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Cyanogen Fires 20% Employees, To Focus On App Development Only
Cyanogen Inc., one of the most popular customer OS (based on Android) developer has reportedly fired around 20% of its workforce (around 30 of its 136 employees) in its OS development arm. The sources also mentioned that the company…
Automation Will Drive 1.8-3.7 Lakh IT Engineers Out Of Job; Campus Recruitment Drops to 7 Year Low
Nasscom has predicted a gloomy picture for the Indian IT industry; and not only freshers, but existing employees may feel the pinch of automation in the coming months.
As per current predictions by some of the leading research…
ixigo Launches ixibaba, A Chatbot That Will Answer All Your Travel Queries
We have always feared that bots will take over the world just like in Terminator, but that day is not coming anytime soon, at least not in the foreseeable future.
However, one can’t ignore the latest developments about the chatbots,…
Hurry Up! Microsoft Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer Ends On 29 July. Get Your Win 10 Copy Now!
If you are a Windows user then you might have heard about the free upgrade to Windows 10 that Microsoft has been offering for about a year now. Please check the Windows 10 specifications page to know if your device can run Windows 10.…
Internet Says No To Hatred – Google, Facebook, Microsoft Unite To Auto-Block Extremist Videos
Videos encouraging hatred and fueling anger, extremist viewpoints would be automatically blocked by leading Internet portals. If we leave aside the campaign to protect privacy, then this is the for the first time that Internet behemoths…
What is a Messenger Bot and How To Build One Easily!
A bot is simply a software which can talk to you and help you get things done. The reason they are suddenly so important is that now they have come on mainstream messengers like Kik, Telegram, Slack and most importantly in April 2016,…
Use of Pirated Software Comes Down in India, But Still Extremely High at 58%
Do you remember the days in late nineties and early 2000’s when you could get a pirated software CD from road side make-shift stall for Rs. 100 or even lesser? That single CD had pirated softwares worth thousands of dollars, be it…
Acche Din with IoT: How Internet of Things Will Revolutionize Our Lives
Indian cities have the biggest share in the nation’s GDP and generated employments for people but these cities have to undergo rapid urbanization to house thousands of families that migrate from around the state and from outside. There…
MAIT-Intel-Datamini Announce ‘JanUnnati Pad’; India’s First Aadhaar-Enabled PoS Tablet System
Aadhaar-enabled tablet-based PoS system is now a reality in India thanks to MAIT-Intel-Datamini. Named as ‘Janunnati Pad’ (Datamini TPOS7) this tablet makes life easier as it can facilitate the delivery of many digital services offered…
Now Watch DD channels Without Internet on Your Smartphone
Around a year back, Doordarshan was planning to launch a service that allowed people to watch select DD channels on their smartphones without the need of an internet service. Doordarshan has finally come out with the offline service…
Indian Techie Is A Co-Founder of Intelligent Oven Which Live Streams Cooking; Gets $22.5 Mln Funding
If we go by definition of ‘food tech’, then a intelligent oven called ‘June’ is a perfect fit. Never before in the history of food appliances, an innovation of such degree has been accomplished.
An Indian named Nikhil Bhogal is the…
Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla Announce ‘WebAssembly’- A Faster Web Standard
JavaScript is the programming language for most of the things on the internet. Web apps and webpages hugely rely on JS (JavaScript). Though JS is not the ideal programming language out there, it has become the standard of the web, but…
India Is Ready For Chandrayaan II Mission, Says ISRO Chief
The Chandrayaan I mission was a huge success, but the next Chandrayaan mission which slated to launch in 2013 was delayed to 2016 due to technical difficulties.
Recently, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief, A S Kiran,…
Google Docs Now Supports Voice. Bye-bye Keyboard!
It has been a while since Google Docs was updated with any new cool feature. Many of us use Google Docs for real-time collaboration purposes but Google wants to change that. The big G wants us to use Google Docs for taking notes and…
This is How Leap Year Can Ruin a Developer’s Life
by Nick Toscano
The first leap year was introduced with the Julian calendar over 2000 years ago. It wasn’t until 1582, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted, that special rules were applied to omit three leap years every 400 years…
Set Top Boxes Become Smarter; DTH Players to Introduce Internet Browsing & Apps
With the launch of Netflix in India, DTH(direct-to-home) companies have become slightly more aware of the needs of us customers. Not only are the plans lethargic, the flexibility is also lacking and the connections are not anything to…
The Catch-22 Situation For The Casual Technology User: To Be or Not To Be?
“You know, everybody has a cell phone, but I don’t know one person who likes their cell phone. I want to make a phone that people love” – Steve Jobs, few years before launching iPhone
Recently, a lady traveler called Namrata Mahajan…
Now get a Temporary Tech Tattoo to Monitor Your Health
Until now we were only aware of a technology wearable on your wrist which could perform a plethora of functions including paying at retail shops and monitoring your health. Little did we know that the world is evolving at such a rapid…
Cortana for Windows 10 to be Available in India this Month
Microsoft reportedly is all prepped up to release the first ever update to Windows 10, dubbed as the Threshold 2, on November 10. With the update just around the corner, it is anticipated that Cortana will be available to Indian users…
Lenovo Laptops Again Found To Carry Pre-Installed Spywares Which Sends Usage Data To 3rd Party
Lenovo is again in news; and once again, pre-installed, unauthorized spywares have been located in their refurbished laptops.
As per an investigation by Michael Horowitz from Computer World, it was shockingly discovered that some…