A team of researchers on Sunday showed that young females are more likely to experience higher social anxiety due to excessive smartphone use than other genders.
In a case that illustrates how far a husband can go to express his love for his wife, even if it means committing a crime, a man resorted to burglary with the sole motive to gift his wife a smartphone on their wedding anniversary.
The move, initiated on the directions of DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav, aims at further streamlining the Dial 112 helpline — Public Safety Answering Point, which has already processed over 2.34 crore calls and registered nearly 20.05 lakh cases till now.
India’s premium smartphone segment continued its strong double-digit growth momentum last year, with Apple, for the first time, securing a spot among the top five smartphone brands in India in Q4 2024, according to a new report on Tuesday.
The Indian smartphone market’s wholesale revenue rose 9 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to hit a record high in 2024, a report said on Thursday.
With the first vaccines reaching the public requiring two doses, there is a worry that some people may not take the second dose amid an aggressive disinformation campaign against vaccination.
"A person's daily smartphone pickups or screen time did not predict anxiety, depression, or stress symptoms," said study lead author Heather Shaw from the Lancaster University in the UK.
While other studies have found such a connection between spirituality and positive emotions, the new study is significant because frequent texting over smartphones made it easier to capture respondents' moment-to-moment spiritual experiences over 14 days rather than only one or two points in time.
"While many of the top vendors have reduced their 2020 production plans to align with the market decline, we've seen most of the cuts focused on their 4G portfolios," said Ryan Reith, programme vice president with IDC's ‘Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers'.
According to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association-Pediatrics, the results are important for the growing debate around the impact of screen time on toddlers and their development.
