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ARM wants to provide technology that will allow your oven, heating and TV to connect with your phone
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ARM Holdings has laid bare plans to become a global leader in security systems and technology that connects all the gadgets in homes via phones, after paying £242m for a specialist in imaging technology. Cambridge-based ARM, which designs ...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai during ‘Google for India’ event in New Delhi (File Photo)
Google I/O 2016, as expected was all about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Google has announced new Android Studio 2.2 Preview for developers which brings support for Java 8 and better C++ support.
Google didn’t converge Chrome OS with Android, as was widely rumoured rather announced wireless smart home speaker called Home with Google Assistant built-in. Google also announced two n

Google Home, the new smart home speaker comes with Google Assistant built in (Source: Google)
Google is showing off a new smart-home speaker, a virtual-reality system called Daydream and a chat service called Allo.
More than 7,000 people are attending Google’s showcase in Mountain View, California. In an attempt to outshine Apple, Google is adding a few more features to the next version of its Android operating system, including a security approach that lets you encrypt specific files rat

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during ‘Google for India’ event in New Delhi (File Photo)
Google I/O 2016, as expected was all about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Google has announced new Android Studio 2.2 Preview for developers which brings support for Java 8 and better C++ support.
Google didn’t converge Chrome OS with Android, as was widely rumoured rather announced wireless smart home speaker called Home with Google Assistant built-in. Google also announced two n

Business Wire (press release)
Anthem Inc. Unveils New Innovation Studio in Midtown Atlanta's Technology Square
Business Wire (press release)
Anthem, Inc. launched its new Innovation Studio in the heart of midtown Atlanta's Tech Square as a hub for the development of advancements in health IT to improve the consumer experience, quality of care and drive affordability. (Photo: Business Wire) ...and more »

Netflix Inc said on Wednesday that it had launched a website to check the speed of a mobile or broadband internet connection.
The service, called fast.com, works like other internet connection measurement tools such as speedtest.net, Netflix said in a blog post. (http://nflx.it/1rTLyvD)
“We all want a faster, better internet, yet internet speeds vary greatly and can be affected by other users on your network or congestion with your Internet service provider,” David Fullagar, vice pre

Google I/O conference: Attendees take photographs during the Google I/O 2016 developers conference in Mountain View, California. (Reuters) Google I/O conference: Google is showing off a new smart-home speaker, a virtual-reality system called Daydream and a chat service called Allo.
More than 7,000 people are attending Google’s showcase in Mountain View, California. In an attempt to outshine Apple, Google is adding a few more features to the next version of its Android operating syste

Christian Science Monitor
Girls outscore boys on a technology test, but troubling racial gap remains
Christian Science Monitor
Only 25 percent of lower-income eighth grade students achieved proficiency on a national STEM exam, compared to 59 percent of more affluent peers. By Lisa Suhay, Correspondent May 18, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. Samsung Electronics America ...
Girls Beat Boys in US Test of Technology LiteracyWall Street Journal
Girls Outperform Boys on Technology and Enginee

Tim Cook met Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry, TCS managing director N Chandrasekaran and Vodafone chief executive Sunil Sood at the Taj Hotel and held a meeting with ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar at the bank’s headquarters. (Reuters) Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is on his maiden five-day visit to the country, today met the honchos of India Inc, leading bankers and the Bollywood royalty, and will inaugurate tomorrow a development centre in Hyderabad as the tech giant seeks to bolster India p

Panasonic Eluga I2 now comes with 2GB or 3GB RAM option and has updated 5MP front camera (Source: Panasonic)
Panasonic has announced updated version of its ELUGA I2 smartphone in India. The new updated version is available in 2GB and 3GB RAM variants.
Panasonic says ELUGA I2 has been the most successful 4G LTE smartphone for the company. Panasonic’s updated ELUGA I2 will be available at a best buy price of Rs 7,990 for 2GB RAM model and Rs 8,990 for 3GB RAM model.
Panasonic ELUGA I2 also

Nokia has announced plans that will see its brand return to the mobile phone and tablet market (Source: Reuters)
The smartphone world has come full circle. On a day Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile Limited (FIH) decided to acquire the remainder of Microsoft’s feature phone business assets, Nokia announced plans that will see its brand return to the mobile phone and tablet market.
“Under a strategic agreement covering branding rights and intellectual property licensing, Nokia Technologi

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during ‘Google for India’ event in New Delhi (File Photo)
Google I/O 2016 will start in a matter of few hours from now. Google, the search giant will shed some more details on its Android N, which is already available to developers. There are also reports indicating Chrome OS will get support for millions of Android apps. With Android apps, Chrome OS could become more useful desktop operating system.
This time around, Google has more things to talk than Andr

Google I/O 2016 could be search giant’s biggest IO yet with new announcements around Android, Chrome OS and Virtual Reality
Google I/O, the Mountain View-based search giant’s annual developer conference, will start in a few hours from now. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will deliver the keynote this year and the company will host several sessions pertaining to various Google products and services. For Google, I/O is the path to build excitement around its next Android version and als

Customers can shop for the smartphones within their budget and also save upto Rs. 15,000 by exchanging their old phones on Flipkart.
Flipkart has announced its ‘Mobiles Mania’ sale with exchange offers on top smartphones from brands like Motorola, Samsung, Apple, LeEco, Lenovo, and Asus. The sale will be held on May 18 & 19 and will be accessible on website, app and Flipkart Lite
Starting at midnight on 18th May, customers can shop for the smartphones within their

Motorola Moto G4 Plus is here, but the base model of Moto G4 is not. Here’s why.
I just can’t wrap my head around this one. Why are companies launching top-end versions of phone models first, and holding on to the basic phone, which most probably will do better? Yes, it is a tough one. Butit also seems to be becoming something of a phenomenon.
Micromax did it first with the Canvas 6 Pro. But strangely, the Canvas 6 — yes, no pro here — has better specs, and overall

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who arrived in the country last night, is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this week. (Reuters) Apple CEO Tim Cook will inaugurate its development centre here tomorrow in the presence of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.
The California-based technology giant, which manufactures popular gadgets iPhone and iPad, had taken about 1.5 lakh sq ft area on lease in a building owned by real estate giant Tishman Speyer at Nanakramguda here.
“Chief

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Namotel promoter Madhava Reddy displaying the World’s cheapest smart phone Namotel Acche Din for Rs 99, during a press conference in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Reddy has claimed that Namotel is the world’s cheapest smartphone. (PTI)
It is the cheapest trick in the book, at least when it comes to smartphones. After Freedom 251 and Docoss X1, a company called Namotel has come up with the ‘world’s cheapest smartphone’ priced at Rs 99.
We should point out that Namotel as a

Fitbit Inc said it bought wearable payment technology assets from Silicon Valley-based startup Coin, as it looks to allow users to make payments through its popular line of wearable fitness devices.
Coin makes devices that use near-field communication (NFC) chips. NFC allows users to pay for purchases through their wearable devices or smartphones.
The technology allows two devices placed in close proximity to exchange data with each other. A device with an NFC chip, such as a smartphone, communi

Screenshots of a post on narendramodi.in in Facebook’s Instant Articles feature.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website — http://www.narendramodi.in — has gone live on Facebook’s Instant Articles (IA), the feature through which users can view a post within the app itself.
The website routinely publishes posts that details daily engagements of the Prime Minister and the various government schemes he rolls out. Now, through the IA feature, users on Facebook

Wall Street Journal
Fitbit Buys Coin's Digital-Wallet Technology
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. stepped into wearable fitness device maker Fitbit Inc.'s wheelhouse when it introduced the Apple Watch a year ago. Now Fitbit is returning the favor, making a bet on mobile-payments technology that could look a lot like Apple Pay. Fitbit ...
Pay for groceries with your Fitbit? Could happen before longCNBC
Fitbit Acquires Mobile Payments Technology But Won't Add This YearFortune
Fitbit acquires Coin's

CNBC
Pay for groceries with your Fitbit? Could happen before long
CNBC
Fitbit said Wednesday that it has purchased a wearable payments platform from financial technology company Coin. The wearable fitness tracking company said in its statement that while Coin's platform won't be integrated into its products this year, the ...
Fitbit buys mobile payment technology from Silicon Valley startupReuters
Fitbit Buys Coin's Digital-Wallet TechnologyWall Street Journal
Fitbit Acquires Mobile Payments Te

Prime Minister Narendra Modi crossed yet another milestone on Twitter.
As if to mark his second anniversary in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account (@NarendraModi) crossed 20 million followers. He has added three million new Twitter followers so far in 2016, and 16 million since he was sworn in on May 26, 2014.
Only Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) has more followers than him in India and at the pace the PM is adding followers, it is only a matter of time before he crosses

According to the study, average IT hardware products made in India are 15.9 per cent more expensive than similar imported products and this issue can be fixed if the government adopts a similar strategy for the segment as for mobile devices. (PTI) A favourable duty structure for manufacturing of IT hardware in the country can create over 10.5 lakh jobs by 2020, a report from the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) today said.
“A favourable duty differential

Google India, along with Tata Trusts, also said it is now expanding the Internet Saathi programme to four more states — West Bengal, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura. About one lakh women in rural India have already benefited from its Internet literacy drive under the ‘Internet Saathi’ initiative, Google India today said.
Google India, along with Tata Trusts, also said it is now expanding the Internet Saathi programme to four more states — West Bengal, Assam, Uttar Prade

Express.co.uk
Could this breakthrough technology TREAT type 1 diabetes WITHOUT injecting insulin?
Express.co.uk
NEW technology could help transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes by giving them islet transplants - which produces insulin without needing to inject it. By Olivia Lerche. PUBLISHED: 15:20, Wed, May 18, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:51, Wed, May 18, ...and more »

A former member of Google’s autonomous car team and other Silicon Valley veterans today introduced a startup devoted to self-driving trucks.
Anthony Levandowski and Lior Ron, a fellow “Googler” who was once a top player at Google’s free mapping service, said they founded a company called Otto in San Francisco.
The approximately 40 members of Otto include talent from Alphabet’s Google, Apple, and Tesla, according to a blog post by Levandowski and Ron.
“We&rsquo

Idea’s 4G LTE service is now available in Mangaluru, Hubbali-Dharwad, Hospet, Udupi, Davangere, Hassan, Kolar, Tumakur, Vijayapura, Bagalkot and Bidar, in addition to the existing towns of Bengaluru, Mysuru, Belagavi and Chitradurga. Telecom operator Idea Cellular today announced the expansion of its hi-speed 4G service to 22 towns in Karnataka circle, taking the total tally to 61.
The company now covers all major towns across 27 districts in the state, it said in a statement.
Moreover, i

Nokia was the world’s top mobile phone maker between 1998 and 2011 but was overtaken by South Korean rival Samsung after failing to respond to the rapid rise of smartphones.(Reuters) Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia said today it plans a global comeback into its former goldmine of handsets and tablets, by licensing its brand to a newly-created Finnish company.
Nokia “will grant HMD Global Ltd the exclusive global licence to create Nokia-branded mobile phones and tablets for the

Christian Science Monitor
How technology could have prevented Philly Amtrak disaster (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
A hearing on the May 2015 Amtrak train derailment concluded the slow implementation of Positive Train Control technology was one factor behind the crash. By Lucy Schouten, Staff May 17, 2016. Save for later Saved. close. National Transportation Safety ...and more »

Moto G4 Plus is going open sale in India at Rs 13,499. The smartphone is Amazon India exclusive.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus are officially out, with the Plus version going on sale on Amazon India. Moto G4 will go on sale next month and the price will be revealed later. Moto G4 is an effort by the company to reaffirm its position in the budget smartphone space.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus offer better camera than its predecessor, while G4 Plus comes with a redesigned home button that also doubles up as a finge

Moto G4 Plus is going open sale in India at Rs 13,499. The smartphone is Amazon India exclusive.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus are officially out, with the Plus version going on sale on Amazon India. Moto G4 will go on sale next month and the price will be revealed later. Moto G4 is an effort by the company to reaffirm its position in the budget smartphone space.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus offer better camera than its predecessor, while G4 Plus comes with a redesigned home button that also doubles up as a finge

Moto G4 Plus is going open sale in India at Rs 13,499. The smartphone is Amazon India exclusive.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus are officially out, with the Plus version going on sale on Amazon India. Moto G4 will go on sale next month and the price will be revealed later. Moto G4 is an effort by the company to reaffirm its position in the budget smartphone space.
Moto G4 and G4 Plus offer better camera than its predecessor, while G4 Plus comes with a redesigned home button that also doubles up as a finge