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WhatsApp Is Going to Share Your Phone Number With Facebook

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook won’t post phone numbers online or give them out to anyone WhatsApp will continue to bar traditional display ads from its service Facebook will employ the phone number to show targetted advertising Global messaging service WhatsApp says it will start sharing the phone numbers of its users with Facebook, its parent company. That means WhatsApp users could soon ... Read More »

Karbonn Quattro L55 HD With VoLTE Support, VR Headset Launched at Rs. 9,990

HIGHLIGHTS Karbonn Quattro L55 HD bears a 2700mAh battery It’s powered by a quad-core SoC coupled with 2GB RAM It supports India’s LTE bands, alongside VoLTE support Following its listing earlier this week, the Karbonn Quattro L55 HD has been launched on Wednesday by the company. The 4G VoLTE supporting smartphone is priced at Rs. 9,990, and comes bundled with ... Read More »

Xiaomi India’s Mi 2nd Anniversary Sale Starts Today With Discounts, Re. 1 Flash Sales

HIGHLIGHTS The Mi 2nd Anniversary Sale lasts from Wednesday to Friday Xiaomi is offering discounts, as well as Re. 1 flash sales New accessories were also announced for the sale Xiaomi is celebrating its second anniversary in India – it entered the country in July 2014 – with offers and discounts on its mobiles and accessories in a 3-day sale ... Read More »

Meizu MX6 With Helio X20 SoC, 4GB of RAM Launched

HIGHLIGHTS Meizu’s new MX6 smartphone will go on sale in China from July 30 It has been priced roughly at Rs. 20,000 It comes with fingerprint scanner on the front Chinese handset manufacturer Meizu has unveiled its new MX6 smartphone at an event in China. Priced at CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs. 20,000), the new Meizu MX6 will go on sale ... Read More »

ZTE Small Fresh 4 Smartphone With 5.2-Inch Display Launched

HIGHLIGHTS The Small Fresh 4 has been priced at roughly Rs. 11,000 It will go on sale in China later this month It packs a fingerprint scanner on the back panel ZTE has unveiled its new Small Fresh 4 smartphone in China. Priced at CNY 1,090 (approximately Rs. 11,000), the new ZTE Small Fresh 4 will go on sale in ... Read More »

How Indian universities perform compared with Asian peers

Though IISc and IITs lead the pack of India in the Asian rankings published earlier this week by British ranking agency QS, they still lag behind their Singapore and Chinese counterparts. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint New Delhi: India has 17 institutions among the top 200 universities in Asia, led by the Indian Institute of Science or IISc in Bangalore (33rd rank), ... Read More »

ASI Signs MoU With RailTel, BSNL for Public Wi-Fi Services

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has signed an MoU with state-run RailTel and BSNL for providing Wi-Fi facilities at its various monuments and sites. The service will be free for the first half-an-hour and thereafter chargeable on usage basis. Currently, ASI has 116-ticketed monuments and sites and the services would be available wherever “technically feasible”, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said ... Read More »

Government to Offer Free .bharat Domain Name With .in Purchase

To create an ecosystem for various modes of communication like e-mail and website addresses in Indian scripts, the government will provide complimentary ‘.bharat’ domain name available for one year on purchase of ‘.in’. “We have written to registrar for providing one year complimentary web address with ‘.bharat’ (available in Devanagari and other Indian scripts) when a person registers a ‘.in’ ... Read More »

Strategic Design Works Well With Technical Debt

Most of the time, technical debt is regarded as bad notion, and needs to be avoided or paid, as soon as you can. Well, is this the right thing to do? Well not exactly! To know more about this package, you must try comparing technical debt with that of financial debt. Moreover, you must work on to explain the similarities ... Read More »

Are You Boring LinkedIn Contacts with this Dull Request?

LinkedIn connection request message What are the 11 most boring words in the English language? “I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” Aside from using a ridiculously bad LinkedIn profile photo, using the default LinkedIn connection request message is one of the biggest mistakes you can make on LinkedIn. It severely limits the number of LinkedIn connections ... Read More »