Microsoft announced a whole bunch of new apps and services for India today. Here’s something for the rest of the world: Microsoft Bookings. Microsoft announced the Bookings app last year in July. The app, part of the Office 365 suite, focuses on small business owners who provide services to customers …
Read More »AMD announces Ryzen 7 launch date and pricing details
At long last, here we are. AMD has today revealed when its top-tier Ryzen 7 CPUs will hit the market, and how much they will cost. Zen The Ryzen CPUs are based on AMD’s latest-and-greatest Zen architecture, turning out into becoming AMD’s last – and perhaps the best – …
Read More »Microsoft announces Project Sangam: a skill development, and jobs platform for India
At the Future Decoded event in Mumbai today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about a whole lot of things. He announced Skype Lite, a light-weight version of Skype. He also announced Project Sangam, an India-specific skill development and jobs platform that still relies on LinkedIn. Confluence Sangam (pronounced: sung·um) is the …
Read More »HP launches its OMEN laptops and desktop in India
In January, at CES 2017, HP refreshed its new OMEN series of laptops and a strangely-designed desktop, along with a curved monitor. Today, at an event in New Delhi, HP launched some of these products for the Indian market. HP isn’t exactly known for its gaming-focused anything, but the company’s …
Read More »Skype Lite is built for India’s spotty 2G network, out for Android
Satya Nadella is in Mumbai for the Future Decoded event today; during his keynote, the Microsoft CEO announced a new app for Skype, that isn’t quite new. In December, last year, the Skype team released a new Skype app for Android. Skype Mingo was built from scratch and came with …
Read More »Panasonic launches its rugged FZ-F1 Windows 10 Mobile device in India
At an event in Hyderabad today, Panasonic launched three new ‘rugged’ devices for India’s several defense and law enforcement forces as well as companies in the automobile, pharmaceuticals and the oil & gas industries. The three devices launched for the Indian market today include two phones and one tablet. The …
Read More »Samsung teases AR sunglasses; will reveal them at MWC 2017
Just as Microsoft delayed the second generation of its mixed reality HoloLens headset, Samsung has come up with something that can compete with it. Samsung today has teased some of the projects that its C-Lab incubator have been cooking up for the past couple of years. The South Korean giant …
Read More »EU authorities still concerned with Windows 10 data collection
Windows 10 made Microsoft commit to a lot of firsts; it’s Microsoft’s first operating system as a service; the first to receive new features via upgrades; Windows 10 was a free upgrade, also a first. Unfortunately, it’s also the first operating system by Microsoft that features advertisements. It also collects …
Read More »Samsung’s Galaxy phones will soon be able to unlock Windows 10 PCs via fingerprint
Apple’s expensive devices aren’t exactly at the forefront of spec-wars, but they do come with some unique features. One such feature is Continuity – a feature that allows iOS and macOS devices to ‘sync’ and seamlessly share data. The idea is simple: if you are on a macOS PC, and …
Read More »Bing and Google to demote pirate websites from search results in the UK
The United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office, along with representatives from Google, Bing, and the several creative industries have managed to come together and develop a ‘Voluntary Code of Practice’ that might affect how people within the complicated borders of the UK search for their pirated content. Google, Bing, the Motion …
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