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The Times of India, the top English-language daily in the country with a readership of over 7 million, has just announced official apps for iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry platforms. Developed byRobosoft Technologies, the iPad app has been well-designed and has a quite pleasing reading experience. The articles are neatly laid out and quickly load when tapped. Supporting both portrait and landscape orientations, the app allows you to change the font-size, save an article for later reading or share it via Facebook, Twitter or email....

Onceagain, Microsoft provides us an unexpected opportunity to laugh. On theirPublisher 2010 team blog, an Office 2010 team member named Bob deLaubenfels has written up a brilliant idea: what if famous authors wrote help manuals. Without further ado, I present a section of the Office 2010 knowledge base as written by Tom Clancy. Tom Clancy – Help writer Colonel-General Tupolev was a demanding taskmaster, but the task he gave to his adjutant, Major Tamilla Kortovna, was even more daunting than was his usual wont....

Microsoft will tomorrow release the full version of a new tool calledWebMatrixthat will help people “of all skill levels easily create, customize and publish websites to the Internet.” It should go live tonight at midnight Pacific Time. Microsoft calls the move part of its “web platform vision.” The product itself provides “everything you need to build websites using Windows.” The team behind WebMatrix is calls it “small, simple, and seamless.”...

Tomorrow’s mobility: How Porsche is facing up to new challenges Urbanization has a particularly large influence on mobility When dealing with tomorrow’s mobility solutions, a major focus is on cities. More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities and experts don’t expect people to leave urban areas any time soon. In some high-growth regions, such as China, the share will probably increase to more than 70 percent....

Why pay for something you can get free elsewhere? That’s the question TomTom has to answer as it struggles to compete with free alternative navigation services from the likes of Google and Nokia. The Dutch firm, well-known for its in-car navigation units, saw 2010 fourth-quarter net profit fall 29% to €52 million. What’s more, TomTom expects the market for dedicated navigation units to contract by as much as 10-15% this year....