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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…

News

JungleeRummy Launches World Rummy Tournament With A Prize Pool Of INR 1 Crore

January 16, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

JungleeRummy, a well known gaming company made an announcement today of one of the largest gaming tournaments they are organizing. The World Rummy Tournament by JungleeRummy comes with an assured prize money of Rs. 1 Crore for the winners. The…

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…

Micromax

Yu Yureka’s Flash Sale: Rigged or not?

January 16, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

Flash sale seems to be the buzzword these days. With Flipkart gaining plenty of publicity and success with it, Amazon and Micromax set out to do just that with the Yu Yureka. Except, they screwed up, badly! The company closed…

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

Ringo: An International Calling App That Works Without The Internet

January 14, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Mobile phones have shrunk our world, we can be in touch with our loved ones regardless of the distance.  While being able to communicate with them is priceless, the mobile carriers sure have put a hefty price on it. That…

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G To Hit Airtel Stores On 16th January

January 14, 2015 0 Ronak

After the recent announcement, Airtel has now announced 16th January as an official date for the availability of Redmi Note 4G at the Airtel stores. Celebrating the Mi Day, as they previously promised on coming Friday, Airtel is all set to…

Google

Project Ara Comes Closer to Reality as Google Releases a New MDK 0.2 Developers Kit

January 14, 2015 0 Ronak

Every smartphone manufacturer is trying to equip their devices with as many innovative features as they can. Out of all these, Google’s Project Ara has been making remarkable developments with their revolutionary concept of a modular smartphone which they claim…

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…

News

Drones Fly High At CES 2015!

January 12, 2015 0 Ronak

While CES’15 is still fresh and buzzing with all the flashy gadgets trying to make their way out, it is impossible to not mention ‘Drones’. There was so much happening in the field of drones and many companies showcased their…

Google

Google Now Keen About Modi’s Digital India Plan

January 8, 2015 0 Riya

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook had visited India last October to meet Sri Narendra Modi. The agenda for the meeting was how Facebook’s Internet.org could integrate with Modi’s Digital Plan and provide Internet to the rural areas. There are many obstacles to…

News

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…

Android

HTC Launches Desire 320 At CES’15

January 6, 2015 0 Ronak

HTC has moved its focus to the Desire series of smartphones for its CES presence this year. A new born to the family, we are talking about the HTC Desire 320 which was announced yesterday (5th Jan). The Desire 320…

News

Xiaomi Launches Redmi 2 With 4G LTE Support

January 5, 2015 0 Ronak

Here’s a New Year gift from Xiaomi. Xiaomi, yesterday announced their latest cellphone: The Redmi 2. It comes as the elder brother to the Redmi 1S. and will only be available in the Chinese markets. It is priced around CNY 699 (for…

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A Realistic List of Tech Expectation From 2015

January 5, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

It’s that time of the year when the grand predictions from ‘Gurus’ come out. After years of industry experts predicting the next big thing, here is what we think is a more realistic take at what would happen in 2015.…

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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…

Apps

Test Driving Wynk: Airtel’s Response To Gaana & Saavn

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

What strikes you first when I ask you to name your go-to music-listening app: Spotify? Er… Gaana? Saavn? Dhingana? With majority of smartphone users having a monthly internet data connection, the number of subscribers to music streaming apps is on the rise and…

Apps

Airtel’s Rift With NetNeutrality In India

December 30, 2014 0 Riya

Net Neutrality means keeping the Internet unbiased and open to all. No Telecom operators can command a authority to differentiate the data based on its website, its use, its time, its users etc. If a user buys an Internet package,…

News

Asus ZenFone 4 (A450CG) Review

December 22, 2014 0 Aditya Shenoy

Taiwanese smartphone maker Asus has been in the Indian Smartphone market for a while now. The ZenFone series was first showcased at Consumer Electronics Show early this year and is now officially available on Flipkart. We got our hands on…

Apps

WhatsApp To Launch For Desktop: Buckles Up Among Competitors

December 15, 2014 0 Riya

There is no denying the fact that WhatsApp is the most dominant messenger among the other messaging apps when it comes to carrying out daily conversations. But what it lacked so far was a desktop client through which one need not…

News

The Futuristic Bracelet ‘Cicret’ Projects Your Phone Screen On Arm

December 11, 2014 6 Riya

Samsung has increased the size of its smartphones considerably with its Galaxy series and has made us familiar to the term ‘phablet’. Apple, too who took pride over their smaller screen phones had to now cater to the changing choices…

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…

Facebook

Facebook At Work – Competing with LinkedIn And Yammer?

November 24, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Facebook is working on extending its network beyond the social realm and into the professional world. Facebook aims to gain a foothold in your office space too now. The social networking giant is working on its new offering called “Facebook…

India

India Post to Introduce Real-Time Package Tracking Facilities

November 20, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

The Indian Post is the world’s largest postal network with 1.55 lakh registered post offices. In the recent past, the Indian post had faced a significant decline in terms of volume of business. This was primarily due to the Internet.…

Apps

SKYPE QIK – As Simple As Texting?

November 17, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Qik was founded by Ramu Sunkara, Bhaskar Roy and Nikolay Abkairov in 2007. Qik had two primary offerings a mobile based live video sharing web site and a two-way video conferencing application that allowed users to stream live video from their…

India

Xiaomi Redmi Note All Set To Arrive In India

November 15, 2014 0 Riya

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi who is also considered as ‘China’s Apple’ is all set to ship the Redmi Note into India. The Xiaomi Red Note had been on the shopping lists of tech enthusiasts all over India afterall, Xiaomi did make…

India

Xiaomi Looks To Set Up Operations In India

November 13, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Xiaomi is currently the 3rd largest Smartphone manufacturer in the world, behind only Apple and Lenovo. Not bad considering the company was founded only 5 years ago by serial entrepreneur and Billionaire Lei Jun and that the phone still has not…

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…

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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…

News

Western Digital Launches My Passport Wireless in India

October 17, 2014 0 Aditya Shenoy

Western Digital has been a key player in the electronic segment, their passport series has been a part of our lives for years now. We are used to plugging in our hard drives into a USB port and using for…

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…

Launch

YotaPhone Goes on Sale In India Today (Another Flipkart Exclusive)

October 17, 2014 0 Aditya Shenoy

Yota devices, a manufacturer from Russia has teamed up with Flipkart to launch their Yotaphone in India. The YotaPhone is a one of its kind always-on smartphone. It has 2 displays, the one on the front is a 4.3 inch…

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…

Android

Android 5.0 – Lollipop Not Ladoo

October 16, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Google’s much-awaited android platform update has been officially released and it has been named Lollipop. Later today, a giant lollipop will be erected outside Google’s campus in mountain view California. This 10 foot statue will join the existing sculptures of…

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…

News

What’s in Store For India After The Exit of Yahoo! And Nokia

October 10, 2014 0 Sharma Karan

Yahoo! earned upwards of 9 billion dollars in cash through the recent IPO of Alibaba group. This left Investors worldwide including those in India anticipating how Marissa Mayer’s would spend it. The cutback of 400 jobs in the US-based search giants Bangalore…