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Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

21Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

Four of the biggest technology companies are associating together to make it easier for the users to download and transfer their data between services. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter formally announced The Data Transfer Project (DTP) today, an open-source initiative to create new tools that ‘enable people to freely move their information across the web without any kind of hassle. The Data Transfer Project is an open source initiative “dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” With portability and interoperability as the goal, this reduces the problem of switching especially for people with limited data and then manually upload it to another product. W...

Vivo Nex Launches in India Featuring The Pop Up Camera

20Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Vivo Nex Launches in India Featuring The Pop Up Camera

Vivo, one of the leading Chinese multi-national smartphone manufacturers, has launched its VIVO NEX with “Elevating Camera” and “Ultra Full View” display in India. The main attraction of this smartphone is its pop-up camera along with edge-to-edge display with very little bezels, and in-display fingerprint scanner. The phone is priced at ₹44,990 and will be available for pre-order till July 25 exclusively on Amazon India and the company’s official website vivo.com. Recently, Vivo offered an Amazon Pay cashback of ₹1,000 on the phone during the Prime Day sale. Those who claimed the cashback will get the refund on their Amazon Pay balance on or before August 15. The attractive pop-up camera mechanism has only a front-facing 8MP selfie camera, unlike the Oppo Find X in ...

Rolls-Royce To Create Snakes and Beetles For Engine Maintenance

19Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Rolls-Royce To Create Snakes and Beetles For Engine Maintenance

Rolls Royce, one of the most popular engine maker is looking forward to a unique idea of introducing robots inspired by snakes and cockroaches for the purpose of inspecting and repairing the engines in the airlines. As a part of its so-called IntelligentEngine project, researchers from the company have expressed their plans for robotic snake and insect that will crawl inside engines to carry out inspections and perform maintenance. “We are in the process of developing a number of miniature devices that enable us to get inside the jet engine to perform inspections or repairs,” said Dr. James Kell, on wing technology specialist at Rolls-Royce. “Repairs can be in the form of removing damaged material or putting material back on. To allow us to perform these repairs, we are working with an...

Global Telephone Directory Truecaller Launched In-app Call Recording Feature

17Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Global Telephone Directory Truecaller Launched In-app Call Recording Feature

The global telephone directory Truecaller has now launched a new feature that will include call recording for its premium users on the Android version of the app. With this feature, the users will be able to record the incoming as well as the outgoing calls from within the app, with no need to install any other app for recording calls. As the users make or receive a call, he gets an option to record it, and then the recorded call is saved on the device locally. The company stated that this is a next move towards upgrading the "premium" offerings which aim to make communication safe and smooth. This will also help the users in reporting harassment related or fraudulent calls. The basic purpose of this move is to wash out the inconvenience that is caused by the fraudulent calls and ...

Microsoft Launches New AI Capabilities For Microsoft 365

13Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Microsoft Launches New AI Capabilities For Microsoft 365

The global technology firm Microsoft has launched fresh artificial intelligence (AI) powered capabilities in its Microsoft 365. This new feature will enable the people in an organization to make live and on-demand events. With the introduction of this new feature, events can now be seen in real-time or on-demand, with high-definition video and interactive discussion. "Today, we are introducing new ways Microsoft 365 connects people across their organization and improves collaboration habits, including new AI-infused capabilities," said Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft. Microsoft 365 was inaugurated a year back and its usage has increased by more than 100 percent, building on over 135 million commercial monthly Office 365 users, 200 million Windows 10 commercial devic...

Top 5 Camera Focused Smartphones in India

12Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Top 5 Camera Focused Smartphones in India

Nowadays, the main attraction of smartphones is the camera. The young population generally focuses on the camera quality and megapixels while purchasing a smartphone. The leading phone makers in the Indian market have introduced a number of phones that have a great quality camera. Here, we have a list of top 5 smartphones that lead the smartphone market in terms of the camera quality and features. 1) Google Pixel 2 XL Google’s Pixel 2 XL, today, is the best smartphone to buy if the major focus of the buyer is the camera. If the user has the required budget, then he is not required to think twice while purchasing this particular device. The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are meant for Android phone lovers who want the best possible camera. The company is also large and depen...

Reliance Jio Phone 2 Launches at Rs 2,999: Specifications and Plans

10Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Reliance Jio Phone 2 Launches at Rs 2,999: Specifications and Plans

Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd, at the Annual General Meeting in Mumbai, launched the Jio Phone 2 and announced that the device will be priced at Rs 2,999. Also, the chairman came up with a new offer under which the users can exchange their old feature phone for a new Jio Phone by just paying Rs 501. The QWERTY phone will be available for sale from August 15th at an introductory price of Rs 2,999. It will have extra features like Whatsapp, Facebook and Youtube. Talking about the Monsoon Hungama Scheme, Ambani said, "Under this offer, by exchanging your old feature phone, you can get a brand new Jio Phone for an effective entry price of just Rs 501.” “Starting 15th August, we have another exciting offer for common Indians. They can purchase our Jio Phone 2...

9Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Netflix To Remove The Review Feature

Netflix, the world’s leading online video streaming platform is reportedly going to discontinue an existing feature from August that earlier enabled the users to read and write reviews of the several movies and TV series. Netflix is a streaming video giant that allows the users to watch a wide variety of award-winning TV shows, movies, documentaries, and more on thousands of Internet-connected devices. The users who want to share their views on a show or movie will only be able to do it till the 30th of July and after that, the feature will be gone. Posting and sharing reviews has been a part of Netflix for a number of years now that helped the users to know how the movie or show is before even watching it. Also, Netflix once brought the rating scale feature in which the users could ...

Apple Expected To Launch These Three Colourful iPhones This Autumn

6Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Apple Expected To Launch These Three Colourful iPhones This Autumn

Apple, the leading player in the smartphone market, is gearing up to come up and introduce three iPhone lines this autumn. The company is expected to completely change its iPhone platform to OLED screens in the upcoming models. "Apple has decided to put OLED in all new iPhone models in 2019," a source said. "However, if there are more than three new models, an LCD model may be maintained." Out of the three iPhone models, one will be a 5.8-inch iPhone X with higher specifications and a lesser price. This particular model is said to take the $1000 price point from the iPhone X, and therefore, it will be less expensive priced around $700. The second iPhone will be a fresh model of 6.5-inch iPhone X Plus with an OLED screen. And the third one will we a 6.1-inch iPhone along with Face ...

The Camera Slider Oppo Find X Smartphone Launched in India: Specifications and Price

4Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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The Camera Slider Oppo Find X Smartphone Launched in India: Specifications and Price

The global electronics company Oppo launched its latest smartphone under the name ‘Find X’. The smartphone maker has launched a number of unique and highly attractive Android power smartphones in the past and now, it has launch the camera slider phone Find X. The company claims that “Oppo Find X is the world’s first panoramic designed phone, embracing the beauty of nature into a leading technology product”. To create a flow like gradient effect, the company has used an innovative multifaceted color process due to which the phone shines gracefully at different angles. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 845 chipset and 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage, which will be based on Android Oreo. Since Oppo manufactures camera-centric smartphones, the company has giv...

Google launches Indie Accelerator Programme for Asian Startups

29Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Google launches Indie Accelerator Programme for Asian Startups

Google has announced a new four-month training programme for gaming startups and developers in Asia as a special edition of Google Launchpad Accelerator. Dubbed as "Indie Games Accelerator Programme", Google is targetting gaming start-ups based in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam who will have an opportunity to work with mentors from Google and the gaming industry. Anuj Gulati, Developer Marketing Manager, Google Play, stated in a blog post, We're always looking for new ways to support developers. So, as a special edition of the Launchpad Accelerator, we're announcing a new four-month Indie Gaming Accelerator to train promising developers from these countries in Asia. How will startups benefit from the program? Under the p...

28Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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5 Best Tech Gifts Under $500

Bringing Joy and Happiness in the life of our loved ones is one of the most overwhelming feelings one can encounter in life. Given the fast-paced technology-driven times we are living in, what could be better than gifting some fabulous gadgets to your pals, friends or family. The surprising part, these gadgets need not be exorbitantly priced! Believe it or not, If you are looking for some of the handiest tech options that come reasonably priced, we have got it sorted for you with our list of top gadgets under $500 for your tech-savvy family, friends, and companions. xFyro waterproof earbuds: Price: $125 to $349 When it comes to earbuds, xfyro cannot afford to have your complaints! The award-winning engineers at xFyro audio created the most advanced pair of *waterproof earbuds* o...