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Jawbone India today shared an interesting insight on sleep and activity patterns of Jawbone UP users across the country. While the report was aggregated from all user, it focused more on urban cities like New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Panaji and Pune.“The average sleep time is mostly uniform at around six and half hours in all cities, with Panaji (Goa) getting the most sleep. Ironically, more sleep does not make Panaji a lazy city. To the contrary, more sleep

M812 and M370, will get the latest Android update, Marshmallow by the year end.
Two phones by InFocus, M812 and M370, will get the latest Android update, Marshmallow by the year end, the company said.
The InFocus M812 smartphone comes with metal unibody design and features a 5.5-inch full HD Display. It is priced at Rs 19,999. It runs on Snapdragon 801 processor and has 3GB RAM and 16GB internal memory,expandable up to 128GB.
The InFocus M812 sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual LED flas

The 4,000mAh power banks come in blue, green, yellow, rose pink, black and white colours.
Karbonn announced the launch of its power bank range on online retail platform, Flipkart. It unveiled a 4,000 Lithium-polymer power bank for Rs 649, which will be Flipkart exclusive.
The company also said that the 5,000mAh and 10,000mAh variant with dual charging ports and LED indicators launched earlier this year are available on the e-commerce website.
“Consumer demand for power banks has exploded

We are looking at smartphones priced under Rs 15,000 and offering best performance in the price range.
Diwali is definitely the perfect time to upgrade your smartphones and if you are moving from a Rs 10k or cheaper smartphone to a more premium one, these are the five best options under Rs 15,000 right now.Moto G
No prizes for guessing, Moto G still sets the benchmark for best budget smartphone. Motorola’s budget offering now in its 3rd generation has one of the fastest cameras in the ran

Facebook is testing out a new feature on Messenger called Photo Magic, which will scan photos using facial recognition and notify users to send these pictures to a friends.
Facebook is testing out a new feature on Messenger called Photo Magic, which will scan photos using facial recognition and notify users to send these pictures to a friends.
According to a Facebook post by Messenger head David Marcus currently the feature is in testing mode in Australia and it will roll out in the US soon.
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India-origin chief of Microsoft Satya Nadella will co-chair the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meet in January, an event that is likely to be attended by over 100 Indian business leaders, including billionaire brothers Mukesh and Anil. (PTI)
India-origin chief of Microsoft Satya Nadella will co-chair the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meet in January, an event that is likely to be attended by over 100 Indian business leaders, including billionaire brothers Mukesh and Anil.
More than 2,500

Apple CEO Tim Cook says businesses can’t wait for governments to solve issues like climate change and equal rights. (Reuters)
Apple CEO Tim Cook says businesses can’t wait for governments to solve issues like climate change and equal rights.
Cook told students and faculty at Italy’s top business school, Bocconi University, on Tuesday that `’the challenges are simply too great for businesses to stand on the sideline.”
He noted that `’climate change impacts supp

Flipkart Lite is the new mobile site of the e-commerce portal which has been launched on Chrome.
Months after shutting down its mobile website in favour of the app, Flipkart has now relaunched the same calling it ‘Flipkart Lite’. The new mobile site is accessible only via Google Chrome on Android phones.
The relaunch comes amidst speculation that the e-commerce portal could go app-only. Myntra, the fashion portal owned by Flipkart, went app-only this year.
According to a W

Intex Aqua Super smartphone was launched priced at Rs 10,390 on Tuesday in a further expansion of its series of 3GB RAM phones.
Domestic handset-maker Intex Technologies says the 4G-enabled smartphone comes with a 5-inch HD IPS display and is powered by a 1 GHz Mediatek quad-core processor.
“Keeping our customers in mind and the cluttered market of feature rich phones, the 3GB RAM Aqua Super will surely be a front-runner for performance and multi-tasking,” Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, mobi

We are looking at phones priced under Rs 40,000 in this list. The options include Moto X Style, Gionee’s 6-inch phablet Elife E8, OnePlus 2, Moto X Play and Google’s Nexus 5X.
The mid-range smartphone market in India has a number of solid options to choose from. There’s Motorola with its new Moto X Style and Play range, the pure Android Nexus 5X and the OnePlus 2.
We are looking at phones priced under Rs 40,000 in this list. The options include Moto X Style, Gionee’s 6-i

Intex Aqua Super with 3GB RAM and a 5-inch HD screen has been launched for Rs 10,390.
Intex Aqua Super with 3GB RAM has been launched for Rs 10,390 in India. Intex Aqua Super customers will get 1-year screen breakage warranty and a complementary bag when they purchase the smartphone.
Features of the Intex Aqua Super are: 5-inch HD IPS display, 1 Ghz Quad-Core processor with 3GB RAM and 16GB storage space ( expandable memory capacity is 128GB). This is a 4G enabled smartphone with an 8 mp rear c

Google’s machine learning system TensorFlow is now open source.
Google has announced that it will make it machine learning system called TensorFlow open-source and available to all coders, researchers. The system drives Google Now on smartphones, search in Google Photos, etc.
Google made the announcement in a blogpost, stating that “TensorFlow is faster, smarter, and more flexible than our old system, so it can be adapted much more easily to new products and research.”
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Flipkart Lite is the new mobile site of the e-commerce portal which has been launched on Chrome.
Months after shutting down its mobile website in favour of the app, Flipkart has now relaunched the same calling it ‘Flipkart Lite’. The new mobile site is accessible only via Google Chrome on Android phones.
The relaunch comes amidst speculation that the e-commerce portal could go app-only. Myntra, the fashion portal owned by Flipkart, went app-only this year.
According to a W

At stake is the so-called ‘datr’ cookie, which Facebook places on people’s browsers when they visit a Facebook.com site or click a Facebook ‘Like’ button on other websites, allowing it to track the online activities of that browser.
Facebook said on Monday it would appeal a court ruling ordering it to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages, or face a 250,000 euro ($269,000) daily fine.
Belgium’s data prot

This edict is the latest strike in a multi-year campaign to “cleanse” both the Internet and culture.
China is tightening control of online music, paying particular attention to content and jacking up already tight censorship of the Internet.
From January 1, companies offering online music should police content before making it available, the Ministry of Culture said on its website. China’s three biggest Internet companies, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Tencent Holdings Ltd and Ba

Rather than spewing molten rock, volcanoes on Pluto would have released frozen water, and other ices such as nitrogen, ammonia or methane. (Source: NASA)
Scientists have discovered what appear to be ice-spewing volcanoes on the surface of Pluto, raising questions about how the tiny, distant world has been so geologically active, according to research presented on Monday.
The findings, released at an American Astronomical Society meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, paint a far more complicated

 Tag Heuer Connected is an Android Wear smartwatch that costs $1500.
Leading Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer and technology titans Google and Intel have combined forces to produce a computerized wristwatch billed as the “world’s smartest luxury watch.”
Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver said his company has been building mechanical watches for 155 years but knew little about building an Internet-connected device that younger buyers would want. So it partnered with Intel and Google

 Tag Heuer Connect is an Android Wear smartwatch that costs $1500.
Leading Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer and technology titans Google and Intel have combined forces to produce a computerized wristwatch billed as the “world’s smartest luxury watch.”
Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver said his company has been building mechanical watches for 155 years but knew little about building an Internet-connected device that younger buyers would want. So it partnered with Intel and Google i

Apple iPhones have the lead when it comes to 4G smartphone market in India.
Apple has the biggest share of the total 14.8 million 4G-enabled devices active across all important frequencies in the country, says a study by Nokia Networks. Among the top 15 4G models, Apple devices – iPhone and iPad – occupy the top two slots.
iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 devices, which support 4G services in 1800 Mhz band, are top models with 10.46 per cent and 8.9 per cent shares respectively, as per the st

12.9 inch-screen Apple iPad Pro tablet, which starts at $799 will cost more than $1,000 if buyers also want a keyboard and an optional stylus. (Image Source: Apple Inc.)
Apple Inc said its iPad Pro will be available to order online on Wednesday and arrive at stores later this week.
The 12.9 inch-screen tablet, which starts at $799 but costs more than $1,000 if buyers also want a keyboard and an optional stylus, will be available in more than 40 countries, including the United States, the UK, Chi

LVMH’s Tag Heuer became on Monday the first Swiss watchmaker to offer a “smartwatch” to customers that combines Swiss design with U.S. technology, seeking to tap a growing market for wearable devices amid flagging sales of traditional watches.
Co-developed with Google and Intel, the “Tag Heuer Connected” will cost $1,500. One thousand units are immediately available in 15 stores across the United States, with Britain, Germany, and Japan following in the coming days.

Yahoo Inc has appointed management consulting firm McKinsey & Co to help with the reorganization of its core businesses, technology news website Re/code reported on Monday.
McKinsey will help Yahoo decide which units to shut, sell or invest in, Re/code said, citing several people close to the situation. (http://on.recode.net/1QdGTOu)
Yahoo, which is preparing to spin off its 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, declined to comment, as did McKinsey.
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Facebook said on Monday it would appeal a court ruling ordering it to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages, or face a 250,000 euro ($269,000) daily fine.
Belgium’s data protection regulator took the U.S. company to court in June, accusing it of trampling on EU privacy law by tracking people without a Facebook account without their consent.
At stake is the so-called ‘datr’ cookie, which Facebook places on people’s br

The White House launched a Facebook page on Monday for President Barack Obama and used the social media platform to send a message on climate change.
Organizing for Action, the political organization that helped elect Obama, has long used an account under the name “Barack Obama.” But the new page allows the president to speak in the first person, much like the Twitter account the White House launched for Obama in May.
Striking a conversational tone, Obama’s first post was a vid