Bengaluru: Panasonic India today said it is expecting “tremendous” growth in the consumer businesses, on good monsoon this year and 7th Pay Commission giving boost to consumer confidence for spending. “While we look forward, there is a tremendous growth which we are targeting from consumer businesses, we are?targeting about 20 per cent compared to last year,” Panasonic?India President and CEO Read More

Tokyo: Japan`s Transport Ministry on Friday said that a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone belonging to a foreign passenger was found emitting smoke at Kansai International Airportearlier this week. However, there were no damages or injuries, the ministry confirmed. The smartphone started to emit smoke on Tuesday, shortly after its owner tried to detach the battery at a security check point Read More

Helsinki: Nokia has cut the price of its OZO virtual reality camera by 25 percent from its initial launch price, the Finnish company said on Thursday. Nokia, whose main business is now telecoms network equipment, started selling the camera earlier this year as the first device to be produced for its digital media business, one of its new hopes for Read More

Stockholm: Swedish communication technology and services giant Ericsson announed on Wednesday it would launch the worlds first commercial 5G New Radio (NR) incorporating multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technology and multi-user MIMO, with the first deployments coming in 2017. Together with the Ericsson 5G Plug-Ins announced in June this year and its commercially available Radio System Baseband 5216 — which currently Read More

New Delhi: Keeping pace with content demands across new and traditional platforms, Adobe on Wednesday unveiled a series of innovations, including virtual reality (VR) and motion graphics which are coming soon in Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud. Adobe will showcase advancements in virtual reality (VR), 3D, motion graphics and character animation supported by tools to deliver, measure and Read More

New Delhi:The wearable devices market in India grew 41.9 per cent in the second quarter over the first quarter of this year, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported on Tuesday. According to IDC`s “Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker” report, the total shipment in the second quarter stood at over 567,000 units of which the basic wearables, defined as those which cannot Read More

Production of the Maruti Suzuki Ritz is expected to stop soon. Sales of the B-segment hatchback had been steadily dropping over the last few months and the final straw came last month when the sales dropped from 2515 units to just 5 units. However, the automaker is still listing the car on its official website and has priced it in Read More

Our spy photographers have stumbled upon the 2017 BMW X3 on test in Germany. The spy shots include image of the standard car as well as the high performance M variant also.  It will be showcased sometime next year and subsequently go into production a few months later. The first look itself tells us that the X3 will be larger Read More

Renault Kwid’s success story is not new in the country. Supporting claims with figures, the automaker has reportedly sold over one lakh Kwid units in the country in just about 14 months of presence in the country. A while ago, Renault officials spoke about their expectation to comfortably reach the one lakh sales figure mark before the end of 2016. Read More

Porsche unveiled the facelifted ‘718’ Boxster with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine at the Geneva Motor Show this year in both a base and ‘S’ variant. However, going by the latest spy shots, it sure looks like Porsche has got the ‘GTS’ in the works too. While the more performance oriented 718 Boxster ‘GTS’ could show up in the international arena Read More