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Admitting that Lenovo made some “mistakes” in the smartphone business in India, the company CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday vowed to bounce back and reclaim its past glory in the next couple of years by launching right products for the India market under both its Lenovo and Motorola brands. “India is a very important market for us. We have room for improvements in the smartphone business,” Yuanqing said here while participating in a roundtable conference, along with other members of the Lenovo Executive Council — the highest decision-making body of the company....

Feature phones are making a big comeback in markets where mobile penetration is low and the JioPhone in India is a prime example, having become thetop-selling mobile phone in the country. Xiaomi is looking to jump on the bandwagon too, and has listed the Qin AI feature phone on its crowdfunding platform in China. The Qin 1, as the device has been named, may have beenlisted on Xiaomi’s Youpin platformas a feature phone but it comes with a myriad of smart features in tow....

A few months ago, Xiaomi announced its entry into the gaming smartphone segment with anew subsidiary Black Sharkand a new device under the brand. Following thesuccess of the gaming smartphone, Xiaomi hasannounced Black Shark gaming Bluetooth headsetwhich is specially designed to make your experience with the smartphone gaming and e-sports more immersive, ensure victory irrespective of the game. Xiaomi has partnered with popular Chinese audio solutions provider,1MORE, to create this Bluetooth headset....

With Facebook cutting off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of apps, Twitter users are no longer able to tweet and retweet automatically on their connected Facebook accounts. Facebook hasdeprecated its Publishactions permissions from its API, a feature that allowed apps to publish posts on the social media platform as the logged-in user. Ime Archibong, Vice President of Product Partnerships at Facebook, said all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through a more comprehensive review to better protect people’s Facebook information....

Nearly 63 percent of the Indian organizations are struggling in their compliance journey towards the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) thatcame into effect on May 25, a new report said on Thursday. While 60 per cent cited inadequacy of skilled talent as a major obstacle in their GDPR compliance journey, 50 percent of those who neither have customers nor suppliers in EU, plan to increase their privacy spends in the coming year, said the study by the global consultancy firm EY....

Apple’s App Store for iOS and MacOS may not have a wide variety of apps as the Google Play Store, but the App Store still manages to churn a larger amount of revenue for developers, which is well appreciated by app makers. Apple had recently alsoupdated the App Store for iOS with the launch of iOS 11, which many found to be a welcome change. However, if you’re a developer who was part of Apple’s affiliate program, the new update is bad news for you....

Havinglaunched on Android and iOSjust last week, Asphalt 9: Legends has already crossed 4 Million downloads globally. In India alone, it reached 400K+ downloads over the past week. According to apress releasefrom Gameloft, the game reached the top 5 most downloaded games on iPhone in 150 countries, including USA (#4), United Kingdom (#5), France (#2), Germany (#2), Italy (#2) and Japan (#1). Available onAndroid,iOSandWindows 10,Legendsis the latest installment in the popular Asphalt series, and has notched up over a million downloads on the Play Store alone since its launch....

It was reported yesterday that Google is building a modifiedversion of Google search on the conditions of the Chinese governmentand taking note of the censorship guidelines in the country. Now, another report says that not only will the tech giant build a web search platform for China, it is also likely tobuild a dedicated app for news reading and discovery. The app will bebuilt in China itselfwith appropriate consideration for the mainland’s censorship regulations....

Just a week after launching the flagshipBlackBerry Key2smartphone in India, Optiemus Infracom today unveiled two new premium mid-range smartphones –BlackBerry Evolve and Evolve X– in India. As one would expect from the coveted Blackberry brand, bothhave a premium build quality andan abundance of security features, but at prices that would burn a hole in your pocket. We got the chance to spend some time with both the BlackBerry Evolve and Evolve X at the Delhi launch event and here are my initial expressions of the two:...

China is fast adopting new technologies to fight crime and monitor its citizen’s movements. The country already makes use of facial recognition to nab criminals, and is also monitoring movements of minorities through similar facial ID. Now, as per recent reports, Chinese administrative might be making use of high-tech birds to supervise its citizens, and we are not even making this up. Okay, they’re not exactly high-tech birds, but rather drones that look like birds....

In response to reports thatGoogle is developing a search engine that complies with strict Chinese censorship rules, a China-based researcher at the Amnesty International on Wednesday said that such measures would amount to an attack on freedom of information and Internet. Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept reported....

Facebook’s Chief Security OfficerAlex Stamos, who was a key figure in the fight against the spread of fake news and misinformation, on Thursday officially announced to quit and join Stanford University as a full-time teacher and researcher. The announcement came as Facebook investigation, under Stamos, revealed on July 31 that it discovered and banned 26 bad actors who were using the platform to manipulate political discourse as US mid-term elections approach....

In its bid to curb thespread of fake newsand ensure high-quality journalism in India, Facebook on Thursday announced its first partnership in the country with Chennai-based Asian School of Journalism (ACJ). Part of the Facebook Journalism Project — announced last year to develop high-quality journalism around the world — the partnership will also establish a scholarship programme at ACJ. “The association with ACJ reflects our commitment to support the journalism ecosystem by training future journalists,” said Campbell Brown, Facebook’s Global Head of News Partnerships....