In a little less than a week, third-person battle royale shooter Fortnite has skyrocketed to the top of the charts on the App Store in more than 40 countries. This is no mean feat considering that the game is invite only at the moment. What’s more is, it’s managed to earn over $1.5 million (around Rs. 9.7 crore) worldwide in its first four days. In the first 72 hours, the game earned $1 million (close to Rs. 6.5 crore). This is of course on iOS alone as Fortnite is yet to release on Android. The data on Fortnite launch revenue comes via analytics firm Sensor Tower. Compared…
Author: Loknath Das
Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the addition of two affordable earphones – Mi Earphones Basic and Mi Earphones – in its portfolio in India. Cheaper of the two, Mi Earphones Basic has been priced at Rs. 399 and is available in Black and Red colour variants. On the other hand, the Mi Earphones have been priced at Rs. 699 and will be available in Black and Silver options. Both products are on sale on Mi.com. Mi Earphones Basic The Mi Earphones Basic are said to be “Designed for India” and come with features such as ‘ultra low bass’ and an aluminium alloy sound chamber. Xiaomi claims…
Low-price listings for expensive software like Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite are usually too good to be true—especially on secondary markets like Craigslist or eBay. Let’s take a look at some of the ways scammers try to rip you off. You Might Be Getting an OEM Licensed Product Okay, so this one isn’t so much a scam as it is something to watch for. OEM stands for “Original Equipment Manufacturer.” Sometimes, this term is used to refer to the brand of a manufacturer—for example, the “OEM” for a Dell computer as a whole is, well, Dell. But more often…
Social media has posed a serious challenge to law enforcement agencies and the area of concerns include terrorism, financial frauds and victimisation of women and children, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. Inaugurating a two-day Asia-Pacific regional conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in New Delhi, Mr Singh said that serious crime take place because the police and citizens do not work together to prevent decay of social norms and social disorder. “The social media has also posed serious challenge to policing. The three main issues are (i) law and order, (ii) cyber crimes like fake…
NewsMediaWorks chief executive Peter Miller says traditional media companies are benefiting from growing distrust of social media platforms, with audiences holding strong in January. The overall news sector is recording stable audience figures after a 2 per cent increase in 2017, with 16.5 million people reading the news, Enhanced Media Metrics Australia (EMMA) data released on Thursday shows. This equates to about 90 per cent of the population aged over 14. The overall print audience across measured titles totalled 12.5 million, while 13.5 million people used smartphones, tablets and laptops to access the news. “The trend is for positive overall…
A seemingly trivial moment during a media conference of the 13th National People’s Congress has shown that actions indeed speak louder than words after it incited a frenzy on social media. During the conference on Tuesday (Mar 13), a female journalist inadvertently stole the limelight after making a disapproving glance at a fellow journalist, reported independent news site What’s on Weibo. The episode – since dubbed as “The Lianghui Incident” – was broadcasted live and became widely shared on WeChat, China’s dominant messaging service. A flurry of discussion soon erupted on social media sites like Weibo and an online vigilante…
Karnataka has emerged as the the fastest among all states in terms of broadband speeds, with an average download speed of 28.46 Mbps recorded in the month of February. This is 37.4% faster than the rest of the country, according to the latest report by Ookla, the company that runs the popular Speedtest website. In their latest report titled, ‘India’s digital divide: How Broadband Speed Splits the Nation’, the company says that Chennai has some of the fastest internet speeds in the country followed by Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and Visakhapatnam, all of which scored higher than the country’s average speed of…
March Madness is upon us and as usual hoops fans are obsessing about the tournament bracket. But once the brackets are filled, then what? WinView, Inc. (www.winviewgames.com), the nation’s leading skill-based sports prediction mobile games platform, is taking Bracketology 101 to the next level by giving TV viewers nationwide the first-ever chance to predict the live action on the court against friends or fellow fans. WinView announced today its America’s Got Sports IQTM $5K Prop Madness Bracket Challenge. Fans can predict the plays live as the game unfolds, such as “Will Duke make more 3’s than their opponent this half?” Similar to…
Most people’s first interactions with director Uwe Boll came via a trifecta of video-game adaptations released between 2003 and 2005: House Of The Dead,Alone In The Dark, and BloodRayne. Together, they stablished the Uwe Boll style, which commingled cheaply acquired, violent intellectual properties, typically from games, with a huge roster of A-Z list actors slumming it for a paycheck, all delivered with slipshod incompetence and an almost palpable disdain for the audience. In the decade after that opening artistic salvo, Boll trained his particular skillset on a few more game properties—Far Cry, Postal, Dungeon Siege—as well as broader projects, like the real-life atrocity Darfur and the…
The Indian arm of the Italian super bike maker Ducati India Pvt. Ltd. has joined hands with Volkswagen Finance Private Limited to launch Ducati Financial Services (DFS). The objective is to offer Ducati customers a personalized financing solution through the Ducati dealer network across the country. To celebrate the launch of Ducati Financial Services, Ducati has announced a zero per cent interest rate plan for select models. For a limited period, customers will be required to pay monthly EMIs starting as low as ₹ 19,999. Ducati Financial Services will offer competitive interest rates, flexible loan tenures and tailored finance products…