Despite those shortcomings, the handset doesn’t fail to impress on paper with a Snapdragon 810 Octa-core processor backed up by 3GB of RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage that is expandable. It flaunts a gorgeous Sony Omnibalance glass design, a 5.2-inches Full HD display, Android 5.0 that is upgradable to Marshmallow, IPX5 / IPX8 rating for dust and water resistance and an impressive 20.7MP rear camera with 1/2.3″ Exmor RS sensor capable of shooting 4K videos....

After a successful start to the Mega Christmas giveaway with SnagIt 9.1 free licenses, we present to you a very useful Internet Security suite – Rising Internet Security 2009. True, many of you might not have even heard of this, but trust me its a quality product which does its work efficiently with minimal consumption of your PC’s resources. We have 30 Free licenses of the latest version of Rising Internet Security to be given away today....

Guest post by Lior. As controversial as ad blocking is, there’s no doubt that it is popular. Adblock is the most popular Chrome extension as of this writing, with more than double the users of its nearest extension. Millions of surfers are at least installing ad blocking applications and, though many sites complain about the practice, it is clearly a trend that is here to stay. As a web publisher, this is not something we personally like to suggest, since many publishers and bloggers depend upon such ads for their livelihood....

But we don’t always understand what our cars are trying to tell us, do we? In that case, the variety of on-board diagnostics systems to choose from are a good solution. Most OBD apps are available to provide drivers with diagnostic trouble codes that indicate exactly where the problem is. This way you’re saving time and instead of investigating yourself the app simply tells what to do. There are several such applications starting with the oldest ones that don’t make it very clear what problem you’re confronted with and moving close to the present, when apps became extremely comprehensive....

If Tim Cook is indeed correct then, it’s an Apple Watch market and not a smartwatch market but Apple can’t win in vacuum for a product that’s at such an early stage. While every company would want a monopoly, competition is required. Take the iPhone for example. While Apple was undoubtedly the first in the “touch without stylus” smartphone market, there’s no doubt that competition from Android has helped Apple....

ACROSS 1 Eva, the point is not your face, the face is your pointer. (6,5) 3 Will the new version of this see Xiaomi do a Remix? (5) 4 It is a magical number – both the Galaxy S and the iPhone are going to get it shortly. (5) 5 Want to shop? Just call out for this Assistant at Home. (6) 7 Go, now you have eighty more of these to catch!...

The app is already on the Windows App store but it needs Microsoft SIM card in order to function. Another missing piece is the regions in which Microsoft will be releasing the new services in. That being said the service will be knotted with your Microsoft account. By now it’s pretty clear that Microsoft wants to create a MVNO of its own to facilitate Windows 10 users to connect to partner carriers and in all likelihood Microsoft will be entering into deals with the individual operators to make their SIM card work in tandem....

Those were the words Jimmy Connors used in the seventies to issue one of the most public challenges in sports history to Sweden’s Bjorn Borg. A lot of cellphone manufacturers today would understand where the American was coming from. For, in the past few weeks, no matter which flagship device brands launch, they have always ended up being compared – and almost always unfavourably – with a device that hit the market in mid-2016....

Well, if I had a penny for every time I have been asked that question, I would have probably been living on my own island in the Pacific in a palatial house packed with books. That said, the question is a pertinent one. After all, how on earth do people go about doing product reviews that so many of us – Yours Truly included – read and depend upon in the media almost every day....

If you don’t know for sure where all of your space went, then you might want to use a dedicated software that will sniff out any space hog on your hard drive and show you exactly how much space each folder takes. This is very helpful, as Windows doesn’t show how much a folder occupies unless you view the properties. Check out the usual suspects first While this option is time consuming and sometimes boring, some old-school computer users still prefer it over automated options....

With internet rates getting cheaper and laptops becoming more affordable in India, both mobile and computer gaming have been on the rise in the country. If you too enjoy playing games and are planning to get yourself a new laptop that can run most games without lags, here is a piece of good news. You don’t really have to spend lakhs of rupees on specialized “gaming laptops”. Here are five laptops for gaming that you can buy for under Rs....

We’ll start off with some of the best Android news apps on the Play store, so you can always benefit from the best news available. Many of these apps allow you to customize your feeds and see only what news interest you the most. Also, some users view their news feeds with podcast apps, which give you other interesting options. If you wish to test some of these apps, check out our top of the best Android podcast apps....

In a letter obtained exclusively by the New York Times, major investors of the company, which together own more than a quarter of Uber’s stock, asked Mr. Kalanick to leave immediately as Uber “needed a change in leadership”. Following a slew of heated discussions, Travis agreed to step down. However, he will continue to remain on Uber’s board of directors. His exit was a result of the continuous negative controversies Uber has been a part of including a series of sexual harassment cases, the video that went viral of Travis having a dispute with a driver and more....

This led several users to quit Telegram and delete their accounts altogether. But as it turns out, there isn’t a straightforward process to delete your Telegram account. So, if you, too, have been considering deleting your Telegram account because of security concerns—or any other reason—here’s a guide with instructions to help you delete your Telegram account. How to Delete Your Telegram Account Automatically If you’ve been a Telegram user for some time, you’d be aware that Telegram lets you delete your account automatically via its mobile app....

Actions and Slices, at first glance, might seem like two exceedingly similar concepts. However, there’s a clear difference between them. Both, at their very core, are essentially deep links to various applications which will appear at a bunch of places on Android based on your usage. Actions are, well, actions of a particular app. For instance, a play link for an album on Google Play Music. Actions will be present inside Android’s default launcher at the top of the apps list and below the frequently used row....

That joke might seem like a bad one, but it kinda fits when we talk of fingerprint scanners on smartphones. They started from the bottom after all, and now seem to have reached their home (or so we think). But to understand this better, let’s start from the beginning. Or actually from the bottom. Of smartphones. Starting from the base-ics… Once upon a time, smartphones had to depend on passwords, pin and pattern locks to keep peepy-eyes from breaking and entering....

The Vivo V5 Plus comes equipped with a 5.5-inch FHD display along with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and narrow bezels which the Vivo claims is crafted for better ergonomics. Powering the device is an Octa-core Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2GHz and paired with 4GB RAM. On the storage front, the Vivo V5 Plus offers 64GB of onboard memory. The camera arrangements on this phone include a 20-Megapixel dual front camera (Sony IMX376) with f/2....

That’s how I concluded the first impressions of Vivo’s new V9 a week ago. And since then, I have been putting the phone through its paces. The screen is still top-notch and the design, while smeared with fingerprints, still stands out. But the rest of the equation? Well, let’s just say it couldn’t yield quite the X factor Vivo was hoping for. Alright, let me explain. The Vivo V9 is undoubtedly one of the prettiest phones you can buy in this range....

What are Standard-Essential Patents? An essential patent or standard essential patent is one that requires the invention to be used in conjunction with the prescribed standards and thus, the company is expected to get license grants for their patents and pending patent applications. The companies applying for the grant will be required to pay certain fees as royalty only after which they will be granted a license. Suppose a standards organization fails to get the required license for their patents the owners of the unlicensed patents are allowed to sue the organization for royalties....

There were a handful of hits too, though and one of those is Xiaomi’s MIUI. The custom skin easily has the most adept and refined set of navigation gestures among all Android offshoots. Swipe up to return home, swipe and hold for multitasking which is, yes, similar to nearly every other implementation. But what sets MIUI apart is the swipe inwards from the left or right edges to go back....