Today Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note7 in China, at a special event. Despite many past rumors claiming we’ll see a version with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage in China, this was not mentioned at all in the official presentation. So the Note7 makes its debut in China with ‘just’ 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, the same values it sports in every other market. The Chinese model is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset, just like the USA-bound Note7, interestingly (and not Samsung’s Exynos solution used everywhere else throughout the world). As you’d expect, all the…
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For a short while not long ago it looked like Samsung’s original Galaxy Tab S line would not ever be receiving updates to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Thankfully, though, that turned out not to be true. In fact, we’ve seen the update being pushed to the 10.5-inch LTE Tab S in Germany just yesterday. And now it’s time for its smaller sibling to be on the receiving end of the same new software release. Once again in Germany, the LTE-enabled Galaxy Tab S 8.4 is now getting the Android Marshmallow update too. Samsung emphasizes a few things in its changelog, such…
The Honor 8, which was officially announced by Huawei for the US market last week, is now available for purchase in the country. The unlocked variant of the device is now listed on the HiHonor US online store. As for price, the phone carries a tag of $399.99. Those who register on the website will also get a $50 coupon. While the device comes in white, gold, black, blue, and pink color options, only the white model is currently up for grabs. In case you missed, the phone has also made it to other regions worldwide, including Europe, the Middle…
The CBSE NEET online counselling for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) UG started from August 22. As per the schedule, the last date to exercise choices and lock seats is today, i.e. August 26, by 5 pm. Further, the process of seat allotment will be done tomorrow, August 27. Yesterday was the last date for main counselling registration, choice filling and indicative seat. How to exercise choices? Log on to the website, www.mcc.nic.in Click on the tab, ‘Candidates Login’ Enter all the required details such as roll number and password Click to log in Follow the instruction given.…
Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) Bhubaneswar has released an official notification inviting all the interested, eligible candidates to apply for undergraduate courses for the academic session 2017. List of courses offered: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) Bachelor of Science in Human Development (BSc-HD) Sustainable Development (BSc-SD) Sustainability Science (BSc-SST) Mass Communication (BSc-MC) Eligibility criteria: Educational qualification: BCom and BBM programme: All the candidates interested in applying for this course need to be intermediate (class12) pass from a recognised state board in any stream, with at least 55 per cent aggregate. BSc programme: All the candidates interested…
Even after CBSE, state governments or High Court giving orders to private and government schools, students still have to drag huge loads of books to school every day. Both junior and senior students are victims of this process. After getting grudgingly tired of the school-bag load, the two school kids studying in class 7 in Vidya Niketan School, Nagpur recently organised a press conference to tell people and authorities how each day they struggle to carry a load of 5-7 kg on their shoulders daily to school. (Read: Limit on weight of school bags to apply on all schools: Maharashtra…
While making few changes in the existing affiliation bye-laws, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently announced that it will soon be conducting a recruitment drive for teachers to be placed in various Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas. At the sidelines of the CBSE conference on ‘Examination Reform for Inclusive Education’, CBSE chairperson RK Chaturvedi informed reporters about the updating of bye-laws and other changes in the near future. Details of the report: As per reports, CBSE will be updating its affiliation bylaws for schools so as to make the system more transparent and to further bring them…
SwiftKey is bouncing back after dealing with some pesky bugs that threw a wrench in the company’s suggestion engine. An update to the beta version of one of Android’s signature keyboards fixes a bug that caused some users to see unfamiliar terms and suggestions appear. SwiftKey even had to shut down its cloud sync service temporarily while it looked into the problem. With that resolved, SwiftKey is back to adding in new features. The new beta version adds back in number, email, and other predictions. You’ll also get the 74 new emojis that Google brought to Android Nougat. You can…
The beta version of Google Maps has another Thursday special for you, with a mix of features that ease sharing directions and telling Maps how you plan to get to your destination. The feature, which was definitely new to me, is called Plus Codes. It’s a method developed by Google’s Zurich office that is designed to be more user-friendly than identifying a location by Latitude and Longitude. Why this matters: Google Maps drops in a lot of interesting new tidbits all the time with the beta version of its mapping application. So sign up if you want to try out…
Apple released an update to iOS 9 on Thursday—iOS 9.3.5—that patches multiple critical zero-day vulnerabilities that have been shown to already have been deployed, allegedly by governments to target activists and dissidents, according to a report from Citizen Lab and Lookout Security. Apple turned around an update within 10 days from when the company received Citizen Lab’s initial report. The update is recommended immediately for all iOS 9 devices. When used together, the exploits allow someone to hijack an iOS device and control or monitor it remotely. Hijackers would have access to the device’s camera and microphone, and could capture audio…