EU antitrust regulators are expected to impose a multi-million euro fine on Qualcomm on January 24 for paying Apple to use only its chips, according to a person familiar with the matter. The European Commission in 2015 accused the company of the anti-competitive behaviour. The fine could, in theory, go as high as 10 per cent of Qualcomm’s annual revenue, which was $22.2 billion for its m...

The increasing demand for storage is significant in today’s smartphones, especially in the Android flagships. All premium devices now feature 4K video recording which will definitely need a chunk of storage. Considering this demand, UK based Integral company has decided to pump up their existing microSD storage products portfolio by adding a 512GB microSD card, which happens to be the wo...

If you are someone who doesn’t gel well with long distance journeys in cars or buses, then this news will be making you happy. Researchers at the University of Michigan have patented a new type of glasses that will help reduce nausea while travelling in cars. There’s no particular name for this technology right now but you could be seeing it soon in autonomous cars. The system works on ...

Scientists have developed a new algorithm that can allow smartphones to help analyse the mysterious ultra-high energy cosmic rays that emanate from supernovae and black holes. Cosmic rays are constantly entering the Earth's atmosphere. Among them are ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) whose properties remain somewhat of a mystery to scientists. They emanate from supernovae and black ...

The Amazon Great Indian Sale is here and has already started at midnight on January 21 and will run till January 24. The ongoing Amazon sale is offering cash back, discounts and exchange offer across various categories. Users who have HDFC Bank debit or credit card can get an additional cashback of 10 percent, capped at Rs 1,500 per card on a minimum transaction of Rs 2,000. Moreover, b...

LSTN has entered into an exclusive partnership with Indian distributor Ferrari Video and its retail brand Headphone Zone to launch high-quality headphones. LSTN claims that their goal is to connect people through sound. The company also claims, for every LSTN product sold, proceeds are donated to Starkey Hearing Foundation to help provide hearing aids to people in need around the world....

LG files two unique versions of a patent one of which seems to be a folding phone which can be morphed into a tablet as well. This design patent has been filed at World Intellectual Property Organization. The first model seems to be a foldable phone that features a camera component on the rear, which when folded; the device can display information like the time and date on the front.  ...

Google has agreed to a patent licensing deal with Tencent Holdings Ltd as it looks for ways to expand in China where many of its products, such as app store, search engine and email service, are blocked by regulators. The US technology company has signed similar agreements before with Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Cisco Systems Inc, but the deal with Tencent is a first with the...

The Exynos 7872, built on a 14-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, brings a new hexa core CPU configured with two 2.0GHz ARM Cortex–A73 and four 1.6GHz Cortex–A53 cores. With the addition of CPU, the Exynos 7872 will to improve the individual single-core performance by two folds, when compared to its predecessor, it might enable faster web browsing, app launching and other operatio...

A few days ago, several Xiaomi users across the country were reporting a bug related to WhatsApp that rendered the popular messaging app useless on their devices. Users were greeted with a message that said ‘This version of WhatsApp has become obsolete’. Since then, WhatsApp had declared that there was an issue in the way their app was distributed. However, Xiaomi has opened up on the is...