Samsung Shifts Focus Back to Mid-Range Phones to Compete in India There is no doubt that Samsung has lost its once-mighty share of the midrange smartphone segment with the arrival of Chinese brands such as a Xiaomi and Honor, which offer impressive hardware at attractive price points and undercut Samsung’s offerings. In a bid to regain the lost market, Samsung is making a drastic change in its smartphone strategy by bringing new features to mid-range devices before they arrive on flagship smartphones....

Twitter Denies Jack Dorsey Influence On Not Banning High-Profile Controversial Users As Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gets ready to testify before the US Congress on September 5, reports have surfaced that he is personally weighing in on high-profile decisions to ban controversial accounts, frustrating some employees. According to a report in Wall Street Journal on Monday, Dorsey overruled a decision by his staff to ban the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones....

WhatsApp’s Latest iOS Update Adds Status Search, Suspicious Link Indicator and More WhatsApp has today rolled out a new update for iOS devices, adding some nifty features and improvements to its messaging app. This update (build #2.18.90) brings along the ability to search Status updates, expand media notifications, and let users know when a suspicious link is shared with them. Starting off, if you have a ton of WhatsApp contacts who regularly post updates through the Status feature then it becomes to filter out the stories that you’d like to watch....

You Can Now Watch Netflix Via Hathway Set-Top Boxes In an effort to increase its presence in middle-class households in India, US streaming giantNetflixhas announced a partnership with Hathway Broadband to provide its services through the latter’s set-top-boxes (STBs). As part of the plan, Hathway will offer its users a redesigned STB whose remote will have a dedicated Netflix button to launch the service directly. The new device is being launched at an introductory price of Rs....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Open Beta Available on Google Play Store Next Games, the Finnish studio that recently releasedThe Walking Dead: Our World, has finally releasedBlade Runner 2049on Android after releasing open beta builds of the game a few weeks ago. The title is now availableon the Play Store as a Beta, but you can only pre-register to find out when the game goes live, i.e if your region does not have the open beta enabled....

Airtel Launches Rs 449 Plan With 2GB Daily Data in Response to Jio Ever since the launch ofJio,Indian telcos have been caught up in the tussle of trying to beat it in terms of pricing. Airtel, which was the largest telecom operator in India until recently, hasrevealed a new planin an attempt to topple Jio from its current popularity. The new plan, at Rs 449,offers a benefit of 2GB of daily 4G dataalong with100 daily SMSesandunlimited calling....

Android Oreo Update For Galaxy J7 (2016) Delayed Until November, 2019 Samsung gets a bad rap for alethargic update scheduleof its Android smartphones and tablets, and not without reason. Most of the flagship devices from the company take their own sweet time to get updates, while mid-rangers and entry-level devices often struggle to get any more than the odd Android version update, and that too, after it’s already deprecated by a new version from Google....