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Like Snapchat, Facebook plans to roll out Facebook Stories
Learning lessons from Instagram stories, Facebook is now planning to roll out timeline-topping Facebook Stories app which will let users push our videos and images that will fade away after 24 hours. Facebook had launched Instagram stories in August 2016 after looking at the success of this format in Snapchat. Instagram stories had been widely…
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Xiaomi’s VP Hugo Barra will now lead Facebook’s VR efforts
The face of MI devices Hugo Barra has quit Xiaomi as Vice President to lead virtual reality efforts at Facebook. Barra served Xiaomi for 3.5 years where to took the Chinese company out to emerging markets like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and lastly to India. Hugo had tweeted on January 23, 2017 about his decision of…
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Day 1: Key Announcements from Google IO 2016
The first day of Google’s annual software-developer focused conference Google IO 2016 started with some major announcements – Android N, Android Insta Apps, Virtual Reality Headset & Motion Controller, Android Wear 2.0, Android Studio 2.2 and Firebase expansion. Android N: Improved performance in Graphcs & Runtime Android Insta Apps: Access mobile applications without downloading the…
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Freedom 251 Website Crashes on the Launch Day
The much awaited Made in India smartphone with a price tag of Freedom 251 did not live up to expectation. The company’s website crashed on the day of the launch. With people coming in at 6am IST, the website server could not take the bandwidth and crashed, leaving a bad taste to everyone who got up specially…
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Smart Trucks On Roads – Technology Best Utilized
The rising cost of fuel globally is a matter of concern in automobile industry. The problem is more grave for truckers who need to haul huge loads to far away places over rugged terrains and in inclement weather conditions. If that be the case, there is a need to identify ways and means of achieving…
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Samsung unveils next gen Samsung Galaxy Note 5
The Korean smartphone manufacturer today launched a new smartphone under its ‘ Galaxy Note’ series – the Samsung Galaxy Note 5. With the features showcased at the launch event, the new Note looks like one beast of a device. The most killer update I feel is the external typepad ~ bringing back the BlackBerry and…
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July – The month of Smartphones
Five BIG smartphone manufactures launched/announced their flagship devices in July 2015 in India – OnePlus, Motorola, Micromax and Xiaomi OnePlus – The Chinese smartphones manufactures launched their much awaited #OnePlus 2 with a VR launch. This was first of its kind, where they offered their fans to watch the Product Launch with OnePlus VR Cardboard, a…
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In India, Tablet sales to surpass Desktop PCs this year
In a report by industry body MAIT and market research firm IMRB, the tablet sales in India is set to win the race against desktop PC’s, the backbone of India’s IT revolution. We believe this can be due to the change in lifestyle and the necessity of portable devices. The desktop PCs had witnessed a…
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Tablet Market on a downfall?
As per the latest report by BI Intelligence, the tablet shipment seems to have gone down last quarter and has reported a loss. Experts last year mentioned Year 2014 as ‘The Year of Tablets’, which certainly does not hold true looking at the shipment reports. The major cause of the downfall could be due to the fact that the tablets…
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10 Best Tablets of 2013 – iPad Air, Google Nexus, iPad Mini, Kindle Fire HDX and more!
Here is the list of 10 best tablets of 2013. Refer this if you are planning to buy/gift a tablet. No.1: iPad Air The iPad Air is the 5th and newest edition of Apple’s 9.7 inch tablet. The tablet comes with only two major updates from its predecessor – weight and processor. These two virtues…
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