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Feb152017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Legend is back – NOKIA TO RE-LAUNCH ICONIC 3310 AT MWC 2017

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The beginning of the twenty-first century witnessed the world making a gradual shift in terms of mobile communication. People increasingly started ditching their landlines to talk to their family and friends using mobile phones. One name that in many ways pioneered this trend was Nokia. The company with its robust range of smartphones gained immense popularity and quickly became a household name across the globe. However, as the world progressed towards the Internet era, Nokia failed to match pace with the changing trends and ended up being acquired by Microsoft. And now, Nokia is all set to re-invent itself by re-launching its iconic mobile phone 3310. No, we’re not kidding! According to a tweet by the serial leaker Evan Blass, Nokia is all set to reintroduce 3310 along with introducing...

Feb102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Sunlight, Movement and Heat may soon power your smartphones, wearables

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Sunlight, heat in a room and even movements may soon power your portable and wearable gadgets such as smartphones, thanks to a material identified by scientists that can extract energy from multiple sources at the same time. Researchers from the University of Oulu in Finland have found that a mineral with the perovskite crystal structure has the right properties to extract energy from many forms of energy that surround us and is normally wasted. Perovskites are a family of minerals, many of which have shown promise for harvesting one or two types of energy at a time – but not simultaneously.One member may be good for solar cells, while other my be good at harnessing energy from changes in temperature and pressure. Yang Bai and his colleagues studied a specific type of perovskite call...

Feb102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Waiting for Nokia’s return? You might be able to buy a handset soon in India

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Nokia Nseries, undoubtedly, once ruled the phone market with its best hardware coupled with some out-of-the-box design. However, with smartphone revolution, the Nseries was somewhat lost in the transaction, but it seems HMD Global is all set to revive the iconic N-series by introducing a new mid-range smartphone. According to the latest leak coming out of China, HMD is working on a new mid-range smartphone which will be named after Nokia N95 and there is a high chance that the device might be showcased at MWC 2017 in Barcelona. To further strengthen this rumour, a leaked image showing the front panel of the smartphone was leaked online. The device is touted to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 series and the leak further states that the device is said to enter mass production mod...

Feb102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

WhatsApp has rolled out two-step verification to enhance security for all users

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WhatsApp on Friday rolled out a two-step verification process for all devices (Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps) to enhance the security of users' accounts. The security feature was available to beta users for quite some time now, but it has now been made official. "When you have the feature enabled, any attempt to verify your phone number on WhatsApp must be accompanied by the six-digit passcode that you choose," WhatsApp said in a statement. The two-step verification feature can be activated by heading to Settings > Account > Two-step verification > Enable.

Feb12017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Facebook’s develops new tool helps keep your account safe

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A week after Facebook launched Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) Security Keys to secure accounts with second-factor authentication feature “login approvals”, the social media giant has unveiled a new tool that adds an extra security layer when you go for password recovery. The new tool will ask Facebook account users to provide additional authentication as part of the recovery process at GitHub — a software development platform that hosts some of the most popular software in the world. “We need something better — a way to recover access, using identities and services you trust, regardless of whether they are associated with an email address or a phone number. This process needs to be easy, secure, and respectful of your privacy,” Brad Hill, a Security Engineer at Facebook, wr...

Jan122017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Facebook launches ‘Journalism Project’ to fight spread of ‘fake news’

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As part of the new “Journalism Project,” Facebook said on Wednesday that it would focus on improving its current storytelling formats such as Live, 360 and Instant Articles. The company also plans to test a feature using Instant Articles to allow readers to see multiple stories at a time, as a package, from their preferred news organizations. Working with third-party organizations, Facebook said it will work to promote “news literacy” and help users decide which sources are trustworthy and would also continue to work on curbing hoaxes. Fake news Facebook has faced huge criticism in recent weeks amid claims that it did not do enough to tackle the problem of fake news stories on its platform, particularly during the US presidential campaign. “We care a great deal about making ...

Jan102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Russia Demands Apple & Google To Remove LinkedIn From App Stores

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Recently, the Russian Government decided to ban LinkedIn and to do so Russia asked Apple and Google to simply remove the LinkedIn app from their app stores. The problems of LinkedIn and Microsoft in Russia have been rising in recent months. Failure to comply with the rules imposed led to the social network being banned. Now Russia wants to do much more to block access by asking Google and Apple to simply remove the LinkedIn app from their app stores. The decision to ban LinkedIn Russia was taken in October 2016 in response to the decision of a court case. Failure to comply with the decision to maintain local users’ data on Russian territory has thus ended. Immediately, LinkedIn was blocked, becoming inaccessible in the country, either by the browser or the applications. Of course...

Jan102017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

How to Update All the Software on Your Windows PC

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Update all the software on your Windows PC with the help of all the possible ways that will help you to easily get the latest version of your currently installed in your PC. So have a look on complete guide discussed below to proceed. Programming related bugs are a piece of registering life. Engineers, for the most part, discharge new forms of a product either by expelling a few bugs, fixing security vulnerabilities or by presenting new components. If you have introduced heaps of applications on your Windows PC, then overhauling them independently can be an overwhelming assignment. Staying aware of the redesigns is likewise testing because many engineers don’t discuss well with the clients. How to Check for Software Updates Most cutting edge desktop applications contain an overhaul high...

Jan42017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

India to be world’s third assembler of Apple iPhones

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With the upcoming Bengaluru assembly plant of Apple, India will become only the third country to do the final assembly of iPhones -an indication of how important the country has become for the world’s most-valued company .Apart from one assembly facility in Brazil, all of Apple’s assembly units for its bestselling product are in China. Apple uses a global and fairly complex supply chain. The parts for the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac are manufactured, mostly by third parties, across 28 countries. It has 766 suppliers, of which 346 are based in China, 126 in Japan, and 69 in the US. There is one in India -in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. That’s a unit of Flextronics. But it’s not clear what the unit makes. Some parts made by these suppliers are sub-assembled in certain locations. All the...

Jan42017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

PM Modi’s BHIM app hits 5-mn downloads mark

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The BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) app has seen 5 million downloads since its launch on December 31, reports Shritama Bose in Mumbai. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) MD and CEO AP Hota told FE on Tuesday that the number of user registrations on BHIM so far is 1.5 million. He added financial transactions on USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) — a digital payments platform for feature phones — had jumped to 7,000-8,000 a day, up from 1,000 a day before November 8. Hota said by March the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform can be used to pay utility bills and insurance premiums. He believes more merchants will transact on UPI once the Indian Banks’ Association decides on the interchange rate. “While RBI has capped merchant discount rates, or the fee ...