It looks like Ringing Bells is not able to catch a break with new allegations and controversies arising almost every day. The maker of the cheapest smartphone in India, the Freedom 251 has been touted as being a part of Digital India and the ‘Make in India’ initiative. However, it seems that this is not the case.
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Microsoft has officially confirmed that it is shutting down Project Astoria tool that allowed developers to port their existing Android apps to Windows 10 easily. The company had announced its plans to launch tools for developers to quickly port Android and iOS apps to Windows 10 earlier this April.
YouTube has added a new tool that will allow creators to blur moving objects in a video without going through the hassle of removing, editing and uploading their videos. The company had first introduced the face blurring tool in 2012 and is now building further on the feature.
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Flipkart is pulling the plug on its hyper-local service Nearby within mere five months of its launch. The e-tailer had launched the online grocery delivery app as an experiment in Bangalore.
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Ringing Bells, the maker of the world’s cheapest smartphone Freedom 251, is being accused of fraud and non-payment of dues and abrupt termination of contract by call center service provider Cyfuture.
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From the beginning of this year, there were reports that Apple will launch the iPad Air 3 on March 15. However, a new report from 9to5Mac says that the company will release a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro instead of the iPad Air 3.
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Silicon Valley stalwarts Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Twitter are joining forces to offer legal support to Apple in the battle with Department of Justice over iPhone backdoor case.
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Epson has announced the third generation of its Moverio smart glasses for augmented reality at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The smart glasses features silicon-based OLED digital display by Epson that is suitable for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality technology.
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It looks like this year we will not see LG build Nexus phone after all. The South Korean tech company said that it will not release a Nexus 5x successor in 2016.
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Buoyed by the growing popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch, the worldwide wearable device market showed a notable increase in Q4 2015. As per the International Data Corporation (IDC)Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors shipped 27.4 million units in the Q4 2015, a 126.9 percent increase from the year before.
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Popular instant messaging app, Telegram has announced that it has crossed 100 million monthly active user mark. The app says that it sees 350,000 new users sign up each day, and is delivering 15 billion messages daily.
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Microsoft has acquired Xamarin which creates software tools for making mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows platforms. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
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Google has added a new functionality to Docs that lets you edit and format text with your voice. The company is building on the voice typing feature it had introduced in September last year.
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Google has announced that it is launching Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for search in India. Unveiled in October last year, AMP is an open source HTML initiative which improves the performance of the mobile web and is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles.
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Gmail is adding a couple of new additions to its Android app. The update that bumps the app version to 6.0 brings rich text formatting and instant RSVPs.
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