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Samsung and LG could launch their foldable devices in 2017
Samsung has been trying to launch its first foldable phones since 2015, as seen in company’s patent filing forms. According to KoreaHerald report, Samsung will reportedly unveil portable devices with folding screens in the third quarter of this year. However,
Bangalore class VIII students build a multi-purpose robot with National Instruments’ system-design platform
Platform-based systems provider, National Instruments (NI) has mentored Anuj Verma and Shlok Jhawar, class VIII students of Delhi Public School, Bangalore in successfully creating a 4-wheeled, all-terrain, multi-purpose robot named, Recon Rover. The Robot that can be used for surveillance
As Kalyan Krishnamurthy takes charge, 3 top Flipkart execs call it quits
Barely a day after Tiger Global’s Kalyan Krishnamurthy was appointed as the new CEO of India’s largest online marketplace, Flipkart, its three top-level executives reportedly have called it quits. Citing a company executive in the know of the things, Economic
Larry Paulson appointed as vice president and president of Qualcomm India
Qualcomm Incorporated has appointed Larry Paulson as vice president and president of Qualcomm India. He was Vice President Product Management- Qualcomm Device Reference Designs (QRD) at Qualcomm prior to this. In his new role, he will provide leadership and drive business growth
Zuckerberg’s 2017 resolution is to meet people not on FB, but in real-life
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook is known to take personal and bold yearly challenges. In the previous years, the 32-year old tech titan took the challenge of learning to speak Mandarin or creating a virtual assistant, dubbed
L’Oreal feels it’s time to switch to a smart hairbrush
Joining the bandwagon of companies making anything and everything into ‘smart’, L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator has launched a smart hairbrush, Kérastase Hair Coach at CES 2017. Powered by Nokia-owned Withings technology, Hair Coach is a smart hair brush with a microphone,
Karan Bajwa succeeds Vanitha Narayanan as new IBM India MD
BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today announced the appointment of Karan Bajwa as Managing Director of IBM India, succeeding Vanitha Narayanan who has moved to the Chairman’s role of IBM India now. Karan will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters
PM Modi offering mobile recharge worth Rs 500 for free is a hoax
With PM Modi announcing the demonetization policy, came a flood of rumours. Mind you, the rumours included everything, from the colour of the new currency notes, its technical function to the reason behind the sudden move of demonetization. Obviously, scammers
Foxconn aims to replace human workforce with robots
Technology has come a long way undoubtedly. However, is it worth and wise to replace humans with robots? Though we are yet to know the answer, Foxconn is planning to fully automate its factories, replacing a vast majority of human
Lost keys? Microsoft will use AR to find it
A recently published patent application from Microsoft details how technology could be used to track the “moveable inanimate physical object.” However, there are a number of object tracking solutions like RFID tags or Bluetooth trackers, Microsoft is trying to patent
Internet shutdowns cost India $968mn in 2016
The year 2016 saw governments around the world shut down the internet more than 50 times. This happened for various reasons right from containing elections, slowing economies to limiting free speech. According to a recent Brookings Institute paper, internet shutdowns
Online shopping is catching up fast in tier II cities of India, say Flipkart & Snapdeal buying trends
Flipkart’s FlipTrends 2016 and Snapdeal’s consumer buying trends 2016 for once voiced a similar shift. Both buying trends showed that majority of Indians are going ‘mobile’. For Snapdeal 35% of ‘Mobiles & Tablets’ were sold in North India. Whereas, for
Indian school going kids are prone to cyber bullying
Cyber-bullying cases are constantly increasing and threatening the world of our children online. A survey as part of “Telenor India WebWise” was conducted across schools in 13 cities, involving 2,727 students by Norwegian telecom giant Telenor to analyse internet usage
Apple’s research paper on AI useful for computer vision technology
Apple Inc. has been extremely secretive about all its research initiatives, but last month they hinted on changing this for better. So, they have now decided to break their vow of secrecy and Apple researchers have published their first AI
Bangalore remains the top recruiter for cloud computing jobs in India
Soma Tah As cloud computing continued to see an increased business acceptance and subsequent adoptions over the years, the demands for skilled resources also rose by leaps and bounds to make the transition smooth. The worldwide cloud market will grow at six times the
Cyanogen shutting down, CyanogenMod will live on as LineageOS
Smart Phones, like OnePlus One and Lenovo Zuk Z1, running on Cyanogen OS will no longer receive an update as it is shutting down all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds on December 31. In a blog they announced “As part
