Miraj Cinemas and the IMAX Corporation this week announced a new partnership that would bring three new ‘IMAX with Laser’ theatres in India. This deal marks the first-ever collaboration between the two companies and IMAX’s largest expansion in India in five years. Miraj Cinemas w … | Continue reading
boAt Investigating Suspected Customer Data BreachJagmeet Singh, reporting for TechCrunch: India’s largest audio and wearables brand boAt is investigating a possible data breach after hackers advertised a cache of alleged customer data online. A sample of alleged customer data was … | Continue reading
Pegatron may sell India iPhone plant to TataMunsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra, reporting for Reuters: Pegatron, opens new tab is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group, said two sources with direct knowledge, ma … | Continue reading
In Loving Memory of Square CheckboxNikita has published a lovely piece on his blog @ tonsky.me about the death of our beloved checkboxes. I urge you to go take a look, especially for all the screenshots. | Continue reading
WordPress has been an important part of my life for the last decade or more. I’m not sure when exactly, but I’ve been subscribed to WP Tavern for a long time now, and it has been an excellent source of news and updates about what’s been happening in the world of WordPress — every … | Continue reading
This past week, I went on a small, long-pending, post-Diwali vacation to Goa. It was splendid, and gave me a much-needed break from the routines. We spent our time in North Goa, in Morjim. Although the trip was fantastic, we had a terrible time at the hotel stay we had chosen, wh … | Continue reading
Tata to make iPhones in IndiaManish Singh, writing for TechCrunch: Tata Group will start making iPhones in India for the local and global markets, India’s Deputy IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday, after the Taiwanese firm Wistron entered a deal with the salt-to-tech … | Continue reading
Adding ActivityPub Support to this WordPress SiteI just installed and enabled this fantastic ActivityPub WordPress plugin by Matthias Pfefferle & team Automattic on this blog. You should be able to follow new posts published here going forward by searching for the following user … | Continue reading
Twitter Auto-Sharing Feature Discontinued in Jetpack WordPress PluginKristina P, writing on the official Jetpack blog, in a post titled “The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing”: Twitter decided, on short notice, to dramatically change the terms and pricing of the Twitter API. We have at … | Continue reading
GoDaddy is Retiring the Media Temple BrandI missed this news last month: For the past 24 years, Media Temple dedicated itself to serving the needs of the digital creative community. Thus, our mantra—for creatives, by creatives. This mantra led to our decision that now is the tim … | Continue reading
IFFI 2022 jury head calls The Kashmir Files ‘propaganda, vulgar movie’All of us were disturbed and shocked by the 15th film, The Kashmir Files. That felt like a propaganda, vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival. Yikes! | Continue reading
Apple reports "all-time revenue record" from IndiaApple reported their quarterly results for Q4’22 yesterday and the folks at Six Colors have published their transcript of the call that Tim Cook and Luca Maestri have with analysts. During the call, Apple mentioned that the compan … | Continue reading
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Go Open SourceYael Rubinstein, writing on the Pocket Casts blog: We’ve been eager to take this step since we joined Automattic last year — after all, the company’s creed includes the phrase “I know that open source is the most powerful idea of our generat … | Continue reading
Uber is testing EV cabs in Delhi NCRJagmeet Singh, writing for TechCrunch: Uber has started offering electric vehicles to customers in certain parts of the Delhi-NCR region and says it will be expanding its efforts over the coming months. The electric cabs are currently only avai … | Continue reading
Freepik Acquires IconfinderThe Freepik Company, known for its projects like Freepik, Wepik, Flaticon and Slidesgo, has announced the acquisition of Iconfinder. Speaking about the acquisition, Martin LeBlanc — Founder & CEO of Iconfinder, writes: For now, Iconfinder will stay Icon … | Continue reading
Adobe Set to Acquire FigmaAdobe press release: Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform, for approximately $20 billion in cash and stock. The combination of Adobe and … | Continue reading