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Realme C25 to go on first sale today on Flipkart and its own platform

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The recently-launched Realme C25 will go on its first sale in India today at 12 pm on Flipkart and the company’s website. The highlights of Realme C25 include a 13 MP triple rear camera setup, a 6,000 mAh battery that supports 18 W fast charging and a MediaTek Helio G70 processor. Realme C20 and Realme C21 come with a MediaTek Helio G35 chipset and a 6.5-inch HD+ waterdrop notch display.

Realme C25 comes in two storage variants. The 4GB RAM + 64GB storage variant is priced at Rs 9,999 and the 4 GB RAM + 128 GB storage variant will cost you Rs 10,999. The smartphone comes in Watery Blue and Watery Grey colour variants. Buyers will get a discount of Rs 500 on ICICI Bank credit and debit cards.

Talking about specs, the all-new Realme C25 comes with a 6.5-inch HD+ waterdrop notch display. It is powered by MediaTek Helio G70 chipset and offers 4 GB RAM and up to 128 GB internal storage. It runs on Realme UI 2.0 based on Android 11.

In terms of optics, the smartphone houses a triple rear camera setup that houses a 13 MP primary sensor, a 2 MP monochrome sensor and a 2 MP macro sensor. It comes with an 8 MP selfie camera. Realme C25 will be equipped with a 6,000 mAh battery that supports 18 W fast charging.

Realme C25 was launched recently alongside Realme C21, Realme C20 which are already available on sale.

Advocacy group urges Facebook CEO to cancel plans to launch Instagram for kids

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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), an advocacy group, has reportedly urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to not create a version of photo-sharing app Instagram for children who are under 13, as it would put them at great risk.

According to news agency Reuters, the CCFC letter to the Facebook boss comes at a time when the social media major has been criticized for amplifying misinformation globally across its platforms, while also exposing children to inappropriate material.

CCFC said that Instagram exploits youngsters’ fear of missing out as they constantly check their devices seeking approval and uploading pictures. He said that the platform’s continuous focus on appearance and self presentation would be a challenge to adolescents’ privacy and wellbeing.

The letter said, “While collecting valuable family data and cultivating a new generation of Instagram users may be good for Facebook’s bottom line, it will likely increase the use of Instagram by young children who are particularly vulnerable to the platform’s manipulative and exploitative features.”

The advocacy group believes that child-targeted marketing, along with the excessive screen time it encourages, will damage kids’ healthy development, and is dedicated to ending marketing to children.

Oppo all set to launch A74 5G in India on April 20… and more

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Oppo all set to launch A74 5G in India on April 20

The Chinese smartphone maker, Oppo, is all set to launch its new A74 5G smartphone in India soon. According to a recent leak, a landing page for the smartphone has emerged on Amazon India. The listing confirms that it will be made official on April 20 at 12 PM. Speculations are that it could be a rebranded version of the Oppo A93 5G phone. The Amazon listing has confirmed that the upcoming smartphone has a pinch-hole display and a side-facing fingerprint scanner. The company is also expected to reveal more information about the device before the launch.

 

Hackers sell 827 million LinkedIn profiles at the price of $ 7,000

The social networking website, LinkedIn, recently made headlines when the personal information of 500 profiles was put up on sale on a hacker forum. Now, as per reports, the hacker had put a price of around $2 to view the leaked sample of two million profiles and $ 7,000 for 827 million LinkedIn user profiles. The report also claims that the hacker’s list is likely to contain outdated or duplicate material. The data has been packaged into seven groups, and the material is not being sold separately but in the form of these groups. The company hasn’t responded to any of it.

 

Apple may ditch the iPhone Mini with the 2022 lineup

The iPhone maker, Apple, is now eyeing the 2022 lineup. According to a report by a very known analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo has revealed that the company might ditch the iPhone Mini next year and go ahead with just the 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screen sizes. Apple introduced the iPhone Mini with the iPhone 12 series last year and it comes with a 5.4-inch display. As per the report, the reason behind this move could be because the device did not get the expected response from the market.

 

Facebook is testing a video speed-dating app called ‘Sparked’

The social media giant, Facebook, is reportedly testing a new dating app called ‘Sparked’. This is different from Facebook Dating, as it’s a video speed-dating app. It still requires a Facebook account though. As per reports, the dating app is developed by Facebook’s experimental app team, NPE. Facebook Sparked has a dedicated site where users can sign up for the dating platform. But the site is currently inaccessible in India. This one is very different from other dating apps as it doesn’t offer public profiles, swiping, and even DMs. The app is basically a video chatting platform but for speed dating that lasts for four minutes. Facebook also lets people extend the speed dating to 10 minutes.

 

Google’s Android 12 leaks show tons of new features

Tech giant, Google, just last month rolled out the second developer’s preview of its upcoming mobile operating system, Android 12. The company is expected to drop Android 12 DP3 anytime now. Ahead of the rollout, some reports have surfaced on the internet revealing features including, updated App Pairs, the ‘split screen’ button changed to ‘pin to top’. The company is also making changes to the Google Assistant button. Google is planning to add a new way to launch Google Assistant that includes holding the power button for a few seconds. Android 12 is expected to launch this year.

boAt launches ‘Xplorer’ smartwatch with built-in GPS, heart rate monitor, customisable watch faces

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Lifestyle consumer tech brand boAt has come up with yet another smartwatch called Xplorer in India. The boAt Xplorer helps upscale your active lifestyle with a built-in GPS and a   daily activity tracker paired with a 24×7 Heart Rate tracker. The Xplorer is built to keep you fit and healthy throughout the day while ensuring a classy look to match your daily outfit.

“Smartwatches are a key focus for us this year and we are happy to announce Xplorer as the latest addition to our ever-growing lineup. As we expand our smartwatch portfolio, our young consumers now have different boAt smartwatches to choose from. Beyond supporting multiple form factors, the smartwatches have a focus on fitness, style and personalization,” said Aman Gupta, Co-founder, boAt.

The boAt Xplorer features built-in GPS technology that helps you track your routes and distances while running, walking or cycling. Its built-in smart activity tracker records daily calorie burns as well as the steps and distance covered. The boAt Xplorer boasts 8 Active Sports Modes which include Outdoor Run, Indoor Run, Outdoor Walk, Outdoor Cycle, Indoor Cycle, Pool Swim, Open Water Swim and Fitness. Lastly, no more living on the vagaries of nature! With boAt Xplorer’s built-in live weather forecasts, you can get real-time weather updates and weather forecast for the next 3 days ahead so you can prepare for those outdoor runs, or hikes into nature, well in advance. 

With a 24×7 heart rate monitor, the boAt Xplorer is specially made for those who perform high-intensity workouts and require precise health and fitness monitoring. Breathe mode guides you to mindfulness with breath awareness and helps lower your heart rate and decrease stress levels. The Xplorer also helps track Menstrual Cycles with an accurate prediction of dates, ovulation patterns and more – a great feature for all our women consumers.

With an emphasis on comfortable yet trendy-looking and sweat-resistant, switchable silicone straps, you can now flaunt a new look every day. In addition to the customizable straps, the watch also features Personalized Cloud Watch Faces.

The boAt Xplorer not only streamlines your fitness and health tracking but also helps you get the most of your smartphone. Music Playback Controls, Notifications Alerts and Curated Controls such as Find My Phone, alarms, timers are all available on your wrist. Each Xplorer is rigorously tested for reliability before leaving the factory for its 5 ATM Water-Resistant casing so you can use it worry-free. The Xplorer is sweat, water and dust resistant, making it an excellent fitness partner, both indoors and outdoors.

The boAt Xplorer will be available at an introductory price of Rs 2,999 with a 1-year standard Industry warranty period.

Beetel appoints R. Ashwin as brand ambassador

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Beetel Landline and its smart accessory brand Flix today announced the appointment of ace cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin as its brand ambassador for its wide range of products across categories. Ashwin will endorse the company’s products and services through advertising campaigns and several other promotional programmes.

“We are really excited about joining hands with the very diversified bowler and cricket champion R. Ashwin. He is a legend in the field of cricket and is well known among the millennials for his vigor, mettle and conviction which complements our brand’s core values too. Just like our brands, Ashwin too has achieved several milestones and marked his presence, in a short span of time, we see this partnership being tremendously successful- #ItsaMATCH,” said Puneet Gupta of Flix.

R. Ashwin said, “I am thrilled to join the Beetel and Flix team. Personally, I have always been passionate about gadgets and emerging new tech trends. In sync with my interests and brands passion for technology, this collaboration will go a long way.”

Bumble adds new feature to empower its community to showcase their dating choices

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Bumble, the women-first dating and social networking app, has launched a robust suite of new Interest Badges to help people share details of their personalities in a fun and easy way.

Bumble’s community can now select up to five badges from over 150 interests that range across various categories including sports, creative hobbies, preferred choice of activities while choosing to stay in or going out, favourite movies, television shows, music to books. Bumble’s community can also choose to showcase their values and traits along with expressing their choice of allyship and support for various social causes.

Research indicates that the Bumble community, especially women, are ready to make more empowered dating choices centered on their needs after taking the past year to reflect on what they are looking for in a partner. This renewed clarity is an unexpected silver lining for those that are looking for love during this time. This feature will give the Bumble community the opportunity to be more intentional about their dating choices and make meaningful connections with a shared understanding of life values right from the beginning.

Priti Joshi, VP of Global Strategy & Operations at Bumble said, “As a platform that’s rooted in kindness, equality, and inclusivity, we encourage our community to be their most authentic self when making connections on Bumble. People can now add new Badges to their profiles that show off their personality and allow potential matches to get to know them better. From Sufi music, Bollywood to Biryani– the Bumble community in India can also choose localised Interest Badges. As single Indians navigate this new world of dating, we hope that the expanded selection of Badges helps people start more meaningful conversations and forge deeper connections.”

The launch of the new Interest Badges is another way in which Bumble continues to offer single Indians a fun way to connect with ease and confidence.

To opt-in to adding Interest Badges to your Bumble Date profile, go to ‘Edit profile’, click on ‘Tap to edit profile’ under your photograph, find the new ‘My interests’ section and select from more than 150 interests to add to your profile.

Truecaller brings in enterprise solutions for businesses

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Telephone search engine and caller ID service Truecaller has introduced brand identity solutions as its premier enterprise offering that allows businesses to verify their identity which increases consumer safety by preventing fraud and scam calls. Businesses can drive efficiency in their communications while improving call-pickup rates for genuine and important calls, said Truecaller in a statement.

With frauds and scams using spoofed identities on the rise across the world, there is a dire need to bring in more trust in communications. Apart from the green Caller ID and green Verified Business badge, a verified business on Truecaller gets a verified tick mark icon and can lock their brand name and profile photo. This lets consumers know exactly which calls to trust. Importantly, consumers will continue to see the number of spam markings as usual and they retain the right to mark verified numbers as spam or block them completely. “To reiterate, our spam algorithms continue to work in the same way and the Truecaller global community of over 270 million active users will be able to mark calls that are potentially spam/scam/sales calls, even if they have a verified badge and Caller ID,” it said.

Truecaller Enterprise Highlights:

  • Truecaller will help businesses in bringing more trust and efficiency in their communication with the users
  • Green Caller ID, green verified badge, accurate name & logo and the verified tick mark has been proven to deliver significantly better call-pick-up rates in beta trials
  • This feature will be available by default to over 270 million Truecaller users globally – on both Android as well as iOS devices

Apart from adding trust and reducing the possibility of fraud, a Verified Business badge can be a big boon for startups and businesses who are brand conscious and want to accurately present the name of their entity, logo and make them tamper proof. Over 150 businesses signed up for the program during the early access phase and have found the service to provide significant improvement in the efficiency of the calls they make to their users. “Truecaller is ready to scale the offering to a significant number of businesses globally ensuring that the ever growing community of users can trust more calls coming from these businesses making communication safer for everyone,” it stated.

Sony Joy, VP and Head of Truecaller Enterprise, said, “Truecaller Enterprise has been set up with the strong intent of building solutions for businesses that will not just improve the efficiency of their communication but also provide significant value and safety to consumers in their day-to-day lives. Our robust verification process helps consumers identify calls that can be 100% trusted to be initiated by a particular business. Over a period of time, this can result in drastic reduction of frauds and scams that happen over phone calls.”

“With Truecaller Business Identity, our delivery partners have seen a 11% improvement in phone calls getting picked up by our customers during order fulfillment, thus helping optimize our process and saving time during each delivery,” said Brijesh Bharadwaj, Director of Product at Dunzo – India’s leading delivery app (Dunzo is an early access partner for Truecaller Enterprise).

VingaJoy true wireless Jazz Buds 2.0 launched in India at Rs 1,999

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Homegrown gadget accessory and consumer electronics brand VingaJoy has expanded its TWS earbuds category with the launch of BT-210 Jazz Buds 2.0. Priced at Rs 1,999, the newly-launched TWS earbuds offer features such as TruBass technology and a 360-degree surround sound support complimented with soft silicone earbud.

The VingaJoy BT-210 Jazz is said to be lightweight and offers hand-free talk while doing sports or driving. It comes along with the digital battery display. It also has an independent CPU which helps in delivering crystal clear sound and deep bass.

The all-new VingaJoy true wireless earbuds provide a playtime of up to 15 hours in a single charge. It offers Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity and has physical buttons on each earbud.

Lalit Arora, Co-Founder, VingaJoy, said, “The VingaJoy Jazz Buds TWS earbuds are designed keeping the present working conditions in mind where the customer seeks uninterrupted audio delivery along with premium styling, all at a very affordable price range. These TWS earbuds are ergonomically designed for an all-day comfort using ultra-soft sweat-resistant silicone tips that can also be used outdoors when commuting or even during workouts.”

Available with a 6 months warranty, the VingaJoy BT-210 Jazz Buds 2.0 wireless earbuds are available in classic white colour at offline retail stores.

COVID-19 Vaccination: Tower body calls for giving priority to field staff

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The Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has requested the National Health Authority (NHA) to include telecom infrastructure personnel under ‘frontline worker’ status for administering the COVID-19 vaccine on priority.

The development comes at a time when the entire nation is battling the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, which is relatively severe than the first wave of infection and has prompted states to impose strict curbs, including partial and full lockdowns to control the spread.

In a letter to R.S. Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority, T.R. Dua, Director-General, TAIPA, said, “The frontline workers in the telecom infrastructure industry, consisting of direct and indirect employees have ensured continuity of routine activities – power, diesel filling and attended to routine maintenance/ emergency faults – risking their own lives. They have been working in the toughest of times across all types of zones including the COVID-19 hotspots and therefore need to be considered for vaccination on priority.”

The apex telecom tower body, which represents companies like Indus Towers, ATC, Sterlite Technologies, among others, highlighted telecom infrastructure providers are maintaining services on a regular basis despite the serious risks posed to them and their families. “It is essential that they are given priority irrespective of their age group, for administering the COVID-19 prevention vaccine in all the states.”

Highlighting the role of telecom infrastructure workers, Dua said, “The telecom infrastructure provider industry has huge manpower consisting of frontline workers (technicians and field engineers) who have been working tirelessly during lockdowns to maintain the 24×7 telecom services to enable uninterrupted Work-From-Home, online education, e-health, and various Governmental services to the citizens across the country.”

Airtel comes up with new corporate structure to sharpen focus on digital

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Telecom major Airtel has introduced a new corporate structure, which is expected to sharpen the focus of the company in driving the rapidly unfolding digital opportunity in India while enabling it to unlock value.

The new structure envisages Airtel Digital Limited folding into the listed entity, Bharti Airtel. This will now house all of the digital assets spanning Wynk Music, Airtel X stream, Airtel Thanks, Mitra Payments platform used by a million retailers, Airtel Ads, Airtel IQ, Airtel Secure, Airtel Cloud and all future digital products and services.

The digital ambition of Bharti Airtel is closely intertwined with the spine that connectivity provides across the country. It is therefore intended to house all the telecom businesses in a newly-created entity, Airtel Limited – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel.

Bharti Telemedia, the 100% arm operating DTH services will sit alongside Airtel Limited for now. It is intended to eventually fold the DTH business into Airtel Limited to move towards the NDCP vision of converged services to customers. The company has moved the government to seek clarity on licensing policy given that carriage i.e. telecom and DTH is currently being regulated and managed under two separate ministries of Communications and I&B respectively.

Airtel Payments Bank will remain a separate entity under Bharti Airtel and work closely with the growing customer base to play a pivotal role in realising the digital opportunity that payments and financial services provide.

All of the company’s infrastructure businesses such as Nxtra and Indus Towers will continue to remain in separate entities as they are currently. So will international subsidiaries and affiliates.

The Board in its meeting held yesterday approved the scheme enabling the company to file for all statutory approvals to give effect to the proposed rearrangement.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said, “The new structure sets the exciting future course for Bharti Airtel and provides focus on the four distinct businesses – Digital, India, International and Infrastructure, each, in a razor sharp way. We believe this will provide agility, expertise and operational rigour to serve our customers brilliantly while providing flexibility to unlock value for our shareholders. This structure will serve us well over the coming years and is a win-win for all stakeholders.”

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