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The latest technology news, product launches, software updates and industry changes, explained with relevance for India.
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Line Launches Free Talk Time Promotion worth Rs. 111
LINE is launching Free Talk Time promotion once again to recreate the frenzy from the first edition. Earlier in March, LINE offered its users free talk time of Rs. 50. This time, the offer is bigger and better. The user can collect points and gain up to Rs. 111 worth of free talk time! This…
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Madrasters Workshop on Typography and UI/UX
Madrasters are organising an event on Typography and UI/UX in the month of June 2014 in Chennai. Madrasters community has one stop place where Designers, Art lovers, Photographers and Photoshop users come, meet and discuss. It’s a open group where everyone can share and learn about Photoshop. Madrasters was previously also known as Photoshop User…
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Samsung Announces Tizen OS Powered Smartphone
Its been quite some time since Samsung started developing its own operating system which is open source. The growth of Android and Samsung has been mutual over the years but Samsung was in works for a replacement due to its over dependencies and also other legal issues arising out of using Android. Recently, the Galaxy Gear…
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Man Faces Arrest For Anti Modi Comments On Facebook
We at Techzei cover news from the tech world but at times there are political issues which directly or indirectly affect the freedom we enjoy across the internet. We have previously covered about congress trying to “censor” the internet and also innocent people getting arrested for exercising their fundamental rights. This is one such situation,…
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Xiaomi Launches the MiPad which looks like a iPad mini
A few months ago Nvidia launched the Tegra K1 processor at the CES 2014. Until today we were all made to wait for a device based on it, Xiaomi is now the first manufacturer to make use of Nvidia’s latest iteration. Xiaomi MiPad is the latest device from the Chinese manufacturer which packs a 7.9-inch…
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Apple buys Beats for $3.2 Billion
Yes, this a bit late when the whole world knows about it. Apple buys Beats for $3.2 Billion and we wanted to publish it only after there was a good amount of evidence. The deal has been confirmed by Dr. Dre himself. Apple is buying beats for $3.2 Billion and it is a huge deal…
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Motorola announces Moto E for just $129
Motorola announcing a new device Moto E today was not really a surprise with numerous leaks and the invites to the event coming long back. This is the first device from Motorola after Lenovo acquired it from Google. Motorola even after the acquisition is on target releasing new phones. Moto G which was announced last…
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US Government is trying to kill Net Neutrality and why it is bad
coTo start with, what is Net Neutrality? It is the principle that all data on the internet is treated equally. Everything has equal priority when served to the consumer. The US Government wants to kill it. Why? For the greedy Broadband providers who want to make more money. What happens when there is no net…
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Snapchat Update finally makes the App useful
A new snapchat update was made available today. I remember downloading Snapchat on my iPhone back when the first version released in 2011. Used it for a day. Then hit DELETE. It was not practical. It was kind of useless to do anything and a bit weird. It was not user friendly and it was…
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Popular Chinese Manufacturer Xiaomi All Set To Enter India
Almost every Android enthusiast would have already heard of Xiaomi, or at least their MIUI OS built based on Android Open Source Project(AOSP), which is 2nd only to CyanogenMod in user base. Indian users have always been in the top 5 of MIUI ROM users since the days it was made widely available. The craze for chinese…
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The age old Video Game myth just got proved to be real
Back in 1982, the days when Atari was the biggest Game Company, they paid millions for the rights to make a game of the super famous movie E.T. Though the game did well initially, the gameplay was frustratingly difficult which resulted in most of the cartridges being returned. So, Atari ended up with millions of…
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Arduino Day 2014 – Chennai
In account of the World Arduino day, GDG Chennai organised a meet up for all the hardware enthusiasts, hackers and just about anyone who was interested in Arduino’s. The celebration at Chennai had a lot of discussion on various technologies breaking out at the moment from Wearable Technology to Virtual Reality. The day started off…
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Excessive Whatsapp Use Leads To “Whatsappitis” Claim Doctors
Heard of Blackberry Thumb? Nintenditis ? Well, here is “Whatsappitis”. As described by a Spanish doctor, the patient presented with bilateral wrist pain with sudden onset upon waking up one morning. She had no history of trauma and had not engaged in any excessive physical activity in the previous days. The diagnosis was bilateral extensor pollicis longus…
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GDG Chennai’s Women Tech Makers 2014
GDG Chennai was back with their second event this year after the Angular JS/Dart Flight School. Women Techmakers a.k.a DevFest Women has been a very important event conducted by GDG Chennai every year which is exclusive to women geeks in Chennai. This time, it happened in the Raintree Hotel on 15th March with over 150…
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Loop has the best answer to mobile payments
Mobile Payments is the next big thing. People forget their wallet, but never their phone. So, it would be great to be able to make them into one device. Many companies have tried their hand with mobile payments like Google, which require the retailers to have special readers. It is reported that even Apple is…