September 14th, 2017Scientists have developed a software that enables app developers to access the smartphone data they need for app functionality while assuring users that their private information is not being sold or misused.
A sleep-monitoring app, for instance, might need to access the smartphone's microphone, but only to register loudness, not to...
September 5th, 2017Using mobile phones during pregnancy is unlikely to adversely affect the child's brain development linked to language or movement abilities, a study claims.
Researchers from Norwegian Institute of Public Health found that children born to mobile phone users had a 27 per cent less risk of having lower sentence complexity, 14 per cent...
July 25th, 2017The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will have no impact on the smartphone demand in India, according to a latest telecom research.
A German research firm GfK found that smartphone demand in India remained resilient in 2017, having levelled out slightly to 14 per cent year-on-year.
"GfK expects the recently announced Goods and...
March 27th, 2017Chinese handset maker Xiaomi today said it plans to ramp up its offline distribution channel in the country and is targeting around 50 per cent of its turnover from this segment.
“Till now, our focus was on online sales. Now, we will focus both on online and offline distribution. We expect our share from offline to grow from current...
November 30th, 2016
REUTERS- India has the highest level of collaboration globally between sales and marketing departments to strengthen their relationship to drive business success and achieve revenue growth, showed a research by network tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, under pressure from shareholders to improve investor returns, said on Tuesday...
October 8th, 2016Search Engine giants Google's spends $3.2 Million in television ads in two days since it announced the upcoming launch of "Pixel" smartphone. The strategy of Google is to put Pixel in direct competition with the two dominant smartphone makers Apple & Samsung.
One of Google ad executives expect Google will spend hundreds of...
August 30th, 2016India's fifth largest private sector bank Yes Bank has announced the launch of 'Yes Pay', a digital wallet across Android and iOS mobile platforms.
As a new development in the realm of digital payments, Yes Pay is also built as a Facebook app. The fact that the wallet can be accessed through Facebook without any additional...
May 22nd, 2016Scientists have developed an app that crowdsources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect earthquakes and eventually warns users of impending jolts from nearby quakes.
The app called MyShake, developed by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, runs in the background and draws little power, so that a phones...
May 13th, 2016As Apple slugs it out with FBI on privacy issues, Indian govt has said strong encryption technology to secure data and communications in smartphones, including those made by the US-based firm, is a challenge for law enforcement agencies.
It said however that a tool for mobile forensics has been developed to handle smartphones...
May 5th, 2016The number of Internet users in the country is likely to reach 500 million this year, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
"India has grown to around 400 million Internet users. If we take Trai numbers then it is somewhere close to 332 million. As per service providers, they were telling me that up to date it is 402...
April 21st, 2016Chinese technology company LeEco today unveiled what it claimed to be the world's first driverless electric concept supercar.
The company, which has an aggressive strategy for Indian smartphone space, also launched three smartphones, Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2, and two premium televisions Le Super 4X50 and Pro/X50.
The LeSEE...
April 12th, 2016Karbonn Mobiles, India's low cost smartphone brand launched it's first virtual reality (VR) enabled smartphones with free VR headsets. This the first VR set from the company which looks to be getting back in the competition with the new launches in India.
The two VR headsets are Karbonn Quattro L52 and Karbonn Titanium Mach 6, priced...
