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Apple Shares Hit All Time High Ahead of iPhone Launch Earlier today, Apple sent out press invites to its iPhone launch event on September 12. The event is scheduled to take place at the Steve Jobs Theatre at Apple’s new Apple Park campus. Riding on speculation that the company is gearing up to launch three new iPhones this year, Apple’s share  rose up to an all time high of $228  at one point today. The company is widely expected to unveil quite a lot of hardware at the event including the  three new iPhones  (two of which leaked earlier today), the  Apple Watch Series 4  (which also leaked earlier today), along with a  new iPad Pro , and refreshed  iMac and iMac Pro workstation desktops . The Cupertino giant is expected to a have a good year with iPhone sales this time around, a speculation further supported by a recent survey that mentioned  around 50% iPhone users in the US are looking forward to...

Poco F1 Users Unable to Download Asphalt 9, Recent OTA Likely to be Blamed A few hours ago, Pocophone rolled out the first OTA to Poco F1. While the update has brought noticeable performance changes and July’s security patch, it  appears to have blocked the pathway  for downloading one of the most popular games on the Google Play Store.Many of our readers reached out to us, informing us that they are unable to download Asphalt 9: Legends on their newly purchased Poco F1. At first, I found this hard to believe as Asphalt 9 has been among the games that I tested the smartphone’s gaming performance on. Surprisingly,  Asphalt 9 does not show up on the Google Play Store anymore  when searched from a Poco F1. Moreover, looking up for the game on the Play Store shows an error message, claiming that Asphalt 9 is not compatible with the smartphone as you can see in the image below. Well, this is a deal breaker for many users who showed...

IFA 2018: Here’s What to Expect from the Electronics Show in Berlin Standing tall among the likes of CES and MWC, Internationale Funkausstellung (better known as IFA 2018) is scheduled to kick-off on August 30 in Berlin, Germany. The tech convention is scheduled for August 31 to September 5, but the announcement will start rolling in from August 29 (i.e today) itself.While a large number of tech giants have shifted focus away from electronics expos and mega-gatherings like such to launch new products at their own flagship events, many of them still attend the event and attract a lot of attention towards smaller announcements such as TVs, accessories, audio and other electronics offerings. So, here are some of the key announcements we expect to witness at IFA 2018: Sony Let’s start off with Sony, who is expected to unveil the Xperia XZ3, the successor to its Xperia XZ2 series (including Xperia XZ2 Premium) that was launched at the start of the year. The Xperi...

Indian Parents Post Photos of Children Online Despite Grave Threat: McAfee Report Although Indian parents are aware that images of their children posted online could end up in the wrong hands, most of them are still sharing their kids’ images online often without any consent from them, a survey by global cyber security firm McAfee revealed on Tuesday. The survey, titled “The Age of Consent,” found 40.5 per cent of parents in India (with Mumbai being the most active) post a photo or video of their child at least once a day on their social media accounts, with 36 per cent posting a picture of their child once a week. Most parents identified the following concerns associated with sharing images online including paedophilia (16.5 per cent), stalking (32 per cent), kidnapping (43 per cent) and cyberbullying (23 per cent), but many (62 per cent) don’t even consider if their child would consent to their image being posted online. “What’s even more alarming is that a whopping 76 p...

Google for India 2018: Tez is Now Google Pay; Introduces Key New Features Last year in September, Google launched its simple UPI-based payments platform Tez in India. Since then, the app has been downloaded by over 50 million users and is  used by more than 22 million individuals and merchants each month . At the recent Google for India (2018) event, the company also revealed that over the course of the year, users have conducted over 750 million transactions using the app which are worth over $30 billion.Tez has also played a major role in the growth of UPI payments in India, which have shot up over 14 times since its launch. The company further revealed that its next step in the process is to unify all of Google’s payment offerings globally, starting with  Tez which will now be called Google Pay . Even though Tez has now officially been renamed to Google Pay, the app will retain most of its features. It will still have the familiar contacts on the home ...

Google for India 2018: Everything Google Announced Google recently held its fourth annual Google for India event in New Delhi, during which the company made a number of important announcements regarding its Indian operations, including changes to Google’s UPI-based payments platform Tez, additions to its Google Station WiFi project, and changes to Google Maps Go edition. Here’s everything Google announced at the Google for India 2018 event: 1. Google Station Partners with Andhra Pradesh State Fibernet Limited Google Station, the company’s service which allows partners to roll out WiFi hotspots in public places by providing software and advice on hardware, has now partnered with Andhra Pradesh State FiberNet Limited to  bring high-quality internet coverage to over 12,000 villages, towns and cities  in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The initiative is expected to reach 10 million people, providing high-quality internet access to areas that have never been connected befor...

Poco F1 Camera Samples: Incredible Quality, Tons of AI Features And Super-Fast Focus Xiaomi’s offshoot – Poco – grabbed the world’s attention with the insane pricing for its first smartphone which has flagship-level internals, and a very functional design. The Poco F1 is packed with a Snapdragon 845 which is indisputably the best chipset for Android smartphones this year, with a price barely hovering over the Rs 20,000 mark. With the chipset, you get up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage and to keep things cool, the Poco F1 also has liquid cooling and a copper heat sink. But those are not the only unbelievable features that the Poco F1 delivers as it also comes with a  really impressive camera  for the price. While it’s too early to call this the best camera in the segment, here’s what I think about it after playing with it for just over a day. The Poco F1 uses the usual MIUI camera app so we would not dwell upon the features of the app and focus ...

Wonder share DVD Creator Review: Easily Burn Data to DVDs DVDs are still one of the most preferred forms of watching videos and movies, all over the globe. In fact, people still like to burn their own movies using a DVD Burner to store their videographic memories. Sadly, with USB replacing DVDs, there has been a drop in the overall quality of DVD Burners out there. Nonetheless, if you’re looking for a good DVD Burner, allow me to suggest  Wondershare DVD Creator . According to the company, Wondershare DVD Creator is the complete tool for DVD Burning, which also comes with a DVD Video editor of its own. But is this software really that good? Let’s find out as we review the Wondershare DVD Creator: First Impressions Wondershare DVD Creator is a software that offers a process that is subtle and simple to understand, but features that are quite powerful. The entire process, from purchasing the software to installing it and then finally using it was easy as a pie. Everythi...