Google is not only fighting anti-trust lawsuits in the USA it seems, but now in India too as the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has launched a new investigation into Google, for allegedly using its Android market dominance to promote its own payment app known as Google Pay.
ASUS has announced refreshes to their premium Zenbook and mid-tier VivoBook lineups, bringing Intel’s 11th Gen Core CPUs and accompanying Intel Iris Xe graphics. All of these laptops, namely the VivoBook Ultra 14/15, VivoBook Ultra K15, and the ZenBook 14, come with ultra-slim designs, better cooling solutions, faster RAM, and of course, ASUS’s Nano-Edge displays.
With the myriad of OTT platforms like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, etc. available to us these days, discovering and finding content has become a bit of a hassle. Mitigating this problem is the purpose of Frenzi, which is a new community-based OTT content discovery and engagement platform app that is launching for Indians.
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Over the past few months, WhatsApp has steadily been adding features to improve the overall shopping experience on its instant messaging platform. With the ability to view catalogs, it is very easy to shop directly with a business and now, WhatsApp is adding a Shopping button that will let customers add items to a cart, make payment and check out all within WhatsApp.
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One of Apple’s iPhone supplier, Pegatron Corp. in China was discovered to be in violation of Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct and hence, Apple has halted their contracts with the supplier until corrective measures were taken. Pegatron Corp. was revealed to be falsifying paperwork to hide violations in a student worker program.
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Last month, Apple announced a new ecosystem of charging accessories, collectively called MagSafe, along with their iPhone 12 series of smartphones. At launch, Apple revealed a few new first-party accessories designed for the iPhone and now, two new MagSafe accessory have popped up in the Apple store, namely the MagSafe Duo Charger and Leather Sleeve with MagSafe.
The Motorola Moto G Stylus was launched earlier this year, and it was one the cheapest smartphone that you could be that came with a stylus. Motorola is reportedly working on the next generation for the model with a planned release in 2021, and well known twitter user @evleaks has leaked some of its specs.
Google Photos is easily one of the best free ways to view, organize, edit and store photos in the Android ecosystem. Till date, all of its editing suite tools used to be available freely to all users, however that is not the case anymore as Google has now added a premium colour pop filter that is only available with a Google One subscription.
For the first time with the iPhone 12 series, Apple launched 4 models flagship iPhones — a regular iPhone 12, two iPhone 12 Pro models and an iPhone 12 Mini. According to popular analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, Apple will continue this strategy with the iPhone 13 series for the next year too.
The International Data Corporation (IDC) has released its report of the state of the Indian smartphone market for the third quarter of 2020. Shipment numbers were recorded at 54.3 million units, which calculates to a YoY growth of 17%. The top 5 manufacturers were Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, realme and OPPO.
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With the advent of UPI payments in India, and with apps like Google Pay and PhonePe, transferring money between bank accounts have become incredibly easy. Joining these apps now is WhatsApp, one of India’s most popular instant messaging apps, integrating UPI payments directly into the chat interface. It started testing the payments service back in 2018.
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Apple has begun rollout of iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 to all the compatible iPhones and iPads, bringing with a few major changes and a lot of bug fixes. As with every iOS X.2 update, there are a lot of new emoji, support for Intercom on HomePod and HomePod Mini, new wallpapers and more.
Just 3 days ago in a blog post, WhatsApp confirmed and released some information about a long rumored feature for their app called Disappearing Messages. The feature has been in development and beta testing for many months now, and is finally rolling out globally to everyone over the next one month.
Acer, known for their thin and light Swift series of laptops, is announcing the launch the Enduro N3 in India, which is a rugged laptop designed with military standards and has a IP53 rating. The laptop meets the MIL-STD 810G standard, it is spill resistant, impact resistant and is powered by 10th Gen Intel Core processors.
Sony has announced the launch of a new OLED TV in India, called the AH8 which is a 4K HDR ready Android Smart TV. It comes with Sony’s X1 ultimate image processor, Pixel Contrast Booster technology, TRILUMINOS panel, Acoustic Surface Audio, support for Alexa and Apple AirPlay and more.
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