Two of the biggest online market places in India – Flipkart and Amazon.in are taking a step further to get more sellers to their platform. Flipkart has announced the nation-wide launch of a new cataloguing and listing service dubbed as Spotlist. The new initiative aims to bring sellers including SMEs, artisans and other businesses with instant access to list their products on Flipkart.
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Google has added support for 13 new languages viz Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Kyrgyz, Hawaiian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Luxembourgish, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi, Pashto and Xhosa. Launched 10 years ago, Google Translate says that it now covers 99% of the online population.
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LG Innotek, one of the popular components and materials manufacturers today announced a new ultra slim optical bio sensor module for wearable devices and smartphones to measure heart rates, stress indices, and oxygen saturation levels. “It has lower power consumption and measures data with higher accuracy than the existing products,” said the company. Continue reading “LG Innotek introduces compact optical bio sensor module for wearables and smartphones”
Samsung and Qualcomm have teamed up to deliver small cell technologies and products supporting LTE in unlicensed spectrum designed. The move comes from the duo with an aim to enhance the speed and capacity of mobile networks to help operators provide richer and superior user experiences for their subscribers.
Believe it or not, we live in a world where there are people who don’t have a Gmail account and now the service is bringing a new feature to cater to that specific audience. Gmail has announced ‘Gmailify’ feature that will allow non-Gmail users to access Outlook.com, Hotmail, or Yahoo! email accounts through the Gmail app on Android.
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Truecaller has launched TrueSDK that lets third-party apps to easily onboard users with their Truecaller profile and their Truecaller verified phone number. This helps both the users to quickly use their credentials that are already verified with Truecaller to easily engage with 3rd party apps of their choice. Continue reading “Truecaller launches TrueSDK to enable user verification via phone number for third-party apps”
Microsoft has pushed out new updates for both the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 devices that includes Microsoft and Intel driver and firmware updates. This update fixes power management issues that caused these devices not to go to sleep when idle or consume more power during sleep. The update also fixes several Intel driver issues for these devices.
After introducing ARCHOS 50d Oxygen smartphone, the company has introduced 70 Oxygen, 80 Oxygen and 101b Oxygen tablets in the Oxygen lineup. All these are powered by quad-core MediaTek 8163A processor, have 2GB of RAM and run on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). These have a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. These WiFi-only tablets have a aluminum back casing for a premium look Continue reading “ARCHOS 70 Oxygen, 80 Oxygen and 101b Oxygen with Android 6.0, aluminum body announced”
Twitter has added a couple of important features to its mobile apps and desktop website. The micro blogging site is rolling out the ability to search for GIFs on iOS, Android and twitter.com
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Myntra, the popular online shopping portal that had embraced the app only model last year is taking a U-turn. The company has now officially launched its mobile website after it went app only nine months back.
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After several rumors, Qualcomm today confirmed that the upcoming flagship LG G5 smartphone that will be unveiled at the MWC 2016 on Sunday will be powered by its latest high-end Snapdragon 820 processor. The Snapdragon 820 uses custom 64-bit CPU architecture in ARMv8-based Qualcomm Kryo CPU and is based on FinFET process. It has Adreno 530 GPU, X12 LTE modem, Snapdragon Smart protect, SafeSwitch kill switch solution, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 and more unique features.
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Canonical has partnered with Meizu to introduce Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition, ahead of MWC 2016 next week. “This is the fifth Ubuntu device launched by Canonical and its partners in the last twelve months and the most sophisticated and feature-rich Ubuntu phone in the market,” said Canonical. It has similar specifications as the original Meizu PRO 5 that was introduced last year, but this comes only in 3GB RAM with 32GB storage variant. Continue reading “Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition with 5.7-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM, 21.6 MP camera announced”
Motorola has introduced new VerveLife products ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week. These include, VerveRider and VerveRider+ Bluetooth stereo headsets, VerveOnes and VerveOnes+ true wireless stereo earbuds without wires, VerveLoop+ wireless earbuds, VerveCam portable video camera and VerveRetrieve waterproof GPS pet tracker. Continue reading “Motorola VerveLife accessories – Bluetooth Stereo headsets, portable video camera and more announced”
The Honor series of phones need no introduction. Huawei’s online only sub brand, the company as long been known for introducing solid hardware that occupy a position just below the parent company’s premium devices. With China and India as prime target markets, the phones compete with the Xiaomi’s and Meizu’s to offer the best possible at the lowest possible. With the launch of the Huawei 5x, we are once again seeing the trend continue as consumers get access to premium hardware at a fraction of the cost. The proof of course is in the pudding and we tested out the handset to figure out how well it competes. Continue reading “Honor 5X review: Great specs, Even better price”
We have already seen several leaks of the Xiaomi Mi 5 since over past few days. Now a new leak is giving out more information about the specifications of the upcoming flagship phone from the Chinese smartphone maker which is scheduled to be unveiled on February 24.
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