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…]
Leading e-commerce Company, Flipkart is believed to have sent a revised offer of $900-950 million that is approximately (Rs 5,466 crore) to buy a smaller rival, Snapdeal. The Bengaluru-based firm has offered to pay the said amount for buying troubled e-retailer Snapdeal’s online marketplace and Unicommerce, two people privy to the[Read More…]
With a total 241 million active users, compared to 240 million in the US, India has overtaken the latter to become Facebook’s largest country audience. The development comes just a few days after Facebook announced that it has over two billion monthly users around the world. The figure shows that[Read More…]
A day after its stock briefly fell into bear market, Tesla started the production of its much-awaited Model 3 on Friday. The week’s 13% share-price decline as of Friday morning brings the company’s financial position into question. However, Tesla had plenty of cash on hand initially—more than $4 billion as[Read More…]
In a ground-breaking innovation, scientists, including those of Indian origin, have created a new battery-less cell phone for the first time. The newly-developed phone consumes almost zero power and runs by harvesting energy from ambient radio signals or light. Notably, the team also made Skype calls through this battery-free phone.[Read More…]
Tech giant Microsoft is under a process of reorganisation of its sales and marketing units that will likely see the company cutting about 4,000 jobs from its workforce, mostly outside the US. According to an e-mail by a Microsoft spokesperson, the company is implementing changes to better serve its customers[Read More…]
As per media reports, software giant, Microsoft, is planning to cut jobs as it is trying to refocus on making the sales force on cloud computing. The reports suggest that Microsoft is likely to cut off jobs. “Microsoft is implementing changes to better serve our customers and partners,” said a[Read More…]
