Micromax appoints Shubhajit Sen as CMO

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Micromax has announced that it has appointed Shubhajit Sen as its Chief Marketing Officer. He will replace Shubhodip Pal who was the company’s CMO since December 2012. Shubhajit Sen previously served as Executive Vice President – Marketing of Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Health Limited for 21 years. He is an Economics graduate from SRCC, Delhi University and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. He will focus on leading all marketing efforts for the company across markets while strengthening the overall brand communication, said Micromax. Continue reading “Micromax appoints Shubhajit Sen as CMO”

JBL Go portable Bluetooth speaker launched in India for Rs. 1999

JBL Go

Sahil International has launched JBL Go, a new portable wireless speaker with Bluetooth connectivity in India. It was announced at the CES 2015 last month and offers 5 hours of playback time from a single charge with its built-in 600mAh rechargeable battery. It has a built-in microphone so that you can use it as a speaker phone once your phone is connected. Continue reading “JBL Go portable Bluetooth speaker launched in India for Rs. 1999”

Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM goes on sale in India for Rs. 5999

Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM

Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM, the company’s most affordable Dual SIM Lumia smartphone is now on sale in India though the official Nokia Shop. It was announced last month and packs a 4-inch WVGA display, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC and runs on the latest Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim update. It has a 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera without flash and VGA front-facing camera. Continue reading “Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM goes on sale in India for Rs. 5999”

Samsung Galaxy A3 vs Galaxy A5 Photo Gallery

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Samsung launched the Galaxy A3 smartphone in India last month for Rs. 20,500 and Galaxy A5 for Rs. 25,500. We have already seen unboxing and photo galleries of both the phones, now lets compare the two phones. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A3 vs Galaxy A5 Photo Gallery”

Lava Iris X8 with Octa-Core processor, 2GB RAM officially launched for Rs. 8999

Lava Iris X8

Lava has launched the Iris X8, the company’s latest smartphone in officially, a day after it was revealed on Flipkart. It has 5-inch HD screen, is powered by a 1.4 GHz Octa-Core MediaTek processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Lava promises Android 5.0 (Lollipop) update for the smartphone It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash and a 3-megapixel front-facing camera.  Continue reading “Lava Iris X8 with Octa-Core processor, 2GB RAM officially launched for Rs. 8999”

Paper by FiftyThree for iPad goes completely free

Paper by FiftyThree iPad

Paper by FiftyThree (previously Paper) for iPad is one of the popular sketching apps for iPad since 2012. Even though it was launched for free, it had in-app purchases for accessing its tools. Now all the tools such as Draw, Sketch, Outline, Write, Color, and Mixer are available for free for everyone. The app won app of the year award from Apple in 2012 and had received several praises from creators and designers.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with dual curved edge screen surfaces

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge leak

As Samsung’s March 1st Unpacked 2015 event gets closer several leaks regarding the upcoming Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have started flowing. CNET Korea have got hold of images of both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge smartphones with and without cases. We had seen several leaks of the Galaxy S6 earlier from the case markers and the design schematics that were leaked recently revealed that the Galaxy S6 would be just 6.91mm thin. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge with dual curved edge screen surfaces”

Twitter Q4 revenue hits $479M, now has 288M monthly active users

Twitter has announced its fourth-quarter earnings report, posting a revenue of $479M up 97% compared with $243 million a year ago, and easily surpassing analyst expectations of $453 million.

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Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850 with unique pouch packaging launched for Rs. 699 and Rs. 749

Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850

Micromax has launched two new feature phones, Joy X1800 and Joy X1850. The main highlight is that these Joy series of smartphones come in pouch packaging rather than box. This is the first ever pouch packaging phones in the Indian market claims Micromax. Both these smartphone have a 1.77-inch (128 x 160 pixels) QQVGA colored screen, dual SIM support, a rear camera, Bluetooth 3.0, expandable memory up to 4GB, FM Radio, Flashlight and more. Continue reading “Micromax Joy X1800 and Joy X1850 with unique pouch packaging launched for Rs. 699 and Rs. 749”

Lenovo appoints Qingtong Zhou as CIO, makes other leadership changes

Lenovo has appointed Qingtong Zhou, the current head of strategy and planning, as the company’s new chief information officer (CIO). Zhou replaces Xiaoyan Wang, who becomes senior vice president of a newly created, yet-to-be-named, centralized services organization.

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Xiaomi Redmi 2 Unboxing

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Xiaomi introduced the Redmi 2 smartphone, the second generation budget smartphone in the Redmi series in China last month. The Redmi 2 packs a faster 64-bit Snapdragon processor and also comes with 4G LTE connectivity, compared to the Redmi 1S that has Snapdragon 400 SoC and 3G connectivity. We managed to get one from China, here is the unboxing.

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SwiftKey for iPhone gets emojis, flow typing for iPad, new languages and more

SwiftKey keyboard for iPhone has been updated with an array of features that enhances the user experience. The popular third party keyboard is getting highly requested emoji feature which lets you express better while chatting.

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Office Lens for Windows Phone adds ability to convert images to PDF

Microsoft has updated Office Lens for Windows Phone that allows users to convert pictures of paper documents into PDF files. Users can also convert Word and PowerPoint files to PDF with Office Lens.

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Google Maps for Android gets support for Local Guides and more

Google has updated Maps for Android with new features. The company is adding integration for Local Guides service that has users reviewing local businesses and share them with others.

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Swype for Android updated with free Material design themes, Emoji support and more

Swype for Android v1.8

Nuance has updated its Swype keyboard for Android to version 1.8 with several new features that includes free Material design themes along with a Bumblebee theme that has high contrast yellow and black colorization, intuitive Emoji support in 8 languages, floating keyboard, better text correction and lots more new features. Continue reading “Swype for Android updated with free Material design themes, Emoji support and more”