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Facebook’s Free Basics Services will now be available to all Reliance subscribers all over India. Previously it was restricted to a few states.
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics.
In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil

Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics.
In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana. With this announcement from Zuckerberg, all Reliance subscribers across India ca

Gionee India plans to expand its smartphone manufacturing units across the country in hopes of better sales figures.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Gionee on Tuesday launched its Marathon M5 smartphone with a powerful 6,020 mAh battery. The company’s India CEO, Arvind Vohra, said he aims to sell about 600-700 units of the Rs 17,999 Marathon M5 smartphone per day. Vohra, in an interaction with IndianExpress.com, also revealed plans of rolling out Android Marshmallow 6.0 update for Gionee

Telecom operator Telenor today said it will be adding 950 new mobile sites covering over 3,380 rural areas and upgrade the existing 3,235 sites in Bihar and Jharkhand.
With this, Telenor sites will go up to 4,185 in both the states, which will help the company offer better voice quality and data speed to its customers.
“We will continue to invest in one of our most successful and fastest growing markets. The new network will fulfil our ambition of Internet for All and will be future ready

Gionee India plans to expand its smartphone manufacturing units across the country in hopes of better sales figures.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Gionee on Tuesday launched its Marathon M5 smartphone with a powerful 6,020 mAh battery. The company’s India CEO, Arvind Vohra, said he aims to sell about 600-700 units of the Rs 17,999 Marathon M5 smartphone per day. Vohra, in an interaction with IndianExpress.com, also revealed plans of rolling out Android Marshmallow 6.0 update for Gionee

In total, five different vulnerabilities in media processing in Android were attacked in Q3, 2015. The Stagefright vulnerability affected nearly 95 per cent of all Android devices out there, according to a new Trend Mirco report.
Stagefright22 (CVE-2015-3824), which allows attackers to install malware on affected devices by distributing malicious Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) messages, reportedly put 94.1% of Android devices (as of this July) at risk.
“We also found a bug that could r

Indicating worsening of services, telecom regulator Trai today said mobile operators had a call drop rate of as much as 24.59 per cent for 2G services and 16.13 per cent for 3G services in the April-June quarter.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said the performance has deteriorated during the quarter on sequential basis with regard to worst affected mobile sites or cells having more than 3 per cent call drop rate.
Trai said worst affected cells call drop rate increased to 24.59 per

Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics.
In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana. With this announcement from Zuckerberg, all Reliance subscribers across India ca

Social networking giant Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’ initiative pan-India to offer basic internet access with its telecom partner Reliance Communications (RCom).
In February, the app was made available in India for Reliance customers in six states –Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra AP, Gujarat, Kerala, and Telangana. However, with the recent announcement, Reliance customers all across the country will now have access to Free Basics.
“We just took another st

Xiaomi has launched Mi Pad 2 in China with Intel Inside. There is also an optional Windows version (Source: Xiaomi/Twitter)
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 with an Intel Atom processor and Windows 10 option has been announced in China along with the new Redmi Note 3.
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 64GB version will come with an option to run Windows 10 OS as well, which is a first for the Chinese tech company.
The new Mi Pad 2 comes with a full metal body, but Xiaomi claims that this is one is 18 per cent thinner and 38 g li

Xiaomi has launched Mi Pad 2 in China with Intel Inside. There is also an optional Windows version (Source: Xiaomi/Twitter)
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 with an Intel Atom processor and Windows 10 option has been announced in China along with the new Redmi Note 3.
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 64GB version will come with an option to run Windows 10 OS as well, which is a first for the Chinese tech company.
The new Mi Pad 2 comes with a full metal body, but Xiaomi claims that this is one is 18 per cent thinner and 38 g li

Gionee Marathon M5 supports reverse charging, which means you can use the Marathon M5 as a power bank to charge other devices.
Gionee today launched its Marathon M5 smartphone at a price of Rs 17,999. The smartphone will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The Marathon M5 is powered by a massive 6,020 mAh battery and the company claims four days of battery life.
The USP of Gionee’s Marathon series of smartphones is battery life. The device supports reverse charging, which means you can

Gionee Marathon M5 supports reverse charging, which means you can use the Marathon M5 as a power bank to charge other devices.
Gionee today launched its Marathon M5 smartphone at a price of Rs 17,999. The smartphone will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The Marathon M5 is powered by a massive 6,020 mAh battery and the company claims four days of battery life.
The USP of Gionee’s Marathon series of smartphones is battery life. The device supports reverse charging, which means you can

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a fingerprint scanner, 5.5-inch full HD screen has been launched.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a full metal body and a fingerprint scanner has been launched in China by the company.
The new Redmi Note 3 has a 5.5-inch full HD display, runs the MediaTek Helio X10 64-bit octa-core processor, and sports a 13 mp rear camera with a 5 mp front camera. Xiaomi has launched two versions of the phone. One comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage space and the second has 3GB RAM and 32GB s

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a fingerprint scanner, 5.5-inch full HD screen has been launched.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a full metal body and a fingerprint scanner has been launched in China by the company.
The new Redmi Note 3 has a 5.5-inch full HD display, runs the MediaTek Helio X10 64-bit octa-core processor, and sports a 13 mp rear camera with a 5 mp front camera. Xiaomi has launched two versions of the phone. One comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage space and the second has 3GB RAM and 32GB s

OnePlus 2 goes on open sale on November 25-27 on Amazon India.
OnePlus 2 will be available for open sale from November 25 to November 27 on Amazon India. This is the second open sale for the OnePlus 2 by the Chinese tech start-up in recent times.
OnePlus 2’s open sale will start at 12 AM on November 25 and ends on November 27 11.59 pm. Usually customers need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2, but on these two days you should be able to buy the phone without one. The 64GB version of the OnePl

OnePlus 2 goes on open sale on November 25-27 on Amazon India.
OnePlus 2 will be available for open sale from November 25 to November 27 on Amazon India. This is the second open sale for the OnePlus 2 by the Chinese tech start-up in recent times.
OnePlus 2’s open sale will start at 12 AM on November 25 and ends on November 27 11.59 pm. Usually customers need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2, but on these two days you should be able to buy the phone without one. The 64GB version of the OnePl

OnePlus 2 goes on open sale on November 25-27 on Amazon India.
OnePlus 2 will be available for open sale from November 25 to November 27 on Amazon India. This is the second open sale for the OnePlus 2 by the Chinese tech start-up in recent times.
OnePlus 2’s open sale will start at 12 AM on November 25 and ends on November 27 11.59 pm. Usually customers need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2, but on these two days you should be able to buy the phone without one. The 64GB version of the OnePl

OnePlus 2 goes on open sale on November 25-27 on Amazon India.
OnePlus 2 will be available for open sale from November 25 to November 27 on Amazon India. This is the second open sale for the OnePlus 2 by the Chinese tech start-up in recent times.
OnePlus 2’s open sale will start at 12 AM on November 25 and ends on November 27 11.59 pm. Usually customers need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2, but on these two days you should be able to buy the phone without one. The 64GB version of the OnePl

Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a fingerprint scanner, 5.5-inch full HD screen has been launched.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with a full metal body and a fingerprint scanner has been launched in China by the company.
The new Redmi Note 3 has a 5.5-inch full HD display, runs the MediaTek Helio X10 64-bit octa-core processor, and sports a 13 mp rear camera with a 5 mp front camera. Xiaomi has launched two versions of the phone. One comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB storage space and the second has 3GB RAM and 32GB s

Xiaomi has launched Mi Pad 2 in China with Intel Inside. There is also an optional Windows version (Source: Xiaomi/Twitter)
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 with an Intel Atom processor and Windows 10 option has been announced in China along with the new Redmi Note 3.
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 64GB version will come with an option to run Windows 10 OS as well, which is a first for the Chinese tech company.
The new Mi Pad 2 comes with a full metal body, but Xiaomi claims that this is one is 18 per cent thinner and 38 g li

Screenshots of the app. (Source: ShareTheMeal)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on November 12 launched a new smartphone app called ‘Share The Meal’ to fight global hunger over a smartphone. The app, available on both Android and iOS for free, lets you choose a food basket with just 50 cents providing ‘vital nutrition’ to a child per day to start with and five more options going up to feeding a child for one year.
The WFP is currently working to providing me

Optiemus Infracom along with Taiwan-based OEM Wistron Corporation will commission its first factory by march 2016.
Optiemus Infracom, the founders of domestic mobile brand Zen Mobile, on Tuesday signed a joint venture with Taiwan-based OEM Wistron Corporation to set up mobile manufacturing unit in Noida. The joint venture, in which Optiemus Infracom owns a majority stake, will bring investments of around $200 million and will create over 15,000 jobs over the next five years, the company claimed

OnePlus 2 goes on open sale on November 25-27 on Amazon India.
OnePlus 2 will be available for open sale from November 25 to November 27 on Amazon India. This is the second open sale for the OnePlus 2 by the Chinese tech start-up in recent times.
OnePlus 2’s open sale will start at 12 AM on November 25 and ends on November 27 11.59 pm. Usually customers need an invite to buy the OnePlus 2, but on these two days you should be able to buy the phone without one. The 64GB version of the OnePl

Gionee Marathon M5 supports reverse charging, which means you can use the Marathon M5 as a power bank to charge other devices.
Gionee today launched its Marathon M5 smartphone at a price of Rs 17,999. The smartphone will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The Marathon M5 is powered by a massive 6,020 mAh battery and the company claims four days of battery life.
The USP of Gionee’s Marathon series of smartphones is battery life. The device supports reverse charging, which means you can

Apple is planning to launch its mobile payment service in China early next year
Apple Inc plans to launch its mobile payment system Apple Pay in China by early February, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The iPhone maker has struck deals recently with China’s big four state-run banks, the newspaper reported late Monday, citing people familiar with the discussions.
When launched, Apple Pay will mainly compete with Alipay, the online payment platform run by Alibaba Holding Group Ltd affilia

Abof.com has launched a new 3D trial feature on its website.
Aditya Birla group’s newly launched online clothing portal abof.com (stands for ‘all about fashion’) has introduced a new 3D trial room to help online shoppers go beyond the discount madness and build its customer base.
The 3D trial room for abof.com is powered by Metail, an online fitting technology company, and lets users enter three basic measurements on the site and create a digital avataar that re

If you’re shopping for a TV, get out a tape measure and do some quick calculations before you head to the store. And count the number of gadgets you’ll want to connect to your screen. Buying a TV is no longer just choosing how big a screen you want. Here are 5 big decisions you’ll face:
1. HD OR 4K?
There’s an emerging picture standard that offers four times the pixels of today’s high definition. It’s known as ultra-high definition, or 4K. But do you need it?

Gionee Marathon M5 has been launched in India for a price of Rs 17,999 and will be a Flipkart exclusive.
Gionee today launched its Marathon M5 smartphone at a price of Rs 17,999. The smartphone will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The Marathon M5 is powered by a massive 6,020 mAh battery and the company claims four days of battery life.
PHOTOS: Check out the Gionee Marathon M5
The USP of Gionee’s Marathon series of smartphones is battery life. The device supports reverse charging, w

Gionee Marathon M5 has been launched in India for a price of Rs 17,999 and will be a Flipkart exclusive.
Gionee today launched its Marathon M5 smartphone at a price of Rs 17,999. The smartphone will be available exclusively on Flipkart. The Marathon M5 is powered by a massive 6,020 mAh battery and the company claims four days of battery life.
PHOTOS: Check out the Gionee Marathon M5
The USP of Gionee’s Marathon series of smartphones is battery life. The device supports reverse charging, w

Google has developed a prototype wearable device inspired by the communicator in Star Trek series which can allow users to leave their phones in their pocket and hear responses through wireless headphones. (PTI)
Google has developed a prototype wearable device inspired by the communicator in Star Trek series which can allow users to leave their phones in their pocket and hear responses through wireless headphones.
In the Star Trek science fiction, Captain Picard and his crew used their lapel pin

Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’ initiative across the country to offer basic Internet access with its telecom partner Reliance Communications (RCom). (Reuters)
Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’ initiative across the country to offer basic Internet access with its telecom partner Reliance Communications (RCom).
Earlier called ‘Internet.org’, Facebook had launched the initiative in India with RCom to offer free access to

Moto X Style is getting the Android 6.0 update in India as well and it will free up some space for users.
Motorola has started rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the Moto X Style smartphone in India. The new update will offer features such as Doze mode, app standby, expandable storage, do not disturb, Google Now on Tap, direct share and more.
Motorola says that users should keep the battery at least 50 percent charged and the phone connected to a Wi-Fi network when installing the upd

Moto X Style is getting the Android M update in India.
Motorola has started rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the Moto X Style smartphone in India. The new update will offer features such as Doze mode, app standby, expandable storage, do not disturb, Google Now on Tap, direct share and more.
Motorola says that users should keep the battery at least 50 percent charged and the phone connected to a Wi-Fi network when installing the update.
There will be some changes to the Moto Enhance

Moto X Style is getting the Android M update in India.
Motorola has started rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the Moto X Style smartphone in India. The new update will offer features such as Doze mode, app standby, expandable storage, do not disturb, Google Now on Tap, direct share and more.
Motorola says that users should keep the battery at least 50 percent charged and the phone connected to a Wi-Fi network when installing the update.
There will be some changes to the Moto Enhance

Gionee Marathon M5, the smartphone with a 6020 and above mAh battery, has been launched in India.
Gionee Marathon M5, the smartphone with a 6020 mAh battery, has been launched in India. The Marathon M5 will cost Rs 17,999 and will be exclusively available on Flipkart.
Other features of the Marathon M5 include a 5.5-inch HD AMOLED screen, 3GB RAM and 32GB storage space among others. The rear camera on the M5 is 13 megapixels and front camera is 5 megapixels. Marathon M also runs Android L. Share

Dell has admitted to a massive security hole in some of its computers.
Dell has admitted that a pre-installed digital certificate on some of its recently shipped laptops, makes them vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Dell in a statement told Reuters, “The recent situation raised is related to an on-the-box support certificate intended to provide a better, faster and easier customer support experience…Unfortunately, the certificate introduced an unintended security vulnerability.”
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