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Bharti Airtel customers will now be credited back half of data used by them during night
Bharti Airtel customers will now be credited half of data used by them during night, and will also be able to download unlimited songs and five movies per month on Wynk mobile application for free.
This offer comes as part of the company’s strategy to attract more smartphone users on its network.
While Airtel has launched the data cash back offer for pre-paid customers, the same will be extended to po

Moto X Force is a Moto X Style with shatterproof display (Source: Motorola)
Motorola has announced a new Moto X smartphone called Moto X Force. The claim to fame is its shatterproof display which Motorola claims can resist any type of surface. Moto X Force is the international version of Verizon exclusive Droid Turbo 2 in US.
The Moto X force is basically a supercharged Moto X Style or Pure that was announced in the month of July and launched in India on October 8. The smartphone features a 5.4

TRAI asks telecom service providers to be ready to compensate consumers for call drops from January 1
Telecom regulator Trai has asked mobile service providers to ready their systems to compensate consumers for call drops from January 1.
And in the meantime, it has expressed its willingness to examine the issues raised by them.
“I have made it very clear. It’s a valid regulation. Neither overturned by a competent authority, nor annulled, modified or cancelled. The operators must tak

Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar says Facebook has made changes to Free Basics which aligned it more with net neutrality.
After meeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as part of a high power delegation which also included BJP’s Anurag Thakur and Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien, Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrashekhar, who has been a vocal advocate of net neutrality, on Thursday said he got the sense the social network had made changes that aligned it more with net neutrality

IBM launched ‘Bluemix’ in 2014, growing rapidly to become the largest Cloud Foundry deployment in the world.
Technology giant IBM India Private Ltd and Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge (TASK) have agreed to collaborate in bringing the IBM Cloud experience to the engineering colleges of the state.
“Faculty and students thereby get access to the IBM Cloud and an opportunity to develop their Cloud skills, that is in demand in the IT industry today,” a joint stateme

Sony has launched it’s new series of hi-resolution audio compatible headphones and earphones in India starting at a price of Rs 12,990.
Sony has launched it’s new series of hi-resolution audio compatible headphones and earphones in India starting at a price of Rs 12,990.
The two new headphones launched by Sony are MDR-100AAP and MDR-B950BT. Both MDR-100AAP and MDR-XB950BT are priced at Rs 12,990. The company has also launched two new earphones, MDR-EX750NA and MDR-EX750AP,

Skype Mojis are short movie clips from top Bollywood movies produced by Yash Raj Films and ErosNow
Skype today launched Bollywood specific mojis in partnership with Yash Raj Films and ErosNow. Skype Mojis are short clips from popular Bollywood movies and TV shows.
With the new update, Skype users can reply to messages with mojis featuring Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Anushka Sharma etc. Skype mojis will be available on Skype for Windows desktop, Mac, Android, iOS and Skype

The competition among tech brands in India just got a bit more tougher. China-based internet multinational Letv has announced its decision to enter the Indian market by early 2016, with Founder Jia Yueting saying as much at an event in Beijing.
The company, which has a bouquet of devices from smartphones and TVs to stakes in transportation, film and entertainment, said that it “would be looking at replicating its highly successful content-device ecosystem in the country, providing users w

OnePlus Onyx priced Rs 16,999 will be available through an invite only flash sale on Amazon.in starting November 5.
Within three months of the launch of flagship OnePlus 2 smartphone, Chinese startup OnePlus is back with the OnePlus X. This new phone, the third from OnePlus, will be available in Onyx and Ceramic versions. The Onyx version is priced Rs 16,999 and will be available through an invite only flash sale on Amazon.in on November 5. The Ceramic version will cost Rs 22,999 but will

The balloons will begin hovering in the stratosphere above Indonesia in an expansion of the project announced Wednesday.
Google’s Internet-beaming balloons are ready to take off on the next phase of their mission to deliver online access in regions where most people live offline.
The balloons will begin hovering in the stratosphere above Indonesia in an expansion of the project announced Wednesday. About 250 million people live in the country composed of about 17,000 islands in that part

The annual report by non-government watchdog Freedom House said the setbacks were especially noticeable in the Middle East, reversing gains seen in the Arab Spring.
Global online freedom declined for a fifth consecutive year as more governments stepped up electronic surveillance and clamped down on dissidents using blogs or social media, a survey showed today.
The annual report by non-government watchdog Freedom House said the setbacks were especially noticeable in the Middle East, reversing ga

In the second quarter, Twitter’s number of monthly average users grew at the slowest pace since it went public in 2013.
Twitter Inc gave a disappointing revenue forecast and reported slower user growth than expected, pushing shares of the microblogging company down more than 10 percent.
The forecast, which came even as Twitter beat third-quarter profit and revenue estimates, suggested that more time is needed for a turnaround as social media competition grows from the likes of Facebook an