2017 is turning out to be tough for Uber as another senior executive has resigned. Uber’s president Jeff Jones is leaving the company, according to a latest report from Recode. Jeff is quitting the company after less than a year.
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Netflix is bidding adieu to the star ratings. The US based popular streaming service is replacing its five star rating system in favour of a thumbs up/thumbs down one. Continue reading “Netflix replaces star ratings for thumbs up and thumbs down”
Fastrack, the popular watch maker has made its foray into fitness tracker market with Reflex. The first fitness and activity tracker from Fastrack is priced at Rs. 1,995. We have got our hands on the Reflex, let’s see if this could be your go-to fitness tracker in the review.
Apple has announced that it will set up two more R&D centers in China. The company will build two new centers in Shanghai and Suzhou that will join the ones already in the works for Beijing and Shenzhen. Continue reading “Apple to build two more R&D centers in China, pumps over $500M in research”
This week OnePlus announced OnePlus 3T exclusive all-black colette edition, Motorola launched the Moto G5 Plus in India, Vivo launched Vivo Y66, Coolpad Note 5 lite was also launched. Let’s take a look at all the announcements and launches of the this week.
Sony has filed for a patent that makes it easier to wirelessly charge your phone from other device. The patent that was filed at the US Trademark and Patent Office, will let you take battery power wirelessly from a nearby device.
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Gmail for web has received a new update that makes previewing video attachments smoother and quicker. Desktop users can now stream video attachments instead of downloading them. The latest feature comes after Gmail increased the attachment limit to 50MB earlier this month.
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Earlier this month Google Assistant started rolling out to eligible Marshmallow and Nougat devices. However, the Assistant will be limited to Android phones and will not expand to tablets, as per Android Poli who confirmed the same with Google.
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A latest report from Bloomberg about the Samsung Galaxy S8 states it will use facial recognition for secure mobile payment. The flagship will merge fingerprint, iris and facial detection to verify users accessing mobile services including Samsung Pay, added the report.
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Amazon is bringing Alexa voice assistant to iPhone via its main shopping app. iPhone users can now talk to Alexa while using the Amazon app. They can use Alexa while shopping and tracking packages and also to do the usual stuff like asking the news and weather updates, control music and so on. Continue reading “Amazon brings Alexa to iPhone via its main shopping app”
Paytm has gone global. The home grown digital payments app and commerce company has launched in Canada. Users in Canada will now be able to pay for their cell phone, cable, internet, electricity and water bills using the new Paytm Canada app. They can also use it to pay insurance and property taxes.
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Google Chrome has been a primary reason for battery drain on laptops. The company has been working on improving Chrome’s efficiency for about a couple of years. To combat this issue, the latest version of the browser – Chrome 57 has been designed to solve this issue as the update will throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power. This in turn will result into a prolonged battery life.
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Micromax is the latest smartphone maker which is planning to launch a feature phone. According to a latest report from the Economic Times, Micromax is looking forward to release a 4G VoLTE feature phone that is priced under Rs. 2,500.
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Just yesterday codenames of two next generation Pixel phones surfaced. Now, a new report says that Google is working on a third phone which could be the larger Pixel. Citing multiple source, Droid Life says the third device is codenamed as ‘taimen’ which is also another type of fish.
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