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Reliance Jio recently said that over 5 lakh users are using its network during trial phase.
Reliance Jio has opened up its much awaited 4G services for the general public on trial basis. But a person will be able to buy its SIM only after getting invite from employees of Reliance Industries group firms.
Another rider for availing the service is that the person will have to buy a LYF handset being sold by Reliance Digital. The LYF handset are available in the price range of Rs 5,599 to Rs 1

Netflix says the new feature is based on study of various streaming habits and kinds of mobile data plans used
Netflix has announced a new tool to help its users better control ther data use when streaming on cellular networks. Netflix says the new feature is based on study of various streaming habits and kinds of mobile data plans used.
Netflix’s default setting will allow users to stream about three hours of TV shows and movies per gigabyte of data. Netflix that translates to 600 kilobi

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build 2016 announced Windows 10 reaching 270 million machines (Source: AP)
Microsoft Windows 10 is now running on 300 million machines. During company’s annual developer conference Build 2016, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had announced Windows 10 install base reaching 270 million machines.
It is a significant number for Microsoft considering the plethora of issues that have surrounded Windows 10. Windows 10 was designed ground up after the disappointing

Reliance recently said that over 5 lakh users are using its network during trial phase.
4G telecom operator Reliance Jio has opened up its services for general public on trial basis but a person will be able to buy its sim only after getting invite from employees of Reliance Industries group firms.
Another rider for availing the service is that the person will have to buy LYF handset being sold by Reliance Digital. The LYF handset are available in the price range of Rs 5,599 to Rs 19,499 apiece

Siri creators are working on a new virtual assistant that essentially helps users book a can or order food (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
Viv, the next virtual assistant from two of Siri’s founders is set to be unveiled to the world on Monday, reports The Washington Post.
Like Siri, Viv will be AI powered but and the creators claim it is everything Siri but little better. According to The Washington Post, users can order a pizza or book a dinner table without any typing or any search involved

CNN International
From sewing machines to 3D printers: How technology is transforming fashion
CNN International
CNN Style's second show launches on Saturday May 7 at 1330 BST / 1430 CET on CNN International. (CNN) The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Spring 2016 exhibition, titled Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, focuses on ...
Fashion in an age of technology at the MetAmsterdam News
Met Gala 2016: couture and technology meet in cutting-edge fashionThe Guardi

Apple along with Lenovo made big gains in India in Q1 2016, according to research firm Canalys.
Lenovo and Apple were the two smartphone brands that grew the fastest in Q1, 2016 in India, while homegrown player Micromax was one of the biggest losers, according to research firm Canalys.
Canalys’ report says that the Indian smartphone market grew at 12 per cent yearly in Q1 with over 24.4 million shipments. While Samsung and Micromax remain the top two players, both are facing trouble.

The United States today issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated. (Reuters) The United States today issued a sweeping ban on sales of e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and hookahs to those under 18, marking the first time these products have been federally regulated.
The ban will go into effect in 90 days, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, which describ

Idea says both prepaid and postpaid users can pay apps or in-app features directly using Idea accounts.
Idea users can now pay for apps, games and books on Google Play directly through their postpaid and prepaid accounts. The in-build operator billing feature also extends to in-app purchases.
The cost of the app will be deducted from monthly bills of a postpaid user. Prepaid users can directly pay for the apps through their phone balance.
Read more: Google and Idea: India gets operator bil

Xiaomi Mi Max is supposed to be phablet with a big 6.4-inch display, but according to the picture it will fit inside a jeans pocket as well.
Xiaomi Mi Max, Chinese startup’s 6.44-inch phablet has been spotted once again in fresh leaks ahead of its launch. Mi Max, which is slated to launch on May 10 has passed China’s Tenaa certification authority, which revealed its pictures and specifications.
Read MoreXiaomi Mi Max certification reveals detailed specifications, priceXiaom

Siri creators are working on a new virtual assistant that essentially helps users book a can or order food (Source: Nandagopal Rajan)
Viv, the next virtual assistant from two of Siri’s founders is set to be unveiled to the world on Monday, reports The Washington Post.
Like Siri, Viv will be AI powered but and the creators claim it is everything Siri but little better. According to The Washington Post, users can order a pizza or book a dinner table without any typing or any search involved

Netflix says the new feature is based on study of various streaming habits and kinds of mobile data plans used
Netflix has announced a new tool to help its users better control ther data use when streaming on cellular networks. Netflix says the new feature is based on study of various streaming habits and kinds of mobile data plans used.
Netflix’s default setting will allow users to stream about three hours of TV shows and movies per gigabyte of data. Netflix that translates to 600 kilobi

About half of all attacks originate in Asia and one-fifth in Latin America, said the Microsoft report. (Reuters Photo) Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territories, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp.
Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Microsoft said in a new study, based on sensors in systems running Microsoft anti-malware software.
“We look at north of 10 million attack

This IPL (Indian Premier League) season, Baidu’s MoboMarket will kick off its first ‘Cricket Guessing Game’ for fans to predict scores and win prizes. According to the Baidu India team, the Cricket Guessing Game is the ultimate playground for cricket enthusiasts to get together and have fun with their friends and family.
Available in-app on MoboMarket, the online game allows players to win points based on their guesses of IPL match outcomes. Players will earn 1,000 complementar

New York Times
Exxon Mobil Backs FuelCell Effort to Advance Carbon Capture Technology
New York Times
A fuel cell used to capture and sequester carbon emissions, at the headquarters of FuelCell Energy in Danbury, Conn. Credit Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times. For years, FuelCell Energy has been considered a company to watch.
FuelCell Energy (FCEL), ExxonMobil (XOM) Enter Novel Technology in Carbon Capture R&D AgreementStreetInsider.com
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) Backing Fuel Cell

UE Boom 2 is booth waterproof and drop-proof. The speaker offers 15 hours long battery backup (Source: Ultimate Ears)
Ultimate Ears has unveiled the UE Boom 2 portable speaker in India. The successor to UE Boom is now beach as well as snow proof and the company is pitching it as anywhere-you-go-proof wireless speaker.
UE Boom 2 is waterproof like its predecessor with IPX 7 certification and drop-proof up to five feet high. UE Boom 2’s speaker is 25 per cent louder and has a longer wireles

Idea says both prepaid and postpaid users can pay apps or in-app features directly using Idea accounts.
Idea users can now pay for apps, games and books on Google Play directly through their account. Idea says both prepaid and postpaid users can pay apps or in-app features directly using Idea accounts.
The cost of the app will be deducted from monthly bills of a postpaid user. Prepaid users can directly pay for the apps through their phone balance.
Read: Big data breaches found at major em

Apple along with Lenovo made big gains in India in Q1 2016, according to research firm Canalys.
Lenovo and Apple were the two smartphone brands that grew the fastest in Q1, 2016 in India, while homegrown player Micromax was one of the biggest losers, according to research firm Canalys.
Canalys’ report says that the Indian smartphone market grew at 12 per cent yearly in Q1 with over 24.4 million shipments. While Samsung and Micromax remain the top two players, both are facing trouble.

Le 1s Eco has specs similar to Le 1s launched late last year but comes bundled with company’s ecosystem package (Source: Hansa Verma)
LeEco, the Chinese internet technology has announced its first ‘Made for India’ smartphone, Le 1s Eco has received 1 lakh registrations in just 24 hours.
Le 1s Eco is the first superphone from the company to feature ecosystem based membership program. The smartphone is priced at Rs 9,999 and gives one year free subscription of Le ecosystem packa

Facebook has signed a MoU with Nasscom to engage entrepreneurs and foster innovation in product design (Source: AP)
The trade body of Indian IT firms NASSCOM has signed an MoU with Facebook to build a product design initiative to engage the country’s young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution builders.
Signed in Silicon Valley this week, the NASSCOM-Facebook initiative is likely to propel innovative thinking and approaches to build solutions in key sectors where techno

Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail hacked and details traded in Russia’s underworld market (Source: Thinkstock Images)
Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft email users, s

Android Marshmallow is now running on 7.5 per cent active devices while Lollipop still runs on nearly 36 percent devices (Source: Google)
Android Marshmallow is now on 7.5 per cent of active devices, nearly one year after the OS was first announced at Google’s annual I/O developer conference.
The latest numbers come just two weeks before Google I/O 2016 starts in San Francisco, where the search giant is expected to release Android N.
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The highest growth will come from cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service ), which is projected to grow 32.5 per cent in 2016, with platform as a service (PaaS) projected to grow 31.7 per cent.(PTI) The public cloud services market in the country is projected to grow 30.4 per cent to reach USD 1.26 billion this year as organisations are pursuing a digital business strategy, Gartner said today.
According to the research firm, public cloud services market, which stood at

Phys.Org
The technology behind the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST)
Phys.Org
The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has teamed up with CSIRO engineers in the development of the world's largest single dish telescope – the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).
Australian technology behind the world's largest telescopeEurekAlert (press release)
CSIRO technology to be at the heart of the world's largest radio t

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Snapdeal acquires predictive marketing technology firm TargetingMantra
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Snapdeal announced the acquisition of 'TargetingMantra', a boutique technology company, which working in the field of personalising shopping experience for customers on e-commerce platforms. Founded by Saurabh Nangia and Rahul Singh in March ...
Snapdeal acquires ex-Amazon techie's predictive marketing technology firm TargetingMantraYourStory.com
Snapdeal acquires marketing technology firm Target

Hulu is expanding its Internet TV programming with a subscription service offering a mix of live cable and broadcast options that will include news and sports.
The move will pit 8-year-old Hulu, a streaming service created by TV networks to counter the threat posed by Google’s YouTube, against similar cable-like bundles already being offered over the Internet by Dish’s Sling TV and Sony’s PlayStation Vue.
Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins confirmed his service’s foray into live progr

Five smart Indian teenagers won a web contest conducted by Google India on browsing websites safely, the global search engine provider said on Wednesday.
“The competition witnessed several entries from across schools in the form of sketches, videos and apps and were judged on creativity, reach and impact,” the Indian subsidiary of the Silicon Valley-based firm said in a statement here.
Mavika Boyini from NASR School, Hyderabad; Vaidehi Reddy, Army Public School, Pune; Kanish Chugh, D

Last year, ”Super Mario Bros.” and ”Pong” were among the first inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame. On Thursday, the class of 2016 will be revealed.
The Strong museum in Rochester opened the hall in 2015 to pay homage to all electronic games – arcade, console, computer, handheld or mobile.
This year’s finalists were announced in March and the winners chosen on the advice of journalists, scholars and others familiar with the history of video games an

Google and Idea Cellular are launching operator billing India in today. Here’s how it works and what it means. Representational Image. (Source: Reuters)
Google will on Thursday, formally announce a partnership with Idea Cellular offering operator billing for purchasing apps and other services. This is the first such arrangement in the country, and will in all likelihood be rolled out to other service providers too.
The advent of operator billing is a big deal. Despite the size of the marke