IFI Claims Patent Services has just published the list of Top 50 US Patent assignees which throws up some interesting stats and facts. While IBM has retained its top position for nineteenth year in a row, Microsoft has dropped from third position to sixth position in the list. These two are the only US companies amongst the top 10 Patent assignees. Samsung vs Apple The Korean consumer giant, Samsung Electronics stands second in the list of top US patent assignees with 4,894 patents received in 2011....

Soon enough, these became a hit among the public owing to the price to performance ratio and its stunning good battery life. Apple has now tried to live up to people’s expectations with the second generation of its silicon chips. The trillion-dollar company has now launched not one but two new chipsets – the M1 Pro and M1 Max, which according to them, is the best chipset on any notebook so far....

Let’s take a look at the top seven features of the Helio G90 and G90T and why should be excited about it if you’re into mobile games. CPU Architecture The G90 and G90T are based on the 12nm manufacturing process and are clocked at up to 2.05GHz. The G90 has two powerful Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2GHz and six power-efficient Cortex A55 cores also clocked at 2GHz. The G90T, on the other hand, gets an ever-so-slight boost in terms of clock speed and has two Cortex-A76 cores clocked at 2....

Clicking and grinding sound is coming from your hard-drive If your computer has started making clicking or grinding sound lately, there is a good chance that your hard-drive is taking its last breath. Your hard-drive is a mechanical device, which consists of a platter and a motor. As with all mechanical devices, your hard-drive’s life is limited too. Take a backup of all your important data while you still have time....

Budget Fitness Tackers have multiple use cases Budget Fitness trackers are bought for many reasons, and fitness tracking is just one of them, and it’s probably the least important one. Many want it to get notifications from apps and calls as their primary usage, while others use it for sleep tracking, and very few use it for step counting. Also, they are cheaper compared to smartwatches and high-end trackers making them an obvious choice for those who would like to have few features of expensive trackers and smartwatches....

The Amazfit SmartWatch 2 features a 1.39-inch AMOLED display with a 454 x 454 pixels screen resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top. It is powered by a 1.1GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2500 platform with 512MB of LPDDR3 RAM and 4GB of eMMC storage. The watch runs on AMAZFIT OS and comes with support for Android 4.4 or iOS10.0 and above. It runs on a 420mAh that claims to offer up to 28 hours of battery life on 4G....

Several workout modes, in-built GPS, steps and sleep tracking, a heart-rate monitor, essentially features aimed towards fitness enthusiasts. Right from the beginning, we have been vocal about smartwatches that are not essentially smart and are just glorified fitness trackers with bigger displays packed into the body of a smartwatch. What this means is that if you don’t mind a wearable on your wrist that looks like a band, you can save a good amount of money by getting yourself a fitness tracker that does most things minus a few here and there....

The analytics firm notes that global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android has thus become the first ever smartphone operating system to ship more than 1 billion units in a single year. Speaking of billions, at its earnings conference call, Google said that Chromecast is now the number one streaming device in the U.S., as users have casted 1 billion times....

The announcement exclusively from The Verge which reveals the Essential Phone won’t just another run-in-the-mill Android phone. For starters, it checks every other soaring trend of the industry including a 5.71-inch edge-to-edge display on the front (2560 x 1312 pixel), dual cameras, and a lack of the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. More on that glorious panel, it stretches all the way up to the top and wraps around the lone front-facing camera....

Although some big names in the industry have managed to create powerful products, that keep the system far away from any attacker, we’ve seen that in some cases the power needed to protect the computer disrupts the navigation experience, which is undesirable, at the least. So, today, we are about to venture and discover the most appropriate antivirus solutions that consume small hardware resources and manage not to slow the computer, at least distinctively....

The iPad Air sports an ultra-thin design with a 10.5-inch display, the A12 Bionic chip with Apple’s Neural Engine, which is claimed to deliver 70 per cent boost in the performance and twice the graphics performance. It comes with the advanced Retina display with Apple’s True Tone technology and support for first-generation Apple Pencil. It can be said that for the most part, the new iPad Air is pretty much similar to the previous model, except for the increase in its display size....

Smartphone sales recover after an early slowdown After a relatively quiet early part of the year, courtesy COVID, smartphone shipments returned to the growth part. Q4 2020 saw 385.9 million smartphones being shipped, up 4.3 percent from 369.9 million in Q4 2019. Mind you, the overall stats for 2020 still made for depressing reading with shipments declining 5.9 percent in 2020, going from 1372.6 million in 2019 to 1292.2 million in 2020....

Apple TV 4K India Price and Availability The Apple TV 4K will start at Rs 15,900 for the 32GB and Rs 17,900 for the 64GB variant. It will be available for pre-orders in India starting September 15 via select Apple authorized resellers. That said, you would need to wait until September 22 to get your hands on one. Apparently, Apple is launching it in India along with 21 other countries including the US on the same date....

The Live News section allows users to access the live stream from the News channels. As of now the list of live news channels is a bit underwhelming but it still includes CBS News, CNN, Fox News, Cheddar, CNBC and Bloomberg. That being said, you would still need to install a dedicated application for the news networks from the App Store. The TV app will make use of single login credentials and log in into each of the services....

The new MacBook Air has some awesome specs and judging by them, and from what Apple says, it is vastly superior to last year’s models. As before, there are two versions of the MacBook Air: the 13.3 inch version and the 11.6 inch version. Macbook Air 2013 The company stated that the new MacBook Air has more power and is far more efficient than its predecessors. No surprise here, since the new lightweight notebook is powered by Intel’s new Haswell processor, which offers better performance, but at a lower power usage....

Battery Life: Prominent Issue of Smartphones There have not been improvements one a wide scale to make the batteries last longer. Some of use hope that fuel cells will provide the needed solution. It would seem that the manufacturers of the other components have invested in making them more energy efficient, and therefore making devices last longer. Intel has released the new 22nm chip, the Ivy Bridge that is up to 20% more energy efficient than the previous generations, Samsung has released the mighty Galaxy S III with wireless charging capabilities, but even so, these so called “mobile” devices are not truly mobile, having to be recharged daily....

Enter cloud storage – the elegant solution that allows users to upload all their digital media into one single place and access it from any device. But even cloud storage has its limitations. For one, you can only get so much free space, after which you need to pay for every extra GB. Also, for the more security conscious of you out there, there is the possibility of data theft and the constant thought that once you’ve pressed that “delete” button, your information is still hiding in a data-center in some distant corner of the world....

With the introduction of music streaming services, today, the most preferred mode of listening to music is our smartphone — made possible thanks to all the different music streaming services. However, despite the variety, not every individual seems happy with the quality offered on most streaming services. If you find yourself belonging to this camp, you very likely either use services that offer high-res -or- master-quality audio, or you get music files in formats like FLAC, WAV, etc....

When we covered Second Space in much detail, a lot of you asked us how different it is compared to the Parallel Space App. If you aren’t aware, Parallel Space App allows you to duplicate apps, and that’s about it. They are two different features, and in fact, Dual Apps works on similar lines with Parallel Space App, than Second Space. Parallel Space vs Dual Apps Apart from duplicating the apps, and let user use two different accounts, Parallel Space App includes :...

Delivering Bass…with a pulse rather than a thump At their price of Rs 6,999 (often available at Rs 5,999), the Outlier Air are in our opinion, the best TWS anyone who loves quality bass can get. The biggest reason for anyone wanting to get these TWS will be the quality of audio they deliver. It is reasonably loud in terms of volume and accents the bass very gently without overwhelming the other frequencies....