Amazon Announces ‘Great Indian Festival’ Sale from October 10-15 Amazon has announced the‘Great Indian Festival’, which kicks off on October 10 and will last until the midnight of October 15, coinciding with Flipkart’sThe Big Billion Days. Amazon’s upcoming sales fest will be chock full of offers for buyers, ranging from huge discounts on PCs and audio accessories to attractive deals on smartphones, home appliances and a wide range of other products....

Amazon Echo Leads India’s Smart Speakers Market Led by Amazon, the smart speakers category in India grew 43 percent in the second quarter this year, an International Data Corporation (IDC) report said today. Amazon with itsEcho range of smart speakers, led the category with 59 percent market share, closely followed by Google for the second position, showed IDC’s “Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker”. “Although the initial usage of smart speakers are currently limited to few use cases as the smart homes market is at a very nascent stage in India, we are seeing signs of it growing beyond entertainment,” Navkendar Singh, Associate Research Director, IDC India, said in a statement....

DoT to Work with Telcos, UIDAI on Aadhaar Verdict Compliance The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has said it would talk to Unique Identification Authority of India and telecom operators to make sure telecom regulations and service providers are in compliance with the Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar, said DoT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan on Thursday. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, whileupholding the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, disallowingprivate entities from possessing Aadhaar numbers of individuals....

Facebook Uses Your 2FA Mobile Numbers For Ad Targeting In The Name of Security It’s been a terrible year for Facebook’s reputation, having been dented by allegations of election manipulation in 2017. While theCambridge Analytica revelationsearlier this year, which supported those allegations, shook the world and the company, it’s been a constant stream of controversies surrounding thecompany’s many privacy missteps. The latest one, believe it or not, is so bad, that it’s used largely by absolutely scummy companies and apps simply looking to harvest daya....

Google Celebrates Indian Railways With Multimedia Showcase in Arts And Culture In a first-of-its-scale heritage mapping and digitisation project,Googleannounced a new project that aims to preserve the legacy and heritage of the Indian Railways through theGoogle Arts and Culturewebsite and app,which went viral earlier this yearand could already be regularly used by many Indian users. The two-year digitisation project “The Railways-Lifeline of a Nation” is a comprehensive digital record which is seen onthe Arts and Culture websiteand app....

Google Search to Get Ticket Discount Alerts, Improved Travel Planning Features Google has announced a host of new features for its flights, hotels and ticketing search to make travel planning more convenient for all users. The changes come at a time when Google seems to be focusing ontravel planning as a key activity on many of its productsincluding search. It’s part of the company’s Your Trips feature in Google that keeps an eye on the destinations you are interested in, going to or planning to go to....

Here’s Why Xiaomi’s New Mi TV Pro Doesn’t Have Netflix Support Xiaomi introduced itsnewest Mi TV 4 lineup, with an Android TV foundation, at its ‘Smarter Living’ launch event in Bengaluru yesterday. The new Mi TVs may not feature major hardware upgrades, but the software experience has received a massive facelift, thanks to theAndroid 8.1 Oreo-based Android TVunder Xiaomi’s own PatchWall UI. As for PatchWall, it now comes integrated as the default launcherover the stock Android TV experience, which can be turned on with just one click on the bundled Mi Remote....