Knowledge Update

​New York, June 28 (IANS) With an aim to taking digital signatures mainstream, software major Adobe on Tuesday announced the Cloud Signature Consortium -- a group comprised of industry and academic organisations committed to building a new open standard for cloud-based digital signatures across mobile and web.

​New York, June 26 (IANS) Smartphone apps and other digital technology have the potential to provide rapid emergency care for cardiac arrest, heart attacks and strokes, says researchers.

​London, June 26 (IANS) British scientists have designed a computer programme that could help consumers shop more efficiently online by recognising sketches.

Pioneered by scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), the programme recognises a sketch -- like sketches of a pair of shoes or piece of furniture - which are

​London, June 25 (IANS) In a first, a British technology start-up has invented a multi-function antenna for laptops that combines Wi-Fi, GPS, bluetooth and 3G/4G LTE and WiGig -- multi-gigabit per second wireless speed -- in one unit.

​Washington, June 24 (IANS) Technology giant Microsoft recently launched a prototype trap for detecting mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and Zika, says a report.

The prototype trap is being developed as part of the Microsoft's Project Premonition -- a novel autonomous system for monitoring, detecting and preventing emerging infectious

​Seoul, June 23 (IANS) South Korea-based educational startup BeNative has launched CashEnglish, an app that rewards users with real cash for playing educational games.

The app is available in Hindi, English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean, with more languages coming up soon, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

San Francisco, June 21 (IANS) To help customers make a smooth transition to the Cloud with proven enterprise applications, Oracle Partner Network (OPN) on Tuesday unveiled Oracle Cloud platform ready for the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).

New York, June 21 (IANS) A US-based video game peripherals company has designed a kit that can turn your Android smartphone into hand-held consoles that can play "Game Boy" and "Game Boy Color" games, a media report said.

New York, June 19 (IANS) Scientists have built a new software that can quickly and efficiently model and print thousands of hair-like structures -- a task that normally takes a huge amount of computational time and power through conventional software.

​New York, June 14 (IANS) US-based technology giant Apple at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday announced revealed iOS 10.

The OS will not be available to customers until later this year. The company rolled out the developer betas on Monday and said public betas for non-developers will follow in July,