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On 21 October, CyberDost — the Home Ministry’s cybercrime awareness arm under I4C — warned Indian shoppers about fake festive sale ads leading to lookalike shopping sites. Good advice, correctly timed. Check the URL, avoid sponsored links, do not pay in advance, prefer cash on delivery. But that warning describes a scam that wants your…
If you run a website in India, yesterday was noisy. European government portals went dark on purpose. Hosting companies sent emails at midnight. And somewhere in the middle of it, a WhatsApp forward probably told you your site was about to be hacked. Here is the calmer version. A critical PHP vulnerability — two of…
From 1 November 2026, India switches on caller name display for every mobile user. Call someone who does not have your number saved, and your name appears on their screen. Not your number. Your name, as it sits in your operator’s KYC records. Most coverage of India’s new caller name display rules has reported that…
Both festive sales are now running, and the same five words are on every banner: 10% instant discount with your bank card. We read the actual terms. Axis Bank publishes a PDF for the Flipkart sale, and it runs to seven different caps. Depending on which invisible category your purchase falls into, that “10%” pays…
Updated 7 October 2026. We published this before vivo announced the V80’s offers, built around a leaked 10% UPI discount that looked uncapped. The prices in that leak were exactly right. The offer was not: vivo announced 10% instant cashback via select banks, with UPI mentioned only for offline purchases and no cap published. We…
The sales start this week — Amazon’s Great Indian Festival on 8 October, Flipkart’s Big Billion Days with early access the same day — and your feed is already full of percentages. Before you tap anything, here is the one thing worth knowing about festive sale discounts this year: the number they are measured against…
Update — 14 October 2026: this has been deferred. On 13 October, NPCI’s UPI Steering Committee postponed the fee, saying it will now begin “immediately post Diwali at a date to be notified separately”. Diwali falls on 8 November, so expect mid-November rather than 15 October. Nothing about how the fee works has changed —…
The GST on mobile phones in India is 18%. The industry has just formally asked the government to cut it to 5%. If that happened, every phone you can buy today would get roughly 11% cheaper overnight. On a ₹79,999 Galaxy S26 FE that is ₹8,813 back in your pocket. Here is what has actually…
Apple held its September event on the 9th, and it was a big one — the first keynote with John Ternus as CEO, and the first foldable iPhone in the company’s history. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at ₹1,64,900 in India. The foldable, called the iPhone Duo, starts at ₹2,99,900. Yes, three lakh. Here is…
On September 1, 2026, Apple changes hands. Tim Cook steps aside after 15 years and John Ternus takes over as only the third CEO in the company’s modern history. Apple confirmed the move back in April, but it lands for real next Tuesday — six days from now, and just weeks before the September iPhone…