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Dish TV Continues to Add Android Apps Dish TV has been continuously adding new Android apps into its portfolio. Now, association with MX Player means the DTH operator has provided its users with yet another Android app for content streaming. This means the users of Dish TV can now access and stream movies, music videos and TV shows which are in MX Player. One of the most popular apps offered by Dish TV today is ‘Watcho’ which also has a variety of content....

Airtel Xstream, Vodafone Play and JioTV Providing Live Coverage of Delhi Elections Results The notable fight in Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 will be between Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress Party. To watch the live coverage right from your mobile phone, you can tune into your respective telecom operator’s Live TV app. For example, Bharti Airtel customers can open the Airtel Xstream app to watch the counting live, whereas JioTV is providing coverage through various Live TV channels....

Deutsche Telekom, which provides fixed and mobile services in Germany, announced that it had reached another milestone with its Next Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem (NIMS) project to cloudify and automate the core of its IP-based voice telephony platform. The telecom service provider said that more than ten million voice subscribers have successfully migrated to the new cloud platform. Billions of Interconnect voice minutes get Processed via NIMS From the beginning of the project, the NIMA has focussed on a radical change to create a high-quality and effective next-generation voice platform to drive superior user experience for up to 18 million customers....

Discord is a heavily used application by online gamers. It helps them stream live games, chat and coordinate with other gamers in real-time. According to a Bloomberg report, Discord might be sold to a tech giant for over $10 billion. The tech giant in question is none other than Microsoft that invests heavily in new technologies and applications. Microsoft and Discord are currently in the negotiation stages. If the deal strikes through, Microsoft may buy discord for over $10 billion....

Dish TV, a major Direct-to-Home (DTH) service provider in India, offers customers an in-house over-the-top (OTT) platform called Watcho. The company had loaded Watcho with fresh content in the second quarter of FY22. This move from the DTH company came to ensure that people more and more people stuck with its platform. The app already has cumulative downloads of 36 million so far. According to an Indian Television report, Dish TV focused on reducing its debt in the second quarter of FY22....

DishNXT SD Set-Top Box: Pricing and Features The basic Set-Top Box from Dish TV is called ‘DishNXT,’ and it retails for a price of Rs 1,490. Yes, the price is surely on the higher side considering what other DTH operators are charging for Set-Top Box, but on the brighter side, Dish TV will provide channel pack free for one month. Customers choosing the DishNXT STB will be eligible to get one-month free channel pack subscription, lifetime warranty for the Set-Top Box and Rs 2,000 worth coupons from Coupon Duniya....

Dish TV, one of the largest direct-to-home (DTH) operators of India has recently partnered with EPIC ON. EPIC ON is an over the top (OTT) content platform. Subscribers of the DTH operator will now get the services of EPIC ON on the DishSMRT Hub and D2h Stream Android Box. For the unaware, IN10 Media Network owns the EPIC ON online streaming platform. There are more than 2,000+ hours of the content library present for the subscribers using the aforementioned Set-Top Boxes (STBs) — more details ahead....

Earlier this year, DIZO was launched as a sub-brand of Realme. Soon after its launch, the brand has launched a slew of products including two feature phones and a few accessories. Last week, DIZO revealed that it will launch a new pair of wireless earbuds - the DIZO Buds Z. Also, it revealed all that we need to know about this pair of earbuds. Now, the DIZO Buds Z has been launched in India....

Google is rolling out dual eSIM support on Pixel 7 with the Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 update. This is a surprising move but one that also makes a lot of sense. So now, basically, users who want to get rid of physical SIMs can do it easily, and users who want to stick with one eSIM and one physical SIM can also do that. Since this is a beta update, only a few users have noted this feature....

Nokia and Etisalat UAE, branded as Etisalat by e&, demonstrated the fastest passive optical network speed in the middle and African regions. Nokia Bell Lab’s PON proof of concept achieved rates four times faster than most advanced networks today, with 100 gigabits per second on a single wavelength. Nokia and Etisalat UAE have established numerous industry firsts in their long-standing relationship, including the world’s first single carrier terabit per second field trial and the highest optical transmission capacity over Etisalat’s e& fiber network in the United Arab Emirates....

Excitel to Reach Users Across 50 Cities by End of 2021 In early December 2020, Excitel revamped its broadband plans with Raina highlighting that the “response has been amazing” from its users. “Unlike the big telecom players that have their presence in Tier I cities, we want to serve the Bharat which includes the clustered Tier II and Tier III cities,” Raina said in an email interview. Raina highlights that the company aims to reach users in Tier II and Tier III cities with the “affordable” broadband plans....

Excitel has partnered with Aprecomm to improve the broadband internet experience for the users. The broadband internet service provider (ISP) wants to improve the way the customer care team of the company responds to the users. The partnership between both companies has enabled Excitel to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for bringing down the time and resources taken in solving a query of the customer. Excitel has over 6,00,000 active households using a broadband connection from the company....

Excitel, one of the fastest-growing internet service providers (ISPs) in the country has just announced that it has updated its service level agreement (SLA) for strengthening the after-sales and customer service commitment. With the new update to its SLA, Excitel will give one day of free internet to customers if their connectivity or outage issues are not resolved for four or more hours. This announcement is in line with the company’s commitment to resolving customer problems as soon as possible....

Facebook on Tuesday introduced a new Manage Activity feature that enables users to trash or archive old posts. The company said that the feature can be used to trash individual and bulk posts with Facebook developing specific filters including date range, person or category to aid users in deleting the posts. The feature is said to be available on the Facebook Lite app beginning Tuesday while the standard mobile app would also be equipped with the feature in the upcoming days....

“Through the next five years, we expect foldable phones to remain a niche product due to several manufacturing challenges. In addition to the surface of the screen, the price is a barrier we expect to decline with time. Currently priced at $2,000, foldable phones present too many trade-offs, even for many early technology adopters.” Shipments of mobile phones are estimated to reach 1.8 billion units in 2019, a decline of 0....

Dangan TV and Big Magic Enjoy Increased Viewership Going by the words of an Edelweiss report, since a lot of the previously popular channels like Zee Anmol, Sony Pal, Star Utsav and Star Bharat have stopped broadcasting on the platform, lesser-known channels like Dangal TV and Big Magic have seen a massive rise in their viewership. This rise in viewership has been as much as two to three times on an average in the Hindi GEC rural segment....

According to the global industry analyst firm Counterpoint, the global smartphone market grew 6% compared to Q2 2021 but reported a 6% decline compared to the same quarter in 2020. The global shipments of smartphones stand at 342 million units, down from 365.5 million in Q3 2020. India’s smartphone shipments cross 52 million units in Q3 2021. Samsung continues to occupy the biggest market share in Q3 2021. The brand has shipped 69....

“The highest payout is due to be owed to anyone who returned a Pixel with a defective microphone, only to receive another defective device from the manufacturer. These claimants could be paid up to $500 in the settlement. Any owners who had just a single defective device could get up to $350, while anyone who had to pay an insurance deductible could have its value repaid. Even Pixel owners who experienced no issues with their phones at all could get up to $20 from this settlement,” The Verge reported on Tuesday....

Just a few days ago, Google launched its much-awaited Google Pixel 6a during the Google I/O 2022. The device is yet to hit the markets and it will arrive in India as well. While the company is yet to announce the launch timeline for the latest A-series device in India, once it comes it will compete with the smartphones like OnePlus 10R in the Indian markets. OnePlus 10R was recently launched in India as a mid-premium device....

Google recently announced its latest truly wireless earbuds under the moniker of the Pixel Buds-A series. The device is a trimmed down version of the original Buds, removing features such as gesture-based navigations and wireless charging. The new Pixel Buds have been revealed to be launched initially in the United States and Canada. Today, Google confirmed that it will be launching the new earbuds in India and that they will be available via E-commerce site Flipkart when they do launch....