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Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold announced as futuristic smartphones early this year. While they were supposed to revamp smartphone design, the launch did not go as per plan. The Galaxy Fold ran into hardware problem forcing Huawei to postpone Mate X launch. In fact, there is no...
2020 iPhones may offer ‘switchable’ 60Hz/120Hz refresh rate screen
2020 Apple iPhones will reportedly offer an ultra-smooth display, for which the company is currently in discussion with Samsung and LG. Both LG and Samsung are known to be the two biggest suppliers of phone AMOLED displays in the world. A fresh report claims that next year’s iPhones may...
India’s ‘Bahubali’ rocket lifts off with Chandrayaan-2: All you need to know
India moved towards its second tryst with the moon with ISRO‘s heavy lift rocket – the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) – carrying the 3,850 kg Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, blasting off from the Sriharikota spaceport on Monday afternoon. At exactly 2.43 p.m., the Rs 375 crore GSLV-Mk III rocket...
TikTok parent ByteDance planning to set up data centre in India
Facing pressure from the Indian government to store data within the country borders, Beijing-based ByteDance that owns the popular short video-sharing app TikTok on Sunday said it was planning to set up a data centre in India. “As a testimony to ByteDance’s recognition of India’s efforts to frame a new...
JVC launches two new HD TVs in India, prices start from Rs 7,499
Last month, JVC launched 6 new Smart LED TVs in India. Now, the company has unveiled two more TVs in the country. The model 32N380C and 24N380C are HD LED TVs with inbuilt Bluetooth. The newly launched JVC TVs promise to deliver an immersive cinematic experience. Notably, both the 32-inch and...
Xiaomi becomes youngest firm on Fortune Global 500 list for 2019
Xiaomi has become the youngest company on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2019, ranking 468, with a revenue of $26,443.50 million and a net profit of $2,049.10 million in the previous fiscal. The Beijing-based global technology firm on Monday announced that the company has, for the first time, made...
Micromax to start selling Huawei’s smartphones in a new partnership
Huawei, the second largest smartphone brand in the world, has found a new support in India. Indian smartphone maker Micromax will soon distribute and sell Huawei smartphones across the country. Both the companies have reportedly agreed to a pan India partnership. The announcement could give Micromax to stay relevant...
Asus ROG Phone 2: Prices, features, specifications
In line with earlier reports, Asus today unveiled its next-generation gaming smartphone. Called the ROG Phone 2, it is essentially the successor to the ROG Phone. Similar to last year’s phone, the new ROG Phone 2 also pushes the boundaries of what is expected from a gaming smartphone. Read...
Google Pixel 4 new detailed renders, screen protectors surface online
The Google Pixel 4 smartphone has leaked yet again. The latest renders (by @Onleaks) corroborate previous leaks and rumors. The detailed images show the phone with thick top bezels and thin bezels at the bottom. As one can see, the phone has a square-shaped camera setup at the back,...
Drive For India’s Energy Security Faces New Challenge
By Nantoo Banerjee The centuries old Scottish proverb that ‘’if wishes were horses, beggars would ride” is so true about India’s wish to become a major producer of fossil fuels. The truth is: it is becoming increasingly dependent on imports. Coal, oil and gas are three main components...
Identical Right-Wing Agendas In Trump’s America & Modi’s India
By Amulya Ganguli There is an eerie similarity between President Donald Trump’s advice to the non-white women members of the US Congress to “go back to where they came from” and the occasional suggestions by the Hindutva apparatchiki in India to their opponents to “go to Pakistan”. ...
New CPI General Secretary D Raja Has Tough Tasks On Hand
By Nitya Chakraborty Communist Party of India’s senior leader in Rajya Sabha for two terms D Raja has just taken over as the new general secretary of the CPI following resignation of S. Sudhakar Reddy on health grounds. Raja is a known leader of the Party for...
Retired Civil Servants Have Acted As Conscience Keeper Of Nation
By Satyaki Chakraborty The open letter written by fifty six retired civil servants of the country condemning the Modi Government’s intimidation of the leading figures of the human rights movement in India Indira Jaising and Anand Grover, is a clarion call to the conscience of those who believe...
Cuban President Bring Positive Changes In Economy
By W. T. Whitney Jr. For almost 60 years Cuba has successfully defended its socialist revolution against a steady onslaught of U.S. aggressive actions, serious enough at times to warrant extraordinary measures. Cuba, for example, established alliances with the Soviet bloc of nations in the early 1960s, readjusted...
Samsung Galaxy S8 saves lives of 20 people capsized in Philippines
Samsung Galaxy S8 might be a two-year-old smartphone, but it is still serving an important purpose. The Samsung smartphone reportedly helped rescue 20 people in the Philippines. According to a report, a boat with 20 people onboard capsized off the coast of Malapascua Island near Cebu in the Philippines...
Huawei Y9 Prime (2019) launch in India: Expected price, features
Last week we reported about Huawei’s plans to launch a smartphone in India. The USP of this upcoming device is a pop-up selfie camera. The identity of the smartphone was initially a mystery, but not any more. Amazon India has revealed the upcoming device is the Huawei Y9 Prime...
Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro will not show ads in MIUI: Here’s why
Xiaomi has decided that they won’t have ad-supported monetization from the Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro smartphones in India. The company has been long criticized for showing ads across its MIUI because it wanted to keep the phone’s pricing down and ads are alternate means of business. But...
Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro first sale tomorrow: Launch offers, price and all you need to know
Xiaomi’s latest Redmi K20 and Redmi K20 Pro will be up for sale tomorrow on Flipkart and mi.com. The company launched these smartphones on Wednesday, and on July 22 at 12:00PM, both K20 and K20 Pro will be up for purchase for the first time in India. Both phones...
