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Back in the eighties and early nineties, much before satellite television entered our homes, music used to be the prime source of entertainment. A deck music system that could play audio cassettes or CDs was considered a prized possession among many people in those days. That was then. Nowadays, people tend to store their music in their mobile phones and all that they require is a good pair of headphones to channel the music to their ears. Still, I personally believe that a full-fledged stereo s

Let me confess. I was not really impressed by my first sighting of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. I thought the new flagship looked a bit too much like the old flagship, the S6 edge. But first impressions and hands-on reviews from launch events are half-baked at best. I have now used the S7 edge for well over a week and I have no doubts about this phone. Here are my impressions about the new device.
I am using a 32 GB version of the S7 edge for the review. Yes, the phone is not very different from

To strengthen its position in the fast-growing affordable smartphone market, Vivo India has recently launched Y51L, a handset assembled at the company’s Greater Noida assembly plant. This facility was launched in December last year with an initial investment of Rs 125 crore. Priced at Rs 11,980, Y51L comes with a 5-inch HD IPS display, long battery life, powerful performance and a smooth user interface. Let us explore the finer details of the device.
Out of the box, the devi

The theory of shopping as ‘retail therapy’ is far more pronounced in a world dominated with the ubiquity of mobile. The portability of such devices makes them compelling windows into experiences that were never possible previously. Ease of access, superior user experience and ultimately a way to kill time for many millennials; retailing is indeed a therapy. Mobile users, who window-shop on e-commerce apps to kill boredom, end up purchasing products. Push-notifications, offers, a

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is now slightly larger than its predecessor S6 edge and comes with an always-on display
Let me confess, I was not really impressed by my first sighting of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. I thought the new flagship looked a bit too much like the old flagship, the S6 edge. But first impressions and hands-on reviews from launch events are half-baked at best. But now I have used the S7 edge for well over a week and I have no doubts about this phone. Here is my review.
Samsung Gal

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Subaru unveils larger 2017 Impreza packed with technology, safety features
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FullContact buys Brewster's technology after team got acqui-hired by Burger King owner RBI
TechCrunch
Back in October, we wrote about how the team behind contacts management app Brewster got acqui-hired by RBI, the owner of Burger King and other fast-food brands, where they would work on building tech for RBI and maintain Brewster, which was not part ...and more »

PR Newswire (press release)
Prince Sets New Squash Benchmark with Racquets Reinforced by TeXtreme® Technology
PR Newswire (press release)
Prince® Global Sports is raising the bar once again with its newest squash collection featuring TeXtreme® technology. Prince practically set the squash world on fire when it entered the squash market for the first time in 1984, and the company has ...and more »

Xiaomi Mi TV 3S is the first curved TV from the Chinese company (Source: Hugo Barra/Facebook)
Xiaomi has announced its first curved TV in China. The Xiaomi Mi TV 3S comes with 65-inch curved display, which makes it company’s first curved television.
Xiaomi global VP, Hugo Barra posted about the new TV on his Facebook account. The Xiaomi Mi TV 3S is 5.9mm thin which makes it thinner than Mi Note whose profile is 6.95mm.
Xiaomi Mi TV 3S features a 65-inch curved display from Samsung and has

Twitter is testing new sticker feature that enables users to add images to photos before tweeting them out
Microblogging website Twitter is considering to introduce “Stickers” to enable users add images to photos before tweeting them out, and the web giant seeks user feedback on this new feature including whether or not people like that name, a media report said.
According to Twitter, the feature will also let you “see how other users from around the world have edited the same

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is now slightly larger than its predecessor S6 edge and comes with an always-on display
Let me confess, I was not really impressed by my first sighting of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. I thought the new flagship looked a bit too much like the old flagship, the S6 edge. But first impressions and hands-on reviews from launch events are half-baked at best. But now I have used the S7 edge for well over a week and I have no doubts about this phone. Here is my review.
Samsung Gal

Alphabet Inc’s Google unit said on Wednesday its one-touch payment app for Android devices, Android Pay, will be launching in the UK in the next few months. (Reuters)
Alphabet Inc’s Google unit said on Wednesday its one-touch payment app for Android devices, Android Pay, will be launching in the UK in the next few months.
Android Pay will support MasterCard Inc and Visa Inc credit and debit cards issued by UK banks such as Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and M&S Bank, the co

Google is working on its own iOS keyboard that will put Search on top of the interface
Google is developing a new third-party keyboard for iPhone. Apple opened up its keyboard API for third-party keyboard developers with iOS 8 in June 2014.
According to The Verge, Google wants to put company’s search engine in the interface of its keyboard. This could well be the only way, Google can differentiate its keyboard from other offerings like SwiftKey and Swipe.
Watch: Apple iPhone SE hands-on i

Astronomers have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the universe
Astronomers have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the universe – objects so bright that the researchers have taken to calling them ‘outrageously luminous’.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US said that established descriptors such as “ultra and hyper-luminous” used to describe previously brightest known galaxies do not even come close to descr

Image Recognition Market 2016 by Technology, by Component, by Application, by Deployment Type, by Industry ...
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The base year considered for the study is 2014 and the market size has been projected from 2015 to 2020. One of the major factors driving this market is the growing usage of social media. The usage of social media among employees and customers for ...and more »

Interestingly, Street View is not available in India. The company had launched the service in 2011 in India, but later suspended it following an order from the police. (Reuters) Tech giant Google today launched the Street View imagery of Sri Lanka on Google Maps that will allow users to view and experience 360-degree panoramic imagery of the country from their phones, tablets and computers.
With addition of Sri Lanka, Street View is now available in 76 countries, including the US, Japan and Sou

Business Wire (press release)
Enevate Unveils New HD-Energy® Technology Details at the 33rd International Battery Seminar
Business Wire (press release)
Edge of Enevate's silicon-dominant anode magnified at 100X. Enevate's self-standing monolithic anode enables Li-ion batteries with both ultrafast charging and high energy density. (Photo: Business Wire) ...and more »

Uber’s “Treasure Map” details the ride-hailing company’s software infrastructure, identifies what sorts of data might be exposed inadvertently and suggests what types of flaws are the most likely to be found.
Uber, the high-flying transportation firm, is releasing a technical map of its computer and communications systems and inviting hackers to find weaknesses in exchange for cash bounties.
While so-called “bug bounties” are not new, Uber’s move shows

Smartron has announced that Sachin Tendulkar is now the brand ambassador and a strategic shareholder of the company. (Source: Twitter)
Smartron has announced that Sachin Tendulkar is now the brand ambassador and a strategic shareholder of the company. Smartron has launched a slew of IoT devices and works in areas of smart, sensor, robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud and data technologies.
Read: Coming soon: Smartron, the Indian tech brand with global ambitions
Sachin said, “I ha

BlackBerry is disappointed as not just WhatsApp but Facebook too decides to end support for BlackBerry OS 10 services by the end of 2016. (Source: Reuters)
It is not just WhatsApp that decided to end support for BlackBerry OS 10 services by the end of 2016, Facebook too is leaving the BlackBerry platform after announcing to discontinue support of its application programming interfaces (APIs) for BlackBerry. The Canada-based firm is disappointed.
In a blog post, Lou Gazzola, senior manager in ch

The magistrate judge in the case postponed a hearing scheduled for Tuesday and gave the government two weeks to test its method
For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
That changed Monday when the Justice Department said an “outside party” recently showed the FBI a different way to access the data on the phone used by Syed Farook, who with his wife

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