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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced a new date for the implementation of the revised mobile number portability (MNP) rules. These rules were announced in December last year, alongside other revisions in the Mobile Number Portability (Seventh Amendment) Regulations, 2018 (9 of 2018). While the revisions to ease portability from one operator to

Motorola launched the Moto G8 Plus and the Moto G8 Play recently in Brazil. The Lenovo-owned company also got the Moto G8 Plus to India and priced it in the budget segment. It now seems like Motorola will soon add a Moto G8 smartphone to the series. Popular tipster Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) recently tweeted

Vivo is gearing up to launch a host of new smartphones that will flaunt a diamond-shaped camera module. After giving us a peek of the upcoming Vivo S5, a new Vivo smartphone carrying the model numbers V1945A and V1945T has been spotted on TENAA, sporting a familiar camera module design. The phone’s images listed on TENAA

Oppo Reno 2 isn’t even three months old and we are already hearing about the Reno 3. An alleged Oppo Reno 3 specifications sheet has popped up online to indicate what we can expect from this upcoming Reno 2 successor. The Oppo Reno 3 is tipped to come with specifications like 6.5-inch screen, 4,500mAh battery,

LG’s smartphone business has been on a downward spiral for quite some time, and the ever-increasing pressure from Chinese rivals has done it no favours. In a bid to revive the sales and boost the shipment figures, LG has announced that the company is expanding its dependence on the ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) business model

AMD has announced two new high-end Ryzen Threadripper processors with up to 32 cores, as well as a new entry-level Athlon processor with integrated Radeon Vega 3 graphics. The company has also disclosed the official date of sale for its delayed 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X desktop CPU. The new Athlon APU model will go on

When OnePlus launched its first television in September this year, we couldn’t help but notice a lot of similarities with the company’s smartphones. Indeed, the OnePlus TV has taken a rather smartphone-like approach, with various software and hardware features that make it feel like a large, wall-mounted extension of your smartphone at times. The company

Vivo has quietly launched a new smartphone in its home market. Dubbed as Vivo Y5s, the new smartphone is essentially the same smartphone as Vivo Y19 that was recently introduced in Thailand. Vivo Y5s also shares almost all specifications with Vivo U3 that debuted in China last month. The only difference between Vivo Y5s and

Motorola may be gearing up to bring the latest version of Android, i.e., Android 10 to its Motorola One Zoom and Moto Z4 smartphones. The company launched these two phones recently and both are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 SoC. The Moto Z4 is the latest smartphone in the Z series that has been

Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that now threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies’ controversial relationships with Beijing. Two empty chairs at a witness table served to illustrate the companies’ absence from the

Realme has kicked off yet another smartphone sale called the Realme Days sale, bringing back a host of offers and discounts on its smartphone portfolio. The Realme Days sale is now live on Flipkart and Realme.com, and will go on through November 8. As part of the sales, smartphones across all price brackets in Realme’s

ColorOS 7, the next-generation of Oppo’s custom skin, is set to debut on November 20. The company is hosting an event in Beijing, China, to unveil the new ColorOS version. Details about ColorOS 7 haven’t been revealed officially. However, Oppo hinted at some of its key features through a teaser posted online. ColorOS 7 will

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it will shut down a CPU research division at one of its US facilities, a move that analysts said dimmed prospects for the tech giant’s Exynos-branded mobile chips. Exynos mobile processor chips are considered a hallmark of the South Korean firm’s attempts to reduce its reliance on memory chips and increase

Apple said Monday it will spend $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 17,700 crores) on a housing affordability and availability campaign, the latest in a string of pledges by tech giants to try to ease an escalating housing crisis in the Bay Area and elsewhere. Apple’s commitment includes a $1 billion affordable housing investment fund for the state

Adobe first unveiled its Photoshop for iPad app last year, promising a desktop-level experience for iPad users. Today, at its annual Max conference in Los Angeles, California, the company has finally launched the app on Apple’s App Store. Adobe has also announced Illustrator for the iPad, Fresco for Windows, and a brand new Photoshop Camera

Amazon India users can now book movie tickets using the e-retailer’s app. The e-commerce giant has partnered with BookMyShow to offer this new service to both its Prime as well as non-Prime members. There’s a new ‘Movie Tickets’ category in the ‘Shop By Category’ section of the app, and inside the Amazon Pay tab. This

Waymo Chief Executive John Krafcik said the self-driving vehicle company is now offering limited “rider-only” trips in Phoenix, Arizona, as it looks beyond the robo-taxis business to generate future revenue. Waymo, a unit of Alphabet, has begun offering fully automated rides, without attendants in the vehicle, to a few hundred early users of its robo-taxi

A former employee has accused WeWork and ousted chief executive Adam Neumann of pregnancy discrimination, alleging she was publicly and privately demeaned, demoted and eventually fired because of her pregnancies. The complaint is the latest to emerge about the company’s culture under Neumann’s leadership. Medina Bardhi, who served as Neumann’s chief of staff, alleges that

With a number of shows on online streaming platforms having violence, nudity and strong language, about 57 percent of people in India now think censorship is required for over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar and Voot, according to a new survey by YouGov. While 27 percent of those surveyed think censorship is

Jio kicked off the Jio Phone Diwali 2019 offer last month, giving buyers a chance to purchase the Jio Phone at a special price of Rs. 699 during the festive season. Jio claims to have received an overwhelmingly positive response for the offer and has now extended it by another month that will span November

After Samsung officially launched the Galaxy Fold, we’ve been hearing rumours that it was working on more foldable phones, possibly even cheaper models. At the Samsung Developer Conference this week, the company also showed off a foldable flip phone form factor. A recent Weibo post now suggests that the company will launch a new foldable

The US government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,070 crores) acquisition of US social media app Musical.ly, according to three people familiar with the matter. While the $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,070 crores) acquisition was completed two years ago, US lawmakers have been calling in recent weeks

Global smartphone shipments bucked the downward trend for the first time in two years to grow in Q3 2019, research firms Canalys and Strategy Analytics claim. According to Canalys, worldwide smartphone shipments grew 1 percent year-over-year, whereas Strategy Analytics notes the growth was 2 percent. In terms of the total shipments, the smartphone makers shipped

Google has agreed to buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion in a move giving the US tech giant an entry into the wearable technology space, the two companies announced Friday. The move comes with Google seeking to expand beyond its core business of online search into hardware, and with Fitbit struggling against rivals including Apple. “We

Vivo S5 will be launched on November 14, the company announced in a teaser earlier today. The smartphone will be a part of the company’s S-series that targets style-conscious buyers and currently includes phones like Vivo S1 and Vivo S1 Pro. Interestingly the version of Vivo S1 available in India is different from the one

WhatsApp on Thursday announced the launch of Fingerprint Lock for Android. With the move, the Facebook-owned company is finally bringing biometric authentication to the Android app, with iPhone users enjoying both Touch ID (fingerprint recognition) and Face ID (facial recognition) since February this year. With the feature, Android users can now have the app lock

AirPods Pro debuted earlier this week as the upgrade to the existing AirPods with active noise cancellation. While there are significant design changes in the new AirPods model over what we saw earlier, they are as bad as their predecessors when it comes to repairability. A teardown conducted by iFixit highlights that the AirPods Pro

After announcing MIUI 11 back in September, Xiaomi started the rollout of MIUI 11 Global Stable ROM update for the Redmi Y3, Redmi Note 7, Poco F1, and the Redmi K20 Pro among a host of other smartphones in India earlier this month, as part of its first batch of upgrades. Xiaomi has now commenced

There have been strong rumours that Samsung has been working on a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite in the past. This smartphone was rumoured to be a slightly toned-down version of the Galaxy S10 but we didn’t have a lot of information about it. A Samsung pho d was recently spotted on Geekbench’s database that bears

India’s telecoms sector and leading players Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea will face an “unprecedented crisis” if the government refuses to relax its demand for $13 billion in outstanding dues, a lobby group says. Airtel and Vodafone Idea have been spooked by the Indian Supreme Court’s decision last week to uphold a government demand that