This comes after numerous reports of Apple working on its own Smart Watch (iWatch), with almost 100 designers in the team. The recent success of Kickstarter projects like Pebble, which raised over 10 million last year, has spruced up the demand for Smart Watches. The rumors of Samsung smart watch started back in February this year, when mockups of a gadget codenamed Galaxy Altius surfaced on a Korean website. It shows a squarish interface with live tiles showing you different apps and functions....

However, it’s been a little over a month since its inception, and Qualcomm already has a major announcement. It’s a special-edition smartphone, aptly called Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders, designed and manufactured by Asus. Let’s dive in to take a closer look at the device. Design and Display Starting with the appearance, the device features a design that’s reminiscent of the typical Asus-smartphone design. It comes with a rectangular camera module on the rear, arranged in a horizontal alignment, and a fingerprint scanner right below it for authentication....

There has been an attempt by tech companies to gain some revenue share from connectivity (telecom) companies while at the same time there’s an attempt by telecom companies to gain some revenue share from tech companies. Google might be a tech company at its core, but Project Fi, Google Fiber, Project Loon etc are definitely the attempts to eat into the revenue share of connectivity providers. Similarly, Verizon is primarily a telecom/broadband provider, but Go90, AOL, Yahoo and Awesomeness TV are attempts by it to branch out of its core business....

Which of course, will lead to the question: then why on earth would someone splurge Rs 15,990 (or USD 159) on a pair of wireless headphones? The answer in two words is, Wireless Magic! For, let me make this absolutely clear: the AirPods are really all about showcasing what can be done with a wireless headphone rather than delivering stunning sound. Let me repeat: the sound quality on the AirPods is not bad at all – it is well above average in fact – but it is not the stuff of which audiophile dreams are made....

Also, the Eve V is crowdsourced and will be live on Indiegogo by the end of this month. The company has already revealed the complete specifications of the Eve V and it is impressive indeed. Buyers can choose between Intel 7th Gen Core M3/i5/i7 along with a RAM of 8GB or 16GB. On the storage front, the Eve V offers SSD starting from 128GB to 512GB. Display shapes up un the form of a 12....

CDMA in India CDMA as a technology had managed to find a use case in India by acting as substitute for wired landline connections. Wireless Local Loop (or WLL) was widely used by BSNL and Tata to provide landlines that could be used anywhere. Remember Tata Indicom’s Walky? BSNL being a landline operator had lower interconnect charges and WLL operators tried to leverage the same but had failed. After their inability to have the same interconnect charges as that of BSNL, WLL operators tried to convince TRAI that since CDMA required lesser spectrum than GSM, they should be allowed to provide full fledged CDMA services on the spectrum they got for WLL....

The interaction was a brief one, spanning about ten minutes. And as I had been warned, Vineet Taneja came across as a very reserved if utterly efficient person. Immaculately turned out in a blazer and a tie, he had sales figures and device features at his fingertips, and very little penchant for small talk. Any pause in the conversation would be punctuated by a stare that seemed to indicate that he had really expected the interviewer to prepare better....

Leaving aside the name bit, let’s see what actually “the new iPad” is all about. Apple Launches the New iPad Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing got the honor to tease the eager media present at the San Francisco event with the taunting question “you want to know about the new iPad?” And luckily he didn’t played with the audience’s feelings for too long. The third generation Apple tablet is taking the user expectations to a new level and Apple’s high level executive was not shy about it....

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....

The makers of Finney, Sirin Labs claim that it is the only smartphone in the world that is entirely secured and is tailor-made for cryptographic coins. The device is up for sale starting this year and will come preloaded with Ethereum as the client status. Ethereum is in the number two position as far as crypto leaderboard is concerned. The integration is expected to facilitate a seamless transfer of Finney and Status tokens....

Most of the new features in Adobe CS5 involve Photoshop, but features such as 64 bit compatibility, GPU acceleration, and multi GPU support are available across the software suite. The Adobe CS5 comprises of Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, After Effects CS5, Premiere Pro CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5. Here are our top 10 stunning features of Adobe creative suite 5. Top 10 Features of Adobe CS5 Photoshop Content-Aware Fill Possibly the most popular and hyped up feature of the latest release of Adobe Photoshop....

Back in 2012, NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) decided to break up the partnership with Google. Since 2007, NORAD had partenered with Google to locate Santa on the Google Maps. Since then, Microsoft decided to use the occasion to draw even more eyeballs to them. Therefore, if you’ll be using NORAD to track down Santa this year, you’ll have to rely on the Bing Maps in your quest....

In this post, we try to list out some of the top WP7 apps which are free as well as exciting to use. This will be an exhaustive list as you can expect, so bookmark the post and visit back frequently to check for the updates. Ultimate List of Free Windows Phone 7 Apps Twitter The official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 is ready for download now and the initial reviews are pretty mixed....

The iOS app, though, is heavily limited by comparison (and, of course, Truemessenger can’t even exist on iOS). Truecaller can’t really scan calls or actively look at your call log. But if you’re using iOS 8 and up, there is one simple way for looking up any unknown number from your call log. Or any contact that you copy to your clipboard. This is nowhere near as helpful as Truecaller just flashing all the details while you get the call, but it’s something....

Vivo V17: Design and Display The Vivo V17 features a 3D glass back design with a gradient finish. Towards the front, it has a 6.38-inch Super AMOLED display with 2340 × 1080 pixels screen resolution and a 20:9 aspect ratio. The phone provides a 91.38% screen-to-body ratio and includes a punch-hole cutout to house the front camera. Vivo says the punch-hole on the Vivo V17 is the world’s tiniest punch-hole cutout at 2....

The 69th Golden Globe Awards will be telecast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 15, 2012 by NBC, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (PST) and 8:00PM – 11:00 PM (EST) (01:00-04:00 Monday January 16 UTC). Yet again, Golden Globe awards will be hosted by Ricky Gervais. The highlight of this years Golden Globes is that Morgan Freeman will be presented with the Cecil B....

The rumor about Apple holding a media event on October 4th is indeed true. Apple has just started to send out media invites which says “Let’s talk about iPhone” which is a clear indication that the event will be about iPhone and we are now almost certain about iPhone 5 release on Tuesday, October 4th 2011. Surprisingly, this iPhone 5 event will be held within the Apple campus at Cupertino, unlike before when they used to have it at Yerba Buena Center for Arts Theater in San Francisco....

All the iPhones will be available as either factory unlocked or contract bundling. In this segment, let’s talk about the iPhone 8, 8s and iPhone X pricing for unlocked versions. Thanks to the different taxation rules, the iPhone prices differ from country to country. A couple of years ago the iPhone used to be the cheapest in Hong Kong but the same hasn’t been the case recently. That being said, Hong Kong along with UAE and Canada comes closest to the U....

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....

Sure, they did offer a fleet of handy features stock Android has lacked for years and still does. But at the expense of either a crummy experience or a deteriorating performance. My affection towards vanilla Android remained, therefore, unhindered throughout the years irrespective of how much the phone maker said it’s dedicated to cutting down on bloatware. That is until I tried Xiaomi’s MIUI 10 Beta on a Poco F1 for over a week....