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#MODI IN US Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the last leg of his visit to the US. Over the past couple of days, Modi has managed to speak to a host of Fortune 500 CEOs. Among the prominent announcements from Modi’s Silicon Valley visit are: Google announces plans to offer free Wi-Fi at 500 stations According to a recent report released by the United Nations Broadband Commission titled, ‘The State of Broadband’ report prior to the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development said that India  slipped in global rankings on broadband penetration . While many may argue that it is the Government’s responsibility to provide an effective and affordable access to broadband internet, the fact remains that India is now behind countries such as Syria and Sudan in terms of internet penetration. During PM Modi’s visit to the Google campus during the Code for India hackathon 2015, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google would be partnering with Indian Railway...

If  you’re looking for a course in coding apps, Google and Tata Trusts may have the answer for you. The two names have come together to launch an Android Nanodegree in partnership with Udaycity. The course aims at letting developers work on their skills from anywhere in the country on a phone, laptop or tablet. Google and Tata Trusts will also offer a 1,000 scholarships for students as part of the programme.  Rajan Anandan, VP & Managing Director of Google South East Asia and India said at the launch event of the initiative, “With the launch of this program we want to bridge the gap by providing India’s developer community an easy access to learn and build high quality apps for the world. Today, only 2% of apps built in India feature in the top 1000 apps globally and our goal is to raise this to 10% in next three years. We’re pleased to announce, that Google along with Tata Trusts will offer 500 free scholarships each to developers for Android Developer Nano...

We’ve been giving out rumours and hints about Google’s dual Nexus smartphones that will be unveiled on the 29th of September. We also know that one will be by LG and the other by Huawei. Now, we have reports by Droid Life  who confirm that the LG device will be called the Nexus 5X while the Huawei will be Nexus 6P . The LG device is rumoured to have a 5.2-inch display while the Huawei device will sport a 5.7 inch screen. Other features include a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core chipset, with 3 GB of RAM for the Huawei Nexus 6P, while the LG device will feature a Snapdragon 808 hexa-core processor with 3 GB of RAM. Google will also release the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow and a 2nd Gen Chromecast. Whether or not the new Nexus names will stick till the end of the month is anyone’s guess. Follow this space for more updates on the Google event .

Android M Three days ago, Google announced the sweet its Android OS was named after; Marshmallow. Now that it’s out in the open, let’s take a look at 5 noteworthy features it has: 1. App Permissions : You’re the Boss This feature has gotten a makeover and Google will now allow users to take a call on which permissions they want to allow or revoke, based on the usage of these functions. Unlike right now, where you don’t have a choice but to agree to all app permissions on first install or updates, in Android M, you will get a notification asking you to allow an app to use a specific function. Google helps to give permission in parameters like, location, camera, contacts etc. So if you’re using WhatsApp and you want to send a voice message, the App Permissions tab will pop up, asking you for permission to use the microphone. You can also revoke the permission later if you so wish. This is exactly the way Apple handles it on iOS. 2. Better Web Exper...

IOS 9 is finally out, and those of you who haven’t updated your iPhones and iPads yet can do so while we tell you some of the neat new features of the latest operating system.    1. New Icons Whenever we do an update it’s obvious our eyes are going to search for something new from the get go. While the iOS 9 is mostly the same as the iOS 8 in terms of the look of it, users will find three brand new icons in their home screen (Well, two actually and one revamped). The two new default apps are called  Find iPhone  and  Find Friends . Both these apps were already available for download in the App Store. Find Friends/iPhone is pretty useful if you want to know if a friend is nearby for a cup of coffee, or if you’ve suffered a mini heart-attack from losing your iPhone. The  Passbook  has been renamed as  Wallet , which is a cleaner name and suits that fact that the app can now store all your credit cards, reward cards and membership card...

While it's highly unlikely that anything will go wrong in the course of an upgrade, we'd still recommend being safe - a new install is a good excuse for a backup! If you're heading for a clean install or an upgrade, you'll want to make sure you don't lose anything valuable in the process. Safe data is data stored in three distinct places - its original location, and two geographically distinct copies. This means an additional partition isn't really going to cut it, given that it's the exact same physical location as the original data; you need to use a high-capacity external drive, and some kind of online cloud storage. Most free services - Dropbox, Google Drive and the like - only offer a limited amount of space, so only place your most critical files online if you're not willing to pay. Services such as Carbonite or CrashPlan, which generally charge a monthly subscription fee, offer a much more extensive range of backup options, and will general...

Hate a post or a page, soon you will get a ‘Dislike’ button on Facebook Facebook has finally confirmed that it is working on a ‘Dislike’ button after years of requests from its users. The company’s co-founder and chief, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the ongoing tests during a live Q&A session held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California on Tuesday. “People have asked about the ‘dislike’ button for many years, and probably hundreds of people have asked about this, and today is a special day because today is the day that I actually get to say we are working on it, and are very close to shipping a test of it,” he said. Zuckerberg acknowledged for long users have been able to ‘Like’ something on Facebook with the click of a button. However, that does not work for some content so well. “Not every moment is a good moment,” he said. “If you share something that’s sad, like a refugee crisis that touches you or a family member passes away _ it may not be comfortab...

The  new  CEO of GOOGLE Google has a new CEO and his name is  Sundar Pichai . In  a shock reorganisation of the business , Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will run a new holding company called Alphabet and Pichai will step up to run Google in their place. But who is Pichai, and what are his qualifications to take the helm? Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai, India in 1972 and as a schoolboy he was a keen cricketer. He is married with a daughter and a son, and is reportedly a chess enthusiast. He earned his bachelor of engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, before going on to earn a MSc from Stanford and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. His background in metallurgy, engineering and business management saw him take up roles at McKinsey & Company before joining Google in 2004. Since then, he has risen fast through the company, leading the development on both Chrome and Chrome OS, and helped pionee...