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The  Nokia 5.1 Plus  budget smartphone is set to go on sale in the Indian market for the first time today in sales scheduled for 12pm IST. The  Nokia 5.1 Plus price in India  by HMD Global. The smartphone has a 5.86-inch HD+ screen with an iPhone X-like display notch, 3GB of RAM, dual camera setup on the back, stock Android software, and 3,060mAh battery. It is part of the Android One programme, meaning it will get quick software updates and will receive the Android Pie update. The Nokia 5.1 Plus competes against the likes of  Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 ,  Redmi Y2 ,  Moto G6 , and  Honor 9N , among others. Nokia 5.1 Plus price in India, specifications The Nokia 5.1 Plus price in India is Rs. 10,999, and the handset comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The smartphone will be available in Gloss Black and Gloss Midnight Blue colours. It will be available to purchase via  Flipkart  and  Nokia online store  starting 1...

Police in the US has announced the arrest of 17 persons in connection with robberies targeting  Apple  Stores across 19 counties in California that has caused a loss of over $1 million (about Rs. 725 crores). Earlier this week, electronics worth tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from the Palo Alto Apple Store in California in less than 12 hours during the  iPhone XS  launch weekend. In two days, the Palo Alto store was robbed of $107,000 (about Rs. 77.5 lakh) worth of iPhones, computers and electronics. The two robberies at the Palo Alto Apple Store comes after last week's launch of the iPhone XS and super premium  iPhone XS Max  which attracted higher than average enthusiasts to Apple Stores through the weekend.  "The defendants are charged with entering the stores in large groups wearing hoodies and snatching products on display," Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement on Friday. In some instances, the group was able t...

Google  has released the revised statistics for Android distribution, with the data still not showing the latest and the greatest version,  Android 9.0 Pie . This is, notably,  not the first time Android Pie isn't a part of the Android distribution dashboard. The previous two revisions also  showed the insignificant share  of the Android version that was  released  last month and available across all Pixel smartphones and Essential Phone since launch. Companies such as  HMD Global  and  OnePlus  recently announced the rollout of Android Pie for their key models. Of course, Android Pie market share should expand over time as more devices adopt the new operating system. The fresh distribution numbers by Google  show  that Android Pie is yet to open an account due to having less than 0.1 percent of distribution so far. Models such as  OnePlus 6  and  Nokia 7 Plus  lately started receiving the latest up...

A US trade judge on Friday declined to block the importation of  Apple iPhones with chips from  Intel Corp , handing a major defeat to  Qualcomm  Inc in its high-stakes legal dispute with the iPhone maker. A US International Trade Commission judge said Apple's phones infringed one Qualcomm patent related to power management technology, but denied the chipmaker's request for a ban on the import of some iPhones into the United States. Thomas Pender, an administrative law judge at the ITC, said that "public interest factors" weighed against granting  Qualcomm's request for a ban . The determination will be reviewed by other judges. Qualcomm, the world’s largest mobile phone chipmaker, has another pending patent case against Apple before the ITC. Apple said in a statement that Qualcomm had unfairly demanded royalties for technologies it had nothing to do with. We’re glad the ITC stopped Qualcomm’s attempt to damage competition and ultimately ha...

Microsoft has announced an experimental release of Robot Operating System (ROS1) for Windows as a next step in bringing features like  Machine Learning (ML) , computer vision,  Internet of Things (IoT) , Cloud services and other Microsoft technologies to home, education, commercial and industrial robots. The announcement comes as part of the ROSCon 2018 that is being held in Madrid, Spain where  Microsoft  is demonstrating a ROBOTIS Turtlebot 3 robot that recognises and steers towards the person closest to it and runs on the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise solution. "This development will bring the manageability and security of Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise solutions to the ROS ecosystem," Lou Amadio, Principal Software Engineer, Windows IoT, Microsoft wrote in a  blog post  late on Friday. ROS is a set of libraries and tools that are used to build complex robots and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise delive...

Google is reportedly paying  Apple  a whopping $9 billion (about Rs. 65,000 crores) in 2018 to remain the default search engine for iPhone's Safari browser on iOS, the media reported. Back in  2013  and  2014 , the sum was pegged to be $1 billion (about Rs. 7,251 crores), and  analysts in 2017  said the figure had swollen to $3 billion (about Rs 21,750 crores). Citing Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall, a Business Insider  report  claimed this number could go up to $12 billion (about Rs. 87,000 crores) in 2019. In the investor note, Hall reportedly wrote, "We believe this revenue is charged ratably based on the number of searches that users on Apple's platform originate from Siri or within the Safari browser." He also believes that Apple is among the biggest sources of traffic acquisition for  Google . While Apple uses Google as the default search engine in Safari on iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads, the company also uses Bing in ...

Ahead of its formal debut,  OnePlus 6T could be in your hands through the Lab programme by OnePlus. The Shenzhen-based company has revived the initiative — originally  launched  back in May 2016 — to give select customers early access to OnePlus 6T. Interested buyers need to apply for the programme to use the upcoming  OnePlus  flagship before its launch and write a detailed community review. The company will select 10 applicants to be amongst the first ones in the world to receive a review unit of the OnePlus 6T. The smartphone is expected to launch on October 17, according to a  leaked India invite  with a  few improvements over the  OnePlus 6 . Among other new features, a fresh teaser by the company reiterated the new OnePlus model's in-display fingerprint scanner. The registration window for The Lab OnePlus 6T Edition is open until 9pm HKT (6.30pm IST) on October 8. All you need to do is to fill a  form  with the required de...

US investigators failed in a recent courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls over its  Messenger app in a closely watched test case, according to two people briefed on the sealed ruling. Members of a joint federal and state task force probing the international criminal gang MS-13 had tried in August to hold  Facebook  in contempt of court for failing to carry out a wiretap order, Reuters reported last month. Arguments were heard in a sealed proceeding in a US District Court in Fresno, California weeks before 16 suspected gang members were indicted there, but the judge ruled in Facebook's favour, the sources said. The details of his reasoning were not available. The government's request had alarmed technology executives and privacy advocates. Officials in the United States and other Western countries are stepping up attempts to ban or limit strong encryption and expand their wiretapping capabilities. An affidavit by an FBI agent filed publicly ...

Google  CEO  Sundar Pichai  went to Washington Friday to discuss concerns about the company's business practices with members of Congress and emerged with an invitation to meet with President  Donald Trump  during an upcoming roundtable. Larry Kudlow, the head of the National Economic Council, extended the invitation while meeting with Pichai and the offer was accepted, according to the White House. Other "Internet stakeholders" will be invited to the same roundtable with Trump, the White House said, with other details, including the date, still to come. Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Trump has recently  accused Google of rigging the results of its influential search engine  to suppress conservative viewpoints and highlight coverage from media that he says distribute "fake news." Google has denied any political bias. The White House said Kudlow discussed the Internet and the economy with Pichai on Friday, and des...

Alibaba Cloud , the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-tailer giant  Alibaba , on Friday announced the launch of its second data centre in India. The new "availability zone", located in Mumbai, will offer product lines such as Elastic Computing, Storage, Database, Network, Application Services and Big Data Analytics to support the requirements of local governments and enterprises in the Alibaba Cloud India region, the company said in a statement. "The commencement of the second availability zone reiterates our focus on India as a key market in Alibaba Cloud's global expansion strategy," said Alex Li, General Manager, Alibaba Cloud India. In January this year, Alibaba Cloud set up its first India data centre in Mumbai to meet the surge in demand for Cloud computing services among the growing number of Indian small and medium-sized businesses. Dual availability zones will further enhance the level of security of Alibaba Cloud's data centres in India, t...

Musk reportedly refused to sign the deal as he felt by settling he would not be truthful to himself Tesla  Chief Executive Officer  Elon Musk refused to pay a nominal fine and give up the role of chairman for two years as part of a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, CNBC reported on Friday, citing sources. The settlement would also require Tesla to appoint two new independent directors, the report said. Musk reportedly refused to sign the deal as he felt by settling he would not be truthful to himself and he wouldn't have been able to live with the idea that he agreed to accept a settlement and any blemish associated with that, the report said. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "I'm not sure if they can settle with the SEC after turning down the opportunity, but you never know," Ivan Fienseth, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners said. The SEC on Thursday  filed a lawsuit against Musk  accusing...

Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers, dealing a blow to the social network's effort to convince users to trust it with their data. The social network is investigating the extent of harm done when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal "access tokens," the equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said engineers discovered the breach on Tuesday, and patched it on Thursday night. "We don't know if any accounts were actually misused," Zuckerberg said. "This is a serious issue." As a precaution, Facebook is temporarily taking down the "view as" feature -- described as a privacy tool to let users see how their profiles look to other people. "It's clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code," said vice president of product management Guy Ro...

Nokia 7 Plus is now finally receiving the much-awaited  Android 9.0 Pie  software update. Within a couple of days of  HMD Global  having  announced  that Android P for the  Nokia 7 Plus  would be delayed, the company has gone ahead and announced that the rollout has begun for the mid-range handset. The Android Pie update on Nokia 7 Plus brings with it certain new features including a new Do Not Disturb mode, Adaptive Battery functionality, Adaptive Brightness, gesture-based navigation, a redesigned dashboard, and other features. File size of the version 3.22C update is around 1,471MB or 1.47GB. The development was  confirmed  by Juho Sarvikas, Chief Product Officer, HMD Global, in a tweet on Friday. “Everybody wants a piece of the Pie! We are starting roll out of Android 9 on #Nokia7Plus. Which of its delicious new features is your favorite? #Nokiamobile,” he said. With this, Nokia 7 Plus becomes one of the first few handsets to...

The  Department of Telecommunications (DoT)  would talk to  Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)  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. In its ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said telecom subscribers do not need to link their mobile numbers with  Aadhaar . Though the Supreme Court bench upheld the constitutional validity of Aadhaar, struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, disallowing private entities from possessing Aadhaar numbers of individuals. The judgement, thus, bars telecom companies and online wallet services from seeking the unique identity number of consumers. "We will be sitting in the coming days with the Aadhaar authorities and the TSPs (telecom service providers) to make sure we are in complete compliance with the Supreme Court order," Sundararajan said. The ...

More than a billion smartphones will be sold in India over the next five years, taking the number of users to surpass 700 million by 2022, Counterpoint Research said on Friday. Mid-range smartphones (roughly Rs 14,000-Rs 29,000), will grow 20 percent (year-on-year) in 2018 and by almost four times during the next five years to make it one of the most important smartphone segments in India, the market research firm added. The sales volume sweet spot is moving from sub-$150 (nearly Rs 10,000) segment towards mid-tier as many features and capabilities common among flagship models, progressively diffuse through to these lower price bands, noted Counterpoint's white paper on 'India Mid-Tier Smartphone Segment and Opportunity for SoC Players'. Features such as full-screen displays, dual-cameras, biometric security and support for Artificial Intelligence (AI) are beginning to make in-roads to the mid-range. They will become widespread over the next few years," said Ta...

The latest entry in Microsoft's Forza Horizon series,  Forza Horizon 4 , is out now for Windows 10 PC and Xbox One. Developed by Playground Games, Forza Horizon 4 is an open-world racing game where a change in season impacts how you drive. It's set in the UK and has an assortment of cars to race in. Forza Horizon 4 has two variants. The Forza Horizon 4 Ultimate Edition is available now while those picking up the standard edition of the game can play it from October 2. Forza Horizon 4's price is  Rs. 3,999  for the standard edition ($60 in the US), Rs.  4,999  for the Deluxe Edition, and  Rs. 5,999  for the Ultimate Edition ($80 in the US). The game will be available on disc as standard and Ultimate Editions for Xbox One in India. If you’re one of those who has already pre-ordered the game, you are looking at a 62.92GB download on  Xbox One  or  Windows 10 PC . The listing on Microsoft Store says you will need up to 75GB of free hard ...

prepaid recharge with data, voice calling, and SMS benefits. The combo Idea pack is available only in few circles like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and comes with a validity of 28 days. This comes days after  Vodafone Idea launched combo recharges  in six denominations in select circles. These recharges offer talk time, data, and rate cut benefits with the validity spanning from 28 days to 84 days. The new Idea Rs. 149 recharge takes on the similarly-priced Airtel and Jio recharges. The new Idea Cellular Rs. 149 prepaid recharge offers 33GB of data benefit, unlimited voice calling, and 100 SMSes per day for a validity of 28 days. Telecom Talk  reports  that the unlimited calling benefit comes with an FUP of 250 minutes per day and 1000 minutes per week. Plus, users can only make calls to 100 unique numbers during the validity period. To compare, the  Rs. 149 Jio recharge offers users 1.5GB of 4G data per day, unlimited voice calls without FUP, ...

Apple  has released watchOS 5.0.1 for all compatible  Apple Watch  models 10 days after bringing the anticipated  watchOS 5 update . The new update improves the experience by fixing an issue related to the Activity Rings. It also addresses the problem that could prevent your Apple Watch from charging. The watchOS 5.0.1 update is compatible with Apple Watch Series 1 and above models. Unlike the latest update, watchOS 5 brought a list of changes to Apple Watch models. The watchOS 5 update enabled Watch-to-Watch communication through a Walkie-Talkie feature. It also added Hindi Localisation support and the ability to start interacting with Siri just by raising your wrist — without pressing and holding the Digital Crown. The update also upgraded Activity Sharing functionality with the ability to let you invite your contacts to compete in a seven-day Activity competition and earn points for closing Activity Rings. Similarly, there was support for Siri Shortcuts and a bu...