Amid the global outrage over Facebook’s plans to integrate chats among WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said this is going to be a long-term project. In an earnings call after announcing Facebook’s fourth-quarter results late Wednesday, Zuckerberg said they were early in thinking through the … Read More
Chinese handset maker Honor on Thursday announced that its new flagship smartphone “Honor View 20” would be available across Reliance Digital and My Jio Stores from February 6. There are over 700 Reliance Digital and My Jio stores, and with this exclusive partnership, Honor aims at making the smartphone accessible … Read More
The overall global smartphone market declined for the first time in 2018, registering a 4% drop from 1,558.8 million unit shipments in 2017 to 1,498.3 million units in 2018, Counterpoint Research said on Thursday. The fourth quarter smartphone shipments for 2018 recorded a decline of 7%, marking it the fifth … Read More
Ahead of the looming February 1 deadline for the switchover to the new broadcasting regime, telecom regulator Trai has asked DTH operators to honour pre-paid commitment on ongoing long-duration packs if the customer wishes to continue with them. The advisory which is being sent out to operators assumes significance as … Read More
Google has released a new interface design for the mobile version of Gmail that includes new visual implementations as well as feature additions. As part of the new design, users will be able to quickly view attachments like photos without having to open or scroll through the entire conversation, Nikolus … Read More
Although Apple CEO Tim Cook skipped mentioning India directly during the company’s earnings call with analysts, he stressed that there are several factors why iPhone sales are not picking up in the emerging markets. “The customers are holding on to their older iPhones a bit longer than in the past. … Read More
The Madras High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (Trai) March 2017 regulations and tariff order relating to fixation of charges for free and pay television channels. A division bench comprising justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad also upheld the January 31 deadline … Read More
China is fast tracking 5G network in the country to use the next generation telecom technology amidst escalating row with the US over the detention of Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer in Canada on charges of financial fraud. China has already launched the 5G service in Guangzhou airport, … Read More
After teasing the smartphone since the start of January, Huawei’ sub-brand, Honor today launched the Honor View 20 flagship smartphone in India. The View 20 is Honor’s first flagship handset to launch with the Kirin 980 chipset in India. The Honor View 20 comes with 48MP Artificial (AI)-driven rear camera … Read More
In a bid to improve location-based services, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is adding a new direction finding feature to the version 5.1, combining its existing object-tracking technology with radio direction to enable tracking a device to centimetre-level location accuracy. By including the new direction finding feature, Bluetooth proximity … Read More
As Apple faces pressure to grow its service business to compete with content giants like Netflix and Amazon, the company is reportedly planning to launch a subscription-based gaming service. Since the platform is in its early stages of development, it remains difficult to assume what kind of games would be … Read More
Expecting a positive revenue impact from the Trai’s proposed regulations, South India’s leading broadcaster Sun TV Network Ltd was on expansion mode investing Rs 300 crore in 2-3 years foraying into channels beyond south Indian languages. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in its new directive proposed to be … Read More
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