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Just 6,000 units, Rs.50,000 extra: why Apple's iPhone Duo could be hard to get

New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- Apple's most expensive iPhone yet is proving so scarce that some Indian buyers are willing to pay Rs.50,000 above its retail price to get their hands on one. With only about 6,00... Read More


Mint Explainer | India issues first ever AI agent cyber-attack warning. What's really at stake?

NEW DELHI, Oct. 17 -- Late on Thursday, India's Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) issued a 'critical' warning against cyber-attacks on public and private technology infrastructure by autonomo... Read More


Pixel 11 Pro XL vs iPhone 18 Pro Max: In the battle between Apple and Google phones, which one wins?

New Delhi, Oct. 16 -- The 'Pro Max' is no longer the star of the Apple show-this year, it is the iPhone Duo, a foldable smartphone, that promises to showcase the best of Apple's engineering. But that ... Read More


Discounts, discounts everywhere, but not a single phone to buy

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- There are at least 30 emails in my inbox, claiming that this festive season has been the biggest AND baddest of them all. There are, funnily enough, also an equal number of messa... Read More


Fewer festive bargains for smartphone buyers as memory chip costs soar

New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- New Delhi: Late on 10 October, Amazon said sales of premium Android phones had risen 70% year-on-year in the first two days of its Great Indian Festival sale. But the upbeat sale... Read More


Zoho's pay freeze signals broader AI-led pressures for India's software industry

New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Zoho Corp. co-founder Sridhar Vembu's Tuesday warning that the company will not give salary hikes this year amid artificial intelligence (AI)-driven disruption could signal broad... Read More


Six firms eye phone brand incentives

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- India's Rs.62,500-crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) is drawing interest from more than half a dozen companies seeking to tap New Delhi's cash incentives to build Indi... Read More


Two months after Meta fiasco, Meity advisory claims public order at risk

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- India has asked social media companies to keep a closer watch on misleading and manipulated content online, as the government steps up efforts to prevent material that could disru... Read More


Your phone's AI has grown up, and you didn't even know it

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- Hello, and welcome to Transformer. Some of you who have read Mint may recall a technology newsletter that we ran for the last three months of 2025. In end-2025, Transformer began... Read More


Lava, Optiemus among firms eyeing smartphone brand incentives

New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- India's Rs.62,500-crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) is drawing interest from more than half a dozen companies seeking to tap New Delhi's cash incentives to build Indi... Read More