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The impact of Coronavirus on India’s tech industry

March 30, 2020 0 Viraj G

The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc across the globe at the moment. Social media platforms are battling with the spread of misinformation. Moreover, the Indian government has imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the disease. The…

India

13-Digit Numbering Scheme Is Not for General Mobile Phone Users

February 21, 2018 0 Anvinraj V

The Department of Telecom (DoT) of India has instructed all the telecom operators to start using 13-digit numbers for all the existing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) customers. The implementation of the new numbering scheme will begin from 1st July. The last date…

Google

Google Paid Burrp For Local Content When They Entered India!

July 21, 2017 0 Annkur

Google is probably the most appreciated and criticised company for the work it does to organise the worlds content. Publishers work hard to collect content, Google scrapes it and sends a lot of traffic to publishers via its search index.…

Apps

Whatsapp Going UPI Route To Launch P2P Payments In India

April 5, 2017 0 Annkur

UPI has taken the payments industry in India by storm. UPI has generated a lot of momentum within a few months, partly thanks to BHIM App that is promoted by PM Narendra Modi. The Ken today reports that WhatsApp is preparing…

India

The Technology Backbone of GST in India

February 28, 2017 0 Keyur Shah

India is rapidly opening up to technology like never before. While events like demonetisation are big moves that accelerated the cashless economy, the government has been working tirelessly to enable many APIs that are critical for digital India. Some of…

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LeMax Pro: World’s 1st Smartphone With 820 SoC Goes On SALE!

February 24, 2016 0 Ruchita Mahimkar

The Chinese smartphone maker – LeEco who launched its flagship phone, LeEco Le Max Pro at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has announced that the phone will be put on sale starting on 22nd February. The company made the announcement…

Google

Google Hangouts gets a Standalone Website

August 19, 2015 0 Nishant Shah

Google’s messaging and video chat service “Hangouts” has got a total makeover with a separate website named hangouts.google.com. It has got a cool new user interface that you might fall in love with it. The site shows up with Hangouts’…

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Snapdragon 820 Introduced, Emphasis on Better Graphics and Camera

August 13, 2015 0 Saif

The long awaited Snapdragon 820 is finally coming and it won’t be having those Cortex cores. While the Snapdragon 810 was largely barred due to the span of issues it came along with, Qualcomm’s new chipset lines aims to change…

Samsung

Samsung Launches J7 And J5 Smartphones In The Affordable Segment

July 17, 2015 0 Akanksha Lakra

The recently launched Samsung Galaxy J series smartphones are finally unveiled in India. The smartphones are mainly focused on sefies, they were first launch in China last month.From the J series, Samsung has introduced the Galaxy J5 and the Galaxy…

Android

Lenovo K3 Note Launched At A Price Tag Of Rs. 9,999

June 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Lenovo has launched the much awaited K3 Note smartphone for Rs. 9,999 in the country. The device will be available for purchase via exclusive retail partner Flipkart in its first flash sale on July 8. The registrations will go up…

Android

Elephone To Go On Sale Via Flipkart, Date Announced

June 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Elephone, which is still not officially launched in the country, is taking its marketing slow and steady. The company will be selling its handsets in India in the near future but it’s rumoured to be sold only via Flipkart. Elephone…

Android

Xolo Cube Launched For Rs 7,999

June 22, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Indian handset manufacturer Xolo launched their budget-smartphone Xolo Cube. The device is priced for Rs 7,999 with Lollipop 5.0 available in white, black and gold. The phone is 6.9 mm thick with its dimension: 143 x 71 x 6.9 mm.

Tech Industry News

Net Neutrality Official’s Report To Come Out This Week

June 22, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

The government was expected to come out with the formal statement concerning the extremely debated topic, Net Neutrality. The government, of course, didn’t release the report last month. Though, according to a report the government will come out with its…

Android

Spice Launches XLife Range Android Smartphones

June 22, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Spice launched its new XLife smartphone series in India. In this series the company has launched XLife 404 for Rs. 3,190; XLife 431q at Rs. 3,999; XLife 431q Lite at Rs. 3,850 and XLife 512 at Rs. 4,499. The company…

News

LinkedIn’s Pulse Latest Update Serves Stories Based On LinkedIn

June 20, 2015 0 Akanksha Lakra

The news reading app, Pulse acquired by LinkedIn in 2013 has unveiled a new update for its iOS and Android app. This update includes cleaner user interface which includes gestures similar to popular app like Tinder. The new feature includes swipe gesture, swipe-left to reject and…

Android

OnePlus Confirms Snapdragon Rumors

June 18, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

OnePlus is known for its privacy and not preferring media’s interference in their company. They finally announced and confirmed the rumors of it using the Qualcomm’s top-end mobile processor, the Snapdragon 810, v2.1 in its upcoming OnePlus 2.

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Xiaomi’s LED Light USB port for Rs.199

June 16, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Xiaomi likes to keep itself updated with gadgets and the latest versions of every possible ‘toy’. China’s Xiaomi has now launched it’s latest Xiaomi Mi LED Light in India. The device is now available for purchase on the company’s official website…

Android

Google Play Launches ‘Free App of the Week’

June 15, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Google Play along with the launch of various other applications and updates has now started a new section as the host of its first ‘Free App of the Week’ promotion. Google Play isn’t the first one to offer such a…

Android

Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096 Launched For Rs. 6499

June 9, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Micromax has always been selective about its launches. The company proves it again after Micromax Canvas Fire 3 A096, an unannounced product, is listed on the company’s official product listing. Along with this it is also available with an online…

Apps

Facebook’s Payment Feature Now Launches In New York

May 28, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Facebook has been working on a lot on updates and trying to keep itself as fresh as possible. The company earlier introduced new payment features in Facebook Messenger, which is now getting launched in New York. This feature lets friends…

Android

Sony’s Xperia M4 and C4 Launched In India

May 27, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Sony finally launched the much awaited Xperia M4 Aqua for Rs 24,990 after unveiling the Xperia Z4 in India. The device launched by the company is a 64-bit Octa processor and is first phone in this category by Sony with…

News

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge- Iron Man Edition Will Be Up For Sales

May 26, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

The launch of Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Iron Man (Limited Edition) has been awaited for quite some time. The media is waiting to see the sales for this device, especially after the disappointing sales of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and…

News

Flipkart Hosting An Open Sale On 25th and 26th May

May 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Flipkart has been a lot in news lately. Ever since Punit Soni, former Google Employee has been working with the e-commerce giant Filpkart has been bringing about a lot of changes. Apart from the changes, the company makes it a…

Apps

Instagram to Send ‘Hightlights’ Through Emails

May 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

Instagram has been active since 4 and a half years and is not very young anymore, it doesn’t want users to slip away from its application. After Twitter bought a completely new start-up to power re-engagement by emailing the best…

Android

OnePlus Two Benchmark Spotted On Chinese Website

May 25, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

OnePlus finally confirmed that the OnePlus Two is finally going to be released in the third quarter of 2015. The phone was spotted on a Chinese website after it’s appearance on Geekbench. The smartphone which is tied to the internal codename…

Android

Xiaomi Launches Fully Loaded Mi Note Pro In China

May 6, 2015 0 Trupti Gupta

After the announcement back in January, Xiaomi has finally launched Mi Note Pro phablet. It’s mass production is due to start in March. It is going to be available for sale in China from 12th May, at CNY 3299, approximately…

Lenovo

Lenovo A7000 To Have Its First Sale On Flipkart Today

April 15, 2015 1 Criselle Lobo

The Lenovo A7000 will have its first sale on Flipkart today. The device is priced at Rs. 8,999 and registrations for the sale have been closed. The device which was launched in India last week is the successor to the…

Android

CyanogenMod OS12 Is Out: Here’s Everything You Need To Know About It

March 27, 2015 0 Harsh

Cyanogen is an open source operating system known for providing exciting features with an amazing user experience. It offers customization to its users and comes preloaded in many devices like Micromax YuYureka, OnePlus One and many more. It can be…

News

Solar Impulse: The Solar Powered Plane On A Mission

March 16, 2015 0 Pranav Prateek

With the landing of Solar Impulse 2 in Ahmedabad, it is firmly on course to complete the first Round- The- World flight solely on solar energy! The mission of this outlandish adventure that covers 35,000 Kilometers is to prove that…

Launch

Intex Aqua Speed Launched In India For Rs. 7,444

March 4, 2015 0 Criselle Lobo

Intex has launched another phone in India and it is called the Aqua Speed. The phone is priced at Rs. 7,444 and will be sold both online and offline.The phone has a 4.5 inch display with the resolution of 960×540…

Hardware

MediaTek Unveils Its Latest SoCs At MWC

March 2, 2015 0 Ronak

Every chip manufacturing company is busy trying to develop SoCs which cater better performance parameters than its predecessors and be power efficient. The concept of stacked dies, to increase the memory density and increase the communication speed, is already the…

Hardware

Samsung Introduces Industry’s First 128GB Ultra Fast Embedded Memory Unit

February 27, 2015 0 Ronak

Wouldn’t it be good to have an embedded memory unit in your smartphone which offered  big storage space? Wouldn’t you like your smartphones to be faster and yet power efficient? Samsung might just have a solution for that. Samsung announced…

News

Pebble Time Announced; Crosses $10M on Kickstarter

February 26, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Pebble started as a project on kickstarter with the original Pebble Smartwatch. Their kickstarter campaign got an amazing response putting the watch into production. The Pebble watch turned out to be a huge success because of its 7 day battery…

Android

New Pebble Smartwatch Coming Soon

February 22, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Pebble has been in the smartwatch game much before the launch of other wearables like Android Wear. The Pebble watch was basic and was compatible with both Android and iOS. The e-paper display and the Cortex M3 processor were frugal…

Android

Flipkart Teases Another Moto Exclusive, Most Likely The Moto Maxx

February 19, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Flipkart has recently tweeted about another Motorola phone launching exclusively on their site. The tweet does not reveal a name but has little clues that point at the phone awaiting launch. The tweet describes it as a “Moto Beast” coming our…

Hardware

Qualcomm Announces New Chips To Bring High-End Performance To Mid-Range Phones

February 19, 2015 0 Ronak

Qualcomm has been one of the major manufacturers of SoCs. It is highly probable that you point out at a smartphone around you and it has Qualcomm SoC powering it, with the latest entrant being the Snapdragon 810. Snapdragon processors…

Google

Quick Look: Project Ara At IIT Bombay

February 18, 2015 0 Aditya Shenoy

Project Ara is a modular phone concept that Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team is working on. The whole world has its eyes on this concept as the idea of a customizable phone is very interesting. FOSSEE Project based…

Google

Project Ara Has Shifted Gears; Interesting Modules Start Surfacing

February 18, 2015 0 Ronak

There are projects which one can’t get enough of. Right now, Project Ara is the talk of the town. The last update on the project was an Indian company partnering up with Toshiba for manufacturing and testing of modules. It…

Facebook

Facebook’s ‘Team Avengers’: ThreatExchange To Work Against Security Threats

February 13, 2015 0 Ronak

Although one might know the tech world to be fiercely competitively place but there is no scarcity on philanthropic projects too. Check the proceedings of Project Ara if in doubt. Or read more on the recent project of Facebook launching…

News

Aquaris E4.5: The First UbuntuOS Phone Coming Soon

February 10, 2015 0 Ronak

Technology world has been waiting for Ubuntu Phone for quite a while now. After the first glimpse of the concept which was two years ago, it hasn’t been in news. But now the wait seems to be over as Canonical, backed…