App Tracker: Musically yours: Which music streaming app is best for your ears?

It started as online music streaming wherein users could just log on a website and listen to their favourite music albums, without the need to download or buy them. With the penetration of smartphones and the increasing market for app, all popular online music streaming companies gradually came out ...

Rashi Varshney

TLabs-incubated mobile wallet app HapPay is launched; will it add value to P2P transactions?

VA Tech Ventures Pvt Ltd, a tech startup incubated at TLabs which is run by Times Internet Ltd, has unveiled its operator-agnostic mobile wallet app called HapPay. The Android app was in beta for the last two weeks, co-founder Varun Rathi told Techcircle.in. “It is the PayPal for mobile users. You...

Rashi Varshney

Average 3G user consumes four times more data than 2G user: Nokia Siemens Networks report

An average subscriber to 3G services uses almost four times as much data compared with an average 2G user, according to a Nokia Siemens Networks report on the mobile data traffic in India. As 3G services spread further with declining price of 3G-enabled smartphones, this would mean more business opp...

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Samsung says Galaxy S4 sales hit 10 million

Samsung Electronics Co said sales of the latest version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone have reached 10 million since its launch in late April, making the model its fastest selling smartphone. The S4, the South Korean firm’s challenge to Apple Inc’s iPhone, is already selling in 60 c...

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Indians at MIT develop touch-free, gesture-recognition technology for mobile devices

3dim Tech, a tech startup co-founded by three PhD students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (two of the co-founders are Indians), has developed a gesture-recognition technology called 3dim for mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, etc. The three co-founders are Andrea Colaco (CEO), Ahmed...

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Google’s mobile head for India quits; now heading Berlin-based Sociomantic’s entry into the country

Mahesh Narayanan, Google’s mobile head for India, has left the company and joined Berlin-headquartered Sociomantic Labs as its managing director in India. The online marketing startup has expanded its operations into the country with an office in Mumbai. In his new role, Narayanan will build the I...

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Mobile advertising firm AdIQuity offers Geo Sense to target location-specific audience

Bangalore-based mobile advertising company AdIQuity Technologies Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates the mobile advertising platform AdIQuity, has come up with a new feature called Geo Sense, which enables mobile advertisers to select and target location-specific audiences for greater effectiveness. Wi...

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BlackBerry shifting emphasis from smartphones to services

BlackBerry no longer owns the fast-paced, innovative smartphone world but the company, whose email-on-your-hip devices once revolutionized the industry, now aims to run it. The change in focus was hard to miss at the company’s well-attended annual conference in Florida last week, even as news ...

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Indian-American teen invents device to charge mobile phone batteries in 20 seconds

An Indian-American 18-year-old girl, Eesha Khare has invented a portable device, ‘supercapacitor’, which can fit inside mobile phone batteries and charge them fully within 20-30 seconds. Usually, a mobile phone takes three-four hours to get fully charged. According to Eesha’s project, ‘Desig...

Sonam Gulati

WeChat will always remain free for consumer: Dennis Hau of China’s internet giant Tencent

Chinese internet major Tencent’s messaging app Weixin, globally known as WeChat, is betting on its localised features to capture market share in countries outside China, said Dennis Hau, head of international product centre, at Tencent International Business Group. WeChat was launched in India in ...