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People were seen bee lining to buy the Snapchat Spectacles that cost $129.95 and are limited to two (numbers) per customer.

Wi-Fi has also become a travel essential, influencing hotel, airport and other travel choices.

It comes with a 16 MP front camera, a beautification feature, which is backed by an 3075mAh battery and 0.22s fingerprint unlock at a price of Rs 18,990.

Gartner recently released its 2016 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays report in which Huawei was named as a leader.

Social network firm Facebook said it would hire 500 new staff, adding to the 1,000 people it already employs in Britain, as it gears up to open a new headquarters in London next year.

Apple has partnered with Citibank to provide a unique cashback offer in India, on the purchase of iPhone which appears to be a combo with iPad.
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Earlier in October, the company released a video showing their advances in developing this particular technology and announced that all the new Tesla cars will be fitted with all the self-driving equipment.

The family of speakers comes in "Barricade Mini", "Barricade" and "Barricade XL" sizes and is available online at select retailers.

Metallica's much-awaited album "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct" along with all the other top hits are now available on Wynk Music,

Qualcomm announced its latest flagship mobile processor Snapdragon 835, along with the fourth generation of its super quick charging technology called as Quick Charge 4.
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The scheme by Barclays -- a British multinational banking and financial services company -- is set to start in December.

H-1B visas admit 65,000 workers and another 20,000 graduate student workers each year. The tech industry, which has lobbied to expand the program, may now have to fight a rear-guard action to protect it.

The Alibaba-backed company said it is now witnessing about 7 million daily transactions worth about Rs 120 crore.

Sixty-six per cent of the phones in third quarter were "Made in India".

It's the 1st patented Cooling & Heating 2 in 1 wearable device, with thermoelectric technology & a 3D reflux airflow system.

'Women in India: Unheard Stories,' is a collection of over fifty virtual exhibitions with more than 1,800 artworks, photographs and videos, captures the stories of India's unsung heroines ranging from goddesses to leaders, artists and doctors.

China Consumer Association earlier last week sent a letter to Apple, requesting that it clarify the reason.

While WhatsApp video calling feature is good news for many as it opens up new areas of communications, it has also created new avenues for cyber criminals who have been circulating dangerous links inviting users to downloaded the video-calling feature.
The post WhatsApp: Warning! A malicious app disguised as a video-calling invite; Do not click appeared first on The Financial Express..

Symantec's security software often comes bundled with personal computers. As a result, the company has suffered as consumers use mobile devices more than traditional computers. While Norton remains profitable, its sales have been falling.

The survey conducted from October 26 to November 9 found that current Samsung smartphone users were as loyal to their brand as Apple Inc iPhone customers. It also found that people who knew about the recall were as interested in Samsung phones as those who did not.

Flipkart Chief Executive Binny Bansal said the home-grown e-commerce player plans to begin experimenting with grocery sales next year and scale up operations over a three year period.

The data facilities in Dubai, Germany, Japan and Australia will extend the reach of China's leading cloud computing service provider to every major continent, and marks the latest step in the unit's $1 billion infrastructure investment drive.

Firefox has unveiled its new web browser Firefox Focus for iOS users, a new experiment which revolves around privacy.
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India's millennials, about 28 per cent of the population, will drive the internet growth especially online transactions in the coming years, a top Morgan Stanley official has said.
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With the speech titled "The Connectivity Revolution," Zuckerberg said that, as an engineer, his mindset was to view any system in the world, whether hardware and software, healthcare and education systems, or even governments.

In order to streamline the mining activities in the state, the Odisha government on Saturday said Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking devices will be installed in the trucks carrying minerals by December 28 this year.

Global Citizen Festival India is a movement brought to India by Global Citizen, a social action platform, and The Global Education and Leadership Foundation (tGELF), an organisation focused on cultivating ethical, altruistic leadership to improve the state of the planet through collective action.

India is traditionally a cash-based economy, with the value of physical currency in circulation estimated to be over 11% of GDP, one of the highest among emerging economies.The post Emergence of e-wallets in India; here is how the payments industry is growing rapidly appeared first on The Financial Express..

Taking a cue from the fondness for online shopping in India, domestic handset maker Karbonn Mobiles has recently launched Karbonn FashionEye for those would like to buy clothes based on an outfit photo.The post Karbon Fashion Eye priced at Rs 5,490; company enters AI field with FashionEye appeared first on The Financial Express..

Vivo V5 is on the bigger side of devices, toting a 5.5-inch display and thus bringing along with it a lot of glass real estate
The post Vivo V5 priced at Rs 17,980; On selfie front, smartphone takes on Lenovo Z Plus, Samsung J7 appeared first on The Financial Express..