Md Waquar Haider
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New State Mobile announces a Valentine s Day-themed event
Celebrating the season of love, New State Mobile has launched an all new special in-game event for Valentine's Day. The 'Take Heart, New State' event offers players the opportunity to participate in daily missions and win exciting permanent goodies. The event features rewards such as couple outfits, themed weapon skins and crates with guaranteed items.
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Airtel 5G Plus now live in THESE cities of Madhya Pradesh
Bharti Airtel ("Airtel") on Monday announced the launch of its 5G services in Bhopal, Ujjain and Gwalior. Airtel's 5G services are already live in Indore. Airtel 5G Plus services will be available to customers in a phased manner as the company continues to construct its network and complete the roll out. Customers with 5G enabled
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
India 5G phone market to expand over 70 per cent by end of 2023: Report
The 5G smartphone market will expand by >70 percent YoY by the end of CY2023. The India smartphone market recorded more than 13X growth in its 5G shipments from the year of its initial introduction in 2020. According to Menka Kumari, Analyst- Industry Intelligence Group (IIG), CyberMedia Research (CMR), "From a mere 4 percent in
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Airtel 5G Plus now live in 4 cities of Odisha: Here are all the places where the service is available
Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of its cutting edge 5G services in Puri in addition to Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Rourkela launched in early January. Airtel 5G Plus services will be available to customers in a phased manner as the company continues to construct its network and complete the roll out. Customers with 5G enabled
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Qualcomm may soon launch Apple's next M-series chips competitor
Qualcomm is reportedly developing a new chipset that will compete against Apple's upcoming M-series processors. The new processor is developing under the codename 'Hamoa' and is expected to be marketed as "Snapdragon 8cx Gen4", reports Gizmochina. The 12-core SoC was earlier mentioned by tipster Kuba Wojciechowski, who now claims that the silicon's moniker will be
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Twitter removes option to send direct message on Android, iOS
Twitter has removed the option to send a direct message to another account directly from a profile page on Android and iOS applications, many users reported. The "DM" button, which usually appears next to the follow and notification buttons, has disappeared without any replacement, reported 9To5Google. This seems to be the situation for all Twitter
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Garena Free Fire Max redeem codes Today, January 29, 2023: Win free gifts
The Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for today, January 29, 2023 are available on the official redemption website. Registered players can claim any one of the active codes to win free rewards and weapons. The redeem codes are updated on the official website reward.ff.garena.com for registered players to check and claim. Garena Free Fire Max
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max to feature 2,500 nits display panel from Samsung: Report
Apple's upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max smartphone will reportedly feature a 2,500 nits display panel from Samsung. The details were shared by leaker ShrimpApplePro on the micro-blogging platform Twitter on Tuesday. ShrimpApplePro retweeted a post of another leaker named 'Connor', which mentioned that "Samsung's Next Gen Panel's reach to 2500nits." In a retweet, ShrimpApplePro said:
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
WhatsApp may soon let users schedule calls within group chats
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature which will allow users to schedule calls within their group chats. Users will be able to select a title, date and time for their call, making sure that everyone in the group is aware of when it will take place, reports WABetaInfo. It is
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Google's VP of labs, Salesforce's former co-CEO to form AI company
After working 18 years at Google, Clay Bavor, Google's vice president of labs, has announced that he will leave the company next month and will build a new artificial intelligence (AI) company with Salesforce's former co-CEO, Bret Taylor. Bavor made the announcement in a post on his LinkedIn account. "Bret and I have known each
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Twitter lays off product manager Esther Crawford who led Blue subscription project
Following another round of layoffs, Twitter product manager Esther Crawford is no longer employed by the company. Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its forthcoming payments platform. More than 50 employees were impacted by the layoffs, which were spread across several departments. Martijn de Kuijper, the creator
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Apple supplier Foxconn expanding its iPhone manufacturing footprint in China
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group is reportedly expanding its presence in Zhengzhou, the central Chinese city that is home to the world's largest iPhone plant. Foxconn has leased a 293-acre plot in the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone for around 197 million yuan (US$28 million). According to AppleInsider, Foxconn chairman and CEO Liu Young-way visited Zhengzhou
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
India cenbank imposes penalty on Amazon Pay for non-compliance
The Reserve Bank of India said on Friday it had imposed a penalty of 30.7 million rupees ($374,770) on Amazon Pay Private Ltd for non-compliance with directions on prepaid payment instruments and Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. "This action is based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pronounce upon the validity
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Twitter offers new incentive for advertisers to return on platform
Fighting hard to stay afloat, Twitter has now offered a new incentive to skeptical advertisers where the micro-blogging platform will match advertisers' ad spending up to $250,000. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the platform, acquitted by Elon Musk for $44 billion, is "dangling free ad space by offering to match advertisers'
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Global smartphone shipments suffer biggest fall in holiday quarter: Details here
Global smartphone shipments declined 18.3 percent (year-over-year) to 300.3 million units in the holiday quarter of 2022, the largest-ever decline in a single quarter. According to an IDC report, the Q4 2022 drop contributed to a steep 11.3 percent decline for the entire year. The year 2022 ended with shipments of 1.21 billion units, which
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra First Impressions: A pure Android flagship
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Reliance Jio to bring 5G to every Indian by Dec 2023: Akash Ambani
Reliance Jio has launched True 5G service in 277 cities across the country and is on the path to achieve the declared goal to increase the Jio 5G footprint to cover every town, taluka and tehsil across the country by December this year, Akash Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, said on Tuesday. Addressing
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Facebook parent company Meta launches new platform to remove minors' intimate images online
Meta has announced a new platform designed to proactively prevent young people and minors' intimate images from spreading online. The social network said it financially supported the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the development of 'Take It Down', a platform that helps adults stop the spread of their intimate images online.
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Microsoft and NIELIT collaborate to train youth in cybersecurity skills for jobs
National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) and Microsoft on Wednesday announced a collaboration to increase access to skills for jobs through Cyber Shikshaa and Ready4Cybersecurity programs. Aiming primarily at underserved youth, women and jobseekers from remote areas, NIELIT and Microsoft will deploy CyberShikshaa and Ready4Cybersecurity programs in 30 training centers of NIELIT in
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
Google building a 1000-language AI model to beat ChatGPT
Google has shared more information about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a system that the company describes as a "critical first step" in realising its goals, which is now moving closer toward its goal of building an AI language model that supports 1,000 different languages to beat ChatGPT. In November last year, the company announced
AUTHOR: MD WAQUAR HAIDER| Posted January 19, 2026
