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The Euro Cup 2016 experience can be made as real as possible with some of these gadgets. (AP Photo)
Passion for the sport is what drives all Soccer fans to turn up in huge numbers at the stadium or snuggle up comfortably on the couch to not miss even a second of a game. While, not everyone can be lucky enough to witness the craziness Live, the experience can be made as real as possible with some of these gadgets listed below.
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“We appealed an administrative order from a regional patent tribunal in Beijing last month,” says Apple.
Apple Inc said its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were still available for sale in China after Beijing’s intellectual property regulators barred their sales saying the designs had infringed a patent held by a Chinese company, CNBC reported on Friday.
“We appealed an administrative order from a regional patent tribunal in Beijing last month and as a result the order has been stay

Le 2 and Le Max2 first flash sale on Flipkart as well as Le Eco’s own marketplace e-commerce website LeMall
On the back of consecutive successful launches and sale of Superphones, the global internet and technology conglomerate LeEco has once again renewed its exclusive partnership with Flipkart. An agreement cementing this alliance was signed off between Atul Jain COO Smart Electronics Business on behalf of LeEco and Samardeep Subandh, Chief Marketing Officer at Flipkart.
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Droidsurfer Netbooks 7DC+ is priced at Rs 3,999 while 3G7+ is priced at Rs 4,999. Both the netbooks come bundled with free internet access on Reliance network (Source: Datawind)
Datawind has announced its first detachable tablet or netbook devices in India. The company, which leads the budget tablet marketplace in terms of marketshare, has announced Droidsurfer Netbooks 7DC+ & 3G7+ in India.
The Droidsurfer models differ from each other only based on their connectivity option. Both the Droi

Telecom regulator Trai has extended the last date for receiving comments from stakeholders on net neutrality to July 5.
Last month, Telecom Regulator Authority of India (Trai) had issued a pre-consultation paper on net neutrality, a topic that had kicked up dust earlier this year over platforms like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero as well as attempts to charge certain Internet services, including calls.
Previously, the last date was set for June 21.
“On request from the stakeh

Microsoft has acquired Wand Labs, a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian
Technology giant Microsoft has acquired a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian as the US-based software firm aims to strengthen its position in the emerging era of combining the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence.
Microsoft acquired California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology for apps, founded in 2013 by IIT-Delhi alumnus Vishal Sharma who was previously

On the back of consecutive successful launches and sale of Superphones, the global internet and technology conglomerate LeEco has once again renewed its exclusive partnership with Flipkart. An agreement cementing this alliance was signed off between Atul Jain COO Smart Electronics Business on behalf of LeEco and Samardeep Subandh, Chief Marketing Officer at Flipkart.
Commenting on the milestone announcement, Atul Jain COO Smart Electronics Business, LeEco India said, “We are thrilled to a

Interestingly, while Samsung led the market with 32 per cent share of the 4G devices market, new entrant Reliance Jio’s LYF garnered 12.6 per cent in January-March of 2016. (FE) Over 15.8 million 4G devices were shipped in the first quarter of 2016, with almost 97.9 per cent being smartphones, research firm CMR today said.
Data cards contributed 1.5 per cent while the remaining 0.6 per cent were tablet PCs, CMR said in a report.
“This amounts to 63 per cent of the cellular devices s

Four Chinese volunteers on Friday began a 180-day living experiment in a sealed space capsule to test technologies which will support China’s deep-space exploration projects in the future. (source: NASA)
Four Chinese volunteers on Friday began a 180-day living experiment in a sealed space capsule to test technologies which will support China’s deep-space exploration projects in the future.
The volunteers — three men and one woman — will live in a

Over 15.8 million 4G devices were shipped in the first quarter of 2016, with almost 97.9 per cent being smartphones. (Reuters) Over 15.8 million 4G devices were shipped in the first quarter of 2016, with almost 97.9 per cent being smartphones, research firm CMR today said.
Data cards contributed 1.5 per cent while the remaining 0.6 per cent were tablet PCs, CMR said in a report.
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“This amounts to 63 per cent of t

According to the findings, only Iphone retain their value more than android phones. (Source: ThinkStock)
Planning to buy a new smartphone? Remember that the device may lose half of its value in a month which is even faster than your car, says an interesting study.
While cars typically lost 20 per cent of their value a year after being driven off, money-draining smartphones went down to 65 per cent of their value in just a month of being released, musicMagpie.co.uk reported on Thursday.
The find

The law protects internet service providers from liability when users upload copyrighted content while requiring them to remove
Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, a US appeals court ruled on Thursday, dealing a blow to record labels seeking broader protections.
In a victory for internet service providers, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also held that the mere fact that Vimeo

SpaceX fails to successfully land rocket back on its floating droneship (Source: SpaceX/Flickr)
After three successes, a leftover SpaceX rocket booster crashed Wednesday while trying to land on an ocean barge.
The attempt came minutes after the Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched two satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SpaceX chief Elon Musk said via Twitter that there was a problem with one of the three engines used to slow the first-stage booster for landing. He said it may be the hard

Photo for representation purpose ( AFP PHOTO/NASA/JPL-CALTECH /File)
A small asteroid has been discovered by NASA scientists in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, which will remain so for centuries to come.
As it orbits the Sun, this new asteroid, designated 2016 HO3, appears to circle around Earth as well. It is too distant to be considered a true satellite of our planet, but it is the best and most stable example to date of a near-Earth companion, or &lsqu

The xDedic marketplace is run by a Russian-speaking group and currently has access to some 70,624 hacked Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers (Source: Kaspersky)
India ranks fourth in the list of hacked servers available for sale via xDedic marketplace. According to Kaspersky, xDedic lists 3488 Indian servers for sale as of May 2016.
The Kaspersky report further states cyber-criminals can buy and sell access to these compromised servers for as little as $6 each. The xDedic marketplace is run b

HTC One X9, priced at Rs 25,990, will have to fight against the other options in the price-range
HTC might be struggling in the smartphone market, but that hasn’t stopped the Taiwanese company from launching six smartphones in one go in India, including its 2016 flagship – HTC 10.
HTC argues the new lineup has something for everyone with smartphones starting from Rs 13,990 and going all the way up to Rs 52,990 for HTC 10.
HTC One X9 is a dual-SIM smartphone, priced at Rs 25,990. Whi

Google Project Loon is facing a lawsuit in the US over patent infringement.
Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc are being sued by a US-based company called Space Data Corporation over claims the search giant stole the idea for Project Loon from them. The court case complaint is available here.
According to a report in The Verge, Space Data Corporation alleges in its complaint against Google, it was they who had developed the technology nearly a decade back, and were in talks with with the

Google has come up with a new and exciting way of answering your queries on India cinema (Source: PTI)
Are you a Bollywood movie buff and want to know about the Kapoors or the Bachchans? Google India has come up with a new and exciting way of answering your queries on films, actors, song lyrics, trivia, trailers, screening times and more with contextual answers.
The latest addition in the search engine’s operation was highlighted at an event attended by film director Karan Johar, Google I

Facebook Messenger has a new Home Tab section.
Facebook Messenger is getting revamped, and now has a new Home section in order to make chatting an easier experience on the app.
Facebook confirmed the changes in its newsroom blogpost, which reads, “Up until now, most inbox experiences haven’t kept up with the new ways people connect. So, we’ve been thinking about how we can make it simpler and easier to find what you want to start a conversation.”
The new Home tab will sho

Android N Developer Preview 4 allows developers to push updates to their apps using API 24 in Google Play (Source: Google)
Google has released teh fourth developer preview of its upcoming Android N operating system. Google in its blog post notes all of the new APIs introduced in Android N are now final.
With Google’s latest Android N Developer Preview, developers can start compiling their apps to test against the final Android N build. Further, developers can also push updates to their ap

IBM’s leading capabilities in Watson, IoT, Cloud, mobile and blockchain will help developers innovate and succeed. (Reuters) IBM on Friday launched new global programmes and tools in India to boost developers’ skills around Cloud and emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT).
“The world will be re-written in code and much of it will be done right here in India,” said Vanitha Narayanan, Managing Director of IBM India, in a statement.
“IBM’s leadin

Microsoft acquired California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology for apps, founded in 2013 by IIT-Delhi alumnus Vishal Sharma who was previously the vice president, products at Google(Reuters) Technology giant Microsoft has acquired a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian as the US-based software firm aims to strengthen its position in the emerging era of combining the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence.
Microsoft acquired California-bas

The feature is only available on Android. However, when you send an SMS message, the recipient can be on any platform. (Reuters) Social media giant Facebook has enabled SMS in Messenger for Android which means that users will now have the choice to be able to send/receive SMSes in Messenger itself.
The feature is only available on Android. However, when you send an SMS message, the recipient can be on any platform.
“We hope that this new choice will bring the convenience of being able to

Pinterest is acquiring the team from Fleksy.
The team behind Fleksy, which is gesture-based keyboard app, is all set to join Pinterest. The financial details of the deal are not confirmed, but the Fleksy team confirmed the app will remain on the App Store and Google Play Store.
According to a report in VentureBeat, “Pinterest revealed that Fleksy founder and chief executive Kosta Eleftheriou will join the company’s product engineering team, while half of its 10-member team will join

The xDedic marketplace is run by a Russian-speaking group and currently has access to some 70,624 hacked Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers (Source: Kaspersky)
India ranks fourth in the list of hacked servers available for sale via xDedic marketplace. According to Kaspersky, xDedic lists 3488 Indian servers for sale as of May 2016.
The Kaspersky report futher states that cybercriminals can buy and sell access to these compromised servers for as little as $6 each. The xDedic marketplace is ru

Apple iPhone 7 could be minor upgrade with iPhone 8 getting a major design revamp.
Apple iPhone 7 won’t see major design changes, instead it will be the iPhone 8 in 2017 that comes in a new design, points out a Wall Street Analysts report by Credit Suisse to investors.
According to Apple Insider, Credit Suisse expects “Apple to see a ‘muted’ upgrade cycle for the anticipated ‘iPhone 7,’ widely expected to launch in September.”
The report by analyst Kulb

The use of a high-tech app or a number facility will fail if the response system is not prompt, it said.(PTI) Ahead of the government’s mandate to install panic buttons on mobile handsets, Internet body IAMAI today said the use of a high-tech app or a number facility will fail if the response system is not prompt.
Government should rather focus on enhancing existing law enforcement initiatives and “sensitise the agencies to handle emergency situations rather than mandate conditions

Blippar, the world’s largest image recognition and augmented reality platform, has joined hands with The Beer Cafe, India’s largest beer chain, to help the customers know their beer better. (Reuters) What if there is an app that can tell you about your beer, alcohol volume, place of origin and even taste before you gulp it down?
Blippar, the world’s largest image recognition and augmented reality platform, has joined hands with The Beer Cafe, India’s largest beer chain,

The TV’s “Mosquito Away Technology” uses ultrasonic waves that are inaudible to humans but cause mosquitoes to fly away. (Reuters) The Indian arm of South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc has begun selling a TV with a feature that it says repels mosquitoes, which can spread diseases such as malaria, Zika and dengue.
The TV’s “Mosquito Away Technology” uses ultrasonic waves that are inaudible to humans but cause mosquitoes to fly away, according to the company

Google Project Loon is facing a lawsuit in the US over patent infringement.
Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc are being sued by a US-based company called Space Data Corporation over claims the search giant stole the idea for Project Loon from them. The court case complaint is available here.
According to a report in The Verge, Space Data Corporation alleges in its complaint against Google, it was they who had developed the technology nearly a decade back, and were in talks with with the