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ICT’s Cultural Festival MANZAR 2015 presents “Lights, Camera, Broadway!”

February 3, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Started in 2007 by a group of students in the Institute of Chemical Technology (then UDCT), currently in its 9th edition, MANZAR is one of the largest growing cultural festivals in India presented to you by the prestigious Institute of…

Android

WhatsApp Tests Free Voice Calling Feature On Android

February 2, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

With smartphone industry growing under a knife sharpened with competition, applications are no exception due to which they are improvising like never before. Hike, an Indian messenger, has already introduced free voice calling feature. And now WhatsApp messenger, a cross…

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Xiaomi To Sell Smartphones From Mi.com In India

January 31, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

The Chinese handset maker, Xiaomi which is known for its successful range of Mi phones will soon start selling their devices from their own portal. This particular move by Xiaomi is to create its presence in one of the world’s fastest growing market.…

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Motorola To Open Experience Centres In India This Year

January 30, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Motorola who had started to offer value for money phones in India has now decide to open experience zones in the country. The main purpose is to keep all their products on display so that consumers can get a hands…

Android

Much Awaited HTC Desire 826 To Hit The Chinese Markets

January 29, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Earlier at this year’s CES’15, HTC expanded its Desire series of smartphones by launching HTC Desire 826 and HTC Desire 320. During its launch there were no specific details revealed on the availability of these devices. Although in a recent…

Android

Xiaomi launches Mi4 in India for Rs. 19,999

January 28, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone maker has launched their last years flagship, the Mi4 in India today. The phone is priced at Rs. 19,999 and will sell exclusively on Flipkart with registrations starting today itself. The phone sports a 5 inch display with…

Android

Hike Introduces Free Voice Calling Feature Before WhatsApp

January 27, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Hike, the Indian instant messenger has introduced free voice calling feature on 26th Jan. The feature lets you call other hike users over the Internet. The update is not done On-Air and one needs to update the app in order to…

Lava

Lava Launches Budget Smartphones: Iris 350 and Iris 470

January 27, 2015 1 Criselle Lobo

Indian mobile handset manufacturing companies have recently caught up pace in their attempts to target a wider range of users. Micromax is already the talk of the town with its Yu-Yureka Sale. To catch up with it, Lava Mobiles has…

News

Test Driving The WD My Passport Wireless

January 22, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

WD is one of the most famous companies when it comes to hard drives. As the name suggests, the WD My Passport Wireless lets a user save, share, and access stored content wirelessly on a computer, tablet or smartphone. The…

News

ICICI Introduces Social Banking With Twitter And We Test It Out!

January 20, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Yesterday, ICICI Bank launched a facility which will enable its account holders to transfer funds easily via Twitter. So, we decided to test it to see if it’s really worth the hype. At the end of it, we were left…

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Gionee Launches Pioneer P6 : A Quad-Core Budget Smartphone

January 20, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone companies are trying hard to make a mark in the Indian markets. Competing in the same race is Gionee. Gionee has been launching a lot of devices recently and also staunch on its ongoing marketing campaign. It has…

Launch

Oppo Adds R1C And Mirror 3 To Their Arsenal

January 17, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Oppo, the Chinese smartphone maker has come up with two impressive phones i.e the Oppo Mirror 3 & Oppo R1C for the low-mid & mid range segments. We all know that Chinese smartphone manufacturers have seen a fair share of…

Lenovo

Lenovo Launches A6000: The Cheapest 4G Phone In India

January 16, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone manufacture Lenovo has unveiled their A6000 in India today. The device is the cheapest 4G phone in India priced at Rs. 6,999. It will sell exclusively on Flipkart and the registrations will open at 6pm today itself.The phone…

Launch

Xiaomi Launches Mi Note And Mi Note Pro In Homeland

January 16, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

The world’s third biggest smartphone maker Xiaomi, launched the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro yesterday (15th of January) at Beijing. On the launch event Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi, gave out the technical specifications of the models. Lei Jun…

Google

Google’s Project Ara: A Modular SmartPhone To Arrive In Puerto Rico

January 15, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

In the second developers conference of Project Ara held yesterday in California, Google put to rest all the speculations about the new MDK v0.2 and its features. Paul Eremenko, director of Project Ara, announced many details about the progress of…

News

Google’s Flight Search Now Available In India: Lets You Find Cheap Flights Easily

January 13, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Gone are the days when one needed to compare flight prices from 5 different websites to make a wise decision. Google announced its Google’s Flight Search, with which one can easily get the cheapest prices of flights from different sites available on…

India

Micromax’s Yu Yureka Puts 10,000 Units Up For SALE On Amazon India Tomorrow

January 12, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

The highly anticipated Yureka phone under the brand name of Yu, a subsidiary of Micromax is all set to go on its first sale tomorrow on Amazon India. 10,000 Yu Yureka units would be up for grabs at the sale tomorrow…

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Samsung Unveils The Galaxy A3, A5, E5 and E7 in India

January 6, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

In an event held in Mumbai today, Samsung launched four new phones. The phones are a part of the A and E series. Under the A series, they released the A3 and A5 and the E5 and E7 were launched in…

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Top Attractions at IIT TechFest 2015 — Day 1

January 2, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

IIT-B’s TechFest is one of the most anticipated tech festival in India every year. People from all over the country attend this event as participants or spectators. This year the festival is from 2nd January to 4th January. Our team…

Launch

OnePlus One launched in India. 64GB Variant Available Exclusively On Amazon For Rs. 21,999

December 2, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

  The much awaited flagship killer, the OnePlus One goes on sale in India starting today. The phone has a killer pricing of Rs. 21,999 for the 64GB variant. The One sports a 5.5 inch Full HD display with the…

Android

WhatsApp New Feature Informs You When Your Messages Are Read

November 6, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

WhatsApp which recently crossed a 70 million mark of active users in India has a new update! WhatsApp which shows you two ticks if your message is delivered to the recipient, now turns them into blue if the person has read…

News

WhatsApp About To Take A Step Ahead Before Google Catches Up

November 4, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Mobile messaging app WhatsApp now has 70 million active users alone in India. It is used by 600 million people globally out of which more than one-tenth users are now Indians. WhatsApp is the most simple messenger with an easy-to-use…

Android

Truedialer: The New Smart Dialer?

October 31, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Truecaller, the online Caller ID for our phones has now launched a new app named Truedialer. It claims to be a smart dialer for your smart phone. The app is available for free on Android and Windows Phone. A user…

News

Will You Pay For An Ad-Free YouTube?

October 29, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

YouTube, the online video-sharing website owned by Google has plans to save you from watching the ads before you stream your video. You read it correct! YouTube is about to offer paid, ad-free subscription version. In its attempt to establish…

India

$15 Billion Internet of Things Market in India Over Next 6 years

October 27, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

We all have heard about the ambitious vision of ‘Digital India’ shared by the Modi Government. The recent announcement by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) of the nation’s first Internet of Things (IoT) policy document clarifies its seriousness.…

Featured

Microsoft Drops Nokia Name; Phones Will Now be Called Microsoft Lumia

October 22, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Microsoft acquired Nokia’s mobile phone division in September 2013 for 7 billion dollars. Today, they have officially announced that all new Lumia phones will be called Microsoft Lumia rather than Nokia Lumia. Thus, Nokia will no longer be known as…

Apps

In Disaster? Check in on Facebook via Safety Check

October 17, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Facebook has launched a new tool called “Safety Check” which claims to help its users to notify their friends and family that they are safe during or after natural disasters. Facebook’s tool, will be available worldwide to its 1.32 billion…

Google

Google’s Fiber Going Wireless? Upto 1 Gigabit Per Second

October 16, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Google Fiber is Google’s way of making the web faster, much faster than you can imagine to everyone. At up to 1,000 Mbps, Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s basic broadband, allowing you to get what you want…

India

Zuckerberg meets Modi: Will Internet.org fly in India?

October 10, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook is on a two day trip to India to address the first Internet.org summit in India. Mark is also going to meet the prime minister, Shree. Narendra Modi. He is primarily going…

India

Lenovo Launches a Smart Devices Connected Store in Delhi And The A8-50 Tablet

October 8, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Lenovo is now aggressively targeting India as a market to sell their smartphones and tablets. They have launched a Smart Connected Devices store in Delhi. This store opened after the success of their first store in Pune…

Internet

Facebook Closes WhatsApp For 21.8 Billion Dollars

October 7, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Facebook has finally sealed the WhatsApp deal for a mighty 21.8 billion dollars. On 19th February, 2014, Facebook had announced its acquisition of instant messaging app — WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars. This amount shot up thanks to the rise…

News

LG G3 Stylus launched in India for Rs. 21,500

October 6, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

LG has launched an all new affordable variant of their flagship — the LG G3 called the LG G3 Stylus. As the name suggests, the phone comes with a stylus called Rubberdium which slides into the phone and has a…

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Microsoft’s Trio – Lumia 730, Lumia 830 and Lumia 930 have landed in India

October 1, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Microsoft has launched three new Lumia phones spread across different price ranges, starting from the affordable Lumia 730, mid-ranger Lumia 830, to the premiumly priced Lumia 930. The Lumia 730 and Lumia 830 will be available in stores from 8th…

News

Farewell Orkut — social network shutting down today.

September 30, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

The Social Networking site Orkut, is shutting down today. The site was started by Google back in 2004 with the aim to get people to connect with family and friends on the internet. Orkut had won the MTV Youth Icon…

News

BlackBerry Passport Launched in India at Rs. 49,990

September 29, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Struggling smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry has launched a new smartphone called the BlackBerry Passport, which is probably their last attempt at surviving. The BlackBerry Passport includes a 4.5” square screen with a 1:1 aspect ratio, 1440 x 1440 pixel (453 dpi)…

News

SanDisk Launches Two New Products in India

September 18, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

SanDisk, the famous American company that is known for providing flash memory storage solutions and software launched two new breakthrough products in Mumbai, recently. The first is the 512GB SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-1 memory card – World’s highest capacity…

News

#fame launched in Mumbai

September 18, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Today the world is going digital. Slowly, most data that we consume is through the internet. That is why #fame had launched with the intention of becoming Asia’s premier talent led digital entertainment network. #fame strategically focuses on emerging and…

News

Moto Event – What to Expect?

August 22, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

Motorola has sent out invites for an event on 4th september 2014 held in Chicago. The invites which were in a Cootie Catcher format revealed a phone with a G, another one with an X, a watch and a bluetooth…

News

Idea Launches Two New Smartphones to Boost 3G Adoption

August 13, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

With 3G plans getting cheaper, many people are switching from 3G to 2G. To make most of this trend, Idea has introduced two new smartphones – Idea Ultra+ and Idea Fab. The Idea Ultra+ is a dual-SIM, feature packed, premium looking…

News

LG unveils G3 and G watch

July 22, 2014 0 Criselle Lobo

LG launched their new flagship phone – G3 with much fanfare at Mehboob studio, Mumbai. The biggest standout of the event was none other than bollywood legend, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. After all, not everyday do you get to see him…