After leading the pack with an Apple stock price climb in early December, Cowen has done so again just over a month later, hiking the price target to $350 on the strength of Services and the upcoming iPhone lineup. iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max In a note to investors seen by
Chipmaker Broadcom said on Thursday it has entered into two multi-year agreements with Apple for the supply of wireless components used in its products. The agreements, “2020 SOWs”, are in addition to the existing ones for supplying radio frequency components and modules to the iPhone maker and together could generate as much as $15 billion
Sony is reportedly gearing up to bring its PlayStation Now subscription-based cloud game streaming service to India later this year. If you are unaware, PlayStation Now lets players stream PlayStation games on their PS4 or PC. It also allows cloud save, which means users can resume their session on any PC or PlayStation 4 console
Celebrating 71st Republic Day, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has reportedly increased the validity of the Rs. 1,999 prepaid recharge plan to offer additional 71 days. The new offer is said to be valid from January 26. The Rs. 1,999 BSNL prepaid recharge plan normally offers 365 days of validity. However, the latest offer extends
It seems like every company making lidar has a new and clever approach, but Baraja takes the cake. Its method is not only elegant and powerful, but fundamentally avoids many issues that nag other lidar technologies. But it’ll need more than smart tech to make headway in this complex and evolving industry. To understand how
Snapchat and NBC Olympics are again teaming up to produce customized Olympics content for users in the U.S. — this time, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer. The companies had previously worked together during the Rio 2016 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympics. The PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games in 2018 reached over 40 million U.S. users,
Trump has continued his push for Apple to unlock iPhones on demand by law enforcement, claiming the company has “the keys to so many criminals and criminal minds.” Trump has repeated his previous demand that Apple help investigators unlock iPhones tied to criminal cases. “Apple has to help us. And I’m very strong on
Xerox Holdings said on Thursday it plans to nominate 11 independent candidates to HP’s board, seeking to take control of the personal computer maker after several rejections of its $33.5 billion buyout offer. The US printer maker made the cash-and-stock offer to HP, a company more than three times its size, in November. HP’s board
YouTube is the default video streaming platform for almost everyone with Internet access. Be it movie trailers, live events, comedy sketches, tutorials, or a Web series – YouTube is the home to it all, then some more. But you don’t always have access to a Wi-Fi or data connection, and in such situations, the ability
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that its latest amendments to TV broadcast sector tariffs aim to ensure transparency and non-discrimination in channel rates. The TRAI had earlier this month issued new tariff rules by which prices of the Network Capacity Fee (NCF) were lowered to Rs.
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which was introduced in Lok Sabha in the winter session last year, has been referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) of both the Houses. The JPC has been constituted under the chairmanship of New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi for examination and report. “It has been decided to seek
iPhone maker Apple on Thursday pushed back against EU lawmakers’ call for a common charger, warning the move could hamper innovation, create a mountain of electronic waste and irk consumers. Apple’s comments came a week after lawmakers at the European Parliament called for a common charger for all mobile phones and amended a draft law
Google I/O 2020 is set to take place between May 12 and May 14. The search giant announced the dates officially just hours after releasing a puzzle to tease its next annual developer conference. If we look at history, Google is likely to introduce Android 11 preview at the I/O conference alongside unveiling the Pixel
Oppo F15 is set to go on sale in India tomorrow. The sale will take place through Amazon, Flipkart, and offline retailers in the country. The Oppo phone was launched in the country last week. It is designed to compete against the likes of the Realme X2 and Vivo S1 Pro with specifications such as
Lidar sensors are likely to be essential to autonomous vehicles, but if there are none of the latter, how can you make money with the former? Among the industry executives I spoke with, the outlook is optimistic as they unhitch their wagons from the sputtering star of self-driving cars. As it turns out, a few
Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by Aki Technologies. Aki CEO Scott Swanson told me that he’s anticipating serious growth in the demand for ad personalization, particularly as consumers see personalization everywhere else online. Swanson argued that Eyeview’s technology stands out thanks to
Apple has hit back at new proposals by European lawmakers to force smartphone and other device producers to use a universal standard charger, claiming attempts to make it switch from Lightning to another type of connection could cause consumer aggravation and stifle innovation. On January 13, the European Commission and the European Parliament reignited
Just a day after wrapping up its Republic Day special sale, Flipkart is back with a brand new sale on electronics. The Walmart-owned company has started its Grand Gadgets Days sale from today. The four-day sale promises discounts worth up to 80 percent on popular laptops, headphones, smart home products, accessories, and more. In case
Huawei Band 4 has finally made its way to the Indian market. Following its unveiling in China back in October last year, the Huawei Band 4 has now been launched in India. The Huawei Band 4 features a 0.96-inch colour display and shares design similarities with the Honor Band 5i. Key highlights of the Huawei
Nearly 100 Indian women politicians faced abuse, including rape and death threats, on social media during elections last year, with researchers on Thursday raising concerns over rising online violence against women globally. A study by Amnesty International India said 95 female politicians received nearly 1 million hateful mentions on Twitter between March and May, one
Samsung, which once led India’s smartphone market, is investing $500 million in its India operations to set up a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of New Delhi to produce displays. The company disclosed the investment and its plan in a filing to the local regulator earlier this month. The South Korean giant said the plant
Losing access to Google software and services understandably threw Huawei for a loop. The Chinese hardware giant has clearly been working on a contingency plan to deal with the loss of access to things like Android and the Play Store, but Google’s offering formed so much of the devices’ software core — as they do
DxOMark testing has proven the iPhone 11 to be a very capable device that offers improvements over the iPhone XS Max’s dual-camera setup, and with some elements comparable with the Pro models. An independent benchmark that assesses the image quality of smartphones, lenses, and cameras, has finally released its review of the iPhone 11’s
Technology has made our lives easier, but one school of thought has always argued that technology has also made us lazier. The rapid rise in automation has led to people doing a lot less physical work. But technology companies have a solution to this rising problem as well – fitness bands. What’s the deal with
Xiaomi on Thursday announced that it has officially revised the pricing of Redmi K20 Pro smartphone in India. Notably, this is hardly a new pricing for the phone as the company has consistently been selling both 6GB and 8GB RAM variants of the phone at the so-called revised pricing since mid-December, many times as a
Smart speaker manufacturer Sonos has announced that the company is going to drop support for some of its products. Sonos stopped selling these devices a few years ago. While nothing lasts forever, dropping support is going to have a lot of implications and shows once again that the connected home isn’t as future-proof as expected.
Phones were not the centerpiece at the recently wrapped Consumer Electronics Show; I’ll probably repeat this point a few more times over the course of this piece, just so we’re clear. This is due, in no small part, to the fact that Mobile World Congress has mostly usurped that role. There are always a smattering
Canon announced the EOS-1D X Mark III on the sidelines of CES 2020, and now, Canon has launched its flagship DSLR camera in India. The camera will set you back Rs. 5,75,995 for just the body, which is the same price Canon India had tweeted around the time of the announcement. However, we now know
Two UN officials will report on Wednesday that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate, a person familiar with the matter said. The United Nations’ officials plan a public statement asserting that they found credible a forensic report
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