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Facebook said today it would give friends and family more prominence on user feeds, a move that may hurt media outlets that rely on the social network to draw readers. (Reuters) Facebook said today it would give friends and family more prominence on user feeds, a move that may hurt media outlets that rely on the social network to draw readers.
Facebook said in a statement that the goal of the “news feed,” which appears when users log in, “is to show people the stories that are

Xiaomi Mi Max is the new phablet by the smartphone maker which features 6.44-inch display and is ultra-slim, ( 7.5mm in thickness) and weighs 203 g. Chinese smartphone maker is all set to launch Xiaomi Mi Max smartphone and MIUI 8 OS on Thursday, June 30, in India. The smartphone is likely to priced under Rs 20,000 as it was launched in China in May at a price of RMB 1,499 (Rs 15,330 approx).
Xiaomi Mi Max is the new phablet by the smartphone maker which features 6.44-inch d

Lenovo Vibe K5 features a 5-inch display and is priced at Rs 6,999 (Source: Lenovo)
Lenovo has announced its latest budget smartphone, Vibe K5 will go on open sale starting from July 4. The company says it has sold over 1 lakh units of Vibe K5 in the first two flash sale.
Lenovo claims it sold 48,500 units of Vibe K5 in its second flash sale with over 5 lakh registrations. Lenovo Vibe K5 is a slightly underpowered version of Vibe K5 Plus.
Lenovo says it had anticipated the demand and has ramped

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 6 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 6, and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with ne

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 6 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 6, and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with ne

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 6 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 6, and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with ne

Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 7 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 7 and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with nearly two lakh &

Ringing Bells Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 6 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 6, and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with ne

ZEB-50LED features 1080P Full HD resolution, 16.7 million colors and 300 nits brightness and 20w RMS amplifiers. Diversified technology firm Zebronics has launched 121 cms (48) ‘ZEB-50LED’ television priced at Rs 35,999 and claims that the TV sets a new standard at lowest power usage.
ZEB-50LED features 1080P Full HD resolution, 16.7 million colors and 300 nits brightness and 20w RMS amplifiers. The television enables users to connect it to smartphones and tablets wit

Victims lost an average of a day’s time dealing with mobile security issues (Source: Symantec)
Nearly one in two Indians have granted access to contacts and mobile data in exchange for free apps and close to 40 per cent have granted access to their camera, revealed global leader in cyber security Norton by Symantec on Tuesday.
Commissioned with 1,005 Indian smartphone and tablet users aged 16 and above, the findings from the Norton Mobile Survey shed light on the security gaps and the pri

Lenovo Vibe K5 features a 5-inch display and is priced at Rs 6,999 (Source: Lenovo)
Lenovo has announced its latest budget smartphone, Vibe K5 will go on open sale starting from July 4. The company says it has sold over 1 lakh units of Vibe K5 in the first two flash sale.
Lenovo claims it sold 48,500 units of Vibe K5 in its second flash sale with over 5 lakh registrations. Lenovo Vibe K5 is a slightly underpowered version of Vibe K5 Plus.
Lenovo says it had anticipated the demand and has ramped

Google wants to create its own way of testing user’s internet speed
Google is planning to build its own internet speed test tool right into the web search result. The company wants to take charge of typical user behaviour of checking internet speed via Google search, which generally leads to Ookla’s speed test page.
According to The Next Web, Google wants to create its own way of testing user’s internet speed. This comes at a time when Netflix has announced its own speed test

Facebook has issued a clarification telling users the privacy notice is a hoax.
Facebook Privacy Notice scam is back with a vengeance this year, and the social media site has finally issued a fact-check statement, telling users not to share the message.
The message, which has been copy-pasted by users judiciously, and shared on Facebook, urges their friends to paste the same on their timeline as well. The ‘Privacy’ note claims it will ‘protect’ a user’s content from

The minister’s reply indicated that state government was not keen for grid-connected solar projects for consumer distribution fearing adverse impact on tariff. (Reuters) West Bengal today said it is not contemplating major solar projects for consumer distribution even as the Centre plans to expand country’s solar capacity to 40GW, as it will have an “impact” on the tariff.
Replying to a question on the state’s steps for the Centre’s 40 GW solar mission plan,

Microsoft Windows 10 anniversary update could arrive on August 2. The operating system is already on 300 million devices
Microsoft has confirmed the anniversary update for its Windows 10 operating system will release on August 2. Microsoft had initially put out a blog post noting the availability of anniversary update and has now pulled down that page. Now the official confirmation has come from Microsoft’s Corporate VP, Yusuf Mehdi.
Yusuf in a tweet announced that Windows 10 is now

Microsoft Windows 10 anniversary update could arrive on August 2. The operating system is already on 300 million devices
Microsoft has confirmed the anniversary update for its Windows 10 operating system will release on August 2. Microsoft had initially put out a blog post noting the availability of anniversary update and has now pulled down that page. Now the official confirmation has come from Microsoft’s Corporate VP, Yusuf Mehdi.
Yusuf in a tweet announced that Windows 10 is now

The ideas can range from investigating how seeds can grow in space through to examining new possibilities in renewable energy. (Reuters) In a unique opportunity, youngsters from across the country are being invited to design an experiment that will fly aboard an Indian spacecraft to the Moon.
The initiative, Lab2Moon was launched here today by TeamIndus, a space technology startup, which is among three top contenders and the only Indian team for the Google Lunar XPRIZE.
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Sony aimed to introduce a robot “capable of forming an emotional bond” (Source: Reuters)
Japan’s Sony Corp on Wednesday lifted the sales target for its games division next year on hopes for its new virtual reality headset, and said it would re-enter robots a decade after it last abandoned the business.
But the electronics giant cut its outlook for image sensor sales amid slowing demand for smartphones, and maintained its operating profit target of 500 billion yen ($4.9 billion

Pinterest looks toward shifting towards e-commerce market as it unveils news shopping features in the website. (Source: File photo)
Online bulletin board Pinterest has unveiled new features to facilitate shopping on the site, as the platform pushes to become an e-commerce hub.
The new offerings announced at the company’s San Francisco headquarters yesterday include a virtual shopping bag that users can fill as they cruise bulletin boards.
“When you’re ready to check out, every

PayPal launches programme expansion to protect sellers from ‘online fraud’. (Source: File photo)
Digital payments platform PayPal on Wednesday announced the launch of its “Seller Protection Programme for Intangibles” — an expansion of its existing seller protection programme that earlier only covered merchants selling tangible goods like handicrafts, fashion and art.
“Growing instances of online fraud act as a barrier for sellers selling online services and o

The booster was fired up for its second qualification ground test at test facilities in Utah (Source: Reuters)
A booster for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, has been successfully tested, an advance that may pave the way for future human exploration in deep space, including thejourney to Mars.
The booster was fired up for its second qualification ground test at test facilities in Utah in the US, NASA said.
This was the last full-scale test for the b

LeEco Le Max 2 smartphone sports a 21-megapixel rear camera and 4GB RAM. Le Max 2 bundles a 5 inch QHD display, Snapdragon 820 processor, 64GB internal storage and 3100mAh battery. LeEco on Tuesday garnered Rs 78.6 crore by getting purchase orders of over 61,000 units of its smartphones LeEco Le 2, priced at Rs 11,999 and Le Max 2, priced at Rs 22,999 in its first flash sale on Flipkart and LeMall.com, LeEco’s own marketplace e-commerce platform. LeEco, which is also the first brand to re

The partnership means that Crayon will own the complete customer life cycle, combined and customised solutions, while directly provisioning and supporting Microsoft Cloud offerings for their customers. (Source=Website) Microsoft on Wednesday announced the appointment of Crayon Software Experts India Pvt Ltd as a distribution partner under its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme in India.
As part of this programme, Crayon will help its customers in India to adopt Microsoft’s Cloud base

Ringing Bells, the smartphone manufacturer of Freedom 251, wants to launch more smartphones. In the picture, Ringing Bells Freedom 251. (Indian Express Image)
Freedom 251 has become synonymous with Ringing Bells, or should we say the only thing the company is know for. However, that has not prevented this Noida firm from adding new smartphones to its portfolio.
Ringing Bells GM Anmol Goel showed IndianExpress.com a couple of new devices this week, including some feature phones the company is pl

The recently clicked image of Jupiter using a newly-upgraded thermal imager called VISIR.
Researchers at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have captured stunning new images and prepared the highest-resolution maps to date of Jupiter, a week ahead of the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at the giant planet on July 4.
The images were captured at the thermal infrared wavelengths using a newly-upgraded thermal imager called VISIR.
“We used a

Pinterest looks toward shifting towards e-commerce market as it unveils news shopping features in the website. (Source: File photo)
Online bulletin board Pinterest has unveiled new features to facilitate shopping on the site, as the platform pushes to become an e-commerce hub.
The new offerings announced at the company’s San Francisco headquarters yesterday include a virtual shopping bag that users can fill as they cruise bulletin boards.
“When you’re ready to check out, every

Moov Now tracks a user’s body in three dimensions and sends that data to a personal fitness coach (Source: MOOV)
Moov Now is the latest wearable from Moov which promises to do much more than just count your steps. Moov Now is smaller and sleeker than company’s previous offering.
Moov Now can be strapped to arm, ankle and can be used with variety of apps for tracking specifric workouts. The fitness tracker is being retailed as a device unlike Apple Watch or Fitbit. Share This Article

Freedom 251 delivery will finally begin on July 7 and not June 30 (Source: Tarun Mahendru)
The delivery of the world’s cheapest smartphone at Rs 251 (less than $4) will finally begin from July 7 and not June 30 as was announced earlier, its makers said on Wednesday, adding that they are trying to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi for garnering his support under the Make in India initiative.
According to Ringing Bells’ Founder and CEO Mohit Goel, they are ready with nearly two lakh &

With Page Flip, Kindle users can easily flip back and forth between a reference and current page
Amazon is introducing a new way of navigating through their kindle books. With Page Flip, Kindle users can easily flip back and forth between a reference and current page.
Amazon calls Page Flip as a reimagined Kindle navigation experience. “With Page Flip, we’ve taken inspiration from how people read print books and improved upon it,” said Chuck Moore, Vice President, Kindle.
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In 2015, Google opened a “My Account” hub to serve as a one-stop shop for setting privacy and security controls. (Source: AP File Photo)
Google is trying to make it easier for you to manage the vast pool of information that it collects about your online activities across phones, computers and other devices.
Among other things, a new privacy tool will enable more than 1 billion people who use Google’s search engine and other services to block certain ads from appearing on every

Microsoft Windows 10 anniversary update could arrive on August 2. The operating system is already on 300 million devices
Microsoft might release the anniversary update for its Windows 10 operating system on August 2. Microsoft had initially put out a blog post noting the availability of anniversary update and has now pulled down that page.
At Build 2016, the company had announced the anniversary update with support for new ink features and improvements to Hello and Cortana virtual assistant. Th

Facebook has issued a clarification telling users the privacy notice is a hoax.
Facebook Privacy Notice scam is back with a vengeance this year, and the social media site has finally issued a fact-check statement, telling users not to share the message.
The message, which has been copy-pasted by users judiciously, and shared on Facebook, urges their friends to paste the same on their timeline as well. The ‘Privacy’ note claims it will ‘protect’ a user’s content from

 The Epson Home Cinema Projector EH-TW5300 is a compact projector that comes with a set of 3D glasses.
Projectors have been evolving into really good, stable devices over the past few years. So when I got the Epson Home Cinema Projector EH-TW5300 for review, I wanted to try something new. I have been off live television for a couple of years now, and was wondering if my primary source of video content, YouTube, could become a primary source for a projector.
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One is designed to protect sensitive information on two-dimensional surfaces such as whiteboards and computer presentation slides. (Reuters) Computer scientists have developed a video privacy software that helps prevent inadvertent disclosure of trade secrets and other restricted information within a camera’s field of view by letting users specify what others can see.
“There are more and more cameras every year. They are incredibly useful,” said Landon Cox of Duke University i

Twitter’s management has been doing everything to get the company back on its feet. (Reuters) To help business owners connect with their users, micro-blogging website Twitter has launched “Twitter Dashboard” — an app to streamline engagement for business accounts.
“Available on web and iOS version, Dashboard includes features that have popped up in other Twitter products in the past. In both versions, Twitter guides you through a quick process to create a custom &l

ZTE Nubia 11 has been launched with 6GB RAM, Snapdragon 820 SoC.
ZTE Nubia 11 has been launched by the Chinese player and it will go on sale July 6 in the country. ZTE’s Nubia 11 follows the trend of 6GB RAM smartphones.
The company has introduced two versions: one with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage price at Yuan 2,499 (Rs 25,459 on conversion), while the 6GB RAM and 128GB storage will cost Yuan 3,499 (Rs 35,646 on conversion).
Zubia Nubia 11 has a 5.5-inch full-HD display (1080p) at 403

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With the Nokia acquisition, Microsoft actually placed a bet on hardware which has never been its strength. (Reuters) Just a few years ago, seeing an Indian youth with a Nokia or an office-goer with a BlackBerry device on the road was a common sight. In 2009, about 70 per cent of smartphones sold globally had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia and the two stalwarts were going strong.
But even tech leaders can, at times, fail to gauge when a particular phenomenon can go extinct.
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Taiwanese chip firm Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc said on Tuesday that its biggest customer, Apple Inc, was being more conservative in placing orders compared with last year, according to the Nikkei.
The business daily reported in May that component suppliers in Taiwan would receive fewer orders from Apple in the second half of 2016. Apple usually launches its flagship iPhone in September. Share This ArticleRelated ArticleApple iPhone SE in strong demand? Sellers in Asia say noApple Q2

Scientists researching on Mars have been trying to determine whether the red planet had an oxygen-rich atmosphere. (Source: File photo)
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has discovered high levels of manganese oxides in Martian rocks, which may indicate that the red planet was once more Earth-like than previously believed.
Curiosity observed manganese oxides in Mars rocks, which could indicate that higher levels of atmospheric oxygen once existed on our neighbouring planet, NASA researchers sai