Tech
Lava Mobiles to Start Selling Devices in Egypt
The partnership between the Easy Group and Lava is expected to boost exports and manufacturing opportunities in Egypt.
Pakistani Entrepreneur Develops Menstruation Game App to Break Taboos
'MoHim', an acronym for Menstrual Health Management which also means 'effort' in Urdu, arms players with a pair of panties which they use to catch sanitary pads while avoiding items unsuited to absorbing period flow such as leaves and newspapers.
Google Plans to Open its Ride-Sharing Programme to Waze Users
Google in May launched a pilot programme around its California headquarters which allowed several thousand area workers at specific firms to carpool together with users of its Wave navigation app.
Samsung Delays Galaxy Note 7 Shipments Over Battery Explosion Claims
Quality control problems, if confirmed, could deal a major blow to the world's top smartphone maker, which was counting on the Galaxy Note 7 to help maintain sales momentum in the second half when competition is expected to intensify.
Ericsson Launches World's First Commercial 5G Radio
The 'AIR 6468' 5G radio combines advanced antennas with a large number of steerable ports to enable 5G technologies of beamforming, Massive MIMO and multi-user MIMO.
Automobile and Aerospace Industries Take to 3D Printing
New 3D printing technology has the potential to create components of unlimited size.
Smartron t.phone Now Available on Amazon India at Rs 24,999
Priced at Rs 24,999 the t.phone comes with a 64GB inbuilt memory, expandable via hybrid SD card slot.
Facebook Testing Autoplaying Sound With Videos
With this feature, which is currently active in Australia and may come to other countries soon, users may notice autoplay on all types of video (including ads and Facebook Live) with sound turned on.
PC Shipments Grow 7.2% in Q2; HP Reclaims Top Spot: IDC
HP Inc. reclaimed its top spot with overall PC market share of 28.4 per cent in the Indian PC market. Dell captured the second spot with a market share of 22.2 per cent while Lenovo stood third with 16.1 per cent of the overall PC market share in the qua...
Scientists Working on New Type of Food Packaging That You Can Eat
The milk-based packaging does not currently have much taste, but flavours could be added to it, as could vitamins, probiotics and other nutrients to make it nutritious.
Microsoft Will Now Pay You to Use Its Edge Browser
Microsoft Rewards, announced earlier this week, is a rebranding of Bing Rewards and offers points for using Edge and Bing, as well as shopping at the Microsoft store.
Apple Stores Will Now Be Simply Called 'Apple'
Apple, which launched its 10th location in New York City and named it Apple World Trade Center, dropped the word 'Store' from its name.
Facebook and Unity Extend Partnership for an All-New PC Gaming Platform
Facebook is looking to give its selection of games an even bigger boost with the announcement of a new PC gaming platform.
Indian Smartphone Market Sees 17% Growth in Q2 : IDC
Smartphone market revived after declining for two successive quarters by registering 27.5 million units of smartphones shipments in Q2 2016.
Twitter Suspended 360,000 Accounts For Promoting Terrorism
But, since February, it has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts, after halting 125,000 accounts since the middle of 2015, most of which were related to Islamic State.
Instagram Stories Now Supports Zoom-In Feature
While recording a video for Instagram 'Stories', you can zoom in by dragging your finger up from the shutter button.