TecQ: Apple, WiFi, Lenovo Yoga Book, Cyber Security & More

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Lenovo Yoga Book comes bundled with a stylus. (Photo: The Quint)

TecQ is our weekly round-up of technology and science stories.

1. Top 10 Apple iPhone Innovations Over 10 Years

The Apple iPhone celebrates 10 years of its launch. (Photo: iStock)

Apple celebrated the tenth anniversary of its legendary iPhone on Monday. The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple’s then CEO, the late Steve Jobs, at MacWorld on 9 January 2007 to a room full of astonished spectators and mediapersons.

Watch here to know more about this special day.

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3. Mumbai WiFi Races Ahead and How! A Lesson to Learn Here, Delhi?

Over 1200 WiFi hotspots will be in place by May. (Photo: iStockphoto)

This is probably India’s first major project to be inaugurated with a tweet! Days ahead of crucial elections in Mumbai, CM Devendra Fadnavis caught political opponents by surprise and delighted citizens by launching 500 WiFi hotspots across Mumbai.

Free WiFi has been an issue of public debate in the city ever since MNS and Shiv Sena launched hotspots,which failed to perform. So The Quint decided to check if Mumbai WiFi, the service launched by the state government, was actually functional.

Read full story here.

4. Review: Lenovo Yoga Book Is a Magic Wand for the Creative Types

Lenovo Yoga Book comes with a 10.1-inch Full-HD display. (Photo: The Quint)

Lenovo laptops are good value for money, no matter which price segment they belong to. In the latter part of 2016, Lenovo decided to mix things up with the Yoga Book. This is a Windows/Android PC that’s probably the first-ever laptop to come with a touch-centric keyboard they call Halo.

At Rs 49,900, the Yoga Book has a lot more to give than most mid-range laptops. Read The Quint review here to know more.

5. India Inc Not Ready to Tackle High-Level Cyber Security Attacks

Photo: The Quint

2016 was the year India woke up to cyber crime with a rude shock. This was the year when over 3 billion debit cards were breached. And the Twitter accounts of public figures like Rahul Gandhi and Vijay Mallya were hacked with apparent ease.

But there’s only so much an individual consumer can do, unless the companies behind such services don’t improve on their back-end systems. And sadly, according to a latest report, there’s a long way to go before India Inc gets its act together vis a vis cyber security threats.

Read the story here.