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Zebronics has launched Rs 699 Storm headphone in Black and Blue colour options (Source: Zebronics)
Zebronics has announced the launch of its Storm headphone in India. The Storm headphone is priced at Rs 699.
Zebronics Storm headphones also come with acoustic chamber design which offers superior sound experience. It also sports a semi-open back architecture which lends the listener good bass reproduction and preventing sound leakage. Share This ArticleRelated ArticleZebronics offers free sp

Telecom regulator Trai has refuted claims by mobile operators that call drop compensation will have huge financial implications for them and may not be technically possible to implement.
In a statement today, Trai said it’s technically possible for the operators to implement the regulation and termed the claim of Rs 54,000 crore per year on account of call drop compensation as “exaggerated”.
It put the likely figure at Rs 200 crore per quarter. “It is observed that the to

Acer Liquid Z630s has been sold out in its first Flipkart flash sale
Acer has announced that its Liquid Z630s has been sold out in its first flash sale held on Flipkart. Acer had recently launched Liquid Z530 and Liquid Z630s smartphones in India exclusively on Flipkart.
The Liquid Z630s was made available via flash sale while Liquid Z530 was available in open sale. Flipkart says 500 units of Liquid Z630s were sold per minute on Flipkart. The flash sale was held on November 12 for users wh

Facebook CEO and co-founder said in a post, “360 video is a completely new experience because you can move the camera around.” (Source: Facebook)
Facebook on Friday announced that it has started rolling out 360 degree videos on mobile. The feature will allow users to watch videos shot in 360 degree from a number of different angles. While the feature was earlier announced for Android and Web, now it is also available for iOS devices.
Watching videos in 360 degree angle is almost lik

Apple’s iPad Pro is well received by reviewers but it is still not ready to replace laptops
Apple finally made a big enterprise push with its iPad Pro. iPad Pro had been long rumoured and Apple finally lifted the wraps off its giant tablet at its September event. Apple iPad Pro brings support for stylus which was once dubbed as an obsolete accessory by the late Steve Jobs.
Apple iPad Pro also supports a keyboard accessory and supports split-screen multi-tasking on its huge 12.9-inch canva

Snapdeal also launched a new real estate platform that connects buyers with developers as well as property consultants and channel partners.
Snapdeal has said that close to 10,000 customers booked to buy real estate on its website during a fest organized by it in the run-up for Dhanteras. The online shopping site had announced special promotions during its ‘Diwali Home Buying Fest’ from November 3 to November 9 on Rupeepower. These included price saving deals of upto Rs 500 off per

Snapdeal’s mobile website Snap-Lite is available across all mobile browsers unlike Flipkart Lite which is accessible only via Google Chrome on Android phones.
Just two days after e-commerce website Flipkart introduced its Flipkart Lite for smartphones, its biggest competitor Snapdeal has announced Snap-Lite. Snapdeal’s chief product officer Anand Chandrasekaran claimed that the new mobile version of Snapdeal.com, Snap-Lite, is 85 per cent faster than the original mobile site.Chandra

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost method of detecting nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a significant air pollutant, says a study.
“The revolutionary method we have developed is a great start to creating a handheld, low-cost and personalised NO2 sensor that can even be incorporated into smartphones,” said project leader Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Nitrogen dioxide inc

Apple Australia confirmed that the store’s manager had apologised to the students and their school principal Nick Scott when they returned to the shopping centre.
An Apple manager has apologised to six teenagers of African descent after staff kicked them out of an Australian store citing concerns they “might steal something”, with a video of the incident going viral on Facebook.
The video, recorded by one of the students from Maribyrnong College in the southern city of Melbour

Sony is trying to get more people on its TV service by allowing customers to sign up without a PlayStation. Its service, Vue, was launched in March, but has been limited. It’s available in a few big U.S. cities, you needed a PlayStation, it didn’t have channels owned by Disney, like ABC and ESPN, and, as an alternative to cable, it’s fairly expensive.
The company has added a couple markets and said last week that Disney-owned channels are coming. On Thursday, it said it is maki

Cash is passe, say digital mavens. If you really want to pay your friends back for that pizza party, use an app to shoot money to their mobile-phone number – or their Facebook account.
Such technology-enabled peer-to-peer payments are growing quickly. Forrester Research predicts mobile peer-to-peer payments will hit $17 billion by 2019, growing an average of 26 percent annually. That compares with expectations of total U.S. mobile payments of $142 billion by that year.
PayPal and its Venmo

At the beginning of the new ”Call of Duty” game, a robot tears your hands off. That should be enough trauma to send any warrior home for good. But cheer up, soldier: In this army, we fix you up with some new mechanical hands and kick you back out into the fray.
Welcome to the psychotic future of ”Call of Duty: Black Ops III” (Activision, for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, $59.95). It’s 2065, and while most of the fighting is done by drones and robots, there’

Microsoft starts rolling out first major update for Windows 10 with Cortana for India
Windows 10 has been around for over three months now and it has already been installed on over 110 million computers and countless new machines are being shipped by Microsoft and its OEM partners everyday. Microsoft has now announced a new update to Windows 10 that brings several new features and bug fixes.
While Microsoft has been updating its OS with Insiders program, this is the first major update that will

YouTube has launched a new music app for Android and iOS in US (Source: AP)
YouTube, the world’s largest and most popular online video streaming service has started rolling out a new app, YouTube Music on Android and iOS. Recently YouTube had announced a new subscription model called YouTube Red in US offering ad-free video and music at $10 per month.
Google is a repository of music and videos and in order to streamline the experience further, it has launched a standalone music app. Googl

Microsoft starts rolling out first major update for Windows 10 with Cortana for India
Windows 10 has been around for over three months now and it has already been installed on over 110 million computers and countless new machines are being shipped by Microsoft and its OEM partners everyday. Microsoft has now announced a new update to Windows 10 that brings several new features and bug fixes.
While Microsoft has been updating its OS with Insiders program, this is the first major update that will

Ola Money app does not require additional credintials for users who already have Ola cab app.
Ola on Friday introduced a separate online wallet, Ola Money for mobile recharge and money transfers. The independant app will also allow users to make cashless payments to several other brands.
Ola has said that Ola Money is one of the largest wallets in the country with highest average wallet size and will be available to over 40 million online and offline users. The company in August had announced p

The advent of the “superphone” will eventually build a new world of all things digital, all things connected, seamless intelligence integration and merging intelligence.
China’s telecommunication giant Huawei on Thursday said the next generation mobile phone called “superphone” will come out around 2020 and open up a new era by transforming perceptions with its enhanced intelligence.
Shao Yang, President of Strategy Marketing, Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG), s

The Bose SoundTrue Ultra is among the best in-ear sets available in the market at the moment.
Bose has for the past couple of years been slowly changing track to take on the booming smartphone market. So the new Bose SoundTrue Ultra in ear earphones are also meant for those who listen to most of their music on a smartphone and are very active for most of that time.
DesignThe Bose SoundTrue Ultra comes with a design that is durable and sweat resistant. It also seems to be relatively tangle free,

Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India’s choked roads and cramped cities.
E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking lessons learnt from its daily battles with India’s choked roads and cramped cities to some of its largest developed markets, exporting a model of cheaper deliveries and reduced warehousing costs.
Online shopping is booming in India, where millions of consumers are newly able to access the Internet thanks to cheap smartphones. For Amazon, it i

A necklace that stores electronic health data for babies and toddlers and a soap that encourages children to wash their hands have a won a global competition showcasing the potential of wearable products.
The winning teams, which included students from India and the United States, will get a $15,000 prize and help in developing the products, the organisers said on Thursday.
The challenge was backed by UNICEF, product design company frog and ARM Holdings, whose processors power wearables like the

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc’s forecast adjusted profit and revenue growth for the second quarter below analysts’ estimates, citing a slowdown in order growth and weakness in its enterprise business outside the United States.
Shares of Cisco, considered a bellwether for the performance of the broader network gear industry, fell 5 percent to $26.41 in extended trading on Thursday.
A strong dollar hurt demand for Cisco’s enterprise products in Asia-Pacific, Canada an