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Motorola Moto G will now be upgraded from Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
Motorola has given a New Year’s treat to its Moto G3 users in India as the phones will now be get an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update.
“Here is something new and amazing for your Moto G (3rd Gen.), the Android 6.0 Marshmallow!” Motorola India announced on its Twitter account. However, the exact date of the rollout was not mentioned in the tweet.
The third-generation phone of the

Motorola Moto G will now be upgraded from Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
Motorola has given a New Year’s treat to its Moto G3 users in India as the phones will now be get an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update.
“Here is something new and amazing for your Moto G (3rd Gen.), the Android 6.0 Marshmallow!” Motorola India announced on its Twitter account. However, the exact date of the rollout was not mentioned in the tweet.
The third-generation phone of the

IF YOU’RE an ardent admirer of Game of Thrones (GoT)—that epic fantasy television series from HBO that has attained an exceptionally broad and active international fan base, thanks to its captivating story, gory death scenes and, of course, dragons—you would have often got blown away by the amazing locations it is shot in. Instead of presenting viewers with propped-up sets, Game of Thrones has been known to shoot in different countries around the world, and therein lies its bea

Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.
On Wednesday, after a series of requests for comment from Reuters, Microsoft said it would change its policy and in future tell

Messaging service WhatsApp was in the news recently after users across the globe complained that their WhatsApp messages aren’t going through.
Thousands of users across Europe, America and Canada were unable to connect to WhatsApp on both Android and iOS on December 31st, 2015.
Apparently, some users are still facing issues while accessing its messaging service.
According to Reuters, a WhatsApp spokesman has confirmed that they are facing some issues again.
The problem has been affecting A

Motorola Moto G will now be upgraded from Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop) to Android 6.0 (Marshmallow).
Motorola has given a New Year’s treat to its Moto G3 users in India as the phones will now be get an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update.
“Here is something new and amazing for your Moto G (3rd Gen.), the Android 6.0 Marshmallow!” Motorola India announced on its Twitter account.
However, the exact date of the rollout was not mentioned in the tweet.
The third-generation phone of the Moto

Motorola Moto 360 (2015) is a good-looking watch but Google’s Android Wear fails to make it ‘smart’ again. (Image: Fareeda Muhammed)
I have already spent Rs 12,999 in buying the first gen Moto 360 in June 2015, obviously after the price cut. So, if Motorola wants me to spend at least another Rs 20,000 for the new Moto 360 (2015) as a new year gift, it has to be damn good.
The good guys at Motorola have sent me the high-end 46mm Black Metal Moto 360 (2015) version, which is pri

Another place Microsoft failed badly this year was the Windows Store.
It was another momentous year for Redmond-based software major, Microsoft in 2015. It launched Windows 10 after field trials with Insiders for nearly a year.
It also came up with two and not one Surface device. While Surface Pro 4 retained the legacy of previous Surface devices, the surprise element Surface Book took the world by surprise with its “dynamic fulcrum hinge”. Breathe easy it takes little effort to abs

Smartphone users who get annoyed with ill-fitting USB connectors, tangled cables and slow data transfer speeds have a solution in Flippy – the world’s first reversible micro-USB cable. (Image Source: Amazon) Smartphone users who get annoyed with ill-fitting USB connectors, tangled cables and slow data transfer speeds have a solution in Flippy – the world’s first reversible micro-USB cable.
Flippy is a patent-pending technology by Dott, an innovative smart-device accessor

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand video streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will int

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand video streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will int

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will interact

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand video streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will int

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand video streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will int

Motorola has given a New Year’s treat to its Moto G3 users in India as the phones will now be get an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. Motorola has given a New Year’s treat to its Moto G3 users in India as the phones will now be get an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update.
“Here is something new and amazing for your Moto G (3rd Gen.), the Android 6.0 Marshmallow!” Motorola India announced on its Twitter account.
However, the exact date of the rollout was not mentioned in the twe

The year 2016 will be all about large screens and videos, the demand for cheaper smartphones will grow and 3G and 2G users will continue to co-exist over the next few years in India, Micromax, one of the country’s leading smartphone makers, has predicted. (Reuters) The year 2016 will be all about large screens and videos, the demand for cheaper smartphones will grow and 3G and 2G users will continue to co-exist over the next few years in India, Micromax, one of the country’s leading

Microsoft has criticised the Centre’s proposal to empanel a set of cloud service providers for rendering government services.
Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman of the Indian unit of the American technology company, stated that smaller vendors may not have the capability to run complex projects that big players such as Microsoft, Google and others do.
In an interview to a media house, Bhaskar Pramanik said, “Making a strong pitch for a policy that leverages use of public cloud infrastructure

While the buying trends during 2015 witnessed a significant upward movement due to aggressive online discounts, rising fuel prices and wider and abundant choice will hit the e-commerce industry in 2016.
India’s e-commerce market is likely to touch $38 billion mark in 2016, a massive jump over the $23 billion revenues clocked by the industry in 2015, according to an Assocham study.
“Increasing internet and mobile penetration, growing acceptability of online payments and favourable de

Netflix will interact with Indian tech journalists during CES 2016, Las Vegas.
This might be one of the best news global consumer electronics show CES might ever give to most Indian tech enthusiasts- Netflix coming to India. The popular on-demand streaming service is expected to expand to a lot of markets in 2016, and India is definitely on its cards.
At the upcoming CES 2016, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will deliver a keynote on January 6 in Las Vegas. On the same day, the company will interact

Mobile operators are set to oppose any blanket ban on differential data tariff offered by them through select tie-ups with content providers. It is learnt that the operators are going to oppose any such move in their responses to the consultation paper on the subject, the last date for which has now been extended till January 7 by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
The operators are going to maintain that such pricing was not discriminatory and should be allowed to continue. The core bas