Launched in November last year, the bookings of the all-new Toyota Fortuner have crossed the 10,000 mark. The immensely popular body-on-frame SUV has redefined the segment and in its latest avatar, everything has gone a notch higher, be it looks, cabin, feature or engine. In the past two months, close[Read More…]
Apple is suing Qualcomm, the chip supplier company for roughly $1 billion. Apple says Qualcomm is “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.” The suit follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Qualcomm earlier this week over unfair patent licensing practices. Qualcomm is a major supplier to both[Read More…]
Now smart phones can help men perform fertility test at home. Men who are ambivalent to perform fertility test in hospitals and nursing homes can now use their smartphones, powered by YO sperm kit for home use. The kit includes everything needed to collect a sample and is said to[Read More…]
Cyber experts say that sharing cyber violation information among countries can be a helpful way of tracking cybercrime. As the threats of computer crime in the age of fast-growing use of internet and technology increases, keeping safety measures high is mandatory. Tackling cybercrime and threat is, however, very challenging task[Read More…]
Apple will be launching three new tablets in the second quarter of 2017, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The note to investors contains no mention of the iPad mini, which implies Apple is either killing the lineup or will have a new model to unveil later this year.[Read More…]
Researchers have discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike anything ever seen before. Two of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, a supermassive black hole, and the collision of giant galaxy clusters, have combined to create a stupendous cosmic particle accelerator about two billion light years from Earth Astronomers using[Read More…]
In a bid to enable more customers to use digital methods of bill payment, state-run BSNL is planning on leasing around 15000 point of sale machines. The telecommunications company sees digital transactions accounting for up to 40% of all bill payments by March 2017 – nearly double of current levels.[Read More…]
Airports around the world could soon be seeing installations of lie-detecting kiosks that can changes in physiology and behaviour during interviews with travellers. The new innovation comes as a help to security agents to screen for criminals and potential terrorists. The system is called AVATAR, which is short for Automated[Read More…]
Triumph Motorcycles have announced their financial results for the year ended 30 June 2016, and it’s a much happier picture than the figure for the year before, despite a fall in overall turnover. In the financial year, within a challenging marketplace, Triumph grew global revenues by £56.3m to £407.6m with[Read More…]
The largest e-wallet Company Paytm, whose app has now over 170 million users and is facilitating seven million transactions a day, has delisted its iPhone and iPad apps on the Apple’s App Store after stumbling across bugs and other technical glitches. The company said it has pushed an update for[Read More…]
Yahoo disclosed on Wednesday it had discovered another cyber attack in which data from more than one billion user account was compromised in August 2013, making it the largest cyber security breach in history. “We believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one[Read More…]
A dynamic language firm in London is hiring an emoji translator in what may be the world’s first official job of such kind. Today Translations, claimed to have employed over 3,000 people fluent in more than 200 languages, has advertised for a specialist to help it to decode how emojis[Read More…]
WhatsApp had announced the discontinuation of its services for older smartphones by the end of 2016, earlier this year. In a technology upgrade, WhatsApp planned to phase out compatibility with older phones as they plan to focus on the mobile platforms that vast majority of people use. “While these mobile[Read More…]
Raising questions over the cyber security of country, a 22-year-old Mumbai-based hacker claimed that he hacked the Narendra Modi app. According to YourStory, Javed Khatri a mobile app developer from Mumbai, mailed to the portal on Dec 1 saying that he had hacked the app. “I am able to access[Read More…]
It may take as little as six seconds for hackers to guess your credit or debit card number, expiry date and security code, say scientists who were able to circumvent all security features meant to protect online payments from fraud. Exposing the flaws in the VISA payment system, researchers from[Read More…]
Researchers from US-based cyber security company FireEye have claimed discovering malicious phishing websites created by cyber criminals that spoof 26 Indian banks to steal personal information from customers. FireEye identified a new domain (csecurepay[.]com) that was registered on October 23 this year and appears to be an online payment gateway[Read More…]
Paytm has rolled back its app-based PoS (Point of Sale) service on Thursday temporarily citing security reasons. “Post our launch, we have had several discussions with stakeholders on how we can make this process even more secure”, Paytm said in a blog post. “Based on some suggestions from the industry,[Read More…]
On, Tuesday Narendra Modi has repeatedly appealed Indians to rate his demonetisation move. Narendra Modi’s website claimed that more than five lakh people participated in the ‘Jan Jan Ki Baat’ within a day. Various reports by media organisations and social media implied that the survey was a public relation initiative[Read More…]
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey was suspended from Twitter for a short time on Wednesday. Jack, who operates under the twitter handle @jack, was suspended at around 7:30 am IST. Twitter founder @jack has had his account suspended. — Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 23, 2016 For about 15 minutes,[Read More…]
