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Helsinki, Finland, Jolla Ltd., the Finnish mobile company and developer of open mobile operating system Sailfish OS, announced today that it's licensing partner Intex Technologies has started sales of its first licensed Sailfish OS device Intex Aqua Fish. World's first licensed Sailfish OS product is available in online channels in India.  India's leading smartphone vendor Intex Technologies has started the sales of its first licensed Sailfish OS device Intex Aqua Fish. The Aqua Fish smartphone, developed in close partnership with Jolla, is now available for India market on competitive pricing of INR 5,499 in Ebay India and will also go live on popular Indian online stores Flipkart, Amazon India and Snapdeal in the coming weeks. The smartphone comes with all new Sailfish OS 2.0 with an easy-to-learn gesture only user interface.  The Aqua Fish smartphone features a 5-inch HD IPS display, supported by 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM and expandable memory card slot. The smartpho

Yahoo’s 20-plus year tenure as an independent company is no more, with news that it has been acquired by Verizon for $4.83 billion. Word spread over the weekend about the pending deal, but now it’s official. As part of the acquisition, Yahoo will be integrated with AOL under Marni Walden, Verizon’s EVP and president of product innovation and new businesses organization. “Just over a year ago, we acquired AOL to enhance our strategy of providing a cross-screen connection for consumers, creators and advertisers,” said Lowell McAdam, Verizon chairman and CEO, in a press release. “The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company, and help accelerate our revenue stream in digital advertising.” Verizon’s victory The selection of Verizon wasn’t exactly a surprise, as it had always been thepresumptive front-runner in the bid to purchase the once-mighty search engine company. Near the beginning of the year, Yahoo ann

The hype cycle for  Pokémon GO   wasn’t going to last forever, and on Monday investors decided it had finally gone to far. The catalyst was a warning from  Nintendo   , issued before its official earnings announcement later this week, that the release of its viral, mobile game would have a “minimal” impact on Nintendo’s profits. Shares of Nintendo dropped 17% by noon in Tokyo, wiping more than $6 billion off the company’s market value. The stock is limited from falling by more than 18%, based on exchange rules in Tokyo. Nintendo had issued a press release after the market closed on Friday, saying the game’s financial impact on its earnings would be “limited” and that Nintendo would not be lifting its annual forecast. It comes after Nintendo’s shares have more than doubled in value since the game debuted in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand on July 6, following unprecedented success that sent  Pokémon GO  to the top of apps store charts. Despite the fall in shares on M

iOS devices running iOS 9.3 / Photo Credit: Apple Apple   AAPL +0.05%  has released iOS 9.3.3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. This means that three updates have been made to iOS 9.3 since March 2016.  And  Apple tested five betas of iOS 9.3.3 since it was released on May 23rd, according to  MacRumors .  The major features that were added to iOS 9.3 back in March included Night Shift, Touch ID support for Notes, additional News app personalization, new  Health  app categories, enhancements to the Music app on CarPlay and new  Education  apps. iOS 9.3.3 primarily contains bug fixes, security enhancements and under-the-hood improvements rather than new features. Apple did not specify the bug fixes in the software update change-log. However, Apple did  publish a security content document  in regards to iOS 9.3.3.  Some of the bugs that have been fixed were reported on the  Apple Support forums .  A bug that  appears to be fixed  in iOS 9.3.3 is the removal of a blank spa

On average, job interviews last for 40 minutes. This means there is only a short window of opportunity for a candidate to make a good impression on an interviewer. However, it also means that there is equal if not greater pressure on the interviewer in this small amount of time, to gather all the information they need in order to assess whether the person sat in front of them is a viable hire. In order to meet this challenge, interviewing techniques have developed at a rapid pace. Eye contact and brain teasers have given way to competence or behavioural based questioning. No matter how complex some interviewing methods may sound, it’s important to remember that most interviewers have no interest in trying to trick you or catch you out. Quite the opposite in fact. Most interviews simply come down to your interviewer trying to find the answers to the following questions. Q #1 : Can You Do The Job? The most obvious question, but one with at least a few a layers of complexity. At

When it comes to communication, we all tend to think we’re pretty good at it. Truth is, even those of us who are good communicators aren’t nearly as good as we think we are. This overestimation of our ability to communicate is magnified when interacting with people we know well. Researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business put this theory to the test and what they discovered is startling. In the study, the researchers paired subjects with people they knew well and then again with people they’d never met. The researchers discovered that people who knew each other well understood each other no better than people who’d just met! Even worse, participants frequently overestimated their ability to communicate, and this was more pronounced with people they knew well. “Our problem in communicating with friends is that we have an illusion of insight,” said study co-author Nicholas Epley. “Getting close to someone appears to create the illusion of understanding more

India’s IT professionals are moving to non-traditional destinations in droves in search of the right work-life balance. It was not a hot destination for an IT start-up when Kevin Eichelberger left Atlanta and moved to Charleston to set up Blue Acorn, a company that offers data-driven optimisation techniques to midlevel e-commerce platforms. The limited space it had for its seven employees seven years ago required someone to leave before it could receive a visitor. The company’s sprawling office today has abundant space not only for its 130 employees, but also their pet dogs that sniff around Mac machines and pizza boxes. “Our primary competitors and peers are all in primary cities like New York, LA and Chicago. Charleston is not known for tech. But things are changing fast,” Mr. Eichelberger said, sipping beer. “In the last seven years things have changed. We have an advantage of being in a smaller city. Quality of life, affordable spaces – for companies and homes, lowe