Amazon India is hosting a two-day Apple Fest where it is offering a cashback of Rs. 1,500 as Amazon Pay balance on a range of Apple products including iPhone, MacBook, iPad, and Apple Watch models. In order to be eligible for the cashback on all the Apple product purchases, you need to use American Express cards from Monday, August 28 to Tuesday, August 29. Among the products, the mobiles that are featured with comparatively low prices are iPhone 7, iPhone SE, and iPhone 6, whereas the MacBook …

Software may be eating the world, as Marc Andreessen famously put it in 2011, but he may have been looking at things too narrowly. FinancialForce CEO Tod Nielsen prefers to one-up Andreessen’s observation to a whole new level: “services are devouring the entire galaxy,” he recently proclaimed. What does that mean? In a chat with Michael Krigsman in the latest installment of CXOTalk, Nielsen explains as digitization encompasses greater swaths of organizations – fueled by cloud and analytics – t…

It seems like Xiaomi is gearing up for a global launch as the company has teased the launch of a Mi series smartphone on September 5. As the company has mentioned that the launch will see the global unveiling of a flagship smartphone with dual cameras, it might launch the Mi 5X handset, which has only been launched in China, at the event. Apart from that, Xiaomi could possibly launch is its heavily-anticipated Mi Mix 2 smartphone at the event as well. We might see the launch of a completely new …

Western Digital's chief executive is in Tokyo to finalise an agreement to buy Toshiba's memory chip business, ending months of dispute over the auction, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.Toshiba is scrambling to sell its flash memory unit to cover losses from its bankrupt US nuclear business Westinghouse.A group including Western Digital, US private equity firm KKR & Co and Japanese government investors are offering around JPY 1.9 trillion ($17.3 billion or roughly Rs. 1,…

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already revolutionizing domains such as manufacturing, automobiles and healthcare. But the real value of IIoT will be realized only when Machine Learning (ML) is applied to the sensor data. This article attempts to highlight how ML augments IIoT solutions by bringing intelligent insights. Source: //www.CGPGrey.com Cloud computing has been the biggest enabler of connected devices and enterprise IoT. Cheaper storage combined with ample c…

Sarahah, the anonymous feedback app that’s been going viral for the past couple weeks, isn’t quite as private as it sounds: it turns out, the app uploads users’ phone contacts to the company’s servers, seemingly for no good reason. The behavior was spotted by security analyst Zachary Julian and first reported by The Intercept. The app doesn’t entirely hide this behavior. On both iOS and Android, Sarahah asks for permission to access each user’s phone contacts — and even if you say no, you can…

Earlier this week we published a full review of the Asus ZenFone AR, a new, $600 Android smartphone that supports both Google Tango AR and Google Daydream VR. And it manages to do that in a much slimmer phone body than the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, the only other other Tango phone that’s available. Throw in desktop-grade graphics processing, six to eight gigabytes of RAM, and a 23-megapixel rear camera, and you’ve got yourself a pretty good Android phone. But the AR and VR portion of this phone are…

If you’ve always wanted to purchase the original Xbox One that Microsoft launched back in 2013, you’re out of luck. The company is no longer selling the original console in the United States. It’s only selling the retail versions of the Xbox One X and Xbox One S via its online store.Customers who really want one can pick up a refurbished model of the original Xbox One for $199. The original Xbox One has actually disappeared from the company’s online store in the United States without a trace.The…

Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas yesterday, and while the storm has been downgraded to a tropical storm, it’s expected to drop up to 40 inches of rain in the area, which is leading to catastrophic flooding in the area. To help with the coming relief efforts, Apple has begun accepting donations for the Red Cross through iTunes. As with its efforts to collect money for the Southern Poverty Law Center after Charlottesville, Apple has opened a page on its storefronts that allows users to …

Phone Case of the Month is a monthly series in which we live with, and subsequently review, our time with a phone case. Phone cases are one of our only ways to express individuality with our smartphones, so what do our phone case choices say about us? Everyone in the world seemed to love my bunny phone case. The receptionist at my doctor's office told me she looked it up and bought it during my appointment; the cashier at Dunkin' Donuts searched for it immediately after I bought an iced tea; …