While the highly-awaited Jio Phones will hit the stores in September, the bookings for the same will start on Thursday at 5 pm. People who wish to buy the JioPhone, can pre-book it using MyJio app or by clicking on the ‘Keep me posted’ option available on the Reliance Jio[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh DGP, Sulkhan Singh, on Tuesday banned the deadly blue whale game across the state, expressing concern over the increasing number of suicides among children. He said that the Union ministry of electronics and information technology, as well as Union home ministry, had directed the state governments to impose[Read More…]
The bookings for Jio smartphone will start on Thursday, 24 August both online and offline. Reliance Jio will officially start taking pre-orders for the 4G phone. However, the time for the registrations is not known, so it is best to check the MyJio app and Jio.com website for such details.[Read More…]
Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday issued guidelines to restrain call drops and declared a penalty of up to Rs 10 lakh on service providers if they do not meet the standard. “We have proposed financial disincentive in the range of Rs 1-5 lakh. It is a graded penalty system depending[Read More…]
Vishal Sikka resigned as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Infosys and his resignation has been accepted with immediate effect. Sikka has quoted “personal” attacks as one of the reasons for his resignation. “In his notice of resignation to the board, Dr Sikka reiterated his belief in the great[Read More…]
Law and information and technology minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad has said on Wednesday that the government will take severe action against internet-based social media platforms, if they do not remove links to the deadly, Blue Whale Challenge game. Reportedly, the online game has led children to commit suicide in the[Read More…]
Famous Indian movie production house Eros Group is in starting talks with Apple and other major content distributors to sell its entire content library of films and music reported Reuters. The other parties in the fray include Amazon and Netflix, but talks are in very early stages, reported Hindustan Times.[Read More…]
WhatsApp to introduce colourful text statuses like Facebook and the feature will be part of WhatsApp beta version 2.17.291. Users who’ve enrolled into WhatsApp’s official play store beta program should get access to new colourful statuses ahead of others. As per the report, this is probably a server-side test. This[Read More…]
The Nokia 8 is set to launch in a few weeks, and even though almost everything has been leaked, new information keeps surfacing every day. According to the listing, the Nokia 8 may just be the first – or at least, among the first – device running on Android 8.0. Furthermore, the Nokia 2 smartphone has been[Read More…]
Amid aggressive competition in the telecom industry triggered by Reliance Jio’s attractive offers on unlimited calling and data usage, other companies are also offering exclusive pack to their customers. Recently, Vodafone India has announced a special tariff pack to its select student customers, offering discounted tariffs and goodies including a[Read More…]
Digital payments firm, Paytm has planned to launch messaging service against its rival, WhatsApp by the end of August, a source reported. SoftBank and Alibaba-backed Paytm is looking to attract people in India to use the new messaging service embedded in its app, which many people use. Its messaging service[Read More…]
Taking invention to a whole new level, scientists have designed a pair of eyeglasses integrated with a sensor that converts eye muscle movement into an electric signal and could be used to control external devices such as computers or lamps. According to reports, this sensor was developed at Chongqing University[Read More…]
In order to reach out to more users and grow follower bases, Twitter is testing a subscription plan that automatically promotes tweets. This will particularly help the struggling companies/ small businesses to increase their advertising revenue. The plan is called “private beta program” and is available for $99 a month.[Read More…]
National auditor CAG has said a 30 per cent failure rate was found in the surface-to-air missiles Akash during testing. The report further held that such deficiencies posed an operational risk during hostilities. In a report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Saturday, Comptroller and Auditor General said the strategic[Read More…]
The government on Friday informed the parliament that instances of “objectionable videos” being uploaded through mobile phones and shared through messaging app, WhatsApp have been noticed by the former. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the messaging app provides a feature[Read More…]
iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle, two iconic music players of Apple, have finally been discontinued by the company. As the two models go extinct now, Apple has introduced new storage variants of its existing iPod Touch. The discontinuation of the two models comes after the discontinuation of the iPod[Read More…]
In a milestone achievement, popular messaging app, WhatsApp, has announced that it has 1 billion daily active users on its service now. WhatsApp Status has also managed to achieve more than 250 million daily active users as well. This achievement was announced in a blog post by the Facebook-owned company.[Read More…]
The zero-rupee Jio phone which was recently launched offering lifelong free voice calls bundled with 4G data streaming will not have popular chatting application Whatsapp on it. The company is preparing to launch it in the second half of August. However, there is sad news as the Jio phone will[Read More…]
Microsoft has confirmed on Tuesday that it will continue to offer its graphic program paint. Earlier in the week, it was announced that Paint as a feature that would be either removed or no longer developed in new windows 10 update. Paint, renowned for its simplicity, has been part of[Read More…]
Microsoft has finally decided to kill off its legendary Paint program after more than three decades. The software giant announced it will drop support for the popular drawing app in its upcoming Windows 10 update. Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update, called the Autumn (or Fall in the US) Creators Update, will bring[Read More…]
No one can deny the indispensable importance of social media today. They have become an inevitable part of our lives, not only as a platform for expressing our own views but also as a great source of information.No one can deny the indispensable importance of social media today. They have[Read More…]
After inducing a revolution in the sector of data connectivity by offering free unlimited data, Mukesh Ambani‘s Jio will now provide free smartphones to its customers. Speaking at the 40th AGM, the RIL chairman, Mukesh Ambani, said that JioPhone will be available at an effective price of Rs 0. At[Read More…]
Google is set to launch a new feature to protect Android users from rogue applications. In the latest security measure, Google soon to launch Google Play Protect which will scan the user’s smartphone around the clock to detect any Android app holding any sort of malicious content. Additionally, Google will[Read More…]
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said Reliance has grown from small startup to the most admired company in the world. Speaking at the 40th AGM, the RIL chairman, Mukesh Ambani, said the company’s revenue jumped 4700 times to over Rs 3,30,000 crore now from Rs 70 crore in[Read More…]
As fake news continue to infiltrate social media sites and misleading many, Facebook is launching a new feature that can prevent fake news from making it on the social network. In the process of elimination of fake news, it has started killing non-publisher Pages’ ability to edit the link previews[Read More…]
