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Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a video to personally promote Free Basics and also wrote a personal appeal in one of the leading newspapers.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg today made renewed pitch for its controversial Free Basics Internet service in yet another marketing blitz saying it protects net neutrality.
Facebook’s proposed Free Basics plan allows customers to avail of services like education, health care and employment listings through apps specially designed fo

Satya Nadella’s meeting with Andhra CM mainly centred on how Microsoft could help accelerate development in AP. (Source: IANS)
A meeting with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu over breakfast and a visit to T-Hub, the technology incubator developed by Telangana was all Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella did on Monday during his private visit to Hyderabad.
On only his second visit to the city since he became CEO of the global tech giant last year, Nadella did a

IT firm Infosys on Monday announced the launch of its solar PV power plant of 6.6 MW capacity at its Pocharam campus in Telangana.
With this launch, combined with the existing 0.6 MW capacity rooftop solar plant, the Infosys campus in Pocharam will be one of the first corporate campuses in India that will be run completely by renewable energy. The plant, with a total capacity of 7.2 MW, has been successfully synchronized with the grid and is expected to generate 12 million kWh per annum. This in

Ola CarPool will allow residents in Delhi-NCR to pool rides using their private cars through its app.
Cab aggregator Ola today launched a ‘CarPool’ feature, which will allow residents in Delhi-NCR to pool rides using their private cars through Ola’s app.
To be available free of cost, CarPool will help citizens comply with the state’s first of its kind experiment to implement the odd-even formula for private cars starting January 1, 2016, Ola said in a statement. The move

State-run MTNL, which offers services in Delhi and Mumbai, will offer free roaming from January 1, allowing its customers to receive calls at no extra cost while travelling across the country.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today announced the free roaming facility by MTNL from next year during an event to celebrate good governance day here.
BSNL already has free roaming scheme in place. At present, MTNL customers have to pay roaming charges for incoming calls when they go outside of Delhi

Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a video to personally promote Free Basics and also wrote a personal appeal in one of the leading newspapers.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg today made renewed pitch for its controversial Free Basics Internet service in yet another marketing blitz saying it protects net neutrality.
Facebook’s proposed Free Basics plan allows customers to avail of services like education, health care and employment listings through apps specially designed fo

Snapdeal customers can pre-order Pizza Hut’s new Cheese Maxx pizzas online by paying a flat amount of Rs 100.
Snapdeal today announced its partnership with Pizza Hut to launch two new pizza offerings on its online platform. The new pizzas are available at Pizza Hut outlets starting today and will be exclusively available till December 30 at discounted prices only for registered Snapdeal users, after which they will go on open sale.
The partnership will allow Snapdeal customers to pre-orde

Acer Aspire E-15 is no doubt a good Windows 10 laptop for work but its display will leave you wanting for more.
Windows 10 was announced this July and it has been a couple of months since the sixth generation Intel processors were announced, still it is only now that the new made for Windows 10 laptops have started coming in. But by now, having upgraded my older HP Envy 4 to Windows 10 and working on Windows 8.1 in office, I am pretty convinced that the only Windows devices good enough for work

Asus Zenfone Go 4.5 dual SIM smartphone launched: ZenFone Go smartphone packs a MediaTek Quad-core processor with 1 GB RAM that enables multi-tasking and promises lag-free performance. Asus Zenfone Go 4.5 dual SIM priced at Rs 5,299 was launched in India on Monday – this budget Android smartphone is 3G-enabled. The smartphone is available on Flipkart in the beginning and ASUS exclusive stores from January second week.
The smartphone comes with 100 GB of Google Drive storage which is free

Asus Zenfone Go 4.5 dual SIM smartphone launched: ZenFone Go smartphone packs a MediaTek Quad-core processor with 1 GB RAM that enables multi-tasking and promises lag-free performance. Asus Zenfone Go 4.5 dual SIM priced at Rs 5,299 was launched in India on Monday – this budget Android smartphone is 3G-enabled. The smartphone is available on Flipkart in the beginning and ASUS exclusive stores from January second week.
The smartphone comes with 100 GB of Google Drive storage which is free

Twitter has announced a partnership with India-based start-up Lookup to enable users to do so.
Twitter users in India may soon be able to pay their bills though the micro-blogging site. The company has announced a partnership with India-based start-up Lookup to enable users send a direct message to @lookuplite in order to book appointments, inquire about services and make transactions with businesses.
Lookup lets retailers and consumers chat with each other through direct messaging. It boasts o

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today met Andhra Pradesh CM in Hyderabad. Microsoft India has signed an MoU with the state government as well.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today hosted a breakfast meeting at his residence for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The meeting lasted for 80 minutes, during which Nadella assured the CM of total cooperation with the state government in utilizing  cloud data for improving citizen services.
Deepening their partnership to improve access, d

iBall Andi 5.5H Weber has a metallic body, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with 1GB RAM.
iBall has launched Andi 5.5H Weber smartphone for Rs 6,499, with a 5.5-inch IPS HD display.
The iBall Andi 5.5H Weber has a metallic body, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor with 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage that can be expanded up to 32GB via a micro SD card.
The Andi 5.5H Weber has an eight megapixel camera with LED flash and has a five megapixel front camera. The battery is 2200mAh and it runs Android 5.1 Lolli

Asus Zenfone Go is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6580M processor and Android Lollipop OS.
Asus today launched its ZenFone Go smartphone for a price of Rs 5,299. The smartphone will be available on Flipkart and in retail stores from the second week of January 2016. This 3G smartphone sports a 4.5-inch 480×854 pixels (FWVGA) resolution display along with 5MP A/F rear camera and a 0.3MP front camera.
Powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6580M processor with 1GB RAM and 8GB ROM

While smartphones tend to occupy the central focus when it comes to technology these days, 2015 wasn’t just about them. In this section, we take a look at the top cameras, smartwatches, tabs, PCs and other gadgets that impressed us. Here’s our list of awards for 2015 tech gadgets.
Best Smartwatch: Apple Watch
Why: This one has every feature that you would want in a smartwatch, right from calling to alerts and activity tracking. But what takes the Apple Watch ahead of its time is

Xiaomi Mi 5 has been spotted online in a series of new leaks, and a video.
Xiaomi Mi 5 has been spotted online in a video leak on Chinese social media site Weibo. Press release photos of the upcoming Xiaomi flagship have also been leaked on Weibo. The pictures of the Xiaomi Mi 5 can be seen here, while the video is accessible here.
The leaked pictures show the Mi 5 in gold, black, white and pink colour options with 2.5G curved glass display and a 3D glass panel on the back.
Watch our video

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani at the employee launch of the Reliance Jio 4G services.
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom venture of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Sunday, launched its 4G services for its employees, ahead of the full commercial roll-out in March 2016.
Reliance Jio offers 4G LTE connectivity for data and voice, currently the fastest and latest generation of cellphone network coverage. Reliance Jio’s full-scale commercial launch will be a pan-India o

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani at the employee launch of the Reliance Jio 4G services.
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom venture of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Sunday, launched its 4G services for its employees, ahead of the full commercial roll-out in March 2016.
Reliance Jio offers 4G LTE connectivity for data and voice, currently the fastest and latest generation of cellphone network coverage. Reliance Jio’s full-scale commercial launch will be a pan-India o

The company pivoted Internet.org to make it more of a developer platform, re-branding the main app as Free Basics. (Reuters photo) Social networking giant Facebook in 2015 was truly a uniting force through both good times and tragedies and focused its efforts on boosting internet connectivity in India, says its COO in a blog post looking back at the year ready to pass by.
At the same time, its Internet.org programme created deep divides among the intelligentsia, the activists and even within th

Lookup will use Twitter’s API, as well as its monitoring capabilities, to handle connecting the customer to the prospective merchant. (Reuters photo) Twitter in India may soon enable user to pay their bills though the micro-blogging site, the media reported.
Twitter has announced a partnership with India-based start-up Lookup to enable users send a direct message to @lookuplite in order to book appointments, inquire about services and make transactions with businesses, Techcrunch reported

Xiaomi Mi 5 has been spotted online in a series of new leaks, and a video.
Xiaomi Mi 5 has been spotted online in a video leak on Chinese social media site Weibo. Press release photos of the upcoming Xiaomi flagship have also been leaked on Weibo. The pictures of the Xiaomi Mi 5 can be seen here, while the video is accessible here.
The leaked pictures show the Mi 5 in gold, black, white and pink colour options with 2.5G curved glass display and a 3D glass panel on the back.
Watch our video

Samsung plans an initial production run of 5 million for its upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship. (Source: Reuters)
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , the world’s top smartphone maker, plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
The paper said Samsung is planning to launch two different versions of its new flagship smartphone: a 5.2-inch flat-screen version, and a 5.5-inch, cur

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be visiting T-Hub in Hyderabad today.
Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella is scheduled to visit the city-based T-Hub today.
“Nadella will visit T-Hub in the city today. T-hub is the technological incubation centre set up by the Telangana government. He will interact with start-up entrepreneurs,” Telangana IT secretary Jayesh Ranjan told PTI today.
When asked about Nadella’s four-day visit, Jayesh said, “He (Nadel

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella on Monday during his visit to T-Hub, billed as India’s largest technology incubator, said Microsoft would like to work with T-Hub to develop accelerators and startups.
“Indian talent in the area is dramatically growing and we can see their dominance in the field,” he said while addressing budding entrepreneurs.
On a private visit to Hyderabad, Nadella visited the facility located at the International Institute of Information

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani at the employee launch of the Reliance Jio 4G services.
Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecom venture of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Sunday, launched its 4G services for its employees, ahead of the full commercial roll-out in March 2016.
Reliance Jio offers 4G LTE connectivity for data and voice, currently the fastest and latest generation of cellphone network coverage. Reliance Jio’s full-scale commercial launch will be a pan-India o

Samsung is planning to launch two different versions of its new flagship smartphone: a 5.2-inch flat-screen version, and a 5.5-inch, curved-screen version that will be called the ‘Galaxy S7 edge’, reported a paper. (Reuters) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s top smartphone maker, plans an initial production run of about 5 million of its upcoming Galaxy S7 smartphones, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
The paper said Samsung