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The latest technology news, product launches, software updates and industry changes, explained with relevance for India.
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Moto G Order Issues with Flipkart
To start with, Flipkart is Lousy. There were a lot of problems with the release of Moto G. First, it is available exclusively only on Flipkart. On the first day, they had some really good offers with the phone. But, not many got to use them. The reason being, the 16GB was always out of…
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Samsung Galaxy S5 Benchmarks Leak
Samsung is supposedly mere weeks away from announcing the Galaxy S5 at MWC, and benchmarks seem to confirm that we’re not far away from seeing exactly what has been speculated upon recently. The leaks come in the form of screenshots from the AnTuTu benchmarking tool (see image, top), and while that does very little…
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Story behind How Facebook Paper App was developed
One thing I know for now is that Facebook developers use Quora. When a question like “What was it like to help develop Paper?” is posted on Quora, it is answered by five different developers from the already small team. But, one answer by Jason Barrett Prado, Engineer on Paper had an extremely detailed answer…
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Satya Nadella is the new Microsoft CEO
Microsoft finally named Satya Nadella as their new CEO to replace Steve Ballmer who had announced his retirement few months ago. Nadella will take in charge as the CEO immediately allowing Ballmer to retire early. The announcement also included that Bill Gates is stepping down as the Chairman of Microsoft and Microsoft’s lead independent director…
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Instagram’s Co-Founder Mike Krieger kills a Startup with no explanation
Itay Adam who has been a Web Entrepreneur for almost 20 years came up with a genuine problem, found a solution and tried to build a startup around it. That’s what every entrepreneur does. Instead, he got screwed from the very guy who was supposed to be helping him. Instagram has a serious problem where…
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Indian Government asks people to stay away from Bitcoins and might ban it soon
This week, the Reserve Bank of India, the government organisation responsible for dealing everything with money released an official statement asking its people to stay away from Bitcoins. The reason being, it is decentralised and it can never be tracked. So if anything goes wrong, they won’t be able to help you (which we already…
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Warcraft Movie Releasing In 2016
The Warcraft movie is coming in 2016, here’s some concept art which was displayed At the Warcraft movie presentation at BlizzCon 2013 From comments made during the Q&A, it seems the movie will be focused largely in the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth. P They’re not just looking at the cities of Azeroth for inspiration. They’re looking at trees,…
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Raspberry Pi sells more than 2 Million Units
Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced that more than 2 million Raspberry Pi units have been sold since it’s launch. The foundation expected that it would sell 2 million Raspberry Pi units by January 2014 or at least by February 2014 but, when the sales report came out, they were in shock because the 2 millionth…
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SUN TV Website Hacked
The Official Website of SUN TV (http://www.sunnetwork.in/) a Popular Tamil Language Satellite Television based in Chennai India has been hacked by a Pakistani Hacker using the handle “H4$N4!N H4XOR ” . 4 other websites possibly hosted in the same server were also hacked and defaced www.redfm.in www.sun.in www.sunpictures.in www.suryanfm.in Mirror: http://zone-h.com/archive/notifier=hasnain%20haxor The hacked website was showing a short message,…
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The Curious Case Of Naaptol.com
Online shopping has finally caught up in India, thanks to Flipkart, ebay.in, amazon.in and the list goes on.While most of them are committed towards consumer satisfaction, there are few online shopping websites which are present to exploit the consumers.After our research and talking to customers we found Naaptol to be one such company. Naaptol is…
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iPad Air Explodes In Store
A brand new iPad Air exploded in flames in an Australian mobile phone store. The iPad air launched on November 1 seems to have burnt in flames after a Sparks and smoke flew from device . A Vodafone spokesperson said a ‘burst of flames’ appeared from the charging port of the brand new iPad Retina demonstration…
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Jaya TV Hacked By Pakistani Hacker
The Official Website of Jaya TV (http://jayatv.tv/) a Popular Tamil Language Satellite Television based in Chennai India has been hacked by a Pakistani Hacker using the handle “H4$N4!N H4XOR ” . 5 Subdomains of the Network were also hacked . http://artist.jayatv.tv/ http://cinema.jayatv.tv/ http://demo.jayatv.tv/ http://m.jayatv.tv/ http://recipes.jayatv.tv/ Mirror: http://zone-h.com/archive/notifier=hasnain%20haxor The hacked website was showing a short message, the message is related…
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Google Nexus 5 Announced In The Indian Play Store
Today Google finally revealed its horribly kept secret, and there are very few surprises. Here’s what you need to know. Design The Nexus 5 has grown a little bit since its Nexus 4 predecessor. It has a 5-inch, 441 PPI, full HD display. It’s thinner, lighter, of course has a bigger screen, a horizontal Nexus…
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LG Fireweb Smartphone with Mozilla Firefox OS
First Firefox OS powered smartphone from LG is here, the LG fireweb. The fireweb is a low-end device with 480 x 320 display , 1GHz Qualcomm processor and 4 GB expandable storage.It comes with a 5 megapixel camera and it is the first firefox OS phone to have autofocusing and an LED flash. The device…
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Apple announces new iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina Display
The iPad was the highlight of the Apple fall event. Apple updated both the smaller and the full-size iPad. iPad Mini: The most requested feature from the iPad Mini which was announced last year was for it to be powered by the same beautiful retina display which has been powering the larger iPad for some…