Smartphone shipments in India grew 82 percent year-on-year (YoY) to reach 33 million units in Q2 2021, according to Counterpoint. Xiaomi led the market with a 28.4 percent share of total shipments. The company is said to have registered its highest-ever average selling price (ASP) in a single quarter, and most of its success is
Month: July 2021
Pedestrians use mobile phones while walking past Twitter Inc. headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S. Bloomberg | Getty Images Twitter has announced that it will close its San Francisco and New York offices immediately as Covid cases surge across the country. Wednesday’s announcement comes just two weeks after the social media company reopened their offices
PlayStation 5 owners can reportedly buy a new console at 20 percent off with Sony’s “goodwill discount” if their PS5 has had some physical damage. Sony is said to have confirmed to a publication that PS5 owners will not have to pay full price for a new console if their old damaged console is in
British singer-songwriter Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up” passed one billion views on YouTube. Over two decades after the music video was released, it became an Internet hit when it was used for the now-popular ‘Rickrolling’ prank. Rickrolling entails making a user click on a disguised hyperlink that ultimately leads to the
How to tap into India’s exploding gaming market Learn how developers and studios of every size can successfully grow their titles in one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. Download Now! All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Siemens and Dow have created a testbed to help bring digital
An Iranian cyberespionage group masqueraded as an aerobics instructor on Facebook in an attempt to infect the machine of an employee of an aerospace defense contractor with malware as part of years-long social engineering and targeted malware campaign. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint attributed the covert operation to a state-aligned threat actor it tracks as TA456,
Twitter is shutting its reopened offices in United States, while other big tech companies are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, as the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant drives a resurgence in cases. Alphabet’s Google and Facebook said on Wednesday all US employees must get vaccinated to step into offices. Google is also planning to expand
The iPad Pro series has always had the most powerful Apple silicon, and in this year’s refresh, it gets Apple’s M1 SoC which we’ve already seen run circles around Intel CPUs in devices such as the MacBook Air, Mac mini, and most recently, the iMac. Along with a better processor, the new iPads also have
Jul.26 — Ark Investment Management Analyst Tasha Keeney discusses Tesla’s second- quarter earnings beating estimates as the electric-vehicle manufacturer continues to ramp up production. She speaks with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.
How to tap into India’s exploding gaming market Learn how developers and studios of every size can successfully grow their titles in one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. Download Now! All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Canvas GFX has launched Canvas Envision, a new platform that enables
An Android malware that was observed abusing accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials from European banking applications has morphed into an entirely new botnet as part of a renewed campaign that began in May 2021. Italy’s CERT-AGID, in late January, disclosed details about Oscorp, a mobile malware developed to attack multiple financial
Kazakhstan has blocked access to Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn, over what the Central Asian country’s government said were online casino advertisements and fake accounts. The Ministry of Information and Social Development said in a statement it had asked LinkedIn to remove the items in question but the company has failed to comply. It said it would
Over two-third of customers in major markets planning to purchase a new smartphone in the next six months prefer getting a 5G model, according to a report released by consulting firm Kantar. China led the markets where as much as 91 percent of customers showed interest in purchasing a 5G phone. However, the trend of
In this article FB CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg walks to lunch following a session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 08, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Facebook is set to report its second-quarter earnings after market close on Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting:
When the NFT cryptocurrency-collectibles exploded in popularity in early 2021, they drew the interest of a large number of millennials, helping the NFT craze become mainstream. Seeing an opportunity opening up, several blockchain-based gaming companies began working to occupy the new market. The Axie Infinity game, by indie studio Sky Mavis, was one of them. The
Canada’s e-commerce giant Shopify beat second-quarter revenue expectations on Wednesday, on the back of a resilient online shopping trend precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Shopify’s value nearly tripled over the last year due to unprecedented growth of the e-commerce sector as customers looked towards online shopping as the only viable alternative during the pandemic. Even
Rethinking employee benefits in a post-pandemic world There’s no going back to the 2019 playbook, particularly for benefits. Learn what employees expect in the new normal, and how you can keep a competitive edge. Register Now! All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Osmos, a company designing a platform to
A Chinese cyberespionage group known for targeting Southeast Asia leveraged flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server that came to light earlier this March to deploy a previously undocumented variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised systems. Attributing the intrusions to a threat actor named PKPLUG (aka Mustang Panda and HoneyMyte), Palo Alto Networks’
Twitter is fast losing its sheen as a favoured communications tool for many Indian government departments and ministers keen to promote home-grown rival Koo while the US firm comes under fire for non-compliance with India’s laws. The most high-profile example has been India’s new IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Taking office this month, he opened a
Astronomers have found the first evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System. They believe Ganymede may hold more water than all of Earth’s oceans. But finding water in liquid form there is difficult. The temperatures are so cold that all the water on the
Portronics Kronos Beta was launched in India on Wednesday as the latest affordable smartwatch from the Indian brand. The new model offers features such as real-time heart rate monitoring and seven days of battery life. The Kronos Beta smartwatch has a dust- and water-resistant build and supports over 100 watch faces. Similar to some of
Samsung Galaxy A52s is set to launch soon, as per a known tipster. The phone is expected to be made available in a 128GB storage model and the pricing of this model has also leaked online. Samsung Galaxy A52s has also been spotted on Geekbench, tipping key specifications. The phone will likely be an offshoot
People play computer games at an internet cafe in Fuyang, China’s Anhui province. Lu Qijian | Visual China Group | Getty Images LONDON – After decades of the U.S. and Japan dominating the gaming space, China’s influence is growing as its tech giants snap up gaming studios around the world. Now, some experts think video
South Korea’s LG Display on Wednesday posted a better-than-expected second-quarter profit as pandemic-led demand for TVs and laptops drove up panel prices, pushing its shares up as much as 4.2 percent in morning trade. The display maker, whose customers include Apple, reported an operating profit of KRW 701 billion (roughly Rs. 4,517 crores) in the
Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mini-LED gaming monitor, Odyssey Neo G9, with Quantum Matrix technology. The gaming monitor comes with a curved display and supports Quantum HDR 2000 for an immersive gaming experience. This monitor is a successor to the Odyssey G9 that was launched last year. The new Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 utilises
Will Smith is headed to Netflix (again), this time with the John Wick director. Netflix announced early on Wednesday that it has picked up worldwide rights to Fast & Loose, a new action-thriller movie directed by David Leitch and starring Smith as a “man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces
Rethinking employee benefits in a post-pandemic world There’s no going back to the 2019 playbook, particularly for benefits. Learn what employees expect in the new normal, and how you can keep a competitive edge. Register Now! All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. A survey of 300 cloud engineering professionals
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed nine security vulnerabilities affecting three open-source projects — EspoCRM, Pimcore, and Akaunting — that are widely used by several small to medium businesses and, if successfully exploited, could provide a pathway to more sophisticated attacks. All the security flaws in question, which impact EspoCRM v6.1.6, Pimcore Customer Data Framework v3.0.0,
Facebook is creating a product team to work on the “metaverse,” a digital world where people can move between different devices and communicate in a virtual environment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday. The team will be part of the company’s virtual reality organization, the group’s executive Andrew Bosworth said in a Facebook post. “You
MagSafe Battery Pack was launched earlier this month by Apple for its iPhone 12 series. A teardown of this wireless on-the-go battery charger reveals the battery capacity and other details. The MagSafe Battery Pack has two identical batteries integrated inside and each are labelled as 5.733Wh. In total, the MagSage Battery Pack has a capacity
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