“Our goal is to stimulate consumption demand and support lifestyle upgrade in China through new brands and products. We will enable merchants in China and around the world to grow their businesses through data-driven product innovation and consumer insights, as well as leverage our recommendation technology and content-driven user engagement to delight consumers in urban coastal cities and less-developed areas of China” – said Fan Jiang, president of Taobao and Tmall....

To start with, the all-new Google Chromecast features a pebble-like design with a USB-C port on one end — to charge, and an HDMI cable emerging out of the side. There is also a reset button on the back. At its core, the device runs on the Amlogic S905X2 chipset, which is a 12nm chip with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and the ARM Mali-G31 GPU for graphics processing....

However, many users have complained that the Alt Tab key sometimes doesn’t work in Windows 11/10 when playing games or running important programs. We’ve found that this problem is primarily due to incorrect or inconsistent settings that have been manually changed or created by a third-party application on your computer. Fortunately, there are a number of solutions that have helped Windows 11/10 users fix the Alt Tab not working issue, and we’ll go through them in this article....

Budget Fitness Tackers have multiple use cases Budget Fitness trackers are bought for many reasons, and fitness tracking is just one of them, and it’s probably the least important one. Many want it to get notifications from apps and calls as their primary usage, while others use it for sleep tracking, and very few use it for step counting. Also, they are cheaper compared to smartwatches and high-end trackers making them an obvious choice for those who would like to have few features of expensive trackers and smartwatches....

In design terms, the Thump 504 does not do anything exceptional or get anything wrong for that matter. You get the usual earbuds with cable and an in-line controller and mic, both of which are in a single plastic unit, and of course the 3.5 mm audio jack. The earbuds are however made of metal (aluminum alloy, to be exact), which we think is a good touch, and even better is the fact that the cable used to connect them to a device is a flat one, significantly decreasing the chances of tangling and breakage....

Smartphone sales recover after an early slowdown After a relatively quiet early part of the year, courtesy COVID, smartphone shipments returned to the growth part. Q4 2020 saw 385.9 million smartphones being shipped, up 4.3 percent from 369.9 million in Q4 2019. Mind you, the overall stats for 2020 still made for depressing reading with shipments declining 5.9 percent in 2020, going from 1372.6 million in 2019 to 1292.2 million in 2020....

The ASUS 8Z is a rare find in this market with its size and form factor. Offered as a compact flagship with little to no compromise on specs, the ASUS 8Z features a Snapdragon 888 chipset, headphone jack, and stereo speakers in a waterproof and dustproof casing. So is the ASUS 8Z a dream phone for users looking for a compact device without compromises? We’ll help you answer that question with our full review of the ASUS 8Z!...

While Aurous hasn’t detailed too much how it manages to achieve this, the explanation is that it’s pulling music from a variety of third-party sources instead of negotiating with record labels and artists. I’ve downloaded the app on my Windows laptop, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to play any music, because of an annoying bug. Aurous is developed by Andrew Sampson and it uses more than 120 public APIs to collect tracks from such services as SoundCloud, YouTube, and Spotify....

Although eBooks eased logistical problems, they also caused new ones for some, due to the sheer number of choices one must now make – for instance, choosing an eReader, the format of the eBook, and even the apps to read eBooks. Fortunately, though, EPUB files are not only limited to be read on Readers, so you can enjoy them on any device, be it your computer or smartphone. Best EPUB Readers for Android and iOS EPUB (or electronic publication) is a popular eBook file format that is supported by a wide range of smartphones, tablets, computers, and eReaders....

Cat has literally packed the Flir’s standalone thermal camera in the S60 and the sensor will still offer the same functionalities as its standalone counterpart. Apart from producing a live thermal image, it also measures the surface temperature and has the ability to record both stills and video, albeit in VGA resolution. The thermal camera can be extensively used in rescue missions and the overall ruggedness of the phone is also expected to find appeal with a certain niche of buyers....

We’ve already lost count of how many new Chinese companies are entering the Indian market, but it’s no wonder, as the country is somewhat close to China and India is also the world’s third largest and the fastest growing smartphone market. And even if Coolpad doesn’t ring a bell, you should know that this company was once the biggest smartphone vendor in China, but it didn’t manage to keep up with the strong and mature competition coming from other companies....

Well, if you do want a slightly more zesty and lively look at your Facebook and Twitter accounts, we suggest you try out Biologic. It is currently available only for the iPad, but we hear that an Android avatar is in the works and so too is one for Windows 8. In keeping with its extremely botanic-zoological name, the app gets really cellular with your social networks. You of course start off by giving it permission to access your networks – at the moment of writing, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn were supported....

Whenever something threatens the voice revenue of AVoID (Airtel, Vodafone, Idea), they immediately have a knee-jerk reaction. I’ll list out some of the instances below. During the tenure of the telecom minister, Mr A.Raja, when several firms had got a telecom license in India at dirt cheap prices, one of their differentiating tactics was to charge on a per second basis, and this was a huge hit with customers. Following the Supreme Court ruling regarding a scam in following years, many of these operators had lost their licenses and were planning to exit India or scale down significantly....

It has been raining phone launches of late, and while most of the attention still is hogged by the design-processor-display-price quartet, a recent trend that I’ve observed in many of your events is a stress on the camera of your phones. From Samsung on the Galaxy S6 to Huawei on the Honor 6 Plus to Xiaomi on the Mi 4i (yes, yes, Hugo Barra DID talk about HDR mode), the camera suddenly has got increased importance as far as being a phone component goes....

If you are pondering over the privacy concerns that come with the new feature, fret not. Your Timeline is truly “Yours” as it is visible only to the user and he has a full control over what to keep and what to trash. The feature is currently made available on Android and desktops. One needs to enable the location history feature with Google, which beams the user with useful tidbits like traffic information and location of your parked car....

At Technology Personalized, we can confirm that some of the accounts were indeed real and we could authenticate to Dropbox servers with a couple of account details. Since then, Dropbox seems to be forcing the account holders to do a password change for around 1250 accounts already leaked by the hacker. Sadly, this isn’t the first time Dropbox has been hacked. The popular cloud storage service had previously introduced 2-factor authentication for improved security, and it appears not many users bothered to enable it....

In the movie ‘The Social Network‘, Erica Albright berates Mark Zuckerberg for making personal remarks about her on his blog and points out that the internet isn’t written with pencil, but ink. Well, technically that isn’t true either. But, yes we get the point – the lesson that we shouldn’t share things that might offend others. Today, the internet is thick with embarrassing stuff, as well as extra critical information like credit card and bank details....

“Internet of Things” is no longer just a buzzword companies add in their briefings to accentuate their launch. It has finally begun to impact the present rather than betting on the future. It has attained a momentum which has been growing exponentially and is being constantly stretched to products which weren’t even on the technological radar a few quarters ago. Despite what you might believe, the connected age is truly upon us, and we are closer than ever to a world where everything will be a tech product....

Let’s get the basics out. The Apple A12 comes with a 6-core CPU, with two performance and four efficiency cores. It is supposed to be 50% faster than the previous generation chip while being 40% more power efficient. Talking about the Neural Engine, the A12 now has 8-cores in comparison to the 2-cores on the previous generation A11 that can perform up to 5 trillion operations per second. It also has an added support for CoreML 2 which would result in performance improvements of up to 9 times while using just one-tenth of the power....

The problem lies in the fact that unlike PC-makers who pay a certain fee for Microsoft to install the latest Windows OS on their laptops, Google doesn’t charge any upfront fee for Android and at the first glance this seems to be one of the reasons Google doesn’t make any money out of Android. That being said, Google has been receiving a constant stream of traffic from the search bars cooked in to Android, but again that wouldn’t necessary move the needle when it comes to revenues....