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The latest technology news, product launches, software updates and industry changes, explained with relevance for India.
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OnePlus Plans To Venture Into India
OnePlus, which hit the limelight with its flagship killer, The OnePlus One is planning to enter the already crowded Indian market. It’s no surprise that One Plus would enter India where it’s a price sensitive market. OnePlus One is a killer phone with top of the line specifications like that of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and…
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Xiaomi launches 13$ Fitness Band called “Mi Band”
Xiaomi announced the Mi3 successor, Mi4 with all new improved specs and numbers at a event in Beijing, China. This was not the only best thing that was announced during the event, Xiaomi announced it’s 13$ Mi band which is a wearable device available in a range of colors. Mi Band’s primary task is for…
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Flipkart Crashes with Xiaomi’s Mi3 Sales
It has been a tough day for everyone. Flipkart, Xiaomi and their customers as well. We have been closely watching Xiaomi’s entry into India and have been covering it regularly. Unlike its typical flash sales, Xiaomi opted for registrations to get an idea of the demand. We assumed this would make the entire buying process…
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Jolla is coming to India
Jolla has finally decided to enter India with it’s smartphone running the SailFish OS. Entry into the Indian Market by the Finnish Smartphone maker whose roots come from Nokia is exciting as with lot of International manufacturers entering India notably Xiaomi. Sailfish OS is based on MeeGo(previous generation Nokia software), merproject and nemomobile open source…
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Android Extension Pack to bring PC level gaming onto Android
After Google has provided a sneak peek of its new version of Android (Android L) coming later this year, It has already created quite a buzz all around. Android has always seen its pros and cons in its gaming capabilities, but after the showcase of Android Extension Pack which is coming bundled with this next…
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Nike releases FuelBand App for Android
Nike has finally made the Android version of the Nike+ Fuelband SE sync app available for use with the Samsung Galaxy S5, S4, S3, Nexus 5, HTC One, and Moto X smartphones. This Android app released almost two years after the launch of the Nike+ FuelBand fitness tracker wristband and its companion iOS app. This app communicates with…
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Amazon Announces Its First Smartphone, The Fire Phone
Its been ages since we have been exposed to leaks of Amazon’s plans to launch a 3D Smartphone. Well finally, Amazon unveiled the phone and it is similar to most of the flagship Android devices and added up software features that have not been seen before. The Amazon Firephone has a 4.7″ IPS LCD HD…
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Unicode 7.0 Standard Has 250 New Emoji
Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat, approximately 250 emoji (pictographic symbols), many other symbols, and 23 new lesser-used and historic scripts, as well as character additions to many existing scripts. The above picture is…
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Mozilla to launch $25 smartphone in India
Mozilla is coming up with a new phone that can give difficult time to all smartphone biggies. Mozilla has unveiled a new phone powered by the Mozilla Firefox OS that will come at a very affordable price point. The developer of the Firefox web browser, has tied up with handset makers Intex and Spice to…
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FIFA World Cup Trends from Google
The streets of Brazil are continuously cheering for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Officially, it has now begun. According to the data provided by the Google, there are more than 202.4+ million related searches about world cup with just 4 matches being played. So, what does the world actually want to know? What is the…
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What’s the latest tech in FIFA World Cup 2014 ?
As FIFA World Cup 2014 kicks off, Lets take a look at what makes FIFA 2014 the most hi-tech football event so far in history. Goal-line technology will be used at FIFA World Cup matches for the first time in Brazil to avoid the referees’ misjudgment on controversial kicks at goal. The 2010 World Cup was…
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Toyota Plans to Build a Hovercar Soon
Ever since the first cars arrived on the world’s roads, people have been wanting to fly them. This dream seems not to be far because Toyota is considering building an actual Hovercar! In an interview at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit in San Francisco, Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, the managing officer with Toyota’s technical administration group, said that the company had…
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Read faster than you have ever read before
Spritz has recently announced their new breakthrough technology which would allow people all over the world to read faster on all of their devices. The technology shows you one word at a time on your screen aligned to the center. As each and every word is occurring the same position, all you have to do…
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How can you contribute to a safer Internet ?
The importance of anonymity cannot be over stressed in the digital world. Every few days, we get to hear, news of people being arrested for what they post online. The assurance of being anonymous is a crucial requirement for us to be able to post our views online. Now, what if I tell you that…
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HTC Wins Two Awards At Computex 2014
HTC triumphs with two awards at the recent Computex Show in Taiwan. HTC One M8 won the prestigious “D & I Awards” at this year’s Computex. The HTC One (M8) is a well-designed luxurious brushed metal uni-body Smartphone, it flaunts a 5-inch Full HD screen, it has a dual front facing speakers with Boom Sound…