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The stint which probably won’t cause any harm to Snapdeal Remember when Evan Spiegel publicly said something and half of India began bad-mouthing Snapdeal instead of Snapchat? Yeah. Well, you would be surprised to know that one of the few early stints of Spiegel was at a company called “Intuit”. Specifically, he was part of the Txtweb team which aimed to make information available to regions like India where Internet connectivity is still not widely available through SMS....

Olympus’ new Air A01 add-on camera is a smartphone-controlled camera somewhat similar to the Sony QX1, which was launched back in the fall of 2013. The Olympus Air A01 comes with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount with a matching 16-megapixel sensor, and also gets a tripod mount on the bottom for taking pictures remotely. The camera attachment comes in black and white colors and is available for a price of $300....

One such example is the Fusion Music Player. I was skeptical at first about this player since I have used Winamp for as long as I can remember. Nevertheless, I installed the player and started using it for the purpose of this review. What happened is something I was not expecting: I loved it! Those features, oh God, those features, are simply awesome. What features does Fusion Music Player have?...

The OnePlus 5 boasts of a 5.5-inch FHD display with a pixel density of 401ppi and an aspect ratio of 16:9. Furthermore, the display is shielded with a 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 5. Powering the OnePlus 5 is the Octa-Core Snapdragon 835 with a RAM option between 6GB and 8GB. OnePlus 5 is also one of the few smartphones to be powered with an 8GB RAM and this is something that will propel it further in the spec race....

But not’s a real way to pay for things. What if you want to buy tickets to a concert, games or iTunes and Google Play applications? Wouldn’t it make sense that you should be able to pay for those things, since a lot of your online activities are linked to your Facebook account? In partnership with Facebook, Bango wants to makes this a reality. One-Click Purchases Coming to Facebook NY Times first informed us that the Facebook-Bango partnership may indeed become real, since we know how much money Facebook has lost since its IPO price....

The new Snapdragon 675 promises to handle resource-intensive mobile games much better with a multitude of internal optimizations. Qualcomm claims, compared to the Snapdragon 670, the 675 can launch games about 30% quicker and reduces janks by 90%. Qualcomm says it has also specifically tweaked the chipset to offer a more refined experience on the most popular games such as PUBG, Honor of Kings, and others. As far as general performance is concerned, the Snapdragon 675 comes with an upgraded Adreno 612 GPU, 4th-Gen Kryo 460 octa-core CPU, the two performance cores of which are clocked at 2....

The Kirin 970, however, was exclusive to Huawei/Honor devices which meant consumers who use smartphones from a different manufacturer couldn’t experience the AI goodness in completeness. Of course, Qualcomm, one of the largest producers of smartphone chipsets did integrate some AI specific features in their flagship Snapdragon 845 mobile platform with the help of the Hexagon 680 DSP, but there was still a lack of a dedicated NPU like the one found on the Kirin 970....

Of the two products, the one we are reviewing today is the Buds Air Pro, which is the company’s latest TWS offering that builds upon the success of the Buds Air and packs in new features and improvements. So, after using the earphones for close to a week, here’s our take on the all-new Realme Buds Air Pro. Design, Build, and Fit Starting with the box content, the Buds Air Pro comes in a compact rectangular yellow box....

In 2022, the company has launched the Realme GT 2 Pro, marking the brand’s transition from flagship killer to a true flagship. The Realme GT 2 Pro features the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, 120Hz QHD LTPO display, microscope lens, etc. But is Realme GT 2 Pro the affordable flagship we have all been waiting for? Let us find out in our Realme GT 2 Pro review below....

Rediff RealTime News is currently in beta and is in invite-only mode. I was given a special invite to preview the service and there are lot of good stuff to talk about it. And yeah, I have some invites to give away, more about it later. First, let us take a look at the RealTime news page. Instant News Search Rediff RealTime News is much like Google News when considering the concept, but provides a much better experience....

The intuitive feature is aimed at changing the way we access Sports telecast. With the new feature, viewers will get a chance to enhance their viewing experience by toggling between 5 different camera angles. Viewers can also switch to their preferred language of commentary. Alongside English and Hindi, the channel also supports regional languages like Kannada, Telegu, and Tamil. That apart, the Jio TV viewers will also get access to opinions of leading cricket experts and commentators including Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra and Gaurav Kapoor....

And with the Mi 4i, Xiaomi can claim to have got right back into the good-specs-at-an-unbeatable-price zone. No, it will not make jaws drop the way the Mi 3 did, but in many regards, it is pretty much in a zone of its own at its price point. Delightfully compact The Mi 4i also sees Xiaomi venture into a markedly different design ethic from its previously launched devices in India....

This gadget is the result of a one-year long passion project, created by Damjan Stanković, executed in collaboration with Marko Pavlović and others. Here’s how the beautiful description of the device sounds like: “Never before has a liquid substance been unveiled in its pure, unrefined form and controlled in a manner which allows it to display tangible shapes. There is a middle ground between the analog and the digital sphere, where the rules of mechanics and the laws of nature come together in order to create a liquid illusion reminiscent of a contemporary, digital form....

However, if there is one Android device that is considered the ultimate in terms of hardware and performance, it is the Ultra model of Samsung’s Galaxy S flagship series. A blend of the iconic Note series and the S series, the Ultra model is a bit like the T-Rex of the smartphone world – large, incredibly powerful, pretty much the boss of its terrain, and the biggest challenger to the iPhone’s Pro series....

The report comes at a time when Samsung is prepping up Galaxy S8 and is probably looking at the report as a closure to the worst safety debacle in the tech industry. Also, stakeholders are emphasizing on the need for the detailed report as it would convince the users of what went wrong with the Note 7 and the steps that were taken by Samsung to prevent such a mishap from happening in the future....

In terms of look and feel, both, the Galaxy A30 and Galaxy A50 come with a plastic frame and a glass back on the back and share the same type and size of the display. However, the differentiating factor between both smartphones is the SoC, RAM, internal storage, and camera configurations. The Galaxy A50 will come in four colours: Black, White, Blue, and Coral, whereas, the Galaxy A30 will miss out on the Coral colour option....

SMS portals that allow you to send Free SMS via GPRS or Internet are very popular. 160by2 was one of the pioneers in this field from India. The mobile portal of 160by2 is fast loading and clean and it was my favorite Free SMS portal via GPRS. You can even send an Email as SMS using this Free SMS service. 160by2 offers address book as well as reminder facility. It also comes with predefined quick SMS templates....

Bit.ly is arguably the best and most complete service amongst the over-crowded URL Shorteners. Like me, if you are a fan of Bitly and often use it to shorten links and then track its performance, here is a really useful tiny tip which you gonna love. Most of the Twitter clients these days come with Bit.ly integrated by default, but not all. So the easiest way to shorten a link you like to share is to enter “j....

Online marketing, also known as internet marketing, is vital to the growth of businesses online. It involves using various online channels to help you communicate your brand story to the masses and target the right audience for your product so that both your business and customers can benefit. However, the traditional approach of hiring a digital marketing agency to market your business online isn’t practical for most businesses, especially if you’re a startup or don’t have enough cash flow....

The new bug is not about a botched up functionality but it is something that can be used to spy on others notifications. You can simply set the “Show Previews” feature set to display only “When unlocked.” This will hide the content of your notifications on the lock screen. This, however, can be bypassed by using Siri. According to Mac Magazine Siri was able to read out hidden messages from third-party apps like Signal and WhatsApp on iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus, both of which are running the latest iOS 11....