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Samsung Electronics today announced that it is expanding its strategic collaboration with Arm to 7/5-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology with an aim to remain a step ahead in the era of high-performance computing. Continue reading “Samsung and ARM partner to power 3GHz+ Cortex A76 processors based on 7nm LPP process technology”
Gameloft has been testing Asphalt 9: Legends in a few countries for the few months. Ahead of global launch of the game, the company has started pre-registration AsphaltLegends.com with your email address, and agree to Terms of Use. This will let you unlock amazing rewards to give you a head start over your fellow racers when the game releases, says the company.
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Samsung launched the Galaxy A6+ smartphone in India in May for Rs. 25,990, along with the Galaxy A6. Now the smartphone has received a Rs. 2000 price cut in just over a month of launch, and is available for Rs. 23,990. This comes after the price cut of Galaxy A6 variants in the country last month. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy A6+ gets a price cut in India”
At the Mobile World Congress Shanghai, Nokia and Tencent have signed an agreement to combinedly research and development to explore the potential of 5G for the provision of new applications, including those for a variety of vertical markets. Continue reading “Nokia, Tencent sign agreement to accelerate 5G webscale research and applications”
Reliance Jio at the annual AGM also introduced JioGigaFiber, its connected home solution that offers ultra-high speed fiber connection of up to 1Gbps with the GigaRouter and the GigaTV Set-top box to watch Live TV using JioTV app as well as access to Jio apps like JioCinema, JioTV Video calling, which is multi-party video conferencing and more. It also comes with Jio Remote with full set of keys like a normal remote and also includes voice control. Continue reading “Reliance Jio introduces JioGigaFiber connected home solution that includes up to 1GBps fiber broadband, GigaTV Set-top box and more”
At the annual AGM Reliance Jio introduced new JioPhone offer dubbed as “Monsoon Hungama”. Under this offers feature phone users can exchange their phone for a new JioPhone at an effective price of Rs. 501 instead of paying the full amount of Rs. 1500. This offer will be available from July 21st. We should know more details about the offer soon. Continue reading “JioPhone Monsoon Hungama exchange offer – JioPhone available at an effective price of Rs. 501; WhatsApp, YouTube coming on August 15”
WhatsApp seems to be very aggressive in protecting its intellectual property and now the company has filed Cease & Desist orders against at least two apps that use native Android APIs to push messages through WhatsApp. The Lawyers team of WhatsApp has sent notices to the developers behind Can’t Talk and DirectChat. Continue reading “WhatsApp files Cease & Desist orders against apps that don’t use its APIs”
Reliance Jio at the annual AGM today introduced the JioPhone 2, the successor of last year’s JioPhone. It has a new design that includes a full QWERTY hardware keyboard along with a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, and it also comes with Dual SIM support, unlike the first generation model that only comes with single SIM. It has cat.4 LTE support with download speeds of up to 150Mbps with support both LTE (Band 3,5,40) and 2G (900/1800).
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries at the company’s 41st annual AGM announced that Reliance Jio has crossed 215 million customers in 22 months of launch, compared to 125 million in July last year. Earlier this year when announcing the financial results, the company said that it had over 186 million customers.
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Facebook today has announced that the London-based team at Bloomsbury AI will be joining the company. Facebook says that the Bloomsbury team’s leading expertise in machine reading and understanding unstructured documents in natural language will strengthen Facebook’s efforts in natural language processing research. Continue reading “Facebook confirms the acquisition of Bloomsbury AI”
At the Google I/O 2018 event the company introduced the Duplex Assistant AI-based phone call technology. The feature uses Assistant to make phone calls and book appointments for users when asked. Then again, Google’s Chrome team has officially renamed the experimental ‘Chrome Home’ interface to ‘Chrome Duplex.’ To avoid any confusion, the company is now renaming Chrome Duplex to Chrome Duet. Continue reading “Google renames Chrome Duplex to ‘Duet’ to avoid confusion over Duplex phone-call”
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will be unveiled on August 9th and the company is planning something big with the S Pen this time around. Over the weekend we heard reports that the Galaxy Note 9’s S Pen might be able to control music playback, long-range self-timer. Now the FCC certification more or less confirms Bluetooth support. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note9 S Pen with Bluetooth support passes through the FCC”
Apple seems to be prepping on launching a new MacBook Pro revamp later this year as the model is now spotted surfacing the Geekbench benchmark test. According to the listing, the model is MacBook Pro 15,2 and it is powered by the Intel Core i7-8559U Coffee Lake CPU, runs up to 28W. Continue reading “Apple MacBook Pro 2018 with Intel Core i7 Coffee Lake CPU, 13-inch retina display surfaces in benchmarks”
State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the soft launch of its Internet Telephony (VOIP) Service “WINGS”, after the TRAI recommendation in October last year and DOT clarification on Internet Telephony, last month regarding Internet Telephony by access service providers. Continue reading “BSNL launches WINGS Internet Telephony Service with audio, video calling and Prepaid Land Line service”
Samsung SDS, the company’s Smart Home Division has introduced the first IoT-powered Wi-Fi smart door lock (SHP-DR900) that has built-in low-power Wi-Fi chip that doubles the battery life since it can be connected to the indoor wireless router. This can notify the door open status or intrusion attempts to a smartphone in real-time.
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