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Fed up with low battery problem? These popular apps are responsible for draining your phone battery

New Delhi: In the generation of smart phones, many face the problem of low mobile battery. Different sources suggest different techniques to save the mobile battery and avoid the problem of low mobile battery but finally end with the same problem. The reason for this problem is some popular apps. Th

India becomes number one country in the world for Whatsapp calls with 50 million minutes per day

Indians make 50 million minutes of video calls daily via WhatsApp, the highest compared to users in any other part of the globe. WhatsApp, a popular messaging app that competes with the likes of Hike, Google’s Allo and Viber in India, started offering video calling feature in November last year

India successfully launches South Asia Satellite

South Asia Communication Satellite GSAT-9 was launched from the Sriharikota launch centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in coastal Andhra Pradesh on Friday evening. A 28-hour countdown began for the launch of the GSLV mission at 12.57 p.m. on Thursday, along with other pre-laun

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop with Windows 10 S starting at $999

At the MicrosoftEDU event in New York City, the company announced a brand new addition to the Surface lineup called the ‘Surface Laptop’. The new machine was leaked earlier today and is aimed at students running on Microsoft’s new Windows 10 S operating system. The new Surface Laptop is made out

KEA follows in DPUE footsteps on allotting CET exam centres

Candidates appearing for the Common Entrance Test (CET) scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday will have to travel long distances as they have been allotted examination centres far away from their colleges. Following in the footsteps of the Department of Pre-University Education that had introduced r

WhatsApp update: Now, users can pin favourite chats on top – Find details

New Delhi: Popular mobile messaging service, WhatsApp has introduced another new feature which allows user to pin specific chats on the top of the other chats in the chatting list. According to the news published in DC, maximum of three chats can be pinned to the top. The latest chats will appear

Samsung has received 80,000 pre-orders for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ in India

IAN|April 26,2017 Coming as a sigh of relief for Samsung after the Note 7 fiasco last year, pre-orders for its new flagship Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices have reached 80,000 units within a week of the launch in India. “The pre-orders are expected to hit 150,000 units by the end of this month,” indus

Intex FitRist Cardio with heart rate monitor launched at Rs 1,499, to be available exclusively on Amazon.in

FP|April 26,2017 Intex has announced a new activity tracker, called the FitRist Cardio. An update of the original FitRist, the new version comes with a heart rate monitor. The FitRist Cardio features a 2.18 cm OLED display with a 96 x 32 pixels resolution. It comes with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivit

This is how much the Samsung Galaxy S8 actually costs

Samsung recently launched the Galaxy S8 smartphone in India, starting at Rs 57,900. This is however, not the actual cost of the device. Naturally, all smartphone manufacturers sell their products at higher than actual prices to generate maximum profit. Moreover, the retail price besides comprising o

Circulating videos of sexual abuse is a crime, warn experts

Saudi Gazette report | April 1191,2017 JEDDAH – Experts and legal advisers have warned against taking and publishing video clips and photos of sexual harassment through the social media, even if it was done with a good intention, saying it would have a negative impact on the victim and his/her fa

DATA WAR: AIRTEL DOLES OUT FREE DATA PACKAGE

New Delhi: Mobile operator Bharti Airtel is handing out free high-speed data to its postpaid subscribers for the next three months to counter aggressive offerings by newcomer Reliance Jio. Airtel is offering up to 30 GB of free data for the next three months for postpaid subscribers logging onto

Snapchat denies CEO's 'India is a poor country' remark

The rating of the popular app dropped to a "single star" from "five star" on the App Store. New Delhi, April 16,2017 A day after Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's purported disinterest in expanding business to "poor countries" like India created controversy in social media, parent company Snap

Apple receives permit to test self-driving cars

Apple Inc has secured a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California. Reuters| April 16,2017 Apple Inc has secured a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California, fuelling speculation that it is working on self-driving car technology in a crowded arena of companies hoping to offer those

Using phones too much may increase risk of neck and upper back pain

London, April 16,2017 (ANI): Dear parents, ask your kids to spend less time on their cell phones as a study finds increase in number of patients with neck, disk hernias and alignment problems mainly due to prolonged use of smartphones. According to researchers, some patients, particularly youngst

Bengaluru girl tops English Olympiad

BENGALURU, April 8,2017 (TNN): A class 12 student of Bethany High School has bagged first rank in an international Olympiad for her outstanding performance in English. Rukaiya Abuwala, 17, topped the Science Olympiad Foundation's (SoF) seventh International English Olympiad by beating students from

Google axes ‘Gchat’ instant messenger to change office gossip forever

Google Talk – the instant messenger that accompanies Gmail and is often referred to as “Gchat” – will no longer work from June 26. For those who would rather stare into their PCs rather than risk a conversation with their colleagues, Gmail is offering another chat feature. The email provi

Android O developer previews are out; expect a new notification system, better battery life and more

While most Android users in the market are still waiting to upgrade their phones to Android 7 Nougat, Google has already released a developer preview of Android O. Don’t ask us what the O stands for, it could be Oreo or it could be Ostrich, your guess is as good as ours. Hey, if you have a sugges

60% of engineering graduates unemployed

NEW DELHI: More than 60% of the eight lakh engineers graduating from technical institutions across the country every year remain unemployed, according to the All India Council for Technical Education. This is a potential loss of 20 lakh man days annually. That's not all. Less than 1% of engineeri