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This Is Scary! Samsung Smart TVs Are Inserting Advts In User’s Own Personal Media
Recently, a Samsung Smart TV user was watching streamlined online media when suddenly a pop-up advertisement from Pepsi covered his screen for few seconds. After every 20-25 minutes, one such ad appeared, which left him bewildered and…
Uber App Updated With In-App Safety & SOS Features. Also, Book Uber Cabs on Google Maps!
Over last couple of months, Uber has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. In India, it has had a tough time off-late. The rape incident earlier last month raised questions about the safety of travelers in their cabs. They have…
Indian Mobile Subscriber Stats: 944M Total, 833M Active, 143M MNP Requests [Dec 14]
TRAI’s December Telecom subscription report is out, and according to it month of December 2014 saw addition of 6.92 million new mobile subscribers. In 2014, December saw 3rd highest growth numbers after Feb and Jan. Unlike, previous 2…
Have Smart TV At Home? Be Careful, It May Record & Relay Private Data To 3rd Party!
As kids, most of us would be intrigued when parents nudged each other and then headed to the adjoining room for a private conversation- so that kids could not overhear the whole thing and then spill the beans at the most unexpected and…
Xiaomi’s New Policy Mantra for India: Think Global; Act Local
World’s third largest smartphone vendor, and ‘Apple of China’, Xiaomi has taken a unique business and marketing approach, which is enabling them to soar newer heights of success and growth.
It seems that their sole focus right now…
Micromax Launches Ultra Cheap Pouch-packed Phone at Rs 699
Micromax has just launched their cheapest phones: Joy X1800 and Joy X1850 which are priced at Rs 699 and Rs 749 respectively. These are basic feature phones, which have been packed in a pouch, instead of a box. Again, one of the firsts that…
Kolkata Becomes India’s First WiFi Metro City
Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal stirred the existing Digital India campaign when she tweeted:
All my WiFi friends, I am tweeting using #WiFiKolkata. So proud to be first WiFi Metro city in India. Congratulations to us…
State of Mobile Advertising – India 2nd Biggest Market Globally; Apple Rules Revenues
Opera Mediaworks, which is one of the largest mobile advertisement platforms in the world with 350 million+ users has just released their ‘State of Mobile Advertising’ report for 2014. Opera has 50 million+ users of their ‘Opera Mini…
By 2019, India Will have 651M Smartphones. Mobile Traffic To Witness 13-fold Rise: Cisco
Unlike most of the developed countries, India has skipped the Desktop generation and have directly moved to mobile/smartphone generation. And, this clearly evident based on the number of mobiles that have been sold in last decade. And…
Micromax Increases Lead Against Samsung In India. 1B Android Phones Shipped Globally.
Android has become the first operating system ever to ship one billion smartphones, globally. As per a report on global smartphone sales by Strategy Analysis, it was revealed that in 2013, Android shipped 0.8 billion handsets, which has…
OnePlus One Sold 65k Units In India, 900k Globaly [Stats]
After the pompous launch of one of the most anticipated phones of the year 2014, OnePlus One kept its calm and let its phone OnePlus One do the talking. You might have heard a lot of the OnePlus unless you are living on a different…
Vodafone, Idea, Tata & BSNL Have The Most Unsatisfied Postpaid Customers.
Postpaid customers have a major drawback as compared to pre-paid customers – they never know what they will be faced with in their bills at the end of the month. Majority of postpaid customers have at one time or other have got nasty…
OxygenOS, Everything You Want To Know About The New OnePlus ROM
The Micromax - OnePlus One fiasco has given birth to a new ROM and it has been christened as OxygenOS. OnePlus has been working on their new ROM for a few months now, and seems it will soon be available to Indian OnePlus One users.…
Wickr WTF, A Messaging App That Keeps Your Social Photos Private With Cat Pics
You could be seeing a lot more cats on your Facebook newsfeed soon.
We already have enough of those kittens and cat memes bombarded upon us, much to our annoyance.
On Tuesday, Wickr, an encrypted messaging app for privacy lovers,…
Xiaomi Mi4 Launched For Rs.19,999 [Full Details]
Xiaomi has had a great success in India with its earlier flagshipMi3. Now, it is bringing the latest phone from its stables to India: The Mi4. The phone itself is not new, albeit this will mark its official entry in the Indian market.…
Hike Messenger One Ups WhatsApp, Introduces Free Voice Calling
India’s very own instant messenger, Hike, had a unique gift for all its users on the occasion of 66th Republic Day, 2015. Hike Messenger has now enabled free voice calling in the latest update!
A brain child of Kavin Bharti Mittal…
Pan-India MNP From May 3rd, TRAI Launches Mobile App For Customer Feedback
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made two major announcements in the last few days, which can have major impact on the way telecom services are being used currently:
Pan-India Mobile Number Portability from May 3rd…
WhatsApp Comes To Web. Uses Chrome To Mirror Conversations
There are over 700 million WhatsApp users in the world who use WhatsApp through their mobile devices. Now, they have an additional platform through which they can send and receive messages – from their desktop using Chrome Browser.…
Airtel Retains Nokia Networks To Build 1800 MHz 4G Network In 6 Telecom Circles
The evolution of fast speed internet will see another raise with Nokia Siemens Networks being selected by Bharti Airtel to build the country’s first 4G network on 1800 MHz band. The deal is pegged at a price of $200 million (INR 1,240 cr).…
Mumbai Based Firm Creates Super-Affordable Chip to ‘Correct’ Radiations Emitted By Your Mobile…
Living constantly with devices like cell phones, Wi-fi, laptops, etc, all of us are constantly exposed to electromagnetic radiations and thermal emissions of these devices. At the same time, these are an integral part of our lives and…