With Meltdown and Spectre security flaws taking over the internet from the past couple of days, Intel after confirming the memory leak issues, today announced that it has already issued updates for the majority of the processors. It also said that it expects to roll out security updates to 90% of processors released in the past five years by the end of next week. Continue reading “Intel to issue security updates to 90% of processors from past 5 years by next week”
It is a well-known fact that most modern Intel, ARM, and AMD CPUs and phones are affected by the serious Kernel memory leak issues known as the Spectre and Meltdown. Though Microsoft and Google had responded and said that they are taking steps to prevent any malicious attacks, it was Apple who didn’t respond. However, the Cupertino company has now acknowledged the flaw and said that all Mac and iOS devices are affected. Continue reading “Apple confirms all Macs and iOS devices are affected by Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities”
Lenovo ahead of the CES 2018 event has introduced new ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station. The ThinkPad series laptops come with thinner and lighter designs with 8th Generation Intel Core processors with the support for Windows Hello Facial Recognition. Continue reading “Lenovo introduces ThinkPad T, X and L series laptops, Tablet 10 and ThinkPad Docking Station”
Quick Heal Security Labs has detected an Android banking trojan; Android.banker.A9480 which is said to be targeting more than 232 banking apps which also includes the apps offered by Indian banks. Like other banking trojans, even the Android.banker.A9480 is designed with the aim to steal login credentials, hijacking SMSs, etc. Continue reading “Android malware targets 232 Android apps including Indian banking apps”
WhatsApp; the biggest chat application in the world with over 1 billion active users daily has seen a recording breaking 75 billion messages sent on December 31st night on the occasion of New Year 2018. It was 63 billion for the last new year’s eve. In fact, the servers went down on December 31st night which made WhatsApp unusable for quite some time. Continue reading “WhatsApp users exchanged record 75 billion messages on New Year’s Eve”
LG is said to be re-branding its G-series flagship phones in order to compete with Apple and Samsung according to a new report. The G-series smartphones which debuted in 2012 with the launch of Optimus G has seen six smartphones in the line-up including the last year’s flagship G6. Continue reading “LG said to rebrand G-series smartphones to compete with Apple and Samsung”
Union minister Maneka Gandhi has announced that the trial for the Panic button on mobiles to begin from Uttar Pradesh on January 26 to ensure women safety. Though the projected had to kickstart back in January 2017, it got delayed by a year. Continue reading “Trials for Panic button on mobiles to begin from Uttar Pradesh on January 26”
Apple has clarified that it will replace the batteries of older iPhones at a discounted price even if they are not defective. The company has reduced the pricing of battery replacements from $79 to $29 last week following the controversial throttling of iPhones reports. Continue reading “Apple will replace iPhone batteries at a discounted price regardless of battery health”
Apple has acquired the Canada-based app development service Buddybuild in efforts to make it easier for developers create and iterate their apps for iOS. Buddybuild is a mobile iteration platform that is focused on integration and debugging tools essentially needed for app development workflow. Continue reading “Apple acquires Canada-based app development startup Buddybuild”
LG at the CES 2018 event that is going to kickstart in the coming week will introduce the ThinQ OLED and SUPER UHD TVs with Google Assistant and α (ALPHA) advanced image processor, and perhaps the biggest addition to LG TVs this year will be the support for Google Assistant. Continue reading “LG ThinQ OLED and SUPER UHD TVs with Google Assistant to be introduced at CES 2018”
The Government of India has made it mandatory to link your mobile number with Aadhaar card for identification verification and has put a deadline of March 31, 2018 to do so. While the process of verification by visiting the mobile network customer centers can be tiresome, UIDAI has rolled out OTP based verification system using which you can link your mobile numbers with Aadhaar from your home. Continue reading “How to link Aadhaar to your mobile number via OTP”
Samsung Electronics has announced today that the company’s C-labs will introduce three new innovative projects; S-Ray, GoBreath, and Relumino at the CES 2018 event. Additionally, seven start-ups which have been spun off from Samsung’s C-Lab will also showcase their newly released commercial products for new business opportunities. Continue reading “Samsung S-Ray, GoBreath, Relumino Creative Lab projects to be announced at CES 2018”
Asus has just announced that it has stared rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo update to Zenfone 4 (ZE554KL). The company promised to roll out the update to Zenfone 4 and 3 series and just like it said, the update is now hitting the Zenfone 4 model which comes with a build number 15.0405.1711.76. Continue reading “Asus Zenfone 4 Android 8.0 Oreo update starts rolling out”
Global smartphone SoC market has crossed $8 billion in Q3 2017 as the chipset market grew 19% according to Counterpoint Research’s Component Tracker for Q3, 2017. Despite the neck tight problems throughout the year, Qualcomm topped the list and is responsible for 42% of the total revenue generated by chipsets followed by Apple. Continue reading “Global Smartphone SoC market grows 19%, crosses $8 Billion in revenues in Q3 2017: Report”
Apple is facing a tough time since the company confirmed it indeed is slowing down old iPhones to preserve aged batteries have started flowing. The company is even facing legal lawsuits filed as well. However, Apple has finally responded on the issue explaining the reason for this action and is offering battery replacements at a discounted price. Continue reading “Apple clarifies about slowing old iPhones, to offer battery replacements at a discounted price”
