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The Panasonic Eluga Switch smartphone comes with dual front and mic that lets you use the device any side you want and you no longer have to worry about the ‘right way’ of holding the phone.

Called MouthLab, the “smart” 3D-printed device uses mouthpiece and thumb pad sensors to quickly test a patient's blood pressure, breathing, blood oxygen, heart rate and heartbeat pattern.

Microsoft has officially rolled out the beta of its voice-based assistant Cortana to Google’s popular platform.

"Moo-Q" asks people how positive or negative they are feeling at a certain time of the day and then records how well they perform in mental tests that measure processing speed and memory during the day.

Google co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin, in a blog post, says, the Life Sciences team that endeavours to develop new technologies to make healthcare more proactive, now becomes a standalone Alphabet company.

Two UV-C lamps in PhoneSoap charger produce a very specific wavelength of light which encompass the phone and pass through the cell walls of bacteria and virus to impair their DNA.

Pre-installed apps or bloatware tend to eat up the default internal storage offered by smartphone manufacturers and leaving just a part of it for actual use.

Eliminating the need for a solid core but coiling the foundation in a molten strand instead, the process diverges significantly from conventional glassmaking, which can include molding, forming, blowing, plating or sintering.

All models combined (not only smartphones), Samsung has sold 88 million mobile phones across the globe in the second quarter, far ahead of Apple (48 million).

In all, Samsung sold 72 million smartphones during this period compared to 48 million for Apple.

The spending on mobile services will be driven by data services, which is expected to grow 15 per cent to reach $6.5 million in 2015.

The shift from e-commerce to m-commerce and more engagement with mobile shopping, news and personalised apps are factors responsible for the growth.

The move is a vote of confidence from three of the world's biggest technology companies in Snapdeal, which in October got a $627 million investment from SoftBank, also an early backer of Alibaba.

GfK estimates the decline in price over demand for 4G devices capturing 6 per cent of the smartphone unit demand.

Companies, both large and small, have been moving away from traditional human resources reviews that rely on annual performance evaluations and moving toward a more data-driven approach with more frequent feedback, check-ins, and other metrics.

The Apple Watch-of-sorts for pets, Buddy smart dog collar is completely waterproof and comes with LED lighting effects.