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Microsoft   MSFT +2.61%  has just revealed arguably its biggest Windows 10 upgrade so far and the irony is it is all about making things smaller… Speaking on the  official Windows blog , Windows program manager Bill Karagounis explained that Windows 10 is going to get much smarter about how it downloads updates: “We are announcing the next generation of our delivery technologies incorporated into our latest Insider builds called the Unified Update Platform (UUP). One of the biggest community and customer benefits of UUP is the reduction you’ll see in download size on PCs.” UUP uses differential download technology meaning it will download “only the changes that have been made since the last time you updated your device, rather than a full build”. Karagounis says this should reduce the size of major Windows 10 updates by “approximately 35%”. This is a big deal. UUP will become the universal system used by all versions of Windows 10 – including on smartphones and tablets – an

Shipment of smartphones priced above Rs 30,000 fell 59 per cent year-on-year, data from Counterpoint Research show India has come to be known as the fastest growing market for smartphones, with premium  smartphones  usually doing better than other categories, but September quarter was different. Shipment of   smartphones  priced above Rs 30,000 fell 59 per cent year-on-year, data from Counterpoint Research show. Two of the global leaders in  smartphones  -  Samsung  and  Apple  - which command the lion's share in premium handsets sales in India, shipped lower volumes during the July-September quarter. According to analysts, absence of Note 7 in Samsung's portfolio hurt its shipments during the period. Apple, on the other hand, shipped only 1,500 iPhone 7 devices, Faisal Kawoosa, lead, telecom & semitronics, Cyber Media Research (CMR) said. "Last year, while  Samsung  had S6 Edge and Note 5 in its kitty and was heavily shipping in the devices to

LG’s V20 is an Android phone I’d recommend to people who insist on having one of the device’s four cornerstone features: a replaceable battery, elaborate manual video camera controls, excellent audio recording capabilities, or a hi-fi headphone listening experience. If you don’t need anything from that list in your next smartphone — and a lot of people don't — you’re better off buying a Google Pixel XL or iPhone 7 Plus. For upwards of $800 depending on where you buy it, the V20 is priced to compete with the very best phones on the market right now. But it just doesn’t. To be clear, it’s fairly good at what LG designed it to excel at. It’s a gadget for Android nerds and checks all the boxes on high-end specs, build quality, display (yes, there’s still a tiny second screen on the front), and performance. It ditches the modularity gimmick that quickly fizzled out with the G5, and the design is a little classier and safer than the rubber-clad V10 from last year. But it’s also a

G oogle on Monday posted to the Internet a previously unpublicized flaw that could pose a security threat to users of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Google notified both Microsoft and Adobe of zero day vulnerabilities in their software on Oct. 21, wrote Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, members of Google's Threat Analysis Group, in an online post. Google has a policy of making critical vulnerabilities public seven days after it informs a software maker about them. Adobe was able to fix its vulnerability within seven days; Microsoft was not. "This [Windows] vulnerability is particularly serious because we know it is being actively exploited," wrote Mehta and Leonard. However, Google's Chrome browser prevents exploitation of the vulnerability when running in Windows 10, they added. Flaw Not Critical Microsoft challenged Google's analysis of the Windows flaw in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by spokesperson Charlotte Heesacker. &quo

Apple has released iOS 10.1.1 to the general public today. The iOS 10.1.1 update comes  one week after iOS 10.1 was released .  The reason why Apple quickly issued this software update is because it fixes a bug that Forbes contributor  Gordon Kelly reported exclusively last week . Apple declined to reply to requests to acknowledge the bug until now.  You can install iOS 10.1.1 by connecting your device to iTunes or downloading it by going to  Settings > General > Software Update . The iOS 10.1.1 update is available for the following devices: iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later and iPod touch 6th generation and later. What Is Included In The Update? The software update is relatively small at under 70MB, which indicates that it is a minor update with a few bug fixes.  There weren’t any betas of iOS 10.1.1 either.  And  the changelog of the iOS 10.1.1 software update says:  “This update fixes bugs including an issue where Health data could not be viewed for som