Android Oreo OS Share Surges; Now Running on 12.1% Active Devices Google has recently been quite negligent towards issuing its Android distribution numbers and it’s only after two months that we have gotten a look at thelatest figures. And lo and behold, the presence of Android Oreo (both Android 8.0 and 8.1 combined) has more than doubled in the past two months and it now powers 12.1% devices. Ascompared to May, when Google last reported its Android distribution figures,Android Oreo now runs on 12....

Another Leak Reveals Specs, Price of Xiaomi’s Upcoming ‘Pocophone F1’ Flagship Xiaomi has had a long streak of launching flagships since the beginning of 2018. In the first half itself, Xiaomi launched four smartphones powered by the most powerful processor by Qualcomm – the Snapdragon 845. Now, a noted journalist with a good track record for leaks says thecompany is working on another flagshipwith the mightiest (yet) smartphone chipset. Roland Quandt of WinFuture reported thatXioami Pocophone F1 is seemingly in works....

Asus ‘Back to College’ Offer Brings Extended Warranty, Zero Cost EMIs and More Asusis offering Extended Warranty, Zero Cost EMIs, and personalized goodies to customers as part of its new ‘Back to College’ promo announced this week. The offer is currently only valid on the company’s notebook range, and not on its smartphones. As for the additional warranty, there are two different offers available – buyers can opt for the warranty extension pack of up to two years by paying Rs....

BSNL’s VNO Initiative Could Make Mobile Service More Affordable In Rural Areas The Indian telecom sector is in the midst of an upheaval with operators looking to make more revenue even as tariffs continue to drop for users. The Department of Telecom had issued its guidelines on “virtual network operators” nearly two years ago so operators could license their services to smaller players. There has hardly been any activity in the niche since the DoT’s announcement dating back to May 2016, but the state-run operatorBSNL has now announced India’s first two virtual network operators for consumers....

Concerns over ‘Surveillance State’: Can Excessive Data Monitoring Lead to Discrimination? The Supreme Court on July 13 took strong note of the Ministry of Information and Broadcastings decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data. It observed that such a move will be “like creating a surveillance state” and issued a notice to the central government on a plea by Mahua Moitra of the Trinamool Congress (TMC)....

Despite EU Fine, Google Marches on Towards $1 Trillion Taking the latest $5 billion fine by the European Commission into account, Google’s parent company Alphabet reported $26.24 billion in revenue for the quarter that ended on June 30, making a profit of $3.2 billion while beating Wall Street expectations. Excluding the fine, the tech giant would have had $32.6 billion in revenue and a profit of $8.2 billion. “We are analyzing the decision and I think it’s too early to comment or speculate beyond what we’ve already said, but we will always take a constructive approach,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call with analysts late on Monday....

Fallout 76 Beta Starts in October on PC, PS4, and Xbox One Announced back atE3 2018, Fallout 76 from Bethesda Studios is one of the most anticipated games of the year. What’s different about theFallout 76, apart from the storyline itself, is the fact that the title takes the open world of the Fallout franchise and opens it up to multiplayer. Now, considering that this is, indeed, an online game, there was expected to be a Beta for it, and rightly so, we now seem to have more details about the same....