The Type-C port has been around for a while now, and most, if not all, Android flagship smartphones these days sport the modern USB port. In the last few months, we’ve seen it trickle down the price points, and it’s no longer uncommon to see phones under Rs. 15,000 ship with a Type-C port. However,
Month: August 2019
Xiaomi’s latest Android One phone, the Mi A3, will go on sale again at 12pm IST today from Mi.com, Amazon, and the authorised Mi Home Stores across the country. The new Xiaomi phone packs triple rear cameras, a Super AMOLED display, and an in-display fingerprint sensor, all the while carrying a starting price of Rs. 12,999.
Usually when someone in tech says the word “quantum,” I put my hands on my ears and sing until they go away. But while IBM’s “quantum computing safe tape drive” nearly drove me to song, when I thought about it, it actually made a lot of sense. First of all, it’s a bit of a
John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, announced today his plans to retire effective October 1, 2019. Donovan has for the past two years led AT&T’s largest business unit, which services 100 million mobile, broadband and pay-TV customers in the U.S., as well as millions of business customers, including nearly all the Fortune 1000. The news
Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani announced at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) earlier this month that Jio Fiber will finally start rolling out commercially beginning September 5. At the same time, Ambani revealed that the Jio Fiber consumers will also get fixed line phone service, earlier called Jio FixedVoice. At the AGM however,
OnePlus TV is launching in India next month. CEO Pete Lau has confirmed that India will be the first market to get the OnePlus TV, and it will launch in September. The exact timeline hasn’t been announced, but the company should reveal more details as next month nears. Just a few days ago, the company
As user growth on various social media platforms in the key global markets slows down, India is helping social media players clock more revenue per user in the Asia-Pacific region, thus driving the overall social advertising spend, a new report said on Monday. According to Forrester, global social advertising spend will hit $165.6 billion in
Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the regulatory authority of civil aviation in India, has asked the air passengers in the country to stop carrying select units of 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro laptops, which were recalled by Apple over safety fears, in their hand or checked-in baggage. DGCA’s notice comes over a month after US Federal
Realme has done a good job of keeping us on our toes since it first debuted in India as a subsidiary of Oppo in mid-2018. The new Realme 5 (Review) and Realme 5 Pro succeed the Realme 3 (Review) and Realme 3 Pro (Review) — the number 4 considered unlucky in some Asian cultures —
The way we watch media has changed radically in recent years. Platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video offer on-demand services that many prefer instead of traditional television subscriptions. Initially, these services only worked on computers, but devices like the ones provided by Roku can turn any television into a streaming media machine. It’s time
The new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer is here. Just a couple of days on from its exclusive presentation at Disney’s D23 Expo, Lucasfilm has released a new look at the upcoming ninth episode of the epic space opera saga, which includes a montage-style look at the history of Star Wars, including the
The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in the second quarter to reach 26.1 million shipments, according to a new report from Canalys. Amazon continued to lead the race, accounting for 6.6 million units shipped in the quarter. Google, however, fell to the third spot as China’s Baidu surged ahead. Baidu in Q2 grew a
With the App Store’s big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers’ attention away from the Top Charts and more towards editorial content. But app developers still want to make it to the No. 1 position. According to new research from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower, it’s become easier for non-game apps
The Samsung Galaxy Fold gained a lot of attention when it was unveiled in February this year. It is among the world’s first foldable smartphones. The device was initially set to go on sale in April, but critical issues discovered right before the official launch date forced Samsung to postpone the launch. The Samsung Galaxy
HP said on Thursday Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is stepping down after nearly four years in the role, and forecast fourth-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down 6 percent in late trade. The company said Weisler, 52, is leaving the role to attend to a family health matter. Enrique Lores, a 30-year veteran
Black Panther 2 is now official. At Disney’s D23 Expo in California on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that a sequel to Black Panther would be part of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The release date is May 6, 2022. Chadwick Boseman will return in the title role, with Ryan Coogler
Dish TV has announced the launch of its ‘D2h Magic’ media streaming stick for D2h subscribers. The new device is designed to provide access to streaming services, TV shows, and original Web series using a Wi-Fi network or mobile data. It works with the existing D2h set-top boxes and is touted to offer a unified
Not just Facebook-owned Instagram, porn bots have now flooded Twitter and unlike Instagram, these spam accounts include photos of women in bikinis along with words relevant to trending topics on the micro-blogging platform to lure users. According to a report in Engadget, these spams show up under the “Top” tab of Twitter’s trending section and
Qualcomm won a partial stay against the enforcement of a sweeping antitrust ruling in a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a court filing on Friday. The company on May 21 lost in an antitrust lawsuit and has been fighting to have the ruling put on hold while it pursued
Realme 5 Pro and Realme 5 were launched in India this week, perhaps the biggest news of the past seve days. Another major launch was the Mi A3, the latest Android One smartphone from Xiaomi. The Chinese company also ramped up the teasers for the launch of the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8
Kit Harington is part of The Eternals. At Disney’s D23 Expo in California on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that the Game of Thrones star will play Dane Whitman a.k.a. Black Knight in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film, slated to release in November 2020. In the comics, Whitman is an expert horseman
Though the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer shown at Disney’s D23 Expo on Saturday hasn’t been made available publicly, Lucasfilm has released a new poster for the upcoming ninth chapter of the space opera franchise, featuring Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) duelling with lightsabers while Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) looms
Pad & Quill makes some of the most handsome leather goods for the modern world, and its Gladstone Leather Briefcase is no different. This bag harkens back to the day of gentlemen with newspapers tucked under their arms and an Ascot on their head. This bag has an air of permanence and longevity, and yet
LG has now launched three new Gram laptops in India, running Windows 10 Home. The new additions include LG Gram 17, LG Gram 15, and LG Gram 14 laptops, and they will go on sale on Amazon India from next week. LG Gram 17-inch variant is awarded to be the world’s lightest laptop in its
Need for Speed Heat gameplay trailer was released on the opening night of Gamescom 2019, last night. While the cinematic trailer released last week was definitely exciting to watch, we didn’t know much about the actual gameplay and mechanics of the newest instalment in the Need for Speed racing game series. With the launch of
Aside from the live-action Marvel and Star Wars stuff, Disney had a lot of animated content to talk about at its two-hour D23 Expo presentation on Saturday as well. That included details on new and existing animated titles from both Pixar and Disney Animation, be it casting announcements for the sequel Frozen II and the
It’s perfectly natural for a red-blooded American to, once they have procured their first real drone, experiment with attaching a flame thrower to it. But it turns out that this harmless hobby is frowned upon by the biggest buzzkills in the world… the feds. Yes, the FAA has gone and published a notice that drones
The dessert naming scheme was one of the best-loved legacies from Google past (though some were notably better than others). Every time the company got ready to release a new version of the mobile operating system, speculation would mount about which sweet foodstuff on which the company would ultimately settle. But while P offered confections
OnePlus TV will come with Dolby Vision support, the Chinese company has confirmed. The new development comes just days after OnePlus revealed that its first smart TV model would debut with a 55-inch QLED panel. Earlier reports claimed that the OnePlus TV would come in a variety of screen sizes — ranging from 43 inches
Facebook in 2015 was aware that UK-based political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica may have been gathering users’ personal data but downplayed the whole episode till a newspaper revealed the truth three months later, show new documents. According to a report in CNET on Friday, internal emails by Facebook Deputy General Counsel Paul Grewal, made available
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