New Delhi: After Xiaomi, another Chinese brand OPPO on Tuesday showcased a new wireless charging solution that works from 10 cm (3.9 inches) distance for its upcoming rollable smartphone. In a tweet, OPPO showcased the closer look at wireless air charging. “Working on or off axis with the charger, you can charge up and use the […]
Category: Gadgets
Twitter-rival Koo surpasses 40 lakh users in a jiffy
New Delhi | Homegrown Twitter-like platform Koo has garnered over 10 lakh new users in just one week, surpassing the 40 lakh-figure in nearly 10 months of its arrival, as Twitter was caught in crosshairs with the Indian government over its direction to remove nearly 1,400 controversial accounts. Koo, a favourite among several Union ministers, including […]
Twitter rival Koo woos Indian users amid data leak row
New Delhi: Homegrown, vernacular microblogging platform Koo, which has emerged as a favourite among a section of users who want to quit Twitter, has found itself in the midst of several controversies including a data leak row and Chinese investment. These issues have emerged at a time when the platform is trying to keep its systems […]
Instagram to block users who send hateful messages via DMs
San Francisco: Toughening its stance on hate speech in private direct messages (DMs), Instagram has announced to begin disabling the accounts of people who repeatedly send hateful messages to others on its platform. Currently, when someone sends DMs that break its rules, the company prohibits that person from sending any more messages for a set period […]
Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 launched in India
New Delhi: The HMD Global-owned handset maker Nokia on Wednesday unveiled two new smartphones — Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 — in India. The Nokia 5.4 will be available on Flipkart from February 17 in two storage variants — 4GB+64GB and 6GB+64GB — at Rs 13,999 and Rs 15,499, respectively. The Nokia 3.4 will be available […]
Telegram fast eating into WhatsApp user base in India: Survey
New Delhi: The trend of multiple messaging app usage is picking up in India and Telegram is the frontrunner, having wooed a massive 42.9 per cent new users from WhatsApp in the past three years, a new survey said on Wednesday. Although WhatsApp is currently the messaging leader with more than 53 per cent users in […]
Telegram becomes most downloaded app in Jan, highest installs from India
New Delhi: Driven by a renewed surge in India amid WhatsApp privacy row, Telegram has become the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in the same month a year ago, according to latest data released by app analytics firm Sensor Tower. The countries with […]
5G roll out ‘soon’ in India, mass adoption could still be years away
New Delhi: With talks of “timely” 5G roll out in India resurfacing again after a Covid-hit year that delayed spectrum auction, there are hopes that the fifth-generation cellular technology could be a reality in the second half of the year, even though various reports suggest that its mass adoption could still be years away. The government […]
Plea in SC seeking stay on operation of new privacy policy of WhatsApp
New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an interim stay on the operation of new privacy policy of WhatsApp, the applicaton with more than 400 million users in the country. The intervention application has been filed by Internet Freedom Foundation in the 2017 matter of Karmanya Singh Sareen and others, which […]
Why Indians are making a beeline to join Telegram, not Signal
New Delhi: Nearly 3 in 4 Indians feel safe while joining any group or channel on Telegram as they don’t need to reveal their phone number to strangers, according to a new survey. Telegram which has crossed 600 million users globally scores over Signal in terms of awareness (55 per cent) and actual usage (39 per […]