Reliance Jio Infocomm will launch commercial operations in coming months as its test programme has established smooth operations of all aspects of the network, company’s parent RIL said today. – Source
Social networks aiming to change the way we communicate are everywhere. Messaging applications that want to do it all are also spreading like wildfire. With Facebook, WhatsApp, and Snapchat taking a big piece of the cake, it’s hard for a service to differentiate itself, but Airtime manages to do just that.
The app started 4 years ago as a web service, but faced lots of technical difficulties so its founder Sean Parker shut it down and started working in the background on something better.
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Four Years Later, Airtime Relaunches To Bring You And Your Friends Into The Same Virtual Room was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Baidu, China’s Google and an Uber investor, has continued its policy of spinning off promising business units. Following the spin-off of its student Q&A app Zuoyebang last September, Baidu Video has gone independent this week and raised RMB 1 billion ($155 million) in capital. Read More
Sprint has started rolling out Marshmallow update to Samsung Galaxy Note Edge and Galaxy S5 Sport units on its network. The update brings Android version 6.0 to both devices.
The Note Edge update also includes latest Android security patches as well as some other bug fixes. The updates are being rolled out in phases, with the Note Edge process completing on May 2 and the S5 Sport process wrapping up on May 11.
In case you haven’t received the update notification yet, you can also manually check for the update by heading to the Settings menu on your handset.
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CNN host Wolf Blitzer paid tribute to Prince on the news network Thursday, but he briefly forgot which songs the late pop icon actually wrote.
“All of us, of course, remember “Purple Haze” and what that did for the world of music,” Blitzer said of the classic Jimi Hendrix anthem.
But do you, Wolf? Do you remember?
In Blitzer’s defense, he was likely confusing the song for Prince’s “Purple Rain.”
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After weeks of a very public back and forth with Apple over opening the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the FBI opted for plan B
and asked an Israeli security firm to crack the device. And they paid a premium.
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Quarterly revenue at Google’s parent company Alphabet rises 17% after strong mobile advertising sales, but average ad prices fall. – Source
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Today, Google and Sony announced the Android N Developer Preview is coming to a rather surprising device: the Sony Xperia Z3. Owners of the Z3 can install Sony’s “Xperia Companion” app on a Windows or Mac computer and download the developer preview.
Android developer previews are usually relegated to Google’s Nexus line, so seeing a finished image for a Sony phone is definitely a surprise. The Xperia Z3 is Sony’s flagship from 2014. The company’s 2015 flagship, the Xperia Z5, isn’t included in the developer preview.
For the Android M Developer Preview, Sony made it possible to compile your own builds of Android M from the Android source code for 17 of its devices. Things seem to be a bit easier for the Z3 this year—this seems to be a finished image.
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