By Krishna SinhaChaudhury New Delhi: Saying that it is presently working on building the elements that would be the key to the future growth of 5G embedded smartphones, Chinese handset maker Vivo has said it will launch a 5G smartphone in India when the market is ready. Several smartphone makers[Read More…]
By Nishant Arora New Delhi: The new Apple TV+ video streaming service can make its mark in the crowded over-the-top (OTT) market in India only with original desi content, disrupting pricing and strategic alliances with industry stakeholders, emphasise experts. There are over 32 online content and video streaming platforms in[Read More…]
San Francisco: Tinder Co-founder and former CEO Sean Rad has asked the Supreme Court of New York to dismiss a $250 million lawsuit filed against him by the Match Group and InterActiveCorp (IAC), the present owners of the dating app. Earlier in January, Match Group and IAC filed a lawsuit[Read More…]
San Francisco: Entering the lucrative credit card business, Apple has introduced the Apple Card that is built into the Wallet app on iPhone, offering customers a familiar experience with Apple Pay and the ability to manage their card on their devices. Apple is partnering with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard to[Read More…]
San Francisco: Apple is expected to launch a slew of new products at its Cupertino headquarters in California on Monday, including a Netflix competitor, a revamped news service and a subscription-based gaming offering. The event, to be hosted at the Steve Jobs theatre on campus, will herald a new era[Read More…]
There were around 200-600 million Facebook users that may have their account passwords stored in plain text and were also searched by over 2,000 Facebook employees
San Francisco: To help people not lose the threads of conversations on Messenger, Facebook has introduced the quoted message reply feature on its messaging platform, the media reported. The feature works just like it does on WhatsApp. So with the roll out of the feature, the 1.3 billion users of[Read More…]
Hotstar VIP allows users to watch Star Network serials before the scheduled television timing.
The date 17 March marks the saint’s death, and is observed throughout the world by Catholic Church, Angelican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran Church. People across the globe go to pubs in honour of their patron saint while in Americans pay homage to their heritage across the Atlantic by[Read More…]
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co on Wednesday said it will propel technology innovations to tackle the unfavourable business environment and foster new growth drivers such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G. Samsung vowed to step up its innovations to overcome business challenges amid falling prices of memory chips and flattening global[Read More…]
San Francisco: Apple on Tuesday updated its iMac line-up with two new devices after a gap of nearly two years that come with up to 8-core Intel 9th-generation processors for the first time and powerful Vega graphics options. The new 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display starts at Rs 119,900[Read More…]
By Radhika Bhirani Los Angeles: Ahead of the launch of Apple’s streaming service, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said his company will not integrate its services with the upcoming platform. “Apple’s a great company. (But) we want to have people watch our content on our service, and so we have[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is testing a selector wheel format to display filter options for ‘Stories’ on its platform. The semi-circular wheel of options was first spotted by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who also highlighted that the test feature reduced the eight camera options to three, Social[Read More…]
The X-T30 kit is priced at Rs 94,999 for 18-55mm and Rs 99,999 for 18-135mm lens.
San Francisco: The tug of war between Spotify and Apple has intensified, with the Swedish music streaming service now calling Apple a “monopolist”. Taking exception to Spotify’s complaint with the European Union (EU) last week alleging iOS App Store rules to be unfair, Apple slammed Spotify for wanting “all the[Read More…]
London: Federal prosecutors in the US are now probing whether top executives of Facebook, mired in data breaches, were aware of data harvesting by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. According to a report in The Guardian on Sunday, federal prosecutors’ investigation claims that the social media giant has[Read More…]
San Francisco: Unlike previous Pixel phones, the next Pixel 4 XL model might come with two cameras and a sleek design overhaul. According to a leaked picture published on SlashLeaks, a drawing showed the Pixel 4 XL with dual rear and front-facing cameras and an oval hole-punch display similar to[Read More…]
San Francisco: Software giant Microsoft is planning to increase the maximum number of people who could be part of a Skype group call from 25 to 50 members. With this update, Skype is also enabling the audio and video buttons in larger groups to let users easily mute their microphones[Read More…]
San Francisco: Taking exception to Spotify’s complaint with the European Union (EU) alleging that the iOS App Store rules are unfair, Apple has slammed the Swedish music streaming giant for wanting “all the benefits of a free app without being free”. “A full 84 per cent of the apps in[Read More…]
San Francisco: Social networking giant Facebook has begun the initial roll-out of a dedicated gaming tab as part of the app’s main navigation. Facebook claims that over 700 million people play games, watch gaming videos or engage in gaming groups on the platform and the gaming tab will help them[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has submitted the beta version of its next update that supports an in-app browser, a feature which is still under development. WhatsApp version 2.19.74 would show the in-app browser every time the user tries to open a link shared over the app, WABetaInfo reported[Read More…]
San Francisco: As Facebook pushes for a more private and encrypted communication across its apps, two of its top executives — Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels — have quit the company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. Embroiled in data privacy scandals amid the unabated[Read More…]
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday said it will push to put cameras and sensors beneath the screens of smartphones to create “perfect full-screen” devices. The South Korean tech giant said its Infinity-O Display, used in Galaxy S10, is a “milestone” for its display technology, although going forward, it will[Read More…]
San Francisco: Speaking publicly about his differences with Facebook, WhatsApp’s co-founder Brian Acton urged Stanford University students to delete their Facebook accounts, as he explained his reasons for selling the app to Mark Zuckerberg in the first place. Acton made statements on Facebook while addressing a panel that also involved[Read More…]
New Delhi: Aiming to make the web a better place by protecting users from misleading and inappropriate ads, Google on Thursday announced it banned 2.3 billion misleading ads that violated its advertising policies in 2018 and introduced 31 new policies. In its 2018 “Bad Ads Report”, the Internet giant said[Read More…]
