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Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg today said that he and his wife are donating USD 20 million to help get high-speed Internet service to US classrooms. (Express photo)
Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg today said that he and his wife are donating USD 20 million to help get high-speed Internet service to US classrooms.
The money is being given to nonprofit group Education Super Highway to help with its mission, the Facebook co-founder and chief executive said in a post on his page at the so

The world’s online population will double to five billion by 2020 presenting “huge” business opportunities for tech start-ups on the cutting edge of the unprecedented expansion, the head of Google Europe said today.
The world’s online population will double to five billion by 2020 presenting “huge” business opportunities for tech start-ups on the cutting edge of the unprecedented expansion, the head of Google Europe said today.
“The connected population

In a move to tackle sporadic and bad internet connectivity in India, Google India has announced that Google Maps will work offline with added features like turn-by-turn voice navigation and destination search. (Reuters)
In a move to tackle sporadic and bad internet connectivity in India, Google India has announced that Google Maps will work offline with added features like turn-by-turn voice navigation and destination search.
However, before the user starts using the offline navigation and other

Vodafone India has launched ‘Superfast 3G Services’ on its network in Guwahati. The new services will enable people to experience “faster, smarter and better than the existing 3G experience”, a Vodafone senior official said here.
To provide high speed mobile Internet services to the customers in Guwahati, Vodafone has deployed 285 new 3G towers and continues to add more sites, the network’s Business Head – Assam and Northeast Alok Verma told reporters.
The new

Triangulum II is a small, faint galaxy at the edge of the Milky Way (Source: California Institute of Technology)
Astronomers have found what may be the highest concentration of the elusive dark matter in any known galaxy, by measuring the mass of a nearby dwarf galaxy.
Although dark matter outnumber particles of regular matter by more than a factor of 10, they are elusive, researchers said.
Their existence is inferred by their gravitational influence in galaxies, but no one has ever directly ob

LG Pay will be the mobile payment solution from LG Electronics to take on the likes of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay (Source: Reuters)
LG Electronics Inc said on Thursday it signed an agreement to develop its own mobile payment service called LG Pay.
LG, which signed the agreement with South Korea’s largest and second-largest credit card firms Shinhan Card Co Ltd and KB Kookmin Card Co Ltd, did not give a timetable or description of its planned technology. Share This ArticleRelated ArticleSam

Lenovo intends to deliver the experience of a touch screen on any surface you want with its smartcast technology. The company has showcased a concept smartphone that comes with a built-in projector which can make any surface touch responsive.
“With a combination of the world’s first laser projector and high-accuracy IR sensors, the smartcast concept phone can project a keyboard on a table, let you play a game or even be used as dual screens,” according to the company.
Lenovo ha

Microsoft wants Cortana to be everything for consumers. Cortana now understands Indian accent and is enabled with services like Paytm
Microsoft announced its first major update to Windows 10 last week. The new update brings several bug fixes reported by users and testers alike. While the update is available to all Windows 10 users, the larger picture here is that Microsoft has sent out an update that focuses a bit on consumers and much more on enterprise.
For consumers, Microsoft wants Cortana

Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad will roll out India-made handsets in the first quarter of 2016. (Source: GizmoChina)
Chinese mobile phone maker Coolpad will roll out India-made handsets in the first quarter of 2016.
“We believe in Make in India concept and to begin with, we will introduce made in India handsets from Q1 of 2016 in collaboration with Videocon, which has a base in Maharashtra,” Coolpad India CEO Syed Tajuddin said today.
According to him, the company may set up its o

Smartphone shipments continue to rise and India’s Micromax Mobiles is now in the top 10 globally. Micromax Canvas 5 in this photo.
Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units and Indian brand Micromax was among top 10 handset vendors, research firm Gartner said today.
“Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users stood at nearly 478 million units during the third quarter of 2015. Continued growth in emerging marke

Google Maps offline will now offer turn-by-turn directions in India as well.
Google Maps’ offline feature with turn-by-turn directions is now available in India. Earlier while you could save a map offline, it would not give the exact directions to a place in the offline mode.
In a press statement Google said, that users can now get driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information about places such as hours of operation, contact details, all in the offline

Xiaomi Redmi Note Pro 2’s picture has been put out by the company’s president.
Xiaomi’s Redmi Note Pro 2 will feature a full metal body and a fingerprint scanner on the back. The image of the Redmi Note Pro 2 was put out by the company’s President Bin Lin on his official Weibo account.
Based on a series of pictures shared by Bin Lin on his Weibo account the phone will have a full metal body, it will be extra thin in size and supports fast charging. Xiaomi is expected to

Microsoft wants Cortana to be everything for consumers. Cortana now understands Indian accent and is enabled with services like Paytm
Microsoft announced its first major update to Windows 10 last week. The new update brings several bug fixes reported by users and testers alike. While the update is available to all Windows 10 users, the larger picture here is that Microsoft has sent out an update that focuses a bit on consumers and much more on enterprise.
For consumers, Microsoft wants Cortana

As India’s use of Internet and social media expands exponentially, so invariably does the rise of annoying Internet habits. If you have ever been irked online, chances are – you’re not alone. India’s netizens unanimously voted spreading false rumors as the most annoying Internet habit, but conversely are most guilty of sending e-Cards and posting delicious food pictures according to a recent survey on the ‘Worst Internet Habits’ commissioned by Telenor Group.U

Smartphone shipments continue to rise and India’s Micromax Mobiles is now in the top 10 globally. Micromax Canvas 5 in this photo.
Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units and Indian brand Micromax was among top 10 handset vendors, research firm Gartner said today.
“Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users stood at nearly 478 million units during the third quarter of 2015. Continued growth in emerging marke

Nearly 25 percent Indians share their email passwords and other social media account details with friends and family
Time to take cybersecurity seriously? One in two Indians have either got affected by credit card fraud or know someone who has been affected.
With Internet connecting more and more devices, the scope of cyber crime is simultaneously growing. According to Norton’s Cybersecurity Insights Reports, 60 per cent of Indians worry about being affected by cybercrime. More importantl

The latest Google Nexus 6P manufactured by Chinese firm Huawei has a stunning camera for an Android phone. We decided to compare the Nexus 6P’s 12.3 mp camera with 1.55 µm pixels size against the Apple iPhone 6s which also comes with a 12 megapixel camera but with a smaller sensor size at 1.22 µm pixels.
Both phones don’t offer optical image stabilisation, unlike say the iPhone 6s Plus or the S6 Edge+ smartphone.(L to R) The first image is from an iPhone 6s

The latest Google Nexus 6P manufactured by Chinese firm Huawei has a stunning camera for an Android phone. We decided to compare the Nexus 6P’s 12.3 mp camera with 1.55 µm pixels size against the Apple iPhone 6s which also comes with a 12 megapixel camera but with a smaller sensor size at 1.22 µm pixels.
Both phones don’t offer optical image stabilisation, unlike say the iPhone 6s Plus or the S6 Edge+ smartphone.(L to R) The first image is from an iPhone 6s

Xiaomi Redmi Note Pro 2’s picture has been put out by the company’s president.
Xiaomi’s Redmi Note Pro 2 will feature a full metal body and a fingerprint scanner on the back. The image of the Redmi Note Pro 2 was put out by the company’s President Bin Lin on his official Weibo account.
Based on a series of pictures shared by Bin Lin on his Weibo account the phone will have a full metal body, it will be extra thin in size and supports fast charging. Xiaomi is expected to

Sony Xperia Z5 has a 5.2-inch full HD screen and a matte finish that makes it trendier.
Sony Xperia Z5 Dual looks like other phones in the Xperia family and comes with the trademark water resistance features that makes this range still relevant in many parts of India. But has Sony been able to plug the issues it faced with earlier flagships? That will be crucial to the success of this phone.The best feature about this phone has to be its camera. Sony claims it has the fastest auto-focus in the

Telegram, a secure encrypted messaging app, has emerged as popular tool of propaganda for ISIS. Screenshots of Telegram Android app.
The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia’s most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State.
The service, set up two years ago, has caught on in many corners of the globe as an ultra-secure way to quickly upload and share videos, texts and voice mess

Google Maps offline will now offer turn-by-turn directions in India as well.
Google Maps’ offline feature with turn-by-turn directions is now available in India. Earlier while you could save a map offline, it would not give the exact directions to a place in the offline mode.
In a press statement Google said, that users can now get driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information about places such as hours of operation, contact details, all in the offline

Facebook says it wrongly blocked a user’s account whose name was ISIS. (Source: Reuters)
Facebook said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group.
Anchalee, a software developer in San Francisco, on Monday posted a screenshot of a Facebook log-in page that showed a message “Account disabled”. She wrote to

The latest Google Nexus 6P manufactured by Chinese firm Huawei has a stunning camera for an Android phone. We decided to compare the Nexus 6P’s 12.3 mp camera with 1.55 µm pixels size against the Apple iPhone 6s which also comes with a 12 megapixel camera but with a smaller sensor size at 1.22 µm pixels.
Both phones don’t offer optical image stabilisation, unlike say the iPhone 6s Plus or the S6 Edge+ smartphone.(L to R) The first image is from an iPhone 6s