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TRAI already announced that new DTH plans will come into effect starting February 1, 2019 allowing TV viewers opt for only for the channels they want to watch. To make this switch easy for customers, Airtel Digital TV recently announced the a-la-carte pricing of the channels on its website last month. Continue reading “Airtel Digital TV now lets users scan QR code to switch to new plans”
ASUS has launched new ZenBook series of laptops – ZenBook 13 (UX333), ZenBook 14 (UX433) and ZenBook 15 (UX533) in India, after they were introduced at the IFA last year. The ZenBook 13, 14 and 15 as per the company are world’s most compact 13.3-inch, 14-inch, and 15.6-inch laptops These come with frameless ASUS NanoEdge display with ultraslim bezels having a 95% screen-to-body ratio. Continue reading “ASUS launches new ZenBook 13, 14 and 15 with NanoEdge display in India starting at Rs. 71990”
“Apple products are designed to protect your privacy. Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right.” These are Apple’s own words on security and privacy. In fact, a couple of years back, the Cupertino giant took press and said: “Apple is the most effective security organisation in the world.” Continue reading “Apple hit with lawsuit over FaceTime issue: All you need to know”
Quite lately, Google has been revamping its entire set of products in an attempt to optimise and suite the latest trend. The search engine giant has recently made some notable changes in GDrive and Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on the web. Continue reading “Google revamps Gmail on Android and iOS: What’s new in the redesigned Gmail app?”
Apple has reported quarterly revenue of $84.3 billion, down 5% over last year with a net profit of $19.97 billion, almost same as last year and earnings per share of $4.18, an increase of 7.5% over last year in their earnings for the financial year Q1 2019 that ended December 2, 2018. During earnings call Tim Cook said that iPhone XR, iPhone Xs, and iPhone Xs Max are by far the best iPhones the company has ever shipped but iPhone revenue was down 15% from last year since its customers are holding on to their older iPhones a bit longer than in the past.
After rolling out Android 9.0 (Pie) update for the Zenfone 5Z in Taiwan last month, ASUS has finally started rolling out the update globally earlier this week, as it had promised. Continue reading “ASUS Zenfone 5Z Android 9.0 (Pie) global roll out begins [Download Link]”
Samsung has announced that it has begun mass production of first 1TB flash storage for next-generation mobile devices and it utilizes 16 stacked layers of 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND chips. It uses the same 11.5mm x 13.0mm package as the previous 512GB version, but this uses a newly developed proprietary controller. This will allow users to store 260 10-minute videos in 4K UHD (3840×2160) format, compared to 13 videos of the same size in 64GB eUFS. Continue reading “Samsung starts mass production of first 1TB eUFS flash memory ahead of Galaxy S10 launch”
Update: Several users have started reporting that they are able to log-in and are not facing 404 issue anymore. Continue reading “Gmail down in India and parts of Europe as users face log-in issues [Update: It’s back]”
Samsung Electronics has announced an 8K display driver IC (DDI) that helps deliver true-to-life 8K resolution with intra-panel data transfer speed at up to 4-gigabit-per-second (Gbps). It adopts the company’s Unified Standard Interface for TV (USI-T) 2.0. Continue reading “Samsung 8K display driver IC with data speeds of up to 4Gbps announced”
Jaybird has announced the Jaybird RUN XT True Wireless Sport Headphones that come with IPX7 waterproof and sweatproof and new color options. The headphones are protected by a double hydrophobic nano-coating. Continue reading “Jaybird RUN XT true wireless sports headphones announced”
Vivo India today sent out invites for the launch of a new smartphone with a pop-up camera on February 20th. This could be the rumored V15 Pro, successor of the V11 Pro that was launched in India back in September last year.
Continue reading “Vivo to launch pop-up camera phone in India on February 20, V15 Pro expected”
Huawei’s HONOR brand just launched the HONOR View20 smartphone in India, as it had promised. It was introduced as V20 in China last month and was introduced for global markets at an event in Paris last week. It packs a 6.4-inch Full HD+ All-View Display with 91.82% screen-to-body ratio, 25-megapixel front camera with just 4.5mm cut out, is powered by Kirin 980 SoC with GPU Turbo 2.0, The NINE liquid cooling, up to 8GB of RAM, 48-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX586 1/2-type (8.0 mm diagonal) sensor, uses 4-in-1 light fusion that outputs better low-light images at 12MP resolution. Continue reading “HONOR View20 with 6.4-inch All-View Display, 48MP + 3D TOF dual rear cameras launched in India starting at Rs. 37999”
Apple said to be aiming to have its video streaming service ready for launch in mid-April, according to reports. Furthermore, Apple has been in talks with entertainment companies who will have content available through the service to be ready for a launch in mid-April. Continue reading “Apple said to roll out its streaming service by mid-April”
The United States has announced that it is filing criminal charges against China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, pushing a fight against the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker. However, Huawei denies of any wrongdoings and this comes days before the trade talks with Beijing. Continue reading “US files criminal charges against Huawei over sanctions violations and technology theft”
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced a new direction-finding feature that is aimed at enhancing the performance of the Bluetooth location services solutions. The new feature allows devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal, thereby enabling the development of Bluetooth proximity solutions that can understand device direction as well as Bluetooth positioning systems. Continue reading “Bluetooth 5.1 adds ‘direction-finding’ for improved location accuracy”
