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TomTom launches fitness tracker and watch range in India

You can switch TomTom Touch to sport mode for running, cycling or hitting the gym

Only Chinese handset vendors to increase market share among top 5 globally: Gartner

Huawei, Oppo and BBK Communication Equipment together accounts for 21% of the smartphones sold to end users worldwide in the Q3

New AI algorithm to make Siri more 'honest'

The algorithm designed by researchers from University of Toronto in Canada outperformed its own training by 9%

After Facebook, hike messenger now copies Snapchat features

hike has 12 live filters, including one that changes a user's face to Narendra Modi

Chinese company admits to planting spyware in mobile phones

Kryptowire found spyware hidden in the firmware of some of the examined phones manufactured by Shanghai Adups Technology

Facebook buys facial recognition tech startup FacioMetrics

FacioMetrics specializes in using AI to give facial image analysis capabilities to applications that run on smartphones

It's official: Apple thinks you're an idiot

A book with no words and only photographs costs US$300, reports Tech in Asia

Google, Facebook cut ad revenue to 'fake' news sites post US election controversies

Viral stories included headlines like 'Clinton Calling for Civil War' and "Pope Shocks World, Endorses Trump for President

Twitter rolls out tool to fight trolls, abuse, bullying

'The amount of online abuse, bullying, and harassment has risen sharply over the past few years,' Twitter said

Mark Zuckerberg's Pinterest account hacked

OurMine has also compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's and Google CEO Sundar Pichai's social media accounts

Xiaomi finally cracks top 5 as India's smartphone market hits record high

Samsung still leads the way, with Lenovo moving up to 2nd spot; Micromax is 3rd, just ahead of Xiaomi, reports Tech in Asia

Six advantages of using WhatsApp new video call

The video call is end-to-end encrypted which means other than the sender and receiver no one can access it

Now you can digitise physical photographs using Google's new PhotoScan app

Scanned photos can be saved in one tap to Google Photos to be organised, searchable, shared, and safely backed up

Reliance Jio's handset may be the cheapest 4G phone in India

Here are some of the low end feature phones that are currently available in the market

WhatsApp launches video calling to take on FaceTime, Google Duo, Skype

This can strain Indian telecom networks struggling to provide speeds sought by customers of data services

Mobile subscriptions to grow about 16% to 8.9 billion in 2022: Report

It says that there are 1050 million mobile subscriptions in India with 81% of the penetration within the population

Smartphones Q3 shipment crosses 30 mn mark: IDC

Smartphone shipments clocked 32.3 million units in Q3, marking a 17.5 per cent growth against the previous quarter

Google, Facebook hit fake news sites where it hurts with advertisement ban

Taken together, the decisions were a clear signal that the tech behemoths could no longer ignore the growing outcry

WhatsApp launches video calling to compete with Google Duo, Skype, FaceTime

The new feature will be rolled out to WhatsApp's over one billion users over the next few days

China's Alipay just saw a record 1 billion transactions in a day

At its peak, 1,20,000 transactions per second inundated the wallet app, reports Tech in Asia