Apple has been facing increasing pressure from countries and companies across the world over their restrictive App Store policies in the last few years. The company is now facing yet another lawsuit in India, where a non-profit group has alleged that Apple’s policies are anti-competitive and hurts developers.
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The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has finished the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigation it conducted on WhatsApp in Ireland that commenced in December 2018. This was to examine whether WhatsApp has discharged its GDPR transparency obligations with regard to the provision of information and the transparency of that information to both users and non-users of WhatsApp’s service. Continue reading “WhatsApp hit with €225 million fine for breaching EU privacy law”
Lenovo has launched two new variants of the IdeaPad Slim 5 Pro laptop in India, powered by either an 11th gen Intel Core CPU or an AMD Ryzen 5000 series processor. It features a 14-inch or 16.inch display options, offers either integrated or dedicated GPUs, Windows Hello facial recognition and more.
Update: WhatsApp has started rolling out the ability to move WhatsApp history from iOS to Android, finally. This includes voice messages, photos and videos. As announced earlier, this feature is available for Samsung devices running Android 10 or higher, and will be available on more Android devices soon. Continue reading “WhatsApp iPhone to Android chat history transfer starts rolling out”
ASUS has unveiled their new ZenBeam E2 mini LED portable projector, featuring an Auto Portrait mode, a 5-watt speaker, a WVGA wireless projection, wireless Bluetooth speaker capabilities and more. Along with this, ASUS also announced a whole range of ProArt Displays for creators with OLED options and built-in calibrators.
Yesterday, at an event, ASUS announced new laptop refreshes across their Vivobook, Zenbook and ProArt Studiobook series, including the Zenbook 14X OLED, Zenbook 14 Flip OLED, Vivobook Pro and ProArt Studiobook 16. They are designed for creatives and professionals, featuring OLED display options with PANTONE validation, high-end AMD or Intel CPU options, along with unique features such as the integrated ASUS Dial.
Redmi today launched the Redmi 10 Prime, the company’s latest budget smartphone in the Prime series, as the successor to last year’s Redmi 9 Prime. This has a large 6.5-inch FHD+ 90Hz refresh rate adaptive display, is the first phone to be powered by MediaTek Helio G88 and packs a huge 6000mAh battery. We got hold of the phone, and here are the first impressions. Continue reading “Redmi 10 Prime Unboxing and First Impressions”
Along with the Redmi 10 Prime, Redmi also launched the Redmi Earbuds 3 Pro, the company’s latest TWS earbuds in India, as it had announced. These were launched in China earlier this year as Redmi AirDots 3 and pack QCC3040 chipset the latest Bluetooth 5.2 along with aptX Adaptive codec for upgraded sound quality and low-latency for gaming as well as Balanced and Armature dual drivers for an enhanced audio quality. Continue reading “Redmi Earbuds 3 Pro with Bluetooth 5.2, aptX Adaptive, Dual Drivers, up to 30h total battery life launched in India for Rs. 2999”
Redmi just launched the Redmi 10 Prime, the company’s latest smartphone in the Redmi series as the successor to last year Redmi 9 Prime in India, as it had promised. It has a 6.5-inch Full HD+ LCD screen with AdaptiveSync 90Hz (45/60/90Hz) refresh rate, Reading mode 3.0, and it is the first phone to be powered by MediaTek Helio G88 SoC. It comes with up to 6GB of RAM with up to 2GB of memory expansion. The phone has a 50MP rear camera, a first of its kind in its category, accompanied by 8MP ultra-wide camera, 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth sensor. Continue reading “Redmi 10 Prime with 6.5-inch FHD+ 90Hz display, Helio G88, 50MP quad rear cameras, 6000mAh battery launched in India starting at Rs. 12499”
Western Digital, a company that is well known for the storage solutions, has announced their entry into the mobile accessory market with the launch of the SanDisk Ixpand Wireless Charger. The charger is Qi-compatible, rated for up to 15 watts, and even comes with a 24W QC 3.0 Adapter in the box. Here is our first impressions about the charger.
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Airtel today announced that it has successfully conducted India’s first cloud gaming session in a 5G environment. It was conducted in Manesar (Guragon) as part of the ongoing 5G trails using spectrum allotted by the Department of Telecom (DoT). For the 5G cloud gaming demo, Airtel partnered with Mortal (Naman Mathur) and Mamba (Salman Ahmad), India’s leading gamers. Continue reading “Airtel demonstrates Cloud Gaming on its 5G network”
Apollo Global Management today announced that Apollo Funds have completed the acquisition of Yahoo from Verizon Media, after that for $5 billion deal was announced back in May. With the close of the transaction, Yahoo will now operate as a standalone company under Apollo Funds. Verizon has retained a 10% stake in Yahoo. Continue reading “Apollo Funds complete acquisition of Yahoo”
As the truly wireless earbuds market becomes mature overtime, there has been an increasing focus on the quality of audio transmission over Bluetooth. Qualcomm has now unveiled a new feature in Snapdragon Sound called aptX Lossless, which will enable CD quality 16-bit 44.1kHz lossless
audio streaming over Bluetooth.
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After rumours and teasers, realme today confirmed the launch of the realme 8s 5G, successor to the realme 8 5G with Dimensity 810, making it the first phone with the chip. The realme 8i, an enhanced version of the realme 8 and the successor to the realme 7i will also be introduced alongside is the India’s first phone to come with Helio G96. Continue reading “realme 8i with Helio G96 and realme 8s 5G with Dimensity 810 launching in India on September 9”
Google upcoming Pixel devices is slated to be the company’s first smartphones that are powered by their own, custom-designed Tensor SoCs. According to sources in the industry, Google is reportedly planning to introduce their in-house chips for future tablets and Chromebooks, starting in 2023.
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