Huawei’s sub-brand Honor on Monday unveiled the ‘Honor Vision’ smart screen at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) in India. Positioned as the future of television, Honor Vision features the ‘Honghu 818’ intelligent display chipset by HiSilicon along with AI Camera NPU Chipset and a flagship-level Wifi chipset. “We are delighted […]
Reliance Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea are trolling each other over 6 paise per minute calling charges
Reliance Jio has drawn sharp reaction from its subscribers as well as rival operators after it announced charging users 6 paise per minute for voice calls. If official press releases were not enough, Vodafone Idea, Airtel and Reliance Jio are now taking it to social networking platforms to troll each […]
Mobile banking firm ‘Current’ sues Facebook over Calibra logo
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project has hit another roadblock, as a mobile banking app has sued its Calibra subsidiary over similar logos. Interestingly, both the logos were designed by San Francisco-based branding firm ‘Character’, which has also been named as a defendant in the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed by a mobile […]
Microsoft Windows 10’s new update invites a range of bugs and issues
Microsoft recently rolled out Windows 10 KB4517389 update with important security fixes. The latest update, however, is now causing a range of issues to Windows 10 users. According to reports, Windows 10 users are facing issues with the Start menu. In some cases, Windows 10 prompts users to sign out of Windows […]
Android 10 update comes to Huawei Mate 20 Pro smartphone
Huawei’s 2018 flagship Huawei Mate 20 Pro was slated to receive the latest Android software update — the Android 10 and some users are already receiving the much-anticipated over the air (OTA) update. “Owners in the Netherlands are reporting that their Mate 20 Pro devices are getting EMUI 10 based on Android 10 update […]
Amazon Great Indian Festival starts today for Prime members, check top deals and offers
Amazon will kick off the second edition of its Great Indian Festival on October 13. The festive sale will go live a day earlier for Amazon Prime members today at 12:00 noon. Amazon Great Indian Festival will continue till October 17. Amazon devices Amazon Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick […]
Mark Zuckerberg is serious about brain-reading tech, plans to use it for AR, VR
Facebook is quite serious about developing brain-reading hardware and software. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday elaborated what he thinks about the new technology and its possible implementations. Zuckerberg said that he would like to develop brain-controlled wearable and implantable devices. These devices would allow users to control things in virtual […]
After Airtel, Vodafone Idea responds to Reliance Jio’s decision to charge 6 paise per minute
Vodafone-Idea on Wednesday joined Airtel to criticise Reliance Jio for charging subscribers 6 paise per minute on voice calls to other networks. Describing the move as “an action of undue haste”, the company said that the interconnect usage charge (IUC) was a settlement between the operators and that it did not concern […]
Airtel responds to Reliance Jio’s move to charge 6 paise per minute
Airtel on Wednesday responded to Reliance Jio’s move to charge users 6 paise per minute on calls to rival network. “One of our competitors has imposed a rate of 6 paise for all off net calls made to other operators to cover the termination charge of IUC (Interconnect Usage Charge). They […]
Reliance Jio is compensating users for 6 paise per minute calling charges
Reliance Jio is no longer offering free voice calls to its subscribers. The operator on Wednesday announced charging 6 paise per minute on voice calls made to rival networks such as Airtel and Vodafone. Reliance Jio, however, introduced special top-up vouchers to compensate users for the interconnect usage charges (IUC). Note that […]
Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s Essential reveals ‘Gem’ phone with completely new design
Essential, led by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, on Wednesday showcased prototypes of what could be the next design standard for phones. Dubbed as GEM, these smartphones have unique slender design. The screen is rather tall than wide, almost half of width of current brick-like large screen phones. The phones are […]
Call of Duty: Mobile smashes PUBG’s records, racks up over 100 million downloads in first week
The mobile version of videogame franchise “Call of Duty” racked up 100 million downloads in its first week, industry site Sensor Tower said on Tuesday, dwarfing the debuts of previous smashes including “Fortnite” and “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG). PUBG, Fortnite and Electronic Arts’ “Apex Legends” scored 26.3 million, 22.5 million and […]
Twitter admits users’ phone numbers, emails meant for security used for ads
Twitter on Tuesday apologized after “inadvertently” using phone numbers and email addresses for advertising even though the personal data was provided for account security. Twitter users’ phone numbers and email addresses — submitted to allow for account authentication — were matched with advertisers’ own data to enable targeted ads. “When […]
Snapdeal claims 52% growth in sales volume this festive season
E-commerce firm Snapdeal on Monday said it has recorded 52 per cent growth in terms of volume during its first Diwali season sale over the previous year. During the first Diwali sale, held between September 29 and October 6, Snapdeal said that its platform clocked more than 76 million visits […]
WhatsApp’s new interesting features coming soon for all users
WhatsApp is working on a range of new features for its users. Thanks to its beta programme, we get a sneak peek at what’s coming to the platform. Just last week, a new ‘self-destructing’ messaging feature was spotted in the early version. But that’s not all. Let’s take a look […]