Western Digital My Passport and My Book hard drives launched starting at Rs. 7980

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Western Digital has launched two new hard drives in India. The My Passport and My Book hard drives have received a design overhaul and now come with password protection and hardware encryption. Continue reading “Western Digital My Passport and My Book hard drives launched starting at Rs. 7980”

Microsoft’s advanced speech recognition system reaches human parity

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Researchers at Microsoft claim they have made a major breakthrough in speech recognition by creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does.
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InFocus Epic 1 with Deca-Core Helio X20 SoC launching in India on October 24 for Rs. 12999

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InFocus has been teasing the launch of its Epic 1 smartphone for quite sometime. Today the company has sent out invites for the launch event on October 24th. It already confirmed that the Epic 1 will go on sale exclusively on Amazon starting from October 25th priced at Rs. 12,999. Continue reading “InFocus Epic 1 with Deca-Core Helio X20 SoC launching in India on October 24 for Rs. 12999”

Huawei Kirin 960 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali-G71 MP8 GPU announced

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Huawei has announced Kirin 960 SoC, it’s top-end SoC at an event in Beijing today. It is an Octa-Core SoC with four ARM Cortex A73 Cores that can be clocked up to 2.4GHz and four ARM Cortex A53 Cores that can be clocked up to 1.8 GHz. It has support for Cat 12 LTE for downloads and Cat 13 LTE for uploads and is built on 16nm FinFET process. Continue reading “Huawei Kirin 960 Octa-Core 16nm SoC with Mali-G71 MP8 GPU announced”

You can now book Ola and Uber rides directly from Google Search

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Google is now making it easier for you to book Ola or Uber rides directly from the Search. With the latest update you can now find directions and choose from a menu of ride service options straight from its Google Search App or through the mobile search browser.

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Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale: Best deals on Bluetooth speakers, headphones and more

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Amazon started Great Indian Festival Sale, its second sale before Diwali earlier this week. Yesterday we brought you some deals on LED TVs. Here are some best deals on cameras, Bluetooth speakers, headphones and more. Continue reading “Amazon Great Indian Festival Sale: Best deals on Bluetooth speakers, headphones and more”

Airtel now offers 10GB 4G data for Rs. 259 with any new 4G smartphone

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Airtel started offering 10GB 4G data at the price of 1GB 4G data for most Samsung Galaxy J series smartphone users back in August. Last week expanded this offer to all new 4G handsets in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, now it been extended across India. Continue reading “Airtel now offers 10GB 4G data for Rs. 259 with any new 4G smartphone”

Moto Z Review: Beauty and a Beast

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While the Moto G and E series of phones helped the company break into the mass market, it was the Moto X that cemented the company’s foothold in the upper end of the market. The handset encompassed everything that users loved about the Nexus series of phones and delivered added goodies like Moto Maker derived customisation on top. While the Lenovo acquisition led to the demise of the latter, the Moto Z points to a brand new direction for the company’s flagship device. Here’s the FoneArena review of the Moto Z, one of the most interesting devices to be launched in 2016. Continue reading “Moto Z Review: Beauty and a Beast”

Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones with 24h battery life announced

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Plantronics has announced BackBeat PRO 2, its latest wireless headphones with on-demand active noise cancelling. It is the successor of popular BackBeat PRO and is 35% smaller, 15% lighter compared to previous generation model. It promises up to 24 hours of battery life and has a 3.5mm audio jack so that you can use it even when you run out of battery. Continue reading “Plantronics BackBeat PRO 2 Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones with 24h battery life announced”

MakeMyTrip to acquire ibibo Group

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MakeMyTrip has announced that it has agreed to acquire ibibo Group in an equity deal. Upon closing the acquisition, MakeMyTrip will own 100 per cent of ibibo Group. The latest move will help MakeMyTrip compete against rivals Yatra and Cleartrip.

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Xiaomi sells more than 1 million smartphones in India in 18 days

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Xiaomi recently announced that it sold more than 500,000 smartphones in less than three days, between 1 and 3 October during festive sales in India. Today the Chinese smartphone maker has announced that it has sold 1 million devices within 18 days (1 – 18 October). Continue reading “Xiaomi sells more than 1 million smartphones in India in 18 days”

Samsung teases new Galaxy On series launch on Flipkart on Oct 20, Galaxy On5 2016 and On7 2016 expected

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Samsung started teasing launch of Galaxy ‘On series’ smartphones exclusively on Flipkart few days back. Now it has posted a teaser image of the phone as well as a video that says that the phone will have a full metal body. Samsung has also confirmed Octa-Core processor.
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New Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air expected to be announced on October 27

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Just yesterday, some specification details of the upcoming MacBook line up had surfaced. Now, a fresh report is giving us information about the official announcement of the new devices. Continue reading “New Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air expected to be announced on October 27”

Samsung Galaxy C9 with 16MP front and rear cameras, 6GB RAM to be announced on October 21

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Samsung Galaxy C9 got certified by TENAA in China last week and the Galaxy C9 Pro also surfaced in press images. Now Samsung has announced an event on October 21st in China to unveil both the phones smartphone that have a unibody metal design. The company teased a new antenna arrangement on the back of the phone. Samsung calls it “next level of antenna craftsmanship”. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy C9 with 16MP front and rear cameras, 6GB RAM to be announced on October 21”