Xiaomi Says 99% of Its Phones Sold in the Country are Made in India Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has made major inroads into the Indian smartphone market, and the company is selling millions of phones in the country, most of which are apparently made in India. That is what Xiaomi India’s Chief Operating Officer Muralikrishnan B said to reporters today at an event in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh. “About 99 percent of the phones sold in India are made in the country....

You Can Soon ‘Follow’ Local Guides on Google Maps in Delhi Google Maps will soon be piloting a new feature that itsayswill help people discover new places with help from top ‘Local Guides’. As part of the plan, the company says users in nine cities around the world, including Delhi, will soon be able to ‘follow’ their favorite local guides to get their recommendations about these cities. According to Google, users in Bangkok, Delhi, London, Mexico City, New York, Osaka, San Francisco, São Paulo and Tokyo will soon see top Local Guides featured in the ‘For You’ tab of the Google Maps app....

12 Best Tips and Tricks for Apple TV App and Apple TV+ While it could be too immature to pass the full verdict on Apple TV+ right now, Apple’s streaming service has the potential to take on the bigwigs likeNetflix and Amazon Prime. With a massive install base, billions of cash-rich treasure, andhigh-quality movies and TV showsto boot, the service couldn’t have asked for a more solid base. Ever since the streaming service went live around a fortnight back, I have been playing around with it....

BSNL Rs 998 Prepaid Plan Brings 2GB Daily Data for 7 Months As part of its plans to attract more users to its service, struggling State-owned telecom giant, BSNL, has launched a new prepaid plan that offers 2 GB of data per day for 210 days (7 months) at Rs. 998. It is worth noting though, that it is a data-only STV without any voice or SMS benefits. Also, once the allotted data bucket is exhausted, speeds will be reduced to 80kbps....

ColorOS 7 to Bring ‘Focus Mode’, GPU Acceleration and More Days ahead of theofficial unveil of ColorOS 7on November 20th, Oppo has released a couple of teaser videos of its upcomingcustom Android ROM, revealing some of its cool new features. One of those will be a so-called ‘Focus Mode’ that promises to help users improve their sleep pattern by letting them schedule do-not-disturb timeframes. The videos also suggest that the upcoming ROM will be better optimized for gaming with new GPU acceleration features that would increase frame rates and resolution withouttaxing the CPU cores....

Facebook Messenger May Soon Get Dark Mode, ‘Delete Message’ Option on Desktop Facebook is reportedly working on an improved Messenger app on Windows desktops. Believed to have been first discovered by YouTuber,Aggiornamenti Lumia, the app is said to be based on the Electron open source framework, which allows developers to create cross-platform desktop apps that can run on Windows, Linux and macOS. The app brings along a number of improvements over the current desktop app, including theaddition of a Dark Mode....

Facebook Will Add a Donation Button Option for Instagram Nonprofits Social media giant Facebook hasreportedlystarted rolling out three new features to make it easier for creators to raise funds across the company-owned platforms. The new features are adonation button on Instagram, afundraising sticker on Facebook, and thewider rollout of fundraising featureon Facebook game live streams. With this change, nonprofit businesses will gain an option to add a donation button on their Instagram profile beside the contact number listing....