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Sneha Bhardwaj April 17th, 2019 4:30 PM 0 COMMENTS

MTNL to Clear April Salaries of Employees Without Any Challenge

Crisis-ridden MTNL, whose revival package is in the works, has exuded confidence that it would not face any challenge in payment of April salaries to its 22,000 employees, as it plans to tap internal accruals and available cash. The comment assumes significance as distressed telecom PSUs Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) are saddled with massive debt and have faced problems in clearing staff salaries... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 17th, 2019 2:33 PM 0 COMMENTS

Twitter to Launch Hide Replies Feature in June

As part of the efforts to make its platform appear less toxic, Twitter is planning to give people an option to hide replies to their tweets, thereby giving users more control over the nature of conversation they would like to have on the platform. "Starting in June, we'll be experimenting with ways to give people more control over their conversations by giving them an option to hide replies to their... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 17th, 2019 10:32 AM 0 COMMENTS

OnePlus Secures 2% Market Share in Global Premium Smartphone Segment in 2018: Report

Apple continued to lead the global premium smartphone segment by capturing more than half of the market (51%) while OnePlus entered the top five brands (with 2% share) in this segment for the first time ever in 2018, a Counterpoint Research report said on Tuesday. According to Counterpoint Research's "Market Monitor 2018" report, the segment grew 14% year-on-year (YoY) in terms of sell-in and 18% YoY in terms of sell-through.... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 16th, 2019 7:14 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei Predicts 5G Subscriber Base to Reach 2.8 Billion by 2025

Chinese telecom major Huawei Technologies on Tuesday raised the market demand projection for 5G services and forecast the figure of 2.8 billion 5G users by 2025 and 58% global coverage by this ultra-fast spectrum-based services. "The 5G subscriber base will touch 2.8 billion by 2025 and 58% of the population will be covered by this technology-based services. A whopping 6.5 million base stations will be in use for supporting such... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 16th, 2019 3:40 PM 0 COMMENTS

India Should Address Spectrum Availability Issues to Make 5G a Success: Huawei

Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei on Tuesday said that India should address the constraints in the spectrum availability to make 5G technology-based services a success in the country. Speaking to IANS on the sidelines of the Huawei Global Analysts Summit 2019, Huawei Executive Director David Wang, who is also the company's ICT strategy head, also pointed out that the Indian telecom market is currently faced with excess competition. "Huawei would... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 16th, 2019 1:15 PM 0 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Reportedly Approached DoT for In-Flight Connectivity Licence

Reliance Jio Infocomm has approached the telecom department for in-flight connectivity licence, that allows service providers to offer connectivity and data services to Indian and foreign airlines, according to sources. Besides Jio, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has also received a clutch of other applications including those from Ortus Communications, Station Satcom and Cloud Cast Digital, sources privy to the development told PTI. Reliance Jio, however, declined to comment on... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 16th, 2019 10:23 AM 0 COMMENTS

Foxconn to Begin Mass Production of iPhones in India This Year

In a clear signal that India is Apple's next growth market, Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer Foxconn's Chairman Terry Gou said, on Monday, the company would begin mass production of iPhones in India this year. Addressing an event, Gou said the move "will get Foxconn more deeply involved in the development of the country's smartphone industry", reports Patently Apple. "In the future, we will play an important role in India's smartphone industry,"... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 15th, 2019 4:32 PM 0 COMMENTS

Panasonic Launches Lumix S Range of Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras in India

Panasonic on Monday launched its first full-frame mirrorless Lumix S series with two models for the Indian market. The Lumix S1 is priced at Rs 199,990 and with 24-105mm F4 lens, will cost Rs 267,990 while S1R is priced at Rs 299,990 (body only) and Rs 367,990 with a 24-105mm F4 lens. The series - Lumix S1 and S1R cameras with 24MP and 47.3MP full-frame CMOS sensor, respectively -- is based... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 15th, 2019 9:25 AM 1 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Reportedly Crossed 300 Million Subscriber Mark

Telecom operator Reliance Jio has crossed the 300 million customers mark in two-and-a-half years of its operations, sources said to PTI. The milestone was reached on March 2, they added. Queries sent to Jio on the matter remained unanswered. However, in its television commercials during the ongoing IPL season, Jio is shown 'Celebrating 300 million users'. Jio became the fastest company in the world to achieve 100 million telecom subscribers... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 14th, 2019 4:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Launches My Circle Safety App for Women in Collaboration With FICCI Organisation

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on Sunday launched a safety app My Circle - aimed at aiding women in the event of distress or an emergency situation, by sending an SOS alert. The carrier-agnostic app can be installed by both Airtel and non-Airtel customers. "My Circle app enables women to send SOS alerts to any five of their family or friends in 13 languages including... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 12th, 2019 7:17 PM 0 COMMENTS

Instagram Stories From Certain Users Said to Expose Data to Complete Strangers

Adding to the breach scandals surrounding Facebook and its family of apps, this time a bug on photo-messaging app Instagram exposed Stories from certain users to complete strangers. Out of Instagram's total global one billion followers, over 500 million users actively use the Stories feature and this incident, once again, raised major safety and privacy concerns among users. On Thursday, TechCrunch reported that it "first received word of the problem... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 12th, 2019 3:43 PM 0 COMMENTS

Disney+ Streaming to Launch in November 2019 to Take on Netflix

Taking on streaming giants like Netflix and Hulu, Walt Disney Co. has announced it will launch its new streaming service called Disney+ in November, at a price of $6.99 a month. This comes after the entertainment giant sealed the deal on its $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox. "The linchpin of Disney's streaming strategy, Disney+ will be an ad-free subscription service anchored by programming based on Disney's biggest franchises,... Read More