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Airtel Digital TV users on Monday were annoyed by being shown a service message containing a resolution code. The message that included a complaint number and a resolution code emerged randomly on the TV screens of various Airtel Digital TV customers. Several affected users posted messages on social media complaining about the issue. Separately, some

Samsung Galaxy Note S10 Lite – the watered-down version of the Galaxy S10 that is poised to heat up competition in the affordable flagship segment – is all set to go on sale in India. The sale will kick off at 12am midnight later today via online stores as well as brick-and-mortar outlets. The Galaxy

Uber has suspended the accounts of 240 users in Mexico who may have been in contact with drivers that ferried a person suspected of having the deadly coronavirus. More than 300 people have died from the novel coronavirus in mainland China and although more than 100 people have been infected outside the country, Mexico has

Need more proof that Amazon is big? It came this week. Amazon’s U.S. workforce has topped 500,000 for the first time, up 43% from the year before and more than triple what it was five years ago, the company said Friday. It gained 150,000 workers last year, more than the size of Apple’s entire workforce.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said a scheme on encourage manufacturing of mobile phones, semiconductor packaging and electronic equipment is on the anvil. Making the announcement in the Budget speech, she said: “There is a cost advantage for electronics manufacturing in India”. But she says that this needs more investment. “I propose a scheme

The Union Budget introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today touched upon several sectors and brought remedial measures to revive the faltering growth. In the technology and science sector, the government announced a new electronics manufacturing scheme, eased the burden of tax on startups, proposed to enable private firms to build data centre parks throughout

Apple has begun the trial production of the much awaited iPhone 9 units as the official launch of the inexpensive iPhone is now less than two weeks away. A new report by MyDrivers claims the iPhone SE successor is already going through trial production. “Apple has finally started trial production of the highly anticipated iPhone

An international team of astrophysicists witnessed how the spinning of a celestial body twists space and time, further confirming Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. The findings published in the journal Science are the result of an effort of two decades tracking the orbit of an exotic stellar pair, two stars rotating around each other at

Today is Budget day and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is all set to present the Union Budget 2020 in the parliament. The budget speech is likely to begin at 11am, and Sitharaman is likely to announce revival measures to spur growth and spending. The budget can be watched live on NDTV channels on TV, NDTV

We’re about a week away before Samsung unveils its Galaxy flagships for 2020, during which time, we hope to see its new foldable too. Information regarding the Galaxy Z Flip has been heavily leaked in the past few weeks, and now we have some more teasers about its possible highlight features. The outer display on

Novel Coronavirus can derail Chinese smartphone makers’ India plans in 2020 as China lockdown, in the long run, can severely impact the flow of key components required to assemble smartphones at their manufacturing plants in India. According to industry experts, if the lockdown continues for over a month or so, it will hamper the time-to-market

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip is the company’s alleged second foldable phone, and its recent renders suggest that the device will come with a clamshell-like foldable frame, a hole-punch display, and dual rear cameras at the back. The phone has now been spotted on the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), revealing compatible signal bands. The bands

SpiceJet has reportedly confirmed a security flaw that exposed private details of 1.2 million passengers, including flight information. The information is said to have been found in an unencrypted database file after a security researcher gained access to a SpiceJet system by brute forcing the password. For now, confirmed details about the hack remain scarce,

British cybersecurity company Avast will close the Jumpshot analytics business at the centre of a data privacy scandal, it said on Thursday, putting hundreds of jobs at risk and deepening a slide in its shares. Avast allegedly collected data on what many of its users did online and sent it to Jumpshot, which then offered

Sophisticated hackers infiltrated UN networks in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation that top officials at the world body kept largely quiet. The hackers’ identity and the extent of the data they obtained are not known. An internal confidential document from the United Nations, leaked to The New Humanitarian and seen

Samsung on Wednesday said it will launch a 5G tablet in South Korea on Thursday, what it calls the world’s first 5G tablet. The Galaxy Tab S6 5G, the world’s first 5G tablet, will go on sale for KRW 999,900 (roughly Rs. 60,500) in the domestic market on Thursday, according to Samsung. The company has

Xiaomi’s Mi 10 Pro has been in the rumour mill for a while now, and a bit of fresh code digging lends more weight to the claims of a probable launch of the Pro variant alongside the Mi 10 flagship. The Mi 10 Pro has been spotted in a recent MIUI 11 update code, and

Buoyed by iPhone 11 sales, Apple registered double-digit growth in India for iPhone models in the holiday quarter (October-December period), the company’s CEO Tim Cook has announced. “We grew double digits in emerging markets led by strong performances in Brazil, mainland China, India, Thailand, and Turkey,” Cook told analysts after declaring all-time high revenue for

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

Honor Sport and Honor Sport Pro are set to go on sale in India from Thursday, January 30. Both Bluetooth-powered headphones were launched alongside the Honor 9X smartphone, Honor Magic Watch 2 smartwatch, and Honor Band 5i fitness band earlier this month. The new headphones by the Chinese brand are targeted at fitness enthusiasts with

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

Motorola brought back the Razr branding with its latest foldable flip smartphone. The new Motorola Razr has a folding display that gets tucked away when the phone is closed. This is an innovative design and among the first in the market. In order to prevent users from having issues with their devices, the company has

Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 are set to launch in India on Wednesday, January 29. The South Korean giant has announced the launch schedule through a social media post on Monday. To recall, the Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 were unveiled in Vietnam last month. Both new Galaxy A-series phones come with an

Samsung Galaxy M21, which is believed to be the successor to the Galaxy M20, has surfaced on benchmark site Geekbench with key specifications. The benchmark listing comes weeks after the Galaxy M21 was tipped with 64GB and 128GB storage options. The new Galaxy M-series phone is rumoured to come in multiple colour options and run

After facing backlash from its users, Google announced on Twitter that it will test more variations and changes to the desktop search results. Last week, Google introduced a new design for desktop Search that adds site ‘favicons’ to every result which did not go well with users. A ‘favicon’, also known as a shortcut icon,

Content moderators at Facebook and YouTube in Europe and in the US have been asked to sign forms detailing that the job may cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to The Financial Times and The Verge, global professional services firm Accenture which provides content moderators for big tech firms have asked them to sign a

Motorola seems to have a new smartphone in the pipeline with a dedicated stylus pen. The new model has been leaked online and could be called the Moto G Stylus, if we believe a listing on the Canadian government site. Motorola last year unveiled its Moto G7 smartphones in February. This suggests that we may

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revised the Rs. 1,188 prepaid recharge plan by reducing its validity from the previous 365 days to 300 days. Called “Marutham,” the Rs. 1,188 prepaid plan was earlier provided until January 21, 2020. BSNL, however, has extended its availability to March 31 as a part of its latest revision.

OnePlus 6T and OnePlus 6 have started receiving OxygenOS 10.3.1 update based on Android 10. The latest software update brings a list of bug fixes that were introduced through the original Android 10 release for both the OnePlus 6T and OnePlus 6. Additionally, OnePlus has mentioned that the update includes the December 2019 Android security

Telegram, a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app, on Friday announced an addition of new feature called ‘Polls 2.0’ for conducting various types of polls within the chat groups and channels. With this, the users can now explore three new kinds of Telegram Polls – Visible Votes, Multiple Answers, and Quiz Mode. Polls 2.0 aims