest electronic computers invented. It was perhaps the first device with binary system and it was a stored program device. EDVAC used the binary numeral system unlike its predecessor, the ENIAC which used the decimal numeral system. EDVAC could perform operations such as automatic subtraction, addition, programmed division, multiplication and automatic checking. It had a memory of 1000 words capacity and this was later improved to 1024 words. The computer was made with components that included a control unit with an ...