Besides the ZenWatch, Asus also unveiled a new budget tablet — the new MeMO Pad 7. Just like the Lenovo Tab S8 announced earlier today, ASUS latest tablet sports a 64-bit quad-core chip from Intel, albeit it is a different variant running at 1.83GHz. This time around, ASUS has focused on the design of the tablet giving it a very slick look “inspired by clutch bags and wallets.” Compared to its predecessor, the new MeMO Pad is a substantial upgrade is nearly every department....

BBM for Android landed today and one of the biggest complaints about the app is the persistent alert that sits in the notification drawer. BlackBerry included a setting that allows you turn off this persistent notification, but it may turn off all notifications for the app. This choice of a persistent notification versus losing your notifications is a by-product of how Android works. BlackBerry messenger is a messaging app that needs to always run in the background for alerts to work properly within the app....

How did we choose these products? The type of Bluetooth speaker that you have can make or break the life of a party. We considered several factors when picking the best of 2021: Sound quality: Some users prefer a more bassy sound while others just want clarity at the mids. When curating the list, we sought out the Bluetooth speakers that satisfied both ends. Battery: Battery life can vary significantly depending on the size of the speaker....

In Summary Google Chrome is a popular browser of choice for many people. But despite its widespread adoption and extensive support for plugins and add-ons onboard, it is still far from a privacy-friendly browser. Google’s Chrome Web Store hosts a tonne of browser extensions for various categories, including privacy, which you can install to keep your online identity private. Google Chrome privacy extensions block all sorts of adverts, trackers, and malicious websites from spying on you so you can browse the web without worrying about any tradeoffs....

During an interview with the Atlantic, Gates mentioned plans to give $ 2 billion of their own money to accelerate the development of innovative technologies able to stop climate change caused by fossil fuels. Although the billionaire believes that things like international debates on climate are important, it will be difficult to ensure that any country in the world keep its promises. Bill Gates Invested $ 2 Billion in search of Sustainable Energy Resources In addition, the creator of Microsoft believes that the free market does not offer financial incentives enough for the development of free alternatives carbon emissions happen quickly enough....

“There’s so much data that’s lying around in everything that we are doing, and now the amount of data that is getting generated is so much. But how do you get meaningful insights out of this data?” Kavitha Prasad, Intel’s vice president and general manager of Datacenter, AI, and cloud execution and strategy, told ZDNet. s “It’s beyond humanly possible right now to sit down with the data and figure out not just what the data is saying, but the interrelationship between the different sets of data that is getting collected, and to figure out what business insights are hidden behind this data....

Additionally, the Fire TV comes with dual band MIMO WiFi which makes it faster than the rest of the competition (Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast etc). The device also comes with a tiny Bluetooth controlled remote with all the essential buttons to manage the device. Users can also use the remote as a voice controlling unit. The demonstration showed the executive saying “John Malkovich” to the remote which popped out a series of information on the popular actor including IMDB results, almost instantaneously....

Bluetooth headsets have changed the way we listen to music. True Wireless earbuds offer freedom from wires. However, pairing an Android to multiple Bluetooth headsets or vice versa is a relatively messy affair. Today Google has announced a new Fast Pair experience. Google says the new Fast Pair experience makes it easier to connect Bluetooth devices. Google has worked with companies like JBLAudio and Sony for a quick one-tap click feature....

Google today announced its plan of launching Android Pay in the UK in the coming few months. At launch, Android Pay will support MasterCard and Visa credit/debit cards from majority of the financial institutions in the UK. This includes Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, M&S Bank, MBNA and Nationwide Building Society. The only notable major UK bank missing from this list is Barclay’s, which took its own sweet time in supporting Apple Pay as well....

Apart from CyanogenMod and Paranoid Android, AOKP is among the most popular AOSP based custom ROMs available for Android device. What makes AOKP special are its plethora of customization options, which allow you to change nearly every aspect of Android as you wish. Thanks to the insane number of features that they offer, and their love for unicorn and swag, many people prefer AOKP to CM or any other custom ROM....

The report provides an interesting picture of the current level of security for the principal browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari). The data provided by Secunia show that there were 1,035 vulnerabilities in these popular software in 2014, compared to 728 in 2013. The data are alarming considering that the percentage of increase is 42% and that the majority of the flaws discovered in the principal browsers were rated as ‘Highly Critical’....

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S9 and the S9+ a few days ago. Shortly after, the company announced that the SIM free versions of the handsets will be priced at $719.99 and $839.99 respectively. Best Buy USA has now announced a nifty promotion, pertaining to the carrier versions of the handset. The retailer has announced that customers who pre-order either of the two handsets will get a discount of $100. However, there are a few terms and conditions here that the customers need to keep in mind....

But there are times when, legally, you might want to use a VPN to watch a movie or video. If you’re traveling, you can VPN back to your home country and use your home streaming service account to watch your favorite show. That said, it is, at best, a legally gray area. Honestly, if you want to watch streaming TV through a VPN, just get a Fire TV stick and be done with it....

The seller of the this CCTV camera, Urban Security Group had good user reviews and was offering Sony Setup, but now it is not available due to the backlash from the users. When Olsen received the surveillance kit, he started configuring it by logging into the administrator panel. Ohio said that while the page displayed the camera feed, no “normal controls or settings were available,”. He further said “Being one of those guys who assumes bad CSS, I went ahead and opened up developer tools,”....

Not to be deterred by the lacklustre sales of its first Android smartphone, the Priv, BlackBerry plans on releasing three new Android smartphones over the next three quarters. The company will be releasing one new smartphone every quarter targeted at various price points and with different form factors. The first handset from the Canadian company that will be making its way to the market sometime in July-August is codenamed Neon....

What is the Otherside? The Otherside metaverse is an usual, diverse and colorful landscape. It consists of 200,000 plots of “land” that are available through the purchase, or minting, of so-called “Otherdeeds” – NFTs that act as title deeds for the plots of virtual land. Getting in on this much-anticipated metaverse to mint Otherdeeds requires the purchase of ApeCoin ($APE), the governance and utility token for the entire Ape ecosystem, and the legal tender in this new, exclusive metaverse....

And perhaps the most high-profile competitors to the AirPods comes from one of the biggest names in the audio business, Bose. The company has already a formidable track record in the Bluetooth audio business (there are many who swear by the QC 35) and now has decided to dump wires totally too with the SoundSport Free earbuds. And we would like to alert you that there will be AirPod references aplenty in this review, simply because that is the rival (some would even say “benchmark”) the SoundSport Free goes up against, notwithstanding some very good efforts from the likes of Sony, Jabra, Motorola and a few others....

That has led to what switch silicon vendor Broadcom describes as a critical impasse. Nvidia, the dominant vendor of the GPU chips running deep learning, is also becoming the dominant vendor of networking technology to interconnect the chips, using the InfiniBand technology that it added when it acquired Mellanox in 2020. The danger, some suggest, is that everything is tied up with one company, with no diversification and no way to build a data center where many chips compete....

Well, that was not the intention behind this post. If you remember, sometime back, I had discussed about the Browser War not showing any signs of cooling down and taken my website visitors stats as the case study. TechPP’s visitors come from across the globe and hence it should not be a bad idea to take it as a reference and imply further. 4 months down the line, it will be interesting to have a re-look on how things have changed (if at all!...

Well, BSNL just announced an “Unlimited Broadband Service” at just Rs 249. The Rs 249 broadband plan offers 10GB daily data and also includes unlimited night calling from 9 PM to 7 AM and unlimited calling on every Sundays. — BSNL India (@BSNLCorporate) April 1, 2017 So, if users avail this plan, then they will get 300GB of monthly data at the price of just Rs 249. However, there is a catch, the speed of this plan is limited to 2Mbps....