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Mobile industry seeks GST rate cut for phones up to Rs 1,200 |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2019 1:15:05 AM IST |
| Mobile phone manufacturers' body India Cellular and Electronics Association of India (ICEA) has sought "rationalisation" of goods and services tax (GST) rate to five per cent from existing 12 per cent for entry level mobile handsets costing up to Rs 1,200 ... read.. |
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Clean new Pro Display XDR only with special cloth: Apple |
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San Francisco | Wednesday, 2019 11:45:05 PM IST |
| The Apple Pro Display XDR with optional nano texture glass on the top of the line display from the iPhone maker, which costs an additional $1,000, has to be cleaned only with a "dry polishing cloth" that comes with the display and nothing else. ... read.. |
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ICC Cricket World Cup tops Google Search in India in 2019 |
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New Delhi | Wednesday, 2019 10:15:05 PM IST |
| ICC Cricket World Cup was the top trending query on Google Search in 2019 in India, the company announced on Wednesday while announcing its "Year in Search" results, which highlight stand-out moments in Search across news, sporting events, personalities, ... read.. |
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PSLV rocket lifts off with surveillance satellite, 9 foreign satellites |
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) | Wednesday, 2019 9:45:05 PM IST |
| India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-QL (PSLV-QL) rocket carrying the countryas advanced radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites lifted off from the first launch pad of the rocket port here on Wednesday. ... read.. |
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IIT-Guwahati gets Samsung Innovation Lab |
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Guwahati | Wednesday, 2019 8:45:05 PM IST |
| To create a talent pool in emerging technologies, Samsung India on Wednesday inaugurated an innovation lab at IIT-Guwahati which will train students in Internet of Things (IoT), embedded systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), hel ... read.. |
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Google Chrome 79 to warn users if passwords get stolen: Report |
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San Francisco | Wednesday, 2019 6:15:05 PM IST |
| In a bid to offer users better password protection, Google is introducing Chrome version 79 and which comprises a number of improvements, including warning users when their password has been stolen as part of a data leak. ... read.. |
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Facebook Portal will now work with just WhatsApp login |
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San Francisco | Wednesday, 2019 4:45:05 PM IST |
| Facebook's video calling device Portal will now work with just a WhatsApp account, allowing users to make video calls to friends and family and access features like "Story Time" even if they don't have a Facebook account. ... read.. |
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NASA to launch rover 'MARS 2020' next year |
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Washington DC | December 11, 2019 10:11:21 AM IST |
| 'Curiosity' won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer as in next summer, 'Mars 2020' will be headed for the Red Planet. Built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, each has its own role in the ongoing explor ... read.. |
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OPPO looking to expand R&D operations in India (Lead) |
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Shenzhen (China) | Wednesday, 2019 4:15:05 AM IST |
| With OPPO planning to invest $7 billion in research and development globally in the next three years, the Chinese smartphone maker is looking to expand R&D centres to cities like Bengaluru, a top company executive said here on Tuesday. ... read.. |
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Countdown begins for launch of spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 |
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Chennai | Wednesday, 2019 1:15:05 AM IST |
| The countdown for the Wednesday evening launch of India's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites began at 4.40 p.m. on Tuesday at the Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh. ... read.. |
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Blockchain, AI jobs growing fast in India: LinkedIn |
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New Delhi | Tuesday, 2019 11:15:05 PM IST |
| Blockchain developers, artificial intelligence specialists and JavaScript developers are the top three emerging jobs in India for 2020, according to a report by professional networking platform LinkedIn. ... read.. |
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Dell launches new gaming desktop in India |
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New Delhi | Tuesday, 2019 10:15:05 PM IST |
| Dell Technologies unveiled new gaming desktop - Dell G5 - in India for Rs 67,590 on Tuesday. The desktop could be purchased from the company's exclusive stores, select multi-brand outlets and its official website. ... read.. |
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OPPO set to open 2nd R&D centre in India |
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Shenzhen | Tuesday, 2019 10:15:05 PM IST |
| With OPPO planning to invest $7 billion in research and development globally in the next three years, the Chinese smartphone maker is set to open its second R&D centre in India, a top company executive said here on Tuesday. ... read.. |
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60% Indian organisations to have data on Cloud by 2030: IBM |
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Bengaluru | Tuesday, 2019 9:15:05 PM IST |
| Almost 60 per cent of the Indian organisations plan to have all their data on Cloud in the next ten years, of which 99 per cent will use multiple hybrid Cloud within the next three years, says an IBM survey on Tuesday. ... read.. |
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Google Maps' new Incognito mode comes to iOS |
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San Francisco | Tuesday, 2019 8:45:05 PM IST |
| Google has started rolling out "Incognito" mode to iOS to stop searches or places a user navigates to in Maps from being saved to their Google account. ... read.. |
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OPPO to pump $7bn into R&D, to launch smartwatches next year |
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Shenzhen | Tuesday, 2019 7:15:05 PM IST |
| Chinese smartphone maker OPPO on Tuesday said it would invest $7 billion in research and development in the next three years to develop core technologies in hardware, software and system in addition to 5G/6G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), augmented realit ... read.. |
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Google denies Fortnite exemption from Play Store's 30% cut |
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San Francisco | Tuesday, 2019 5:45:05 PM IST |
| Search engine giant Google has made it clear that it will not provide Epic and Fornite an exception as it expects all developers to participate under the same terms. Epic Games had submitted Fortnite to Google Play in the hopes of a special exception to t ... read.. |
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Apple may add larger batteries to 2020 iPhone models |
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San Francisco | Tuesday, 2019 4:15:05 PM IST |
| Apple is reportedly planning to include a custom battery protection module with the iPhone 12, which is said to be almost 50 per cent smaller and thinner than the one being used in current and old iPhones. ... read.. |
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56% Indians fall victim to online holiday scams: McAfee |
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New Delhi | Tuesday, 2019 4:15:05 PM IST |
| With Christmas around the corner, cybersecurity firm McAfee on Tuesday revealed that 56.1 per cent Indians have fallen victim to discount scams by clicking on malicious links during holiday shopping online. ... read.. |
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'Facebook clears dozens of Islamophobic posts' |
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London | Tuesday, 2019 4:15:05 AM IST |
| Facebook has reportedly cleared dozens of Islamophobic posts despite being flagged by an investigation by the Guardian that these posts are being used as part of a coordinated scheme profiting from hate and disinformation. ... read.. |
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Vodafone fastest 4G network in Delhi-NCR: Ookla |
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New Delhi | Tuesday, 2019 1:45:05 AM IST |
| Telecom operator Vodafone is the fastest 4G network in the Delhi-NCR region with its download speeds being higher than other operators in the July-September 2019 period, US-based broadband speed tester Ookla said on Monday. ... read.. |
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NXP acquires Marvell's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth connectivity assets |
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New Delhi | Monday, 2019 11:45:05 PM IST |
| NXP Semiconductors on Monday announced the completion of the acquisition of the WiFi connectivity business unit, Bluetooth technology portfolio and related assets from Marvell, another global semiconductor company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $1. ... read.. |
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Xiaomi Mi Note 10 to launch in India by January 2020 |
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Beijing | Monday, 2019 9:15:05 PM IST |
| Chinese phone maker Xiaomi after launching Mi Note 10, the world's first smartphone to feature 108MP camera in Europe and in its domestic market as Mi CC9 Pro, is now all set to launch the smartphone in India by January 2020, GizmoChina reported on Monday ... read.. |
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GMDA partners with Cisco to make Gurugram safer, smarter |
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Gurugram | Monday, 2019 8:15:05 PM IST |
| The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has partnered with networking giant Cisco to set up an Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) here on Monday that leverages digital technologies to enhance citizen safety, optimise public infras ... read.. |
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Vivo V17 launched in India for Rs 22,990 |
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New Delhi | Monday, 2019 7:45:05 PM IST |
| Refreshing its V series in India, Chinese handset maker Vivo on Monday launched its Vivo V17 smartphone in India with quad-camera set up for Rs 22,990. ... read.. |
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OnePlus TV update brings support for Netflix |
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New Delhi | Monday, 2019 6:45:05 PM IST |
| Chinese technology company OnePlus on Monday announced that it has started rolling out another update for its TVs which brings official support for the Netflix app. ... read.. |
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Apple's upcoming SE 2 likely to be called 'iPhone 9' |
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San Francisco | Monday, 2019 4:45:05 PM IST |
| A new report from Japanese blog Mac Otakara has claimed that the iPhone SE 2 will likely be called iPhone 9, owing to the fact that it will feature the same chassis as that of the iPhone 8. ... read.. |
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Microsoft knockout: Why AWS CEO must not lose his cool |
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New Delhi | Monday, 2019 4:45:05 PM IST |
| As the CEO of a $36 billion enterprise that leads the global infrastructure Cloud market with over 175 services -- more than any other Cloud vendor -- Andy Jassy is deeply hurt at the Microsoft's $10 billion Pentagon Cloud win and is leaving no stone untu ... read.. |
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Dragon spacecraft delivers cargo to ISS |
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Washington | Monday, 2019 2:45:05 PM IST |
| A Dragon cargo spacecraft belonging to private space services company SpaceX delivered its payload to the International Space Station (ISS), providing the crew with 2,587 kilos of supplies, including materials, such as mice, worms and a robot, for scienti ... read.. |
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India to launch spy satellite, 9 others on Dec 11 |
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Chennai | Sunday, 2019 10:45:05 PM IST |
| India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket would launch the country's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites on December 11, said the Indian space agency. ... read.. |
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HackerOne pays $20K to user who hacked its own platform |
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New Delhi | Sunday, 2019 5:45:05 PM IST |
| Facing an embarrassing situation, San Francisco-based HackerOne which is a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform and boasts of clients like Starbucks, Instagram, Goldman Sachs, Twitter and Zomato, has paid $20,000 to a user who exposed a vuln ... read.. |
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PM visits 'Param Brahma' supercomputer facility at IISER |
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Pune | Sunday, 2019 4:45:05 PM IST |
| Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday interacted with scientists at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) here and visited the supercomputer facility "Param Brahma", an official said. ... read.. |
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This NASA-ISRO mission set to crunch key space data in Cloud |
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Las Vegas | Sunday, 2019 3:45:05 PM IST |
| As the humankind aims for deeper space missions like Mars in couple of years from now, the time is to democratize humongous data available via NASA and space agencies like the Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) that can boost space research via nex ... read.. |
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Why Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey prefers DuckDuckGo over Google |
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New Delhi | Sunday, 2019 3:45:05 PM IST |
| Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey last week revealed that he has been using DuckDuckGo as his default search engine for quite some time now, apparently due to its stronger privacy features compared to other popular alternatives such as Google Chrome, am ... read.. |
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Supporting digitisation in India a great opportunity: VMware |
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New Delhi | Sunday, 2019 2:15:05 PM IST |
| How India digitises and extends more services to a larger section of the population is really important and supporting the country in incorporating these changes offer great opportunities, a top executive of enterprise software major VMware has said. ... read.. |
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WhatsApp now gets call waiting, but no call holding |
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San Francisco | Saturday, 2019 11:45:05 PM IST |
| Facebook-owned WhatsApp has become the latest Voice over Internet Protocol services provider to support call waiting feature even as the company has skipped adding call holding for now. ... read.. |
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Apple may launch iPhone without ports in 2021 |
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San Francisco | Saturday, 2019 7:45:05 PM IST |
| Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed that Apple is planning to launch a "completely wireless" iPhone in 2021, suggesting that the iPhone maker is not switching to USB-C, but rather dropping the port entirely. ... read.. |
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New study cracks the mystery of magnetic waves of Sun |
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Washington D.C. | December 7, 2019 7:41:24 PM IST |
| The centre-most unit of our solar system, Sun, has always been a mystery in terms of the ways it maintains its temperatures, but recently researchers in a new study have found out answers to that. ... read.. |
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Cambridge Analytica deceived users: US FTC |
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San Francisco | Saturday, 2019 7:15:05 PM IST |
| More than one and a half year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal first became public, US regulators have said that the now-defunct British data analytics and consulting company engaged in deceptive practices to harvest personal information from tens of ... read.. |
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Sea levels rising higher than expected, says UN varsity |
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Madrid | Saturday, 2019 3:45:05 AM IST |
| Sea levels are rising faster and higher than previously expected. Long-term sea level rise will vary greatly depending on emissions, but could reach nearly four meters by 2300 if emissions are not reduced, experts with the United Nations University Instit ... read.. |
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Global true wireless hearables market to grow 90% in 2020 |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2019 11:45:05 PM IST |
| The size of the global market for true wireless hearables is expected to touch 120 million units this year and 230 million units in 2020, growing 90 per cent year on year (YoY), said a new report on Friday. ... read.. |
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Why iPhone 11 Pro seems to share location against user setting |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2019 11:15:05 PM IST |
| Dismissing reports that iPhone 11 Pro continuously collects and transmits its users location data even when the user has blocked it from doing so, Apple has said that the confusion arose because of its ultra wideband technology. ... read.. |
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Rise in phone-related injuries linked to iPhone, Pokemon Go |
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New York | Friday, 2019 9:15:05 PM IST |
| Cell phones are really hurting people badly as researchers have found that head and neck injuries incurred while driving or walking with a cellphone are on the rise - and correlates with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and release of Pokemon Go in 2016. ... read.. |
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SpaceX spacecraft with 'mighty mice' launches to space station |
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Washington | Friday, 2019 8:15:05 PM IST |
| SpaceX has launched a Dragon spacecraft with more than 2,585 kg of NASA cargo and science investigations, including studies of malting barley in microgravity, the spread of fire, and a group of 40 genetically enhanced "mighty mice" to study bone and muscl ... read.. |
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Uber's safety review has thousands of sexual assault reports |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2019 8:15:05 PM IST |
| Ride-hailing giant Uber has released its first safety review which contains thousands of sexual assault reports. The company has also revealed the changes it was making to make rides safer for its passengers and drivers. ... read.. |
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5G iPhone is a top priority for Qualcomm |
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San Francisco | Friday, 2019 5:15:05 PM IST |
| Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon at Company's Snapdragon Tech Summit this week has said that the main goal of Qualcomm's renewed relationship with Apple right now is to get a 5G iPhone launched on time. ... read.. |
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Samsung led 5G devices grabbed 5% of premium market in Q3 |
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Hong Kong | Thursday, 2019 11:45:05 PM IST |
| 5G smartphones captured 5 per cent of the global premium market in the third quarter (Q3) of 2019 led by Samsung with 74 per cent share followed by LG with 11 per cent and Vivo with 5 per cent share, a new report by Counterpoint Research has said. ... read.. |
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Musk tells jury his net worth $20bn but is short on cash |
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San Francisco | Thursday, 2019 10:45:05 PM IST |
| Multi-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk in the second day of his courtroom appearance as a defendant in a defamation case filed by Vernon Unsworth, a British man, over "pedo guy" tweet, disclosed that his net worth was $20 billion (roughly Rs 1,43,000 cror ... read.. |
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Samsung brings 'The Wall' display to India, starts at Rs 3.5cr |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2019 10:15:05 PM IST |
| If you love to watch movies or sports on big screens, think of bigger ones now as South Korean technology giant Samsung on Thursday introduced its modular MicroLED display "The Wall" that can stretch your imagination with its 146-inch, 219-inch, 292-inch ... read.. |
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Huawei gets back at FCC with legal challenge |
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Shenzhen | Thursday, 2019 9:15:05 PM IST |
| Hitting back at the regulators and critics, Chinese telecom and smartphone giant Huawei on Thursday sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking the court to overturn an order passed on November 22 which bans carriers in rural America from ta ... read.. |
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Huawei Watch GT2 with Bluetooth calling launched in India |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2019 7:45:05 PM IST |
| Huawei Consumer Business Group India on Thursday launched its much-anticipated Huawei Watch GT2 with two weeks of battery life, Bluetooth calling and in-device music in the country in 42mm variant (with 1.2 inch AMOLED display) and 46mm variant (with 1.39 ... read.. |
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