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Cheaper Pixel smartphones unveiled at Google I/O
In the times of $1000 phones, Internet giant Google has unveiled its cheaper Pixel phones -- Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL at a starting price of $399 and $479, respectively at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California.
Google unveils Pixel 3a, 3a XL for Rs 39,999 onwards
Tech giant Google Tuesday unveiled the latest generation of its smartphones - Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL - that will make their way into the Indian market priced at Rs 39,999 onwards. To be available from May 15, these handsets will compete with devices from the stables of Apple, Samsung and OnePlus in the burgeoning premium smartphone segment in India. Speaking at its annual developers meet Google I/O, its CEO Sundar Pichai said "building for everyone" is a core philosophy for the company. The new lineup promises better camera features and battery life. By offering a more affordable lineup, the US-based giant is keen on wooing customers in emerging countries like India. According to Counterpoint Research Associate Director Tarun Pathak, the "mid-tier variant of Pixel" is expected to provide Google with "a chance to start things from scratch in some of the emerging countries like India where premium market is small but growing fast". "This can help Google to lock in some first-time ...
Amrita signs MoUs with 2 UK-based institutions
: In a major boost to its ongoing research in Landslide Early Warning Systems (LEWS), multi-hazards, geo-hazards and community resilience, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita) has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with two UK based institutions. The MoUs with King's College London and the British Geological Survey will give Amrita the much need fillip in its research and unravel many collaborative academic and research opportunities between India and the UK, a press release from Amrita said Tuesday. The ongoing research collaborations between Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) and the Department of Geography, KCL, has led to this initiative between the two universities. King's College, London, is ranked as the eighth best university in the world and a MoU with them would allow Amrita to further explore and pursue deep collaborations like twinning arrangements and student/faculty exchanges in any of the academic disciplines ...
WhatsApp to turn off support for Windows phones
WhatsApp would stop support for Windows Phone on December 31, 2019 which is aligned with Microsoft's decision to end support for their operating system, the Facebook-owned platform said on Tuesday.
66% turnout in Rajasthan, up 3% from 2014
Rajasthan, which went to polls in two phases, has recorded a voter turnout of 66.07 per cent, nearly 3 percentage point more than the 2014 Lok Sabha election, according to the Election Commission website. Rajasthan had the first phase of polling on April 29, in which 63.71 per cent voter turnout was recorded in 13 Lok Sabha seats. The remaining 12 seats went to polls in the fifth phase on Monday and the voter turnout was 68.17 per cent. The overall turnout was 66.07 per cent of the total 4,88,19,222 voters registered in the state. In 2014, the turnout was 63.11 per cent, the EC website said. The male voter turnout was 66.54 per cent, while female voter turnout was 65.55 per cent. Of the total 265 third gender voters, 105 (39.62 per cent) have cast their votes, it said. Ganganagar (SC) recorded the highest turnout of 75.15 per cent, while the lowest turnout of 55.06 per cent was in Dausa (ST). There are four more seats -- Barmer, Banswara, Chittorgarh and Jhalawar-Baran -- with more ...
Scientists develop sensor to detect spoiled milk
Researchers have developed a sensor that can tell if milk is still fresh or has gone stale.The sensor consists of chemically coated nanoparticles that react to the gas produced by milk and the bacterial growth that indicates spoilage, according to Shyam Sablani, one of the researchers."If it's going bad, most food produces a volatile compound that doesn't smell good. That comes from bacterial growth in the food, most of the time. But you can't smell that until you open the container," said Sablani.The sensor detects these volatile gases and changes colour. The breakthrough is in the early stages, but Sablani and his colleagues showed in the study that their chemical reaction works in a controlled lab environment.Though still early, Sablani envisions working with the food industry to integrate his sensor into a milk bottle's plastic cap so consumers can easily see how much longer the product will stay fresh.One problem with current expiration dates is they are based on best-case ...
Triple honours for Jio at the Golden Globe Tigers Award 2019
Jio, the digital services brand conceived with a mission to connect everyone and everything, has won three top awards at the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award.Jio and two of its pioneering initiatives have been recognised for bringing unique and meaningful benefits of digital life to Indians.Reliance Jio Infocomm was conferred the Market Leadership Award for connecting over 300 million Indians on the world's largest mobile data network. Jio is a world-class all-IP data strong future proof network with the latest 4G LTE technology.It is the world's largest mobile data network and is India's largest wireless broadband service provider.Reliance Jio has been at the forefront of technology and innovation bringing transformational changes to the Indian digital services space and propelling India into global leadership in the digital economy.The Best Campaign Advertising in Mobile Gaming Environment Award went to Jio Cricket Play Along (JCPA) which brought people together to celebrate ...
NASA spacecraft to hit an asteroid in 2022
In an attempt to pull off a feat so far seen only in science fiction films, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will hit a small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos in September 2022.
Collision-detecting suitcase, way-finding app will help visually impaired travellers to navigate airports
Researchers have developed a smart suitcase and an app to enable vision-impaired travellers to navigate airport terminal safely and independently.The rolling suitcase sounds alarms when users are headed for a collision with a pedestrian, while the navigation app provides turn-by-turn audio instructions to users on how to reach a departure gate or a restroom or a restaurant. Both proved effective in a pair of user studies conducted at Pittsburgh International Airport.The researchers will be presented at CHI2019."Despite recent efforts to improve accessibility, airport terminals remain challenging for people with visual impairments to navigate independently," said Chieko Asakawa, one of the researchers.Airport and airline personnel are available to help them get to departure gates, but they usually can't explore and use the terminal amenities as sighted people can."It becomes a hassle when you get a five- or six-hour layover and you need to get something to eat or use the restrooms. It .
Phone users ready to pay 20% premium for 5G: Ericsson
Smartphone users are willing to pay a 20 per cent premium for 5G services, while half of early adopters would pay as much as 32 per cent more, says an Ericsson study on Tuesday.
4 in 10 Indians want ban on tobacco, PUBG: Study
Amid the controversy over restrictions on the popular mobile game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) in Gujarat, a new study has found that about 40 per cent of Indians want a complete ban on cigarettes, marijuana, e-cigarettes, violent video games and online betting.
Hiver named leader in G2 Crowd's report for Email Software
Hiver, a leading provider of email collaboration solution for teams, announced today that G2 Crowd has ranked the company a leader in its spring 2019 reports for Email Software.Hiver has acquired this coveted position on the Leader quadrant of the G2 Crowd Grid Report for Email owing to a high customer satisfaction score and large market presence. As many as 94 per cent of G2 users rated it 4 or 5 stars, 92 per cent of users believe it is headed in the right direction, and users said they would be likely to recommend Hiver at a rate of 88 per cent.Other products in the leader quadrant of the grid include Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Zoho Mail, Microsoft Exchange, Apple Mail, and IBM Verse.All the products included in this report have received more than 10 reviews. These user reviews are used to rank products by customer satisfaction and the market presence is evaluated based on market share, vendor size, and social impact. Hiver has received about 200 G2 Crowd reviews, many .
Microsoft upgrades Edge browser, Cortana at 'Build'
Kick-starting the company's Build 2019 conference at Seattle, Washington, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made major announcements concerning products including Edge browser and Cortana among others.
CtrlS plans to build 6 mn square feet of top grade data centres by 2021
Hyderbad-based CtrlS is planning to build six million square feet of tier-4 data centre by 2021 as it looks to capitalise on growth in data usage and proposed data localisation norms. A tier-4 data centre has 99.995 per cent uptime implying a maximum of 26 minutes downtime in a year. The company's clients include Flipkart, SBI, Adani Group, Vodafone etc. Around six months back, CtrlS announced to set up 4 million square feet of tier-4 data centres, including a 2 million sq feet hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad and 1 million sq feet of data centre each in Mumbai and Chennai. CtrlS Tuesday said it will add another 1 million sq feet of data centre in Mumbai. "CtrlS is investing in hyperscale capacities and will soon emerge as the largest tier-4 data centre player globally with a cumulative footprint of 5 million sq feet by 2021," Founder and CEO of CtrlS Datacenters, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, told PTI. He said the impeding personal data protection bill combined with explosion of data due .
Parallel Wireless bags Leading Lights Award for most innovative mobile product
Parallel Wireless Unified 2G/3G/4G/5G software has won the prestigious Leading Light Award for Most Innovative Mobile/wireless Product or Service for 2019. Parallel Wireless' Unified 2G/3G/4G/5G software platform has been chosen for enabling open Radio Access Network (RAN) through complete decoupling of hardware and software functionality.The award recognizes companies for developing a potentially market-leading product that has enabled the launch, deployment or creation of innovative, profitable mobile/wireless services (4G/WiFi/unlicensed) during the past year.A path-breaking technology, the unified software platform is an industry disruption and enables service providers to move away from proprietary hardware to virtualized network architecture.For mobile network operators, RAN has always been the most significant expense accounting for 60 per cent of capital expenditure and 65 per cent of their operational cost. The migration to the next generation (from 2G to 3G, 4G or 5G) ...
Smart suitcase, app to help blind people navigate airports
Scientists have developed a smart suitcase that warns blind users of impending collisions and a smartphone app that can help people with visual disabilities to navigate airport terminals safely and independently. Developed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US and IBM, the navigation app called NavCog provides turn-by-turn audio instructions to users on how to reach a departure gate -- or a restroom or a restaurant. The rolling suitcase, called BBeep, sounds alarms when users are headed for a collision with a pedestrian, researchers said. Both proved effective in a pair of user studies conducted at Pittsburgh International Airport in the US, they said. "Despite recent efforts to improve accessibility, airport terminals remain challenging for people with visual impairments to navigate independently," said Chieko Asakawa, a professor at CMU and an IBM Fellow at IBM Research. Airport and airline personnel are available to help them get to departure gates, but they usually can't ..
Data rests with users but must flow free: IBM India
As the data localisation debate heats up in India, IBM India Managing Director Karan Bajwa is clear on who must finally own the data: the consumers.
Instagram posts to be reviewed by FB fact-checkers
In its efforts to reduce the spread of fake news, conspiracy theories, hate and misinformation on its platform, Instagram will soon start running potentially false posts past Facebook's fact-checking partners and the News Feed Integrity team.
Nokia 4.2 launched in India for Rs 10,990
Finnish company HMD Global, which makes Nokia smartphones, on Tuesday launched its budget Nokia 4.2 in India for Rs 10,990 with 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage.
Google revamps Android Auto interface with dark mode
Google is rolling out a redesign for its driver assisting mobile app -- Android Auto -- with a default dark mode, colourful accents and readable fonts to the app which, the search-engine giant thinks, would fit better with modern automotive interiors.
