Potential buyers have expressed strong early interest in a bankrupt US firm of jeweller Nirav Modi, who has been accused of involvement in a $2-billion (over Rs 11,000 crore) bank fraud in India, court filings in New York show. Firestar Diamond Inc filed for bankruptcy protection on February 26 in the United States, following accusations …

Like some fast-footed dance form, his nimble fingers moved fluidly over the key board and within five minutes a query from a client was replied to. Like the computer, his mobile phone is also in talk mode that helps him make/receive calls, read and reply text messages from clients and consultants all over the world and also keep him in …

For a regulatory filing, this is about as close as you get to a sick burn.   Spotify is double the size of Apple Music, its closest competitor in the streaming music market, the Sweden-based startup said in its filing for a planned initial public offering of shares.  In the IPO paperwork, Spotify said it wears the crown for the …

Haier showed up at Mobile World Congress 2018 eager to prove that there are still features to crank out of a wearable.  The new Asu Smartwatch is boxy, bulky and hides a tiny projector. It’s not what you’re looking for if you want a sleek or stylish accessory. But the Asu is still a conversation piece.  The projector is tiny, but …

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Sprint wants to mount its comeback on the back of 5G. The fourth-largest US wireless carrier is set to roll out 5G capabilities this year to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. With a caveat: As with T-Mobile’s own deployment this year, Sprint customers won’t be able to access 5G until the service launches in 2019. The …

Google’s messaging app for groups — Hangouts Chat — used to be only for people in the company’s early adopter program. But this week, Google is releasing it to any corporate customer who wants to use it. Hangouts Chat lets co-workers, or any group of people, message each other in dedicated chat rooms. People can also share files, photos and …

On this podcast, we talk about: New deployments of 5G wireless technology from both Sprint and T-Mobile. The Asus Zenfone 5 and 5Z, two iPhone X copycats that are half the price of their Apple inspiration. Amazon’s purchase of video-doorbell maker Ring, reportedly valued at $1 billion. Now playing: Watch this: 5G is coming sooner than you might think (The …

Our first take of the Google Clips, the newest self-proclaimed automatic camera that promises to be there for the moments you might miss, struck a chord with me. The device is the latest camera designed to surreptitiously record things in your life — to remember in case you don’t. I get the attraction of having that handled digitally, because I …

Huawei is said to be gearing up to launch the next iteration of its P series phone line, which is rumored to include the Huawei P20, P20 Pro and P20 Lite. And while we’ll have to wait to see if these phones can reach the popularity of the iPhone X, there is speculation that the phones may at least resemble it.  …

Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global.  Remember when phones used to be fun? HMD Global, the startup making Nokia phones, sure does. The company reminded us of the fun side of phones last year at the Mobile World Congress trade show, when it relaunched the 3310. It repeated the performance this …

I’m strapped into the shotgun seat of a Porsche Panamera, parked in a lot just outside FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium. My chauffeur for the afternoon: Huawei’s Mate 10 Pro smartphone. You read that right. A phone will be driving this car. No, Huawei isn’t getting into the autonomous car business. The Chinese telecom giant set up this experiment to …

Battery life will make or break any phone. But while we all say that we want a phone that will last all day, we also don’t want the battery, and the phone it holds, to be too big. To date, walking that line between a thin phone and one with marathon battery life has been a challenge. And few phones …

By 2026, the world will be generating more than 160 trillion gigabytes of data. We’ll be connecting cars and robot surgeons, sending a million minutes of video across the internet every second and using 25 billion internet-connected devices around the globe. But in 2026, Australia will apparently only need broadband speeds of 49Mbps. That’s the assessment of a new report …

Apple on Wednesday updated the Apple Watch Activity app to add tracking for skiing and snowboarding. The update applies to Apple Watch Series 3 models running WatchOS 4.2 or newer.  Alpine sports fans can now log their runs, as well as view vertical descent stats, calories burned and more in the Activity app. Skiing and snowboarding now also contribute to …