1. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked telecom service providers to start issu
ing 13-digit numbers for SIM-based machine-to-machine (M2M) services, which will co-exist with 10-digit numbers.
2. Redmi Note 5 and Redmi Note 5 Pro are all set to go on sale in India for the first time. Both new Redmi Note models will be available via Flipkart and Mi.com through a flash sale round that will take place at 12pm IST (noon) on Thursday.
3. According to the latest OpenSignal report titled 'The State of LTE (February 2018)', the country ranks at the bottom (No. 88) in terms of the average download connection speed that users in each country see when connecting to LTE networks.
4. Google India today introduced Tamil language support for its advertising products Google "AdWords" and Google "AdSense".
5. The PS4 Pro will finally be back in stock in games stores across India this week officially.
6. early 40 per cent of over 53,000 cyber attacks in India occurred in the financial services sector during 2017, placing it at the seventh spot in the list of targeted countries for Web Application Attacks (WAA), a new report said today.
7. With 30.8 per cent market share in the Android tablet business, consumer electronics major Lenovo India has sustained the top spot for the third consecutive quarter that ended on December 31, 2017.
8. Uber is launching its latest product called Express Pool that asks commuters to walk and wait at a pick up spot.
9. Honor 9 Lite, a device launched under Huawei's sub-brand Honor, has started receiving "Face Unlock" feature via HOTA (Huawei's Over the Air update). The HOTA rollout has started in batches and will be rolled out to everyone by March 5.
10. Netgear has launched a new router in the Orbi series - the SRK60 - for small and medium-sized business in India.
11. Facebook has rolled out support for industry-standard "glTF 2.0" file format that will enable artists and creators build richer and higher-quality 3D content and share it on the platform.
12. Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature for its Android and Windows Phone beta versions. With the latest update, WhatsApp will add a new "Add group description" tab in a group with placement depending on whether the viewer is part of the group or not.
13. With the aim to drive business use of Virtual Reality (VR), Taiwanese electronics giant HTC on Wednesday launched the "Vive Business Edition" headset for Rs 1,26,990 in India.
14. Scientists, including those of Indian origin, have developed a laser emitter that can safely charge a smartphone across a room as quickly as a standard USB cable. Researchers mounted a thin power cell to the back of a smartphone , which charges the smartphone using power from the laser .
15. Xiaomi Mi LED TV 4, which was launched in India last week, will go on sale in India on Thursday. the Mi LED TV 4 is claimed to be the world's thinnest LED TV and the price has been set at Rs. 39,999. The television has been launched in just a single variant in India - 55-inch - and it will be available on Flipkart. The TV will also be available to buy from Mi.com, and Mi Home stores, starting 2pm on Thursday.
16. Bhart Airtel's Rs 98 plan now offers users 5GB 3G/4G data for 28 days. The recharge plan offers only data benefits and there are no calls with it.
17. Microsoft on Wednesday announced support for e-mail addresses in 15 Indian languages across its apps and services, including Office 365, Outlook 2016, Outlook.com, Exchange Online and Exchange Online Protection (EOP).
18. Toshiba Gulf FZE, the subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, on Wednesday entered the audio products and accessories segment in India by partnering with Toshiba Lifestyle Electronics and Trading and launched its range of devices, including wireless and wired earphones and headphones, Bluetooth speakers, soundbars, portable music systems, micro-component systems, and radios.
19. A blunder at a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange let investors briefly buy bitcoins for free - though none were able to profit from the mistake. Zaif, a government-registered exchange run by Osaka-based Tech Bureau Corp, said on Tuesday that a system glitch had let seven customers buy bitcoin with no yen value during a 20-minute window last week.
20. Facebook-owned image sharing app Instagram has rolled out new features for Instagram Direct allowing users to manage privacy controls for photos and videos they send through private messages on the app. The new View Once, Allow Replay, and Keep in Chat options will enable users to set different access options for different contacts on the app.
21. Artificial intelligence could be deployed by dictators, criminals and terrorists to manipulate elections and use drones in terrorist attacks, more than two dozen experts said Wednesday as they sounded the alarm over misuse of the technology.
22. A young trio of Chinese internet companies that is challenging the order of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent in its home country is spreading wings in India as well, promising to bring advanced technology chops to domestic startups. News app Toutiao, group-buying service Meituan Dianping and ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing already have significant investments in India.
23. Around 15 financial technology (fintech) companies from Britain today held roundtable discussions here to explore opportunities for expanding in the Indian market. The meeting at India House in London was coordinated by the City of London Corporation as part of the Access India Programme, a flagship scheme of the Indian High Commission to support UK businesses access the Make in India initiative of the Indian government.
24. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s ambitious project of building the 10,000-year clock is officially underway. The tech billionaire took to Twitter and revealed in a tweet that the installation of “500 ft tall, all mechanical, powered by day/night thermal cycles, synchronized at solar noon, a symbol for long-term thinking” has begun.
25. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) on Wednesday signed an MoU with Canada's Blockchain Research Institute (BRI) to develop skill sets for blockchain adoption and deployment in India.
26. Some of the biggest electronics bazaars in Asia are being flooded with customers looking for the latest piece of technology: cryptocurrency mining rigs. Scores of miners from around the world are travelling to places like Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po and Singapore's Sim Lim Square to buy the rigs, which the shops' hardware geeks expertly build behind counters in their cramped boutiques.
27. The iPhone maker is seeking contracts to buy several thousand metric tons of cobalt for iPhone batteries for five years or longer, Bloomberg reported, citing an anonymous source.
28. According to the latest reports coming from China, Apple iPhone SE 2 will launch in June this year. A report in Chinese website QQ.com claims that the Cupertino giant will launch the smartphone at its annual developers conference, Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), in June 2018.
29. Global leader in domain names and Internet security VeriSign today announced that the fourth quarter of 2017 saw approximately 1.7 million domain name registrations. With this, the total number of domain name registrations reached approximately 332.4 million across all top-level domains (TLDs).
30. Scientists have developed a robotic system that can assist in picking and sorting tasks, such as organising products in a warehouse to clearing debris from a disaster zone.
31. Reliance Jio will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years, Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Wednesday.
32. As businesses try to comply with new European Union privacy laws that come into force this year, they are set to face increased ransomware, cryptocurrency mining and business email compromise (BEC) extortion attacks, a report said today.
33. A Chicago-area woman who was at a cafe in Paris during the 2015 attacks is suing Twitter, Facebook and Google alleging the sites helped aid the growth of the Islamic State group by giving it social media access.
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