London:  The iPhone could soon replace the doctors' best friend, the traditional stethoscope, thanks to a free application created by a University College London researcher.

Peter Bentley invented the 'iStethoscope' application which monitors heartbeat through sensors in the iPhone as just a bit of fun. And, more than three million doctors across the world are signing up for the free application.

"Everybody is very excited about the potential of the adoption of mobile phone technology into the medical workplace, and rightly so. Smartphones are incredibly powerful devices packed full of sensors, cameras, high-quality microphones with amazing displays.

"They are capable of saving lives, saving money and improving healthcare in a dramatic

New Delhi: Forced by the runaway success of domestic players offering features-rich dual-SIM mobile phones in the sub-Rs 5,000 category, market leader Nokia finally launched two dual-SIM phones in India on Monday.

Interestingly, Nokia C1 (C1-00) and Nokia C2 (C2-00) are the first dual-SIM mobile phones from the Finnish telecom giant.

The market share of the company - already struggling in the high-end smartphone market to match the successes of RIM, Apple and Google Android-based phones - has been battered in India in the past two years.

London: Now you can squash or stretch the vibrant images that pop out of the TV screen, thanks to a new 3D system developed by Japanese researchers.

In a demo, a 3D image of the Earth was squished like a soft rubber ball and then stretched wide across the screen.

Six motion-detector cameras are used to monitor the viewer's fingers and tiny clips attached to their index fingers vibrate when they 'touch' an image.

The multiple cameras are angled so that there are no blind spots.

Ever thought of recharging your cell phones, laptops and other portable electronics with a sugar fix from a shared sip of soda pop or even a dose of vegetable oil? Well, this could soon be reality, all thanks to a newly developed battery-like device.

Researchers have described the device as the first fuel cell that produces electricity with technology borrowed from the biological powerhouses that energize people and other living things on Earth.

"This is the first demonstration of a new class of biofuel cells. When further developed, these devices have the potential for replacing

London: Imagine searching the Internet simply by thinking. Well, your imagination may soon turn into reality, say scientists who claim to be developing a computer which reads human minds.

A team at Intel Corporation is working on a new technology which will directly interpret words as they are thought, unlike current brain-controlled computers which require users to imagine making physical movements to control a cursor on a screen.

In fact, the scientists are creating detailed maps of the activity in the brain for individual words which can then be matched against the brain activity of someone using the computer, allowing the machine to determine the word they are thinking.

New Delhi: Technology giant Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to release a mini iPad this December, a media report said on Wednesday.

Details of a smaller version of the iPad were leaked in a Chinese newspaper that had also correctly predicted the specifications of the iPad months before its release.

Apple intends to launch the smaller iPad this December in time for the Christmas shopping season, reports sources.

Mumbai: Bangalore-based digital publisher EC Media International on Thursday launched its multi-function e-book reader Wink not only supports 15 languages but will also offer over 200,000 book titles on debut.

Wink will offer consumers a one-stop e-store to access e-reading content of choice via
href="http://www.thewinkstore.com">www.thewinkstore.com that would enable access not just to e-books, but also journals, newspapers, magazines and selected articles, EC Media said.

Many of the titles have been acquired from international aggregators, giving Indians access to a whole lot of books not available in the country.

New Delhi: Computer maker Dell has overtaken global rival HP for the first time in the Indian market, with a 15.2 per cent share, according to research firm IDC.

For the quarter ended June this year, Dell had 15.2 per cent of the personal computer (PC) market share, while HP trailed at 14.3 per cent of the 23.70 lakh units sold in the quarter.

" Our customer-centric focus and strategy have paid rich dividends, validated by our becoming the number one PC vendor in India," Dell India Country General Manager Sameer Garde said.

The total PC market grew 5.8 per cent compared with the quarter ended March 2010,

New Delhi: Tata Teleservices Monday said it has launched a call and tweet service which enables subscribers to update their Twitter status by posting voice tweets from their mobiles without logging on to the Internet. This service will not require any specific handset model and will be available for all the Tata Teleservices and Tata Teleservice Maharastra subscribers across India. The subscriber will be charged 80 paise per tweet.

Washington: The US has said it is not mediating between the Blackberry maker RIM and India, which has asked the smartphone vendor to provide access to some of mobile messaging services or face ban in that country.

"While we have been in touch with our foreign partners, this is a matter for Research in Motion (RIM) to work out directly with Indian officials," the State Department said in a statement in response to a question if the US is mediating on the Blackberry dispute.