Indians Ask Alexa for Hanuman Chalisa Four Times Every Minute Alexais one of the most popular voice assistants out there, thanks largely to the fact that Amazon’sEcho line-upof smart speakers starting with the Echo Dot and the original first generation Echo were massive hits. In fact, based on a Canalys report from 2019, Echo devices contributed to 31% of smart speakers out there, with Google trailing behind at approximately 29% market share globally....

Lu Weibing Shares Technical Difficulties of Xiaomi’s 100W Super Charge Turbo Xiaomi teased its 100W “Super Charge Turbo” fast charging technology capable of completely charging a 4000mAh battery in just 17 minutes last year. Xiaomi’s China President Lu Weibing has now shared some technical difficulties of the technology on Weibo. In the Weibo post, Weibing mentions 5 difficult technical aspects to be considered while implementing 100W fast charging. The aforesaid aspects areloss of battery capacity, technical architecture, performance, safety, and multiple charging scenarios....

Microsoft Teams Goes Down After the Company Forgot to Renew a Security Certificate Microsoft’sSlack competitor, Teams (whichrecently debuted on Linuxas well), reportedly went down earlier today after the company forgot to renew a security certificate for the service. The company has since confirmed the unplanned outage of the service, and that they have successfully deployed a fix for it. Users trying to sign in to Microsoft Teams had to face errors with the service for almost three hours, starting just around 9AM eastern time....

OnePlus Captures 33% of India’s Premium Smartphone Market Riding on itsOnePlus 7series, Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus led the Indian premium smartphone market in 2019 with 33 per cent market share. The company became the first-ever premium smartphone brand surpassing 20 lakh shipments in a year in India. Samsung with 26 per cent was second while Apple with 25 per cent market share came third in the premium segment, according to Counterpoint Research’s ‘Market Monitor Service for 2019....

Poco X2 Launches as a Rebranded Version of Redmi K30; Price Starting at Rs. 15,999 Merely a couple of weeks after Pocoannouncedthat it will operate independently from Xiaomi, the company has today launched its new smartphone in India. It’s the second device to launch under the Poco brand but is not thePoco F1successor we had all been eagerly looking forward to. Poco X2 is a mid-range offering with aSnapdragon 730G chipset, 120Hz display, and a quad-camera setup....

Vivo to Launch Its Truly Wireless Earbuds in India Soon Chinese smartphone manufacturerVivolaunched its very own truly wireless earbuds, the Vivo TWS earphones, last year, and while the Indian market has so far not seen these earphones, a new report suggests that the company might launch them in India very soon. In fact, the report mentions that the earphones might launch alongside the Vivo V19 by March 2020. According to a report from 91mobiles, which quotes its retail sources, Vivo is considering bringing the TWS truly wireless earphones to Indian shores....

Windows 10 Finally Hits 1 Billion Users Five Years After Launch Launched in 2015,Windows 10has seemingly started leaving most of its teething troubles behind it as it continues to gain in popularity around the world. In fact, the OS has now seemingly hit a new landmark, with Microsoft announcing thatWindows 10 finally has a billion usersglobally. The announcement comes two years after the company had originally expected to hit the landmark, but persistent concerns about privacy, the gaudy new ’tiled’ user-interface and the general usability of Windows 7 were keeping most users from switching over to the new platform....