San Francisco: Customers globally spent $1.22 billion on Apple App Store in the 2018 holiday season, making a single-day record with purchases worth $322 million on New Year’s Day alone. App Store spending topped $1.22 billion between Christmas eve and New Year’s eve, Apple said in a statement late on Thursday. “The holiday week was our biggest week ever with more than $1.22 billion…

Apple cut its sales forecasts for its key end of year period on Wednesday, citing the unforeseen “magnitude” of the economic slowdown in China.Trading in the company’s shares was temporarily halted as Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, issued a letter to shareholders explaining the reason for the change. When selling started again, Apple shares fell by 7.45%, wiping $55bn (£44bn)…

Manufacturer of Nokia phones HMD Global on Monday announced that Nokia 1 with Android Oreo (Go edition) is available in India at all leading mobile phone outlets at a best buy price of Rs 5,499. The device will be up for sale from March 28. Running the latest Android Oreo (Go edition) -- a version of Android for devices with 1GB RAM or less -- Nokia 1 would deliver all the features expected from a…

OnePlus 6 is shaping up to be the next major smartphone launch of 2018. Now that Oppo R15 and Vivo X21 have been launched, the attention has shifted to OnePlus 6, the smartphone that shares its lineage with these two devices. OnePlus 6 is expected to launch sometime in June of this year and is expected to be the most expensive OnePlus smartphone yet. OnePlus 6 has been part of multiple leaks in the…

Microsoft has announced that it is ending support for all push notifications for Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0 devices starting from Tuesday. “Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0 have reached their end of support dates and thus services for these versions of Windows will be discontinued over time,” the company wrote in a blog late Monday. Once the support ends, device running…

The age of infotainment has caught up with the younger lot as they are quickly catching up to cell phones, tablets, and other devices. Apps mirror an educational tool, covering a spectrum of entertainment and educational offerings. While Indian parents are increasingly becoming progressive regarding digital learning, the challenge remains how to choose the right app for their child. Look no more;…

On Monday, the United States of America will witness a rare phenomenon in its skies, a total solar eclipse which will cast a shadow cutting diagonally through the American mainland. The eclipse will pass through Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Meanwhile, many areas of Canada, Central America and the northern part of south America will experience a partial eclipse. The August 21 eclipse is occurring…

The big screen that fits in your hand" - LG's latest premium offering stays true to its tagline. The manufacturers of this Android 7.0 (Nougat) phone worked at providing maximum features packed into a compact, easy-to-hold design, and this is exactly what you get with the LG G6. A premium smartphone, this model was launched in February 2017 and is loaded enough and priced well to give some…

New Delhi: Mobile communication app Truecaller has become the only platform apart from Facebook and Google that delivers over 100 million impressions in a single day, a company statement said on Friday. An impression is when an ad is fetched from its source, and is countable. Whether the ad is clicked or not is not taken into account. Each time an ad is fetched, it is counted as one impression. The…

Apple on Wednesday announced that workers will start boarding its futuristic new ‘spaceship’ campus in Silicon Valley in April, fulfilling a vision set out by late founder Steve Jobs. The process of moving more than 12,000 people to a new campus that Jobs envisioned as a ‘center for creativity and collaboration’ was expected to continue late into the year. A theater on the…

Bharti Airtel, India's top telecoms network operator, is buying Norwegian Telenor's India unit, in yet another consolidation move in the country's telecoms sector driven by upstart rival Jio's disruptive pricing. Bharti Airtel said on Thursday it will buy Telenor (India) Communications Pvt Ltd, as part of which it will acquire the Norwegian company's operations in six Indian states.…

In line with the government’s initiative to make the “Panic Button” service on mobile phones mandatory from March 2017, South Korean electronics conglomerate LG on Wednesday launched “K10 2017” smartphone that comes with the panic button service “112”. With this, LG Electronics has become the first company to adhere to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India…

A chilling warning that tens of millions of people could be killed by bio-terrorism was delivered at the Munich security conference by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates Gates, who has spent much of the last 20 years funding a global health campaign, said: “We ignore the link between health security and international security at our peril.” How Bill and Melinda Gates helped save…