Apple to open new campus in Austin with $1 billion investment

Apple has announced that it will set up a new campus in Austin with an investment of $1 billion. The company also announced plans to establish new sites in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City and expand in cities across the United States including Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years. Apple added 6,000 jobs to its American workforce in 2018 and now employs 90,000 people in all 50 states. As announced in January, the company is on track to create 20,000 jobs in the US by 2023. Apple’s newest Austin campus will be located less than a mile from its existing facilities. The 133-acre campus will initially accommodate 5,000 additional employees, with the capacity to grow to 15,000, and is expected to make Apple the largest private employer in Austin. Jobs created at the new campus will include a broad range of functions including engineering, R&D, operations, finance, sales, and customer support. The new campus will include 50 acres of preserved open space and, like all Apple facilities worldwide, its workspaces will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy. Apple plans to invest $10 billion in US data centers over the next five years, including $4.5 billion this year ...

Vivo to setup second manufacturing facility in Uttar Pradesh with Rs. 4000 crore investment

Vivo has announced to launch their second manufacturing facility in India. The company has acquired additional 169-acre of land in the Yamuna Expressway region in Uttar Pradesh with an estimated investment of Rs. 4000 crore. Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Adityanath welcomed the initiative and congratulated Vivo for the upcoming facility. The new land has been acquired near the existing 50-acre manufacturing facility. This will help Vivo expand its manufacturing capabilities and support Vivo’s continued growth in India. All Vivo smartphones sold in the country are manufactured at the Greater Noida facility. The existing manufacturing set-up which was set up with an investment of Rs. 300 crore already functions at a capacity of 2 million units per month with more than 5,000 workforces. Vivo said that it will also contribute significantly to the socio-economic growth of the manufacturing ecosystem in India by creating additional jobs, wage growth, and skill development. iI hopes to generate 5000 additional employment in the first phase of expansion. During this phase, Vivo also plans to double the current production capacity to 50 million units per annum. Nipun Marya, Director-Brand Strategy, Vivo India said:  Vivo entered India in 2014 with a commitment to bring product innovation, focus and value ...

Mobiistar C1 Shine with 5.34-inch 18:9 display, Face Unlock launched in India for Rs. 6100

Mobiistar has launched C1, the company's latest smartphone in the 'C series' in India. It has a 5.34-inch FWVGA+ display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6739 processor with 2GB of RAM, runs Android 8.1 (Oreo), has a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 8-megapixel front camera, both with LED flash. It doesn't have a fingerprint sensor, but comes with face unlock. Mobiistar C1 Shine specifications 5.34-inch (480 x 960 pixels) FWVGA+ 18:9 display 1.28GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6739 64-bit processor with PowerVR Rogue GE8100 GPU 2GB RAM, 16GB internal storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD Android 8.1 (Oreo) Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD) 13MP rear camera with LED flash 8MP front camera with LED flash Dimensions: 146.17x70.46x8.75 mm; Weight: 166g 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS 3000mAh battery The Mobiistar C1 Shine comes in blue, gold and space grey colors, is priced at Rs. 6100 and will be available through over 500 distributors across the country from December 15th. The company said that it has set up 1000 service centres to provide best in class after sales services to its customers.

Google’s new shopping experience with personalised filters, multiple retailers launched for India

Google has unveiled a new and immersive shopping search experience catered for Indian users. The new personalized experience will allow users to easily filter through offers, review prices from multiple retailers and find the products they are looking for. This experience is available across several Google products; a made-to-browse experience on the Shopping home page, the Shopping tab on Google Search and in Google Lens. For retailers, Google has expanded the Merchant Center to Hindi. The new ‘Shopping Homepage’ is a made-to-browse destination for shoppers to search across multiple product categories, and browse products from thousands of retailers. To make the shopping experience richer, it comes with smart features like price drops and a collection of the most popular products on Google have been added. The experience will also be available as a Progressive Web App (PWA) for users with entry-level phones. The ‘Shopping Tab’ in Google Search will allow users to post queries in Hindi and English and show product lists, local store inventory and review prices from across multiple retailers. Lastly, Style Search in Google Lens is an all-new visual approach to find products such as clothes, furniture, and home decor, by simply pointing the Lens app. Retailers can now also use Merchant Center to upload product details so they can appear across Google, without paying for ad campaigns. Talking about ...

YI Action Camera and YI 4K Action Camera launching in India on Dec 17 on Flipkart starting from Rs. 4999

YI action cameras were unofficially sold on Amazon last year. Today the company announced that it will officially launch the YI Action Camera and YI 4K Action Camera in India exclusively on Flipkart starting on December 17th. YI action camera specifications 16MP Sony IMX206 sensor, 1/2.3″ sensor, f/2.8 aperture, 155-degree wide viewing angle 1080p recording at 60fps and 720p recording at 120 fps Ambarella A9SE SoC with H.264 codec Built-in microphone and audio, Dual-channel, 96KHz sampling, 92dBA SNR Ambarella A7LS SoC with H.264 codec MicroSD slot WiFi 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (2.4GHz + 5GHz) and Bluetooth 4.0 95 min (1080P / 60 FPS) battery life YI 4K action camera specifications 12MP Sony IMX377 sensor, 1/2.3″ sensor, 7P lens, f/2.8 aperture, 155-degree wide viewing angle 4K video recording at 30fps, 1080p recording at 120fps and 720p recording at 240 fps 2.19-inch 330PPI 16:9 display with 160-degree wide-viewing angle, Corning Gorilla Glass protection Ambarella A9SE SoC with H.264 codec Micro SD slot BCM4330 for 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (2.4GHz + 5GHz) and Bluetooth 4.0 Dual microphones, 6-axis gyroscope for EIS 1400mAh battery for up to 2 hours of recording The YI Action Camera and YI 4K Action Camera are priced at Rs. 4999 and Rs. 9999, respectively. Even though the YI 4K Action Camera is listed ...

Micromax teases launch of a smartphone with a notch on December 18

It has been a year since Micromax launched its mid-range  Canvas Infinity Pro smartphone. In the past few months the company has been launching budget smartphone and Android Oreo Go Edition smartphones. Today the company has sent out invites for the launch of its first smartphone with a notch. The invite just shows a notch without reavealing any other details about the smartphone. We are excited, the countdown has begun. #AboveTheRest pic.twitter.com/Egtv7oeeUM — Micromax India (@Micromax_Mobile) December 12, 2018 On social media teasers, the company mentions #AboveTheRest and also asks Does the Powerful excite you? These teasers hint at a new Canvas series smartphone. We should know more details in the coming days.

Intel unveils 10nm Sunny Cove CPU and next generation roadmap

Intel at the Architecture Days 2018, has revealed the CPU core roadmaps through 2021 which includes the next generation of integrated graphics, the future of Intel’s graphics business, new chips built on 3D packaging technologies, and even parts of the microarchitecture for the 2019 consumer processors. For the high-performance Core architecture, Intel has three new codenames over the next three years. These are the code names for the individual core microarchitecture, not the chip. Sunny Cove is built on 10nm and will come to market in 2019 and offer increased single-threaded performance, new instructions, and ‘improved scalability’. Next up, the Sunny Cove will have AVX-512. These cores, when paired with Gen11 graphics, will be called Ice Lake. Willow Cove looks to be a design for 2020, most likely also on 10nm. Intel lists the highlights here as a cache redesign, new transistor optimizations, and additional security features, likely referring to further enhancements from new classes of side-channel attacks. Golden Cove; the round of trio will firmly come in 2021 and we’re likely to see it on 10nm and or 7nm. Golden Cove is where Intel adds another slice of the serious pie onto its plate, with an increase in single threaded performance, a focus on ...

Xiaomi Redmi 6A back to original price in India, starts at Rs. 5999

Xiaomi launched the Redmi 6A, successor of last year’s Redmi 5A in India back in September starting at Rs. 5999. However, at the launch the company said that the pricing is complimentary and it will increase in a couple of months. It also increased the price of 16GB version by Rs. 600 and Rs. 500 for the 32GB version last month. Now the company has cut the price of the phone back at launch prices of Rs. 5999 and Rs. 6999.  You can get the phone on Amazon.in, Mi.com and offline stores. Last month Xiaomi Mi A2, Redmi Note 5 Pro and Redmi Y2 smartphones got a price cut in India to celebrate Xiaomi being is the top Smartphone Brand for 5 quarters in a row, as per the latest IDC report. The company said that Xiaomi India has an amazing 42% share of dual camera phones. Last month it hiked the rates of  Redmi 6, 10000mAh Mi Powerbank 2i and Mi TV (32″ Pro & 49″ Pro), however it didn't say if these will get a price cut to original rates.

Apple said to be designing its own cellular modems for future iPhones

Apple is actively building its own cellular modem chip for future iPhones, according to reports. Apple said to have put engineers to work on the project close to its headquarters in Northern California. For several months, Apple has also been actively hiring engineers in San Diego. Since the wireless modems are complex, it could take Apple at least three years to ship iPhones with their own modems. Apple is already rumored to debut its first 5G-enabled iPhone in 2020, with an Intel modem, so the first iPhone with an Apple-designed modem could launch in 2021. This move will also help Apple to shift towards the in-house chip. The shift wouldn't be all that surprising, as Apple is currently in a legal battle with its former modem supplier Qualcomm over chip-related licensing fees. Intel will be the exclusive supplier of modems in the latest iPhones. For now, though, there's no timeline as to when these modems would make it to the market, but we will update you when we hear anything. Source

ADATA UE700 Pro USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 256GB storage, 360Mbps transfer speed announced

ADATA has launched the UE700 Pro USB flash drives that come in compact designs, high capacity and high performance. The UE700 Pro drives come in a metallic chassis and USB 3.0 Type-A in various storage options including 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB configurations. The 256 GB model features read and write speeds of respectively up to 360 MB/s and 180 MB/s, making it one amongst the fastest USB 3.0 flash drives ever released. However, ADATA didn't reveal which controller or flash memory it uses for its UE700 Pro. But it is logical to bet on the 3D NAND with a relatively high I/O speed. The UE700 Pro drives come in a brushed aluminum that is 7 mm thick, 63 mm long, and weighs 11 grams. The USB Type-A connector of the drive can be slid in and out to protect it while carrying. Though the company officially announced the drive, and it listed it on the website, but no exact date for launch is revealed yet. So, we expect it to hit various markets in the coming weeks. The company has not announced pricing yet.