The Echo Show features a fabric design on the rear with a 10-inch HD display on the front, which is big enough to showcase your favorite audio or video content. It has a dual, side-firing 2” Neodymium drivers, passive bass radiator, and Dolby processing to deliver a powerful, yet clear audio experience for all your music. The device comes with eight-microphone array and ‘far-field’ technology to differentiate user voice from ambient sound....

The build Google is reportedly rolling out today will showcase some groundbreaking additions including a split-screen mode, redesigned notification panel, some major refinements to Marshmallow’s Doze feature which hibernates applications in the background to preserve power, a “picture in picture” mode and more UI tunings. Moving from their tradition of announcing new Android versions at I/O, Google will gradually release preview builds for their beta testers and if the source is scrupulous, first OTA will be available today....

On the surface, though, Android Oreo isn’t the most exciting update Google has introduced, but if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find it loaded to the very brim with a plethora of under-the-hood enhancements. Upgrades that, apart from sounding attractive on Google’s presentation slides, prove to be effective. I have been using the new update on a Pixel for quite awhile now and here is what I learned....

The company celebrated the tenth anniversary of Android with the newest Android Q. It also said that, currently, Android is running on more than 2.5B active Android devices, which is yet another milestone. With Android Q Beta 3, Google is opening doors to 15 partner devices from 12 OEMs (twice as many devices as last year) with the help of Project Treble. The device manufacturers who made it to the partner list include Huawei, Xiaomi, Nokia, Sony, Vivo, OPPO, OnePlus, ASUS, LGE, TECNO, Essential, and Realme....

Speaking about the earnings, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “We are thrilled to report Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, fueled by strong demand for our iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models, and all-time records for Services and Wearables. During the holiday quarter, our active installed base of devices grew in each of our geographic segments and has now reached over 1.5 billion. We see this as a powerful testament to the satisfaction, engagement and loyalty of our customers — and a great driver of our growth across the board....

Both new iPads feature the rumored Touch ID fingerprint sensor and they look nearly identical to their predecessors. The iPad Air 2 is getting a burst photography mode, which is a new neat feature available for the first time on the iPad and previously released with the iPhone 5s. The new tablets are getting the latest iOS 8.1 upgrade along with the Apple Pay payments system. At the event, Tim Cook also announced that total iPad sales have reached 225 million units and that there are 675, 000 apps specifically optimized for the tablet....

India joins a handful list of countries where Apple Homepod is being sold. That includes the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. Homepod was initially launched in January 2018 for $349 in the US and then the price was slashed to $299 in April 2019. The $279 pricing for Homepod in India makes it the cheapest in the world, and possibly hinting at further reduction of prices in the US and other markets or an upgrade launching soon in 2020....

Solid, basic, no-frills appearance While it may seem like everyone is chasing the notch nowadays, the Zenfone Max Pro M1 has largely stuck to basics. It largely follows a tried and tested design language: 18:9 display, metal back with round fingerprint scanner and dual cameras in a capsule-shaped unit. Sounds familiar? It should. The smartphone comes with a tall 5.99-inch full HD+, 18:9 aspect ratio display with a screen resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels topped with 2....

The Zenfone Zoom was actually announced last year and it boasts about its imaging capabilities including the fact that it is the thinnest phone with 3x optical zoom. In fact the phone had been put up on sale only last month in Taiwan and although it was initially announced that the Zoom will make to the US markets first now it seems otherwise. The Zenfone Zoom comes with “most advanced photography focused smartphone” tag and it claims to incorporate most of the features that a full-fledged DSLR camera would have....

The Automatic Pro just doesn’t stop at tracking your car and it does offer a bunch of other intuitive features which will eventually help you monitor your automobile in a better way. Also, the device comes laced with IFTTT support which means that the app will tell you why your check engine light is on or if any of your engine sensors have gone kaput. Furthermore, you can just send a text to someone when you leave or maybe automatically open the garage door as you arrive at the driveway....

Amidst the non-stop growth of the Android ecosystem and the eternal “premium” feel of iOS devices, RIM hopes to manage to bring back customers that are flocking away. With the launch of the 7 version of BlackBerry Messenger, the Canadian company has added a very appealing feature – free Wi-Fi voice calls with other BlackBerry users. Free Wi-Fi calls with BBM7 And, at first, you’d think that not too many will be convinced by this feature, since you won’t be able to call your grandmother who’s 1000 km away, right, and probably doesn’t have a Wi-Fi connection?...

Apple CarPlay works on select car models and is available on a few built-in iPhone apps, such as Music, Maps, etc. Additionally, several third-party apps are also compatible with CarPlay. Using these apps, you can listen to music/podcasts, get the latest notification, find directions to your destination, and much more while you’re at the wheel. So if you’ve just got a brand new car that supports CarPlay, or you’ve been using CarPlay for a while but want to get more out of it, we’ve curated a list of some of the best CarPlay apps for iPhone that can help you out....

Chrome Web Store is home to some of the best Google Chrome extensions. These extensions span a wide range of use-cases, ranging from those to improve productivity and manage browser tabs efficiently to the ones that help strengthen online privacy and security. We’ve already covered the best Google Chrome privacy extensions to protect your online identity, and for this one, we’ll take a look at the best Chrome extensions for increasing your online security....

1. Logitech MX Master 2S If you are looking for the best overall wireless mouse, the MX Master 2S from Logitech is the way to go. It has an elegant and ergonomic design that appeals to a lot of customers and offers precision, comfort, and a slew of features for a wide range of functionalities. The mouse offers the ability to adjust its sensitivity from 200 DPI all the way up to 4000 DPI, in increments of 50 DPI....

There is no denying that the Lesson Pod is cute, at 11cm tall it resembles a tin can of beverage. A simple tap on the head will activate the Lesson Pod and then it starts offering conversations, phase reputation, language quizzes, grammar and also pronunciation corrections. The Lesson Pod is waterproof and is bundled with Wi-Fi connectivity and a companion app on the smartphone. The Lesson Pod is currently exclusive to Japan and this means that as of now it supports Japanese to English speakers....

Remember how Google Maps can show you how busy a restaurant is, what is the time when the Metro is most likely to be crowded and so on? Well, it is the same data that is now being used to let health officials and administrations in which areas are crowded and which are not. And this information is critical in these times when the best way to combat COVID-19 remains social distancing....

There are several utilities to make the USB drive bootable but none of them are compatible with the latest OS from Microsoft – Windows 7. But don’t worry, AskVg has released a tool which creates a bootable USB drive to install Windows Vista, Server 2008 or Windows 7. Its a portable utility so doesn’t need installation. All you have to do is follow these 4 simple steps – Download A Bootable USB for Windows 7 and Windows Vista Download Link (Rapidshare) Download Link (Mediafire) Download Link (Skydrive) Update: Download Windows 7 ISO

Meant for the swish crowd…initially The first Razr was also called the V3 and was released in 2004. It was priced at around USD 500, which was a lot at that time, but then it was being marketed as a designer phone for the fashionable crowd (hey, Meryl Streep used one while playing the role of a tyrannical fashion magazine editor in The Devil Wears Prada), not mainstream users. Dat aircraft-grade aluminium It was the slimmest form factor in clamshells – being half an inch thin – and was made of anodized “aircraft grade” aluminum....

You probably would be knowing that having a firewall program is a must in order to use the Internet safely. In addition to protecting you against attacks from the Internet, a good firewall will also tell you when programs installed on your computer are trying to phone home and enable you to prevent them from doing it. It’s essential for identifying and stopping the activities of many malicious virus and spyware programs....

Google Chrome 6.0.472.53, the stable build of the latest version of Google Chrome has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux. Having completed just 2 years, Google Chrome has grown and improved leaps and bounds and now, it has become the top choice of many geeks and non-geeks. Chrome 6 comes with a host of new features including autofill capability and other user interface perks. It is important to note that it’s only been four months since Chrome 5 went stable, so a new stable version just proves the great amount of development work happening at the backend....