Author Archives: Loknath Das

Honor Note 10 vs Mi Max 3: Price, Specifications, Features Compared

Honor Note 10 price and specifications compared with its rival Xiaomi Mi Max 3 HIGHLIGHTS Honor Note 10 is a mid-range phone with 5000mAh Battery Honor Note 10 price starts at CNY 2,799 (roughly Rs. 28,100) Both Honor Note 10 and Xiaomi Mi Max 3 have been launched in China Honor Note 10 was officially launched in China earlier this week. The latest ... Read More »

Samsung Galaxy J8 Review

Samsung Galaxy J8 price in India is Rs. 18,990 HIGHLIGHTS The Galaxy J8 sports a 6-inch AMOLED with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio It has a non-removable 3500mAh battery Samsung Galaxy J8 price in India is Rs. 18,990 Samsung has been in the smartphone race longer than most of its competitors. Naturally, the brand has a lot of recognition in India, such ... Read More »

Huawei Nova 3i, Nova 3 First Impressions

Huawei Nova 3 (front) HIGHLIGHTS The Nova 3i price in India is Rs. 20,990 The Huawei Nova 3 has a price tag of Rs. 34,999 Both will be available in India exclusively via Amazon.in The Huawei Nova 3 and Nova 3i are the Chinese phonemaker’s latest offerings in the mid-range smartphone segment in India. These new Nova 3 series phones have been launched within months of ... Read More »

Paytm’s Tech to Power SoftBank’s Mobile Payments Service in Japan

HIGHLIGHTS New smartphone-based payment service will be named PayPay It will be a joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo Japan PayPay is planned to launch in fall 2018 SoftBank has announced that it will leverage the technology of India-based digital payments company Paytm in a new mobile payments service it is launching. The new smartphone-based payment service, named PayPay, will be a joint ... Read More »

Google Cloud Partners With GitHub on Software Development

Google has announced a partnership with Microsoft-owned GitHub to make a crucial element of modern software development, Continuous Integration, fast and easy. As part of the new collaboration, GitHub, a major software development platform, is getting connected to Google’s Cloud Build, the company’s new CI/Continuous Delivery (CD) platform “Together, we will provide fast, frictionless, and convenient Continuous Integration (CI) for any repository on GitHub, ... Read More »

Amazon, Microsoft Jostle as Pentagon Calls for Cloud Contract Bids

US defence officials unveiled Thursday a much-anticipated final request for tech firms to bid on a massive contract to provide the Pentagon with a comprehensive cloud computing service. Tech titans including Amazon and Microsoft have already spent months jockeying for a winning offer on the prestigious contract, which could be worth as much as $10 billion (roughly Rs. 68,500 crores) over a decade. The ... Read More »

At 1.08 pm, the rupee was trading at 68.80 a dollar, up 0.13% from its previous close of 68.95

So far this year, the rupee has weakened 7.36% against the US dollar. Mumbai: The Indian rupee on Wednesday strengthened marginally against US dollar after local equity markets gained for the fourth session. At 1.08 pm, the rupee was trading at 68.80 a dollar, up 0.13% from its previous close of 68.95. The currency opened at 68.97 a dollar and touched ... Read More »

CFA Institute adds cryptocurrencies, blockchain to its curriculum

The worlds of finance and crypto have become increasingly intertwined after last year’s Bitcoin boom. Photo: Bloomberg Hong Kong/Singapore: It might be the definitive sign that cryptocurrencies have arrived on Wall Street. CFA Institute, whose gruelling three-level program has helped train more than 150,000 financial professionals, is adding topics on cryptocurrenciesand blockchain to its Level I and II curriculums for the first ... Read More »

IIT-Bombay was followed by IIT-Madras at ₹11.67 crore revenue and IIT-Delhi at ₹10.61 crore during 2017-18

There is no relationship between the revenue generated by IITs and the annual budget allocated to them by the ministry in the form of grants-in-aid, a senior HRD ministry official said. Photo HT New Delhi: The revenue generated by IIT-Bombay in the last three years through research, inventions, consultancy and patents was the highest among the premier engineering institutes, according to ... Read More »

LinkedIn Updates Messaging Experience With Easier Attachment Support, Mentions, and Stretchable Compose Box

HIGHLIGHTS LinkedIn has upgraded its messaging experience There is an option stretch the compose box LinkedIn for iOS has brought translations to posts in the newsfeed Messaging on LinkedIn has been upgraded with a bunch of new features to deliver an enhanced conversational experience. To give more space to compose a longer message, LinkedIn has now started offering the ability to stretch ... Read More »