Technology

We reported earlier this week on a new ultra-low-budget smartphone that’s making its way to the market, the Docoss X1. Docoss, a completely unknown company, is putting the smartphone on sale right now for just Rs 888. Given the last …

Ahead of official LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge launch at the MWC 2016, the smartphones have already been listed on Dubai-based site. The listing reveals their retail boxes, design and front and back of the devices. …

Google will make public emergency alerts for floods available in India as part its efforts to make critical information more accessible around natural disasters. “Users in India can now find ‘flood alerts’ along with ‘river level’ information for more than …

Google CEO Sunder Pichai is now the highest paid executive in the US. Pichai’s net worth rose after he was awarded 273,328 shares of Google’s holding company Alphabet. At the time, the shares were worth $199 million, taking his holdings …

NEW DELHI(PTI): Social media giant Facebook on Monday expressed disappointment over telecom regulator Trai’s decision not to allow differential pricing of data, saying it adversely impacts its free internet platform Free Basics. “Our goal with Free Basics is to bring …

Microsoft said Wednesday it acquired British-based software keyboard maker SwiftKey, saying it would be integrated with the tech giant’s “intelligent systems” for mobile devices. SwiftKey makes keyboard apps which are used on some 300 million Android and Apple devices, replacing …

HSL Mobile launched the Y501 Plus today. The smartphone is priced at Rs 3,999 and will be exclusively on sale via Snapdeal. The unique property of the handset is something the company calls “Hammerscreen”, which they claim is unaffected even …

A day after Trai suggested a whopping Rs 5.36 lakh crore spectrum auction plan, telecom operators body COAI on Thursday said it will approach the regulator to understand the methodology it used to conclude recommendations. “Our first point of call …

After much controversy and preliminary testing, the iconic like symbol of Facebook will soon be expanding to include six new options called “reactions”, according to Bloomberg Business. The new “reactions” will be “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” “yay” and “angry” and …

New Delhi(PTI): Inter-ministerial panel Telecom Commission has in-principle approved Trai’s recommendation on determining spectrum holding limits and sought suggestions from the sector regulator to implement it in future auctions. “Telecom Commission discussed spectrum cap recommendation of Trai and in-principle agreed …