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Yahoo Messenger has launched a new version with the ability to take back messages.
Yahoo Messenger has just launched a new version with a feature every web user has been dying for: the ability to take back messages. In fact, the new messenger, which is now available for mobile, web and on Yahoo Mail, will let you unsend text messages as well as photos.
WATCH video: Features of the new Yahoo Messenger
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The new messenger is i

Yahoo Messenger has launched a new version with the ability to take back messages.
Yahoo Messenger has just launched a new version with a feature every web user has been dying for: the ability to take back messages. In fact, the new messenger, which is now available for mobile, web and on Yahoo Mail, will let you unsend text messages as well as photos.
WATCH video: Features of the new Yahoo Messenger
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9zrYeax4E&w=640&h=390]
The new messenger is i

Yahoo Messenger has launched a new version with the ability to take back messages.
Yahoo Messenger has just launched a new version with a feature every web user has been dying for: the ability to take back messages. In fact, the new messenger, which is now available for mobile, web and on Yahoo Mail, will let you unsend text messages as well as photos.
WATCH video: Features of the new Yahoo Messenger
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9zrYeax4E&w=640&h=390]
The new messenger is i

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is unlikely to be interested in buying Yahoo Inc’s Internet business, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Yahoo’s board, in a three-day meeting that started on Wednesday, is weighing a sale of the struggling business, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a source.
The business isn’t attractive, “given the difficulties successive managers have had in turning it around,” WSJ reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar

Yahoo is up against some well-established rivals such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, iMessenger and Facebook Messenger.(Reuters)
Yahoo launched a next- generation messaging platform today in an ambitious bid to steal a march on a crowded field, as rumors swirled that the Internet pioneer is considering selling its core business.
New Yahoo Messenger apps were released in English for smartphones or tablets powered by Apple or Android software, as were versions of the service tailored for use on the Web or

Chennai floods: Facebook has activated its ‘Safety Check’ feature that would allow people to mark themselves as ‘safe’ from the floods.
Chennai floods: Facebook activated the “Safety Check” feature for its users in the city early on Thursday, while Google has compiled all critical information under its “Crisis Response” tool to provide them relief in the flood-hit city, media reports said.
As the torrential Chennai rain continued for the fourth str

Yahoo Messenger has launched a new version with the ability to take back messages.
Yahoo Messenger has just launched a new version with a feature every web user has been dying for: the ability to take back messages. In fact, the new messenger, which is now available for mobile, web and on Yahoo Mail, will let you unsend text messages as well as photos.
WATCH video: Features of the new Yahoo Messenger
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9zrYeax4E&w=640&h=390]
The new messenger is i

US space agency NASA is set to launch three small research satellites, or CubeSats, which have been designed and developed by more than 400 students from two universities and a primary school.
CubeSats were selected through the CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) as part of the ninth installment of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) missions, a NASA statement said.
ELaNa IX will be launched atop an Atlas V rocket that is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at at

Telecom regulator Trai will test the improvement in call drops of various operators in select cities next month, its chairman RS Sharma said today.
“We will be testing in a number of cities to see the improvement in call drops next month,” Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chief told reporters on the sidelines of Infocom seminar here.
He said Trai had already issued regulations so that customers are compensated for up to three dropped calls per day at rupee one per call. T

Eluga Mark, priced at Rs 11,990, is powered by an Android 5.1 (Lollipop) OS and a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Octa Core processor.
Eluga Mark priced at Rs 11,990, has been launched in India by Panasonic. If you are looking for a highly-secured smartphone that does not let your sensitive data gets stolen, try this new security-oriented smartphone from Panasonic India.
Launched for the Indian consumers in the capital on Thursday, the Eluga Mark smartphone is enabled with enhanced privacy features

The sources said that Sundar Pichai will host an open event with students from across India at the Delhi University. (Source: ANI twitter)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will visit India later this month, his first overseas trip after taking over as the head of one of the world’s largest technology companies.
During his visit, the India-born CEO is expected to meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to sources.
The sources added that Pichai will also host an o

Panasonic Eluga Mark has been launched in India for Rs 11,990.
Panasonic Eluga Mark with 4G LTE support and a fingerprint scanner, has been launched for Rs 11,990. The Eluga Mark comes with 5.5-inch HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16 GB storage space (expandable to 32GB storage space).
Eluga Mark features a 13 mp rear camera with LED flash and five megapixel front camera.  The battery size is 2500 mAh.
Panasonic claims that the Eluga Mark comes

Panasonic Eluga Mark has been launched in India for Rs 11,990.
Panasonic Eluga Mark with 4G LTE support and a fingerprint scanner, has been launched for Rs 11,990. The Eluga Mark comes with 5.5-inch HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16 GB storage space (expandable to 32GB storage space).
Eluga Mark features a 13 mp rear camera with LED flash and five megapixel front camera.  The battery size is 2500 mAh.
Panasonic claims that the Eluga Mark comes

Online taxi-hailing service Uber said it would allow third-party app developers to add a ‘Ride Request’ button within their apps for free.
Developers would need to register their apps on Uber’s website to get access to the code to add the button, which users can tap to request a ride.
To entice developers to use the feature, Uber said it would pay $5 for every new U.S.-based customer that uses the button from the developer’s app.
Earlier this year, Uber had partnered with

Opera also launched a new version of the Opera Mini browser for iOS with iOS 9 features including 3D Touch and Peek and Pop support.
Is this the future of news on the smartphone? Well, the latest version of Opera Coast, the popular browser for iPad and iPhones, has pushed a new update that lets users preview top news from their favourite sources. The new “for you” feature aggregates articles on the homescreen in a “personalized, fast, and customisable news experience”.
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SX-ACE is powered by multi-core vector CPU, which provides it with single-core performance of 64 GFLOPS and the largest memory bandwidth per core of 64 GB/s.
NEC Corporation’s SX-ACE vector computers, which were delivered to the University of Keil, Alfred Wegener Institute and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, are now functioning and helping with research at these institutes.
The supercomputer is specifically designed for scientific computing that requires super-high-speed

A handful of entry-level bikes can give you the kind of confidence the Giant Revel does. The Giant Revel 2014 disc came for a review and we decided to test it out in the MTB Himalaya, touted as the world’s third toughest mountain bike race. At first, the 7-day multistage endurance race seemed like a mammoth task for a bicycle that explicitly warns “No freeride, downhill or any hard riding”.But I did all of this and much more!Initially, I was slightly apprehensive about the bicy

Chennai Rains: Firechat is an app that can be used without Internet by those stranded or in need of help.
As Chennai battles with heavy rains and flooding, many people stuck in the city have turned to the Internet to post for help. While Facebook, Twitter, have emerged as popular platforms for people to post about their friends, family who are caught in the floods, others have pointed out that some who are stuck have no Internet access and can’t actually contact for help.
One such app tha

Android original co-founder Andy Rubin is working on a smartphone company of his own, says a report. According to The Information (Subscription read only) Rubin has been hiring people for the new venture which maybe financed via the Playground Fund, that he recently founded.
Playground Fund is a start-up incubator that has so far raised $300 million. Rubin was initially leading the Robotics division at Google but quit in March 2014. Rubin had been the head of Android till 2013, after w

Facebook has emerged as an important source of reaching out for help for many people in Chennai.
Facebook’s Safety Check feature has been activated for Chennai on account of the heavy flooding and rains in the Tamil Nadu capital. Meanwhile Google has also launched its own resource page for flooding in South India.
The Facebook Safety Check feature lets users mark themselves as safe and notify their friends about their status as well. If a user is in the affected area, they can let their f

Panasonic Eluga Mark has been launched in India for Rs 11,990.
Panasonic Eluga Mark with 4G LTE support and a fingerprint scanner, has been launched for Rs 11,990. The Eluga Mark comes with 5.5-inch HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16 GB storage space (expandable to 32GB storage space).
Eluga Mark features a 13 mp rear camera with LED flash and five megapixel front camera.  The battery size is 2500 mAh.
Panasonic claims that the Eluga Mark comes

Oppo Neo 7 is the successor of Neo 5, which was also launched at the same price but with a smaller screen.
Oppo, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has been trying to capture the mid-budget segment with its Neo series. The focus remains on offering premium build and mid-range specs in under Rs 10,000 budget and Oppo Neo 7 is the latest such attempt.
Oppo Neo 7 offers an iPhone-like screen flash to take better selfies in low-light, but in the mid-budget category, we’ve seen stronger conte

Samsung Galaxy A6 series for 2016 has been announced with Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A3 smartphones.
Samsung Galaxy A series for the year 2016 has been announced with 3 new smartphones: Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3.
Galaxy A series for 2016 combines the new Samsung design style with metal and glass to give the smartphones a premium look. The Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 (2016) also support Samsung Pay, Samsung’s mobile payment service and fingerprint verification as well.
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Samsung Galaxy A6 series for 2016 has been announced with Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A3 smartphones.
Samsung Galaxy A series for the year 2016 has been announced with 3 new smartphones: Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3.
Galaxy A series for 2016 combines the new Samsung design style with metal and glass to give the smartphones a premium look. The Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 (2016) also support Samsung Pay, Samsung’s mobile payment service and fingerprint verification as well.
“At

Software giant Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may visit T-Hub in Hyderabad, the technological incubation centre set up by the Telangana government, on December 28, state IT Minister K T Rama Rao said today.
Software giant Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may visit T-Hub in Hyderabad, the technological incubation centre set up by the Telangana government, on December 28, state IT Minister K T Rama Rao said today.
Rao, however, was not sure if Nadell

#Chennai floods: People are using platforms like Facebook and Twitter to not just let people know they are safe but also to helping connect people get to safer locations. (Reuters)
Google and Facebook have launched resources to help with the relief efforts in Chennai, which has been hit by floods.
Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature in Chennai that has witnessed the heaviest rainfall seen in a century.
Facebook, which has its second largest userbase in India, activated the feature to

YU Yutopia smartphone’s launch has been delayed to December 17 and here’s the reason why.
Micromax’s YU Televentures was supposed to launch its new flagship smartphone, the Yutopia, on December 7. Invites had been sent, but now it seems the launch is delayed till at least December 17. YU Televentures’ Rahul Sharma tweeted about the delay, “Hold your excitement, as we plan to announce something special with YUTOPIA. The most powerful phone now la

YU Yutopia smartphone’s launch has been delayed to December 17 and here’s the reason why.
Micromax’s YU Televentures was supposed to launch its new flagship smartphone, the Yutopia, on December 7. Invites had been sent, but now it seems the launch is delayed till at least December 17. YU Televentures’ Rahul Sharma tweeted about the delay, “Hold your excitement, as we plan to announce something special with YUTOPIA. The most powerful phone now la

YU Yutopia smartphone’s launch has been delayed to December 17 and here’s the reason why.
Micromax’s YU Televentures was supposed to launch its new flagship smartphone, the Yutopia, on December 7. Invites had been sent, but now it seems the launch is delayed till at least December 17. YU Televentures’ Rahul Sharma tweeted about the delay, “Hold your excitement, as we plan to announce something special with YUTOPIA. The most powerful phone now la

Symantec Corp today said it will double the number of cyber security professionals at its Chennai centre to more than 200 over the next year, citing an urgent need to augment capacity to address the increasing cyber threats globally.
The Chennai security operation centre (SOC), the company’s largest in Asia-Pacific and Japan region, expansion will be part of Symantec’s $50 million business expansion plan, which also includes the Singapore SOC launched today.
“We will double our

Samsung Galaxy A6 series for 2016 has been announced with Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5, and Galaxy A3 smartphones.
Samsung Galaxy A series for the year 2016 has been announced with 3 new smartphones: Galaxy A7, Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3.
Galaxy A series for 2016 combines the new Samsung design style with metal and glass to give the smartphones a premium look. The Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 (2016) also support Samsung Pay, Samsung’s mobile payment service and fingerprint verification as well.
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Qualcomm has signed a new licensing pact with Xiaomi.
Qualcomm Inc signed a licensing pact with Xiaomi Technology Co Ltd that allows the Chinese smartphone maker to use its patents to make and sell 3G and 4G devices.
Xiaomi has enjoyed a rapid rise with handsets it touts as cheaper but well-designed alternatives to Apple Inc’s iPhones. Shares of Qualcomm rose 6.8 percent to $52.65 in early trade on Wednesday.
Under the agreement, the royalties payable by Xiaomi are consistent with terms o

Disneyland was the place with the most Instagram posts in the world.
New Year’s Day 2015, followed by Valentine’s Day were the most Instagrammed days of the year.
Instagram, the photo sharing app that has nearly 400 million monthly active users, has shared some the year-end stats, which give a glimpse at the most active days and locations on the social media.
The list of most Instagrammed days looks like this:
1) New Year’s Day2) Valentine’s Day3) Easter4) Mother’s

Philanthropic foundations such as the one set up by Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates typically support non-profit organizations, and they are required to pay out at least 5 per cent of their assets in grants each year, a restriction the Zuckerbergs will not face.
Mark Zuckerberg, who famously urged his company Facebook Inc to “move fast and break things,” is taking a similar approach to the staid world of philanthropy, indicating his new venture will get directly involved with p

Facebook Chennai Floods Safety Check feature has been activated by the social media site.
Facebook’s Safety Check feature has been activated for Chennai on account of the heavy flooding and rains in the Tamil Nadu capital. Meanwhile Google has also launched its own resource page for flooding in South India.
The Facebook Safety Check feature lets users mark themselves as safe and notify their friends about their status as well. If a user is in the affected area, they can let their friends

Micromax YU Yutopia is now expected to be launched on December 17, 2015.(Reuters)
The launch of Micromax YU Yutopia, which was expected to be launched on December 7, has been postponed to December 17. The delay in company’s new flagship smartphone launch seems to be the Delhi High Court order that has issued bailable warrants against three of Micromax founders — Sumeet Kumar, Rahul Sharma and Vikas Jain — in a matter of contempt on its earlier order of November 2014 relating to