Truecaller apologises for bug that covertly signed up users for UPI

New Delhi (IANS) Swedish caller identification app Truecaller on Tuesday apologised to the users who were affected by the the bug that automatically created Unified Payments Interface (UPI) accounts with their banking partners without their…

Indian smartphone market grew 5% in Q2: CMR

Gurugram (IANS) Six out of every seven smartphones sold in India belonged to top five smartphone brands - Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo, Realme, and OPPO - as the smartphone market grew five per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, a new report by CyberMedia…

Facebook, Instagram down for many users

San Francisco (IANS) Users from different parts of the world took to Twitter on Sunday to report problems using Facebook and Instagram.

"So Facebook isn't uploading videos this morning? (at least it's not working here)," tweeted…

ISRO shares Earth's images captured by Chandrayaan-2

New Delhi (IANS) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday took to micro-blogging platform Twitter and shared the first pictures of Earth captured by the LI4 camera installed in Chandrayaan-2.

In a series of tweets along with…

India successfully test fires Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile

Bhubaneswar (IANS) India on Sunday successfully test fired a Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) with 30 kilometre range from a test range off the Odisha coast.

Developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO),…

Pentagon to review $10 bn contract that Amazon seeks

San Francisco (IANS) In the face of accusations of favouring Amazon over other companies, the Pentagon is set to review a $10 billion cloud computing contract, the media reported.

The announcement of the review came just weeks before the winner…

Samsung eyeing large-format mobile experience centres in India

New Delhi (IANS) South Korean tech major Samsung, which opened the worlds largest mobile experience centre in Bengaluru last year, is now actively hunting for sites to set up similar large-format experience centres in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and…

Facebook makes photo, video matching tech available for all

San Francisco (IANS) Facebook has open-sourced its photo and video matching technologies for people to identify harmful content such as child exploitation, terrorist propaganda or graphic violence.

The two Facebook technologies can detect identical…

Pune-Mumbai in 35 mins soon to be reality with hyperloop

Mumbai (IANS) In an impetus to the dream journey between Mumbai and Pune in under 35 minutes, the Maharashtra government has approved the Virgin Hyperloop One-DP World consortium as the "Original Project Proponent" (OPP) for the Pune-Mumbai…

Huawei Y9 Prime 2019 launched in India for Rs 15,990

New Delhi (IANS) Chinese smartphone maker Huawei on Thursday launched its first phone with a pop-up selfie camera, Y9 Prime 2019, in India for Rs 15,990.

While the device would be available for Amazon Prime customers starting August 7, for…