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The latest technology news, product launches, software updates and industry changes, explained with relevance for India.
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Asus offers festival season offers for the Zenfone Lineup
Asus has been one of the most competitive companies in the Indian smartphone market right now and they solidified their stand with a great lineup for this year with devices like the Zenfone 2 Deluxe and Laser. To push their sales even further, for this festival season they are running a promotion where you can…
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Evolvr, the tool that aims to become the IMDB for products
The Techzei team has been working on expanding over new areas for a while now and one thing we’ve been working on is to cover extensively about Startups. While working on various formats, one of the biggest problem we’ve faced is getting some actual data about startups and their products. All the information is out…
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OnePlus India : Nightmare In The Form Of A “Pop Up” Event
We were one of the first Indian site to do a review of the OnePlus One. We bought the device with our own money, reshipped it, paid the duty and then did the review. We even went on to make a post to help OnePlus fans in India to prebook the phone before it was officially launched…
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Everything Asus announced at it’s August 2015 event in India
Last Thursday, I was in Delhi to attend the Asus Zenfestival which I thought it would be a normal press meet but a bit bigger because they flew down people all over from India. But to my surprise, it was a really big venue with a crowd of over 2,500 people. They combined a fan meet and…
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The Free Software Foundation’s Statement On Windows 10
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a non-profit organisation, which actively supports the free software movement has put out a statement on Windows 10. They have urged everyone to reject windows 10 amind growing privacy concerns. The entire statement is as follows The Free Software Foundation urges everyone to reject Windows 10 and join us in…
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Global Mobile App Summit And Awards Honors 22 Apps From Over 2500 Nominations Received
22 companies were awarded from over 2500 nominations under 19 different categories at the inaugural Global Mobile Apps Summit and Awards (GMASA). The jury that selected the winners from the shortlisted apps comprised of Mr Murugavel Janakiraman of BharatMatrimony Group, Mr Xavier Prabhu of PRHUB, Ms Kavi Priya of Adding Smiles Pvt Ltd and Ms Laksmi…
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Airtel launches 4G in Chennai
Chennai has been waiting a long time now for 4G LTE and things are looking positive now with Airtel being the first career to provide it. They did not even buy the spectrum at the initial auction. It took them a while, but the roll-out was quick. Last week, we were invited to the Airtel HQ…
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Global Mobile App Summit 2015 to be held in Chennai
Global Mobile App Summit 2015 to be held in Chennai on 28th and 29th May at ITC Grand Chola featuring speakers from around the world sharing their experience in the Mobile Application development. The event brings together the mobile media experts and aims to provide recognition for the best mobile apps. The whole idea behind…
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Top TV Show Premieres of 2014
When it comes to the small screen, it enjoyed some great success with a few hit premieres. HBO announcing that they’ll start streaming their shows starting 2015. Here’s our list of the top TV Show premieres of 2014. #8 Flash Flash did not have an amazing debut due to the leak where the first episode…
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Top 10 Movies of 2014
2014 was probably not the best year for movies, ending with the Sony Hack. Though the summer did have it’s highs with some amazing movies. Here’s our list for the top 10 movies of 2014 #10 How to train a Dragon 2 Summer was majorly dominated with this gripping continuation to animated film, How to…
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Micromax’s YU launches Yureka which turns out to be a clone
We recently wrote on the same and also mentioned a line on the way Micromax re-brands phones and sells them in India. It was assumed the same wouldn’t be the case with the Yu sub-brand, but turns out the first phone in the much-hyped series is also a re-branded device similar to all of its…
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What does Arrow and The Flash hold for the spring?
After the breathtaking and sensational mid-season finale, both the Arrow and The Flash is going to a whole new level in Television entertainment. The Flash With the brief introduction of the Reverse Flash and Firestorm, The Flash has some very exciting action pack episodes coming up for the spring. Barry Allen aka The Flash who has been clearly…
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Vodafone Screws Up Opera Mini Experience With Intrusive Ads
Opera Mini is undoubtedly one of the most sought mobile browser, given the average mobile Internet speeds in India. There seems to be some sort of a tie up between Vodafone and Opera, Ads always used to be there but were restricted to the speed dial/Bookmarks page. This was absolutely fine and hopefully Opera made money…
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MicroMax Announces “Yu” Brand Powered By CyanogenMod
Micromax, which has been facing the heat in India from Xiaomi, Motorola and Asus has inked a deal with Cyanogen Inc for a new series of phones. Micromax has announced a new online-only brand the “Yu” series whose software will be powered by Cyanogen Inc much like the Oppo and OnePlus. Micromax Yu series of…
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Google’s Nexus 6 Pricing leaves Indians disappointed
Google finally changed the pricing scheme for its nexus devices with the Nexus 6. The entire Nexus branding no longer seems to do what it was initially intended to do, provide a cheap alternative to emulators to attract developers to help develop apps for the Android platform. Not only about developers, it was also Google’s…
