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Mobile communication app Truecaller on Thursday unveiled a new feature which enables third party apps to easily onboard users with their Truecaller profile and Truecaller verified numbers.
Developers can use the new TrueSDK feature to sign up and update a user’s information or verify a user’s phone number-based identity in their mobile apps with the user’s consent.
“Our aim is to empower third party apps with a credible verification option and enable users to use the app

The San Bernardino killers, Tashfeen Malik (left), and Syed Rizwan Farook, as they pass through O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. (AP File Photo)
The FBI wants Apple to unlock an iPhone 5c that Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two terrorists who killed 14 at San Bernardino in December, used — and a California court has ordered the company to comply. Apple has said no — citing wider issues that affect everyone. SHRUTI DHAPOLA explains. (Read full order here)
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Critically examine permissions that an app asks for. (Illustration by: C R Sasikumar)
While India has more than 300 million mobile internet users, awareness of app-based security and privacy issues are still quite low in the country. People download multiple apps each week providing numerous permissions unwittingly to various companies. According to experts, while such behaviour is understandable, such ignorance poses numerous threats to smartphone users.
“Privacy concerns and awareness o

Open source can work in India only when a strong support system is developed.
Switching over to open source software across all Central departments, as per a policy decision taken by the NDA government last year, could entail substantial savings on the Centre’s software expenses as most open source alternatives are free. Experts, though, caution that the obvious financial advantages of adopting open source notwithstanding, concerns pertaining to security and operational efficiency may hav

Chinese internet conglomerate LeEco says it will come out with another flash sale on February 25 for its LeEco Le 1s smartphone, which has elicited strong response from buyers.
LeEco said in a press release that it had received a total of 20,28,000 registrations in its three flash sale on Flipkart earlier this month. It said it was celebrating “LeEco Day” in India on February 25 enabling users to buy Le 1s on Flipkart without registration.
LeEco Le 1s smartphone is priced at Rs 10,99

Apple CEO Tim Cook has declined to create software that would unlock iPhone for federal agents’ access
The iPhone 5c belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorism case has become the centre of a battle between user privacy and encryption, Apple and the US government. The context is this: a US judge in Los Angeles has ordered Apple to help FBI by providing “reasonable technical assistance” to investigators seeking to unlock data on an iPhone 5C. The iPhone wa

Much on the lines of Facebook and Google, Truecaller, the mobile caller ID search platform, launched a new software development kit (SDK) that lets third-party apps sign up new users with their existing Truecaller profile and associated verified phone number. This service is free for both the developers and the users and is available on Andriod only for now.
The company announced that the TrueSDK was light weight with less than 25kb. The trucallers used the SDK to recognise the user credentials

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the kind of effect a Rs 251 smartphone will have on the market, not to speak about the dozens of smartphone companies that will go out of business.
But things are not that simple. If there was a possibility to manufacture and sell a phone at under $5, the Chinese ODMs would

Microsoft is working with the Indian government to link Skype with the Aadhaar database to see if the video calling service can be used to make authenticated calls with government institutions and others.
Answering a question from IndianExpress.com during a meeting with select media persons here, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer, Microsoft Corporation, said they have been very enthusiastic and have “embraced the universal ID system”.
“We have been pursuing work, in

Technology giant Microsoft today said it has been working on a pilot to link Skype with the Aadhar database to explore if the identification service can be used on video calls, including those with government institutions. (Reuters photo) Technology giant Microsoft today said it has been working on a pilot to link Skype with the Aadhar database to explore if the identification service can be used on video calls, including those with government institutions.
The US-based software giant said it i

Facebook Instant Articles was built to solve a specific problem – slow loading times on the mobile web created a problematic experience for people reading news on their phones.
Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to open up its Instant Articles programme to all publishers globally to give users a better and faster reading experience -whether it is news, views or opinion pieces.
The announcement is expected to come during Facebook’s “F8 Conference” in San Fran

Freedom251.com, website that was created to order India’s cheapest smartphone has now crashed with a little chance of it going up in the next 24 hours
Freedom 251, India’s cheapest smartphone from Noida’s Ringing Bells’ website has crashed. The company which had created a website called freedom251.com for mobile registration claims to have received 6 lac hits per second.
Freedom 251: All You Need to Know
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Freedom251.com, website that was created to order India’s cheapest smartphone has now crashed with a little chance of it going up in the next 24 hours
Freedom 251, India’s cheapest smartphone from Noida’s Ringing Bells’ website has crashed. The company which had created a website called freedom251.com for mobile registration claims to have received 6 lac hits per second.
Freedom 251: All You Need to Know
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Ringing Bells Freedom 251 has to be booked online, a feature that might prove a stumbling block for lots of people who might actually benefit from the devices.
Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the kind of effect a Rs 251 smartphone will have on the market, not to speak of the dozens of smartphone companies

Microsoft President Brad Smith has revealed that the company is in talks with government to link Aadhar with Skype
Microsoft is working with the Indian government to link Skype with the Aadhar database to see if the video calling service can be used to make authenticated calls with government institutions and others.
Answering a question from IndianExpress.com during a meeting with select media persons here, Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Corporation said they have bee

Milagrow Aguabot is made for the Indian market by an Indian company
The concept of Irona from the Richie Rich comic series is coming true it seems. While they are not as versatile as the robot lady from the popular kids comic, the first set of robots that are really entering our homes are cleaning bots. With domestic helps becoming hard to find in many parts of the country you might see more cleaning bots being deployed in households. A couple of months after we tested the iRobot Roomba 870, we

LeEco has announced the launch of its global brand property LeEco Day in India on Flipkart.
LeEco has announced the launch of its global brand property LeEco Day in India on Flipkart. The shopping bonanza offers Rs 8 crore worth of prizes and other exciting offers to be held on February 25.
Planned as one of the largest shopping carnivals, LeEco Day is expected to garner massive response, pointing to the growing strength of the company’s ecosystem-based superphones and signaling the poten

LeEco is now partnering Aston Martin to develop latter’s electric vehicle called Rapide based on Rapid S sedan
Internet technology company, LeEco has announced its partnership with luxury sports car brand Aston Martin to develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept.
LeEco will closely work with Aston Martin to develop the first electronic car that will be based on Aston’s Rapid S model, thereby adding a range of next-generation connected electric

Freedom251.com, website that was created to order India’s cheapest smartphone has now crashed with a little chance of it going up in the next 24 hours
Freedom 251, India’s cheapest smartphone from Noida’s Ringing Bells’ website has crashed. The company which had created a website called freedom251.com for mobile registration claims to have received 6 lac hits per second.
The website’s homepage reads, “Dear friends, we are very grateful for your enormous respo

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 has to be booked online, a feature that might prove a stumbling block for lots of people who might actually benefit from the devices.
Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the kind of effect a Rs 251 smartphone will have on the market, not to speak of the dozens of smartphone companies

Twitter said on Wednesday in a blog post that users could search and browse a GIF library when composing a tweet or direct message.
Twitter Inc’s introduction of a search function for moving images commonly used on social media prompted users of the website on Wednesday to tweet their own pictures expressing enthusiasm over the feature.
Twitter said on Wednesday in a blog post that users could search and browse a GIF library when composing a tweet or direct message. A GIF, short for graph

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 has to be booked online, a feature that might prove a stumbling block for lots of people who might actually benefit from the devices.
Ringing Bells Freedom 251 could be the real democratisation of the smartphone. At this price, there should be no one in India who doesn’t own a smartphone and everyone should be online within a couple of years. That is the kind of effect a Rs 251 smartphone will have on the market, not to speak of the dozens of smartphone companies

Freedom251.com, website that was created to order India’s cheapest smartphone has now crashed with a little chance of it going up in the next 24 hours
Freedom 251, India’s cheapest smartphone from Noida’s Ringing Bells’ website has crashed. The company which had created a website called freedom251.com for mobile registration claims to have received 6 lac hits per second.
The website’s homepage reads, “Dear friends, we are very grateful for your enormous respo

In a country where sub-$100 smartphones are seen as the biggest volume drivers, imagine the frenzy when a $5 smartphone is launched. Priced at Rs 251, the new Freedom 251 by Ringing Bells takes cheap to an all new low. Ringing Bells what? That’s a valid question to ask. You might be forgiven if you’ve never heard of company till this week.
Yesterday, Ringing Bell launched this phenomena at a glitzy event in Nehru Park. I’d say glitzy because it gave me the feeling that I had en

Facebook Instant Articles was built to solve a specific problem – slow loading times on the mobile web created a problematic experience for people reading news on their phones.
Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to open up its Instant Articles programme to all publishers globally to give users a better and faster reading experience -whether it is news, views or opinion pieces.
The announcement is expected to come during Facebook’s “F8 Conference” in San Fran

Apple Pay is now officially available in China; will take on the growing market share of Tencent’s WeChat
Apple today launched its mobile payments service Apple Pay in China, the company said, pitting the US technology giant against strong domestic players in an already crowded field.
The world’s second-largest economy is a crucial market for the California-based firm, and Apple Pay is available in only a handful of other countries including the United States, Britain, Canada and Au

Apple CEO Tim Cook has declined to create a software that would unlock iPhone and give backdoor access to user data
Apple CEO Tim Cook responded to FBI’s order by declining to create a software that would help federal agents unlock the iPhone. The response was delivered in a customer letter posted on the company website.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned its customers of privacy and security issues, if it complies with federal government’s order. It states encryption is a tool that allo

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Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is shipping the world’s first 2TB, 7mm hard disk drive (HDD), the Seagate Mobile HDD. This ultra-high capacity mobile hard drive is the lightest, fastest and most power efficient 7mm drive in the industry, enabling a more rewarding experience for users without compromising demand for laptops that are slim and light.
“In an industry first, our engineers have been able to boost areal density to 1TB per pla

Freedom 251 website has ‘taken a pause’ and will resume in 24 hours. The ‘Freedom 251’ website has now stopped taking orders due to resistless response that has led to the servers to crash. (Source: Freedom 251) Freedom 251 website has ‘taken a pause’ and will resume in 24 hours. The ‘Freedom 251’ website has now stopped taking orders due to resistless response that has led the servers to crash.
“We received approx 6 lacs hits per second as

US technology giant Apple has vowed to fight an order to unblock an iPhone used by one of the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 dead. In a statement, CEO Tim Cook said the court order sought and obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is investigating the December 2015 attack, would pose a serious threat to data security.
“The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the s

US technology giant Apple has vowed to fight an order to unblock an iPhone used by one of the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 dead. In a statement, CEO Tim Cook said the court order sought and obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is investigating the December 2015 attack, would pose a serious threat to data security.
“The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the s