Month: January 2020

Apple’s much-awaited online store in India will be operational starting Q3 this year, a little longer than previously expected, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The iPhone-maker said in August last year that it was “eager to serve [customers of India] online and in-store with the same experience and care that Apple customers
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Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the U.S. and Canada, including major metros like New York, L.A, San Francisco, Seattle, D.C., Boston, Dallas, Chicago, and many others. The goal with the new
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Motorola appears to have a new smartphone in development with a 5,000mAh battery. The new Motorola phone, which appears to carry model number XT2055-2, is rumoured to be codenamed “Blackjack.” A US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) listing of the unannounced model has surfaced to hint at its dimensions and suggest the display size. Alongside the
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Last year saw global smartphone sales decline for the first time since analysts started tracking such things. In Gartner’s case, that comprises a full 11 years, as figures dropped 2% for 2019. Following on last week’s global device forecast, the firm is drilling down on smartphone figures with some slightly rosier results. According to the
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  The Federal Communications Commission on Monday authorized commercialization of OnGo services in the 3.5GHz CBRS band, a move that promises to deliver faster, more reliable cellular data connectivity for compatible devices like Apple’s iPhone. An effort led by the 159-member Citizens Broadcast Radio Service Alliance, OnGo is a set of shared spectrum solutions designed
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Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. Dom Hofmann, the co-founder of the long-lost but never-forgotten Vine, has launched Byte. This is a new way to create and share short videos. So Byte is not only the spiritual successor to Vine, but also direct competition to
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  Despite hardware and software improvements over 2018’s model, Apple’s iPhone dropped six spots on imaging specialist DxOMark’s front-facing camera quality charts as competition from the likes of Huawei and Samsung heats up. According to a comprehensive review of iPhone 11 Pro Max published by DxOMark on Monday, the smartphone’s 12-megapixel selfie camera, and ostensibly
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Affiliate Disclosure: By buying the products we recommend, you help keep the site alive. Read more. A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is an easy way to link two locations like they are using the same local network. Once the reserve of large organizations and businesses, people now use VPNs to protect privacy, enhance security,
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In a sensational revelation, an investigation on Monday claimed that the popular Avast antivirus — installed on nearly 435 million Windows, Mac, and mobile devices globally — harvested users’ data via browser plugins and then sold it to third parties, including Microsoft and Google. The joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag that relied on leaked
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Researchers from Stanford University have developed a soft and stretchable battery for wearable electronics that relies on a special type of plastic to store power more safely than flammable material used in the conventional batteries today. The adoption of wearable electronics has so far been limited by their need to derive power from bulky, rigid
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Oppo smartwatch is rumoured to be in development with a technology to measure electrocardiogram (ECG). The smartwatch is said to offer ECG monitoring similar to the Apple Watch. At its “Inno Day 2019” conference in Shenzhen last month, Oppo announced its plans to launch smartwatches, alongside smart wireless headphones, and 5G customer-provided equipment (CPE), in
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Intel on Thursday cemented the market view that the chip industry is turning around after a prolonged slowdown, forecasting better 2020 revenue and profit than Wall Street anticipated, driven by cloud computing demand. The company’s sales in its closely watched data centre business jumped 19 percent, helping it beat fourth-quarter profit and revenue estimates and
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Stock market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is in the process of creating a data lake project to augment its analytical capability and surveillance specifically aimed at social media, Chairman Ajay Tyagi said on Thursday. “Social media platforms are increasingly being used by manipulators for market manipulation. Regulators worldwide are increasingly acknowledging
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Facebook has blamed Apple’s operating system for the hacking of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ phone, saying WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is unhackable. Investigators believe that Bezos’s iPhone was compromised after he received a 4.4MB video file containing malware via WhatsApp – in the same way when phones of 1,400 select journalists and human rights
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