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Farewell Picasa!

Google today announced on their official blog that they will be retiring their old photo service, Picasa to focus exclusively on Google Photos. This is to ensure that they can center their efforts on creating a beautiful and functional appearance across mobile devices and personal computers instead of having to split time and effort across two services. What does this mean for the users? As Google points out twice in their announcement, nothing right now. Thankfully, Google knows the attachment and investment users feel and have towards Picasa and vows to make this transition carefully. There’ll be a new place…

Sundar Pichai becomes the Highest Paying CEO in U.S!

Sundar Pichai, the Indian-born IIT(Kharagpur) passout, who was a guy from a very small family is one of the richest human beings alive on Earth and also the Highest paid CEO out there! Recently, as we know, Sergey Brin and Larry Page took over Alphabet as Google’s mother company and Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google. In a securities filing, Alphabet revealed that it awarded Sundar Pichai, the Indian-born CEO of Google 273,328 class-C Google stocks. These stocks at the time of transfer were valued at $199 million. The company has revealed that these were transferred to him when…

Robin, the Cloud-Obsessed phone is set to Fly!

Robin, which was introduced by Nextbit is all set to fly to its owners. The Kickstarter based company originated from San Francisco is finally setting up their online stores for the delivery of pre-orders and sell more units. So, the Nextbit Robin is a smartphone which delivers you a huge amount of cloud storage with a really solid spec sheet! The phone is said to come with whooping 100GB of Online Storage as promised by the brand itself! Nexbit’s Chief Design Officer Scott Croyle however warns that early supply will be limited. “There will be maybe 3,000 to 6,000 phones…

Qualcomm announced something Awesome for Smartwatches!

Smartwatches have evolved a lot in few years and almost every big brand has its own smartwatch collections. But, One thing that we missed was a great processor to power them. And finally Qualcomm has heared us and released something truely awesome! Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100, a dedicated chipset for Smartwatches and Android Wears! The company claims that this dedicated solution will be 30% smaller in physical size than the S400, enabling more compact designs and thinner wearables. It will at the same time be 25% more power efficient than the S400 used in the Moto 360 2nd Gen. The Snapdragon Wear 2100…

Samsung Galaxy S7 Gold Images gets Leaked!

In the past couple of months,rumour mills have generated numerous rumours, leaks and renders of the latest iterations of phones going to be showcased at the MWC’16 by the big boys of the mobile world! Here is yet another leak of the much awaited Samsung Galaxy S7, the latest phone in the S series by Samsung. The internet is flooding with multiple images showcasing the latest device in different colours, this set specifically surfacing the Gold variant of the S7 which suits the the slight change in design. These images give us a basic idea of how the phone will look like from outside…