1. The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.
2. The e-commerce major Amazon launched its Prime service in India back in 2016. The company has now expanded the service has launched Amazon Prime Music in the country.
3. Telecom major Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) on Tuesday announced that along with its technology partner Cisco, it has won the "Best Mobile Operator Service for Consumers" award at the prestigious Global Mobile (GloMo) Awards 2018 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC).
4. Alphabet Inc's Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the Tuesday launch of Google Clips, a pocket-sized digital camera that decides on its own whether an image is interesting enough to shoot.
5. As part of the Indian government's Digital India initiative, Reliance Big TV on Wednesday announced the launch of a new plan in its Direct To Home (DTH) services in India. The DTH operator, with this new plan, claims to offer "free access" to both free-to-air channels (up to 500) for a period of five years as well as pay channels (including HD channels) for a period of one year. Pre-booking for the set-top box will begin on Reliance Big TV's official website from 10am on March 1.
6. A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan to take over rival Qualcomm Inc.
7. Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio has hired eight banks including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to work on a planned U.S. stock market listing this year worth up to $2 billion.
8. Samsung Electronics is all set to unveil Bixby 2.0 - the next generation of its proprietary virtual assistant - sometime later this year. In fact, the company has confirmed that the AI-based Bixby 2.0 will first make an appearance on the upcoming Galaxy Note 9 phablet expected in the second half of 2018.
9. Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino's Pizza to Lyft.
10. Google has received more than 2.4 million requests to remove URLs from its Search under Europe's "Right to be Forgotten" laws since they were introduced in May 2014.
11. Chinese smartphone brand Vivo at MWC 2018, had unveiled a concept phone dubbed APEX with an in-display fingerprint scanner and a selfie camera that pops up when required. Vivo is reported to have shared an invite with Chinese media for an announcement on March 5, and it appears to be directly related to the APEX smartphone.
12. Phishing attacks via spoofed emails pose a great threat to people, including Apple device users. As a measure to curb such attacks, the Cupertino giant has shared new tips for users to protect themselves. Apple informs that users get phishing emails that pretend to be from Apple, and ask them to click on certain links to get their account information. Some of the attackers send receipts for alleged purchases made on the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store or for Apple Music, that the users didn't even make. Essentially, these emails pose as if they are official messages from the App Store.
13. In a move to stop mass-level spam circulation on its platform, WhatsApp is reportedly working on a feature that will show "Forwarded Message" if the spam post has been forwarded from another group or from one of the members in the same chat group.
14. Select Coolpad smartphones in India will receive the Amazon Alexa voice service. The Coolpad Cool Play 6, Note 5, and Note 5 Lite will get Alexa via an over-the-air (OTA) update, while the future Coolpad devices will include its presence out-of-the-box.
15. Google at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, instead of bringing a new Pixel phone or any other hardware, announced the release of the first beta SDK of its Flutter UI framework.
16. U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said on Tuesday it would start building next-generation 5G networks around the United States with the help of Nordic equipment vendors Ericsson and Nokia .
17. To help "metro newspapers" take their digital subscription business to a new level, Facebook has launched a local news accelerator for news publishers.
18. Amazon confirmed Tuesday that it bought video doorbell startup Ring, in a move that could help the internet giant's delivery arm reach into people's homes.
19. Telecom regulator Trai yesterday said anybody is free to move court against its tariff order after operators threatened to challenge the new rules while terming them "not fair".
20. When launching the first Mi Home store in India, Xiaomi's own store last year, the company's Global Vice President, and Managing Director India, Manu Kumar Jain said the goal was to have a store where you could see not just the products launched in India, but everything that Xiaomi had to offer.
21. Waymo on Wednesday showed off a 360-degree video to help people envision what it is like to ride inside an autonomous vehicle.
22. CyberX, a provider of technology to secure the Internet of Things and industrial control systems, said on Tuesday it raised $18 million, bringing its total investment to $30 million.
23. With 21 percent market share, Samsung retained the top spot in the 4G LTE device shipments in 2017 while Chinese handset maker Xiaomi stood second with 18 percent share, market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR) said on Wednesday.
24. Image-based searching and sharing website Pinterest on Tuesday appointed Francoise Brougher, a former executive at Alphabet Inc , as its first chief operating officer.
25. People in Germany will acquire a legal right to fast internet under a proposed coalition between Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD).
26. In a major relief to the harried subscribers, the regulator has allowed them to port out of the Aircel network even if they are yet to complete the mandated 90-day period with the operator.
27. Cognizant’s headcount in India dropped by 8000 at the end of 2017, even as the number of people it employs in the US and Europe rose.
28. BlackBerry Limited has informed a few app developers that it will forcibly remove paid software from the "BlackBerry World" app store from April 1.
29. Following the launch of Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, Samsung appears to be planning to expand its affordable J-series smartphones this year. Earlier, we saw the upcoming Galaxy J6 in benchmarks, and now it's time to look at the Geekbench listing for the yet-unannounced Galaxy J8.
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