The Indian PC market continued to record a strong growth of 73.1% YoY during the first quarter of 2021, shipping about 3.1 million units in total. Among the many devices, notebooks remained at the top in terms of market share, with a 116.7% YoY growth. Overall, the market was led by HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Apple and ASUS.
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When you have multiple calls scheduled, it can sometimes be confusing to remember what was the purpose for each meeting. To help with this issue, Skype is introducing a new feature called “Name Your Call”, which allows users to customize certain aspects of a call to make them uniquely identifiable.
Just as Intel announced their lineup of 11th Gen Core processors, Dell has announced refreshes to multiple laptops with these new CPUs. In particular, Dell has unveiled new models of in the Precision lineup, XPS lineup, and also introduced new gaming laptops such as the Alienware m15 R6.
HP has announced three new laptops in their workstation ZBook series, namely the ZBook Studio G8, ZBook Power G8 and ZBook Fury G8. These laptops have updated internal specs such as up to NVIDIA RTX A5000 or GeForce RTX 3080, with up to 11th Gen Intel Core i9 vPro processors and high refresh rate display with excellent colour accuracy.
ASUS has announced brand-new updates to their ROG and TUF series of laptops, this time featuring 11th Gen Intel Core H-series processors or up to a Ryzen 9 5980HS, paired with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series laptop GPUs, including the newly announced RTX 3050 and RTX 3050Ti.
Apple often talks about their App Store being a highly secure platform for mobile applications for their customers. In a recent blog post, the company claims to have prevented nearly $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2020, protecting customers from theft of their money, information, and time.
Google Pay has been a great and easy way to transfer money between people. The service is now getting a upgrade with an integration with Western Union and Wise to enable international money transfers from US to India and Singapore.
Spotify, one of the world’s biggest music and podcast streaming platforms, has announced three new feature updates that will improve some social sharing aspects of the service. Users can now add timestamps when sharing podcasts, and Canvas is getting some extra capabilities.
The Indian smartphone market continues to grow steadily after the major slump from last year, recording a modest growth of 18% YoY during the first quarter of 2021. The market observed shipment numbers at 38 million units in total, and the top 5 manufacturers were Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, OPPO and realme.
Apple may be working on a new model of the MacBook Air laptop, that may come in multiple new colours, similar to the new iMac. According to a YouTube video by popular leaker, Jon Prosser, the new Macbook will have a new design, with thinner bezels and new colours, including Blue and Green.
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The May 15th deadline for accepting WhatsApp’s new terms of service (TOS) and privacy policy is approaching. In an effort to ensure that people will agree to the changes, WhatsApp will begin showing persistent notifications and eventually will start restricting features to the user.
Apple has announced that an amount of $45 million will be awarded from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to Corning Incorporated, to advance the company’s R&D efforts and expand their manufacturing capacities in the U.S.A.
Getting the right information is crucial during the pandemic as the country experiences its second wave of COVID-19 infections. In an effort to help people of India, Google Search will now show information panels from authorities about the vaccine and the vaccine drive, make it easy for users to discover vaccination centers, and provide tools that help provide financial assistance to health authorities, organizations and affected communities.
Optoma, a Taiwanese company well-known for high-quality projectors, has announced the launch of their UHD33 projector in India. It is a 4K UHD home theatre projector that is capable of up to a 240Hz refresh rate, a maximum brightness of 3,600 ANSI lumens, and more.
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Facebook Messenger and Instagram have introduced a lot of new features to their iOS and Android apps, such as the ability for chat archiving, improved read receipts, visual replies, new themes and more.
