At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple showcased some pathbreaking on-device health-related software innovations in its upcoming iOS 15. In essence, Apple is diving deeper into healthcare, providing consumers with more health insights. iOS 15 can identify, measure, and understand changes in a person’s health data. While doing so, Apple is allowing users to share …
Amazon has acquired MGM for USD 8.45Bn is one of its biggest since the Whole Foods acquisition for USD 14Bn in 2017. Amazon has been building-up its content library around its Prime service, a move that makes sense in the subscription economy. So, why is Amazon interested in MGM? How will the deal help Amazon …
During the annual Qualcomm 5G Summit, Qualcomm announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon X65 and X62 5G M.2 Reference Designs for accelerating 5G adoption beyond mobile, and across industry segments. Over the past pandemic year, socially isolated, everything-from-home has been the norm. Driven by work-from-home, learn-from-home and unwind-at-home, there has been a significant and unprecedented uptick in …
During the annual Qualcomm 5G Summit, Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 778G 5G Mobile Platform, aimed at delivering powerful camera and mobile gaming experiences more accessible. Snapdragon 778G is manufactured using advanced 6nm process technology, and allows incredible performance and power efficiency. The Qualcomm Kryo 670 generates up to 40% uplift in overall CPU performance …
As a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic swept across the globe, it heralded a period of accelerated transformational change everywhere. Amidst all the uncertainty and ambiguity, in an everything-from-home context with ever-increasing blurry lines between work, learn and unwind, audio has found its moment. It is not all about listening to music only. Across my tech savvy social …
Amidst the pandemic, and especially the everything-from-home year, smartphone gaming took off spectacularly in India. For consumers trying to deal with the prolonged social isolation alongwith all the anxiety and ambiguity of the last year, mobile gaming provided a creative outlet. From my vantage point, I know of loved ones and peers who took to …
After many years of pushing the envelope with its mobile innovation capabilities with very limited market success and six consecutive years of losses, LG Electronics has finally exited the smartphone business. In the early and mid-2000s, LG was one of the top three mobile brands, just behind Nokia and Samsung. The hyper-competitive nature of the smartphone …
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined Intel’s new vision and strategy to manufacture, design and deliver leadership products and create long-term value for stakeholders. “We are the only company with the depth and breadth of software, silicon and platforms, packaging and process with at-scale manufacturing our customers depend on for their next generation innovations.”- Pat Gelsinger, …
I have been on the Clubhouse App since late January, listening mostly to the daily, The Good Time Show, hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy. In particular, just like anyone out there, after much striving, I was able to dive-in into the record-breaking discussion involving Elon Musk and (the rather …
As we roll into a new decade, it is exciting to see new rollable smartphones that seek to redefine the rectangular slabs that we have had for far long now. Iterative innovations did bring some excitement to new smartphones over the past few years, including exciting innovations in display, camera, battery and storage, among others …