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A Brazilian Court has order that telephone operators must “immediately suspend” WhatsApp services in the country.
A judge On Tuesday, suspended the WhatsApp smartphone messaging service across Brazil, where it is hugely popular, for failing to surrender user data in a police investigation, the court said.
“WhatsApp is blocked across the whole national territory,” a spokesman for the court in Rio de Janeiro told AFP.
WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has clashed several times

Sony Xperia F8331 – the next flagship is likely to come with a design language similar to Nokia N9 (Source: GSMArena)
Sony, which has been struggling to catch up with the likes of Samsung and Apple in terms of smartphone sales is trying to revamp its business with a new design language.
Sony, which has not changed its design language since the launch of original Xperia Z announced X range of smartphones at Mobile World Congress. While Xperia X had a design similar to Xperia X but it was m

Meizu MX6 comes with a metal unibody design and is just 7.5 mm thick (Source: Meizu)
Meizu has launched its latest MX6 smartphone in China. At a dedicated event in Beijing, Meizu has announced MX6 smartphone and few other accessories.
Meizu MX6 comes with a metal unibody design and is just 7.5 mm thick. The smartphone features a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The display made by Sharp is covered by a 2.5D curved glass.
Under the hood, Meizu MX6 is powered by a Helio X

Mi India has announced a couple of new offers for its Mi 5, Mi 4 smartphones, Mi power bank and Mi in-ear headphones.
Xiaomi, which entered the India market in 2014, is celebrating its second anniversary in the country. Mi India has announced a couple of new offers for its Mi 5, Mi 4 smartphones, Mi power bank and Mi in-ear headphones. Mi Anniversary discounts will be available from July 20 to July 22 on Flipkart and Mi.com online. The company also unveiled several new products including Mi pow

Apple iPhone 7 Pro will feature dual rear camera and a new smart connector (Source: Nowhere Else)
Apple has been rumoured to launch iPhone 7 Pro with dual rear camera. Now a leaked image confirms the presence of that device.
Since 2014, Apple has been announcing two models of iPhone – a regular iPhone and a Plus version of it. Now a leaked image reveals Apple could make it three.
According photos spotted by Nowhere Else, Apple is likely to launch iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus and an iPhone 7 Pr

Sony Xperia F8331 – the next flagship is likely to come with a design language similar to Nokia N9 (Source: GSMArena)
Sony, which has been struggling to catch up with the likes of Samsung and Apple in terms of smartphone sales is trying to revamp its business with a new design language.
Sony, which has not changed its design language since the launch of original Xperia Z announced X range of smartphones at Mobile World Congress. While Xperia X had a design similar to Xperia X but it was m

iBall Andi Rider is available in cobalt brown, grey and white colour variants.
iBall has launched its budget smartphone – Andi Rider – in India. Priced at Rs 4,699; iBall Andi Rider comes with 9 Indian regional system languages support and 21 Indian regional languages for read/write support.
iBall Andi Rider features a 5-inch IPS FWVGA display with a pixel resolution of 854 x 480. The smartphone is powered by 1.3GHz quad core processor, coupled with 1GB RAM and 8GB built-in storage

Google Community Impact Award received projects from over 107 countries.
Google India has announced the winner of the Google Community Impact Award, with Advay Ramesh from Chennai bagging the first prize from Asia. The 14-year-old boy won the theme based award part, which is a part of Google Science Fair 2016.
Google Community Impact Award received projects from over 107 countries. The award recognises projects that make a difference in community by addressing an environmental, health or resourc

Samsung Notebook 7 Spin runs Windows 10 and has a display that can be used in tablet mode, tent mode
Did you know Samsung has a convertible Windows 10 notebook? Well you would be forgiven for not knowing about it.
Samsung which once decided to leave the laptop market is making a comeback with its latest Windows 10 convertible notebook. Samsung Notebook 7 Spin, as the name implies, is a Notebook 7 notebook with a spinning display.
Samsung Notebook 7 Spin is a 2-in-1 convertible notebook which wa

Karbonn Quattro L55 HD supports 4G LTE with HD voice call compatibility, Bluetooth 4.0, Micro-USB, WiFi (dual band) and GPS.
Karbonn has introduced Quattro L55 HD smartphone in India. While, the 4G-enabled device is listed on Karbonn’s website, the company has not mentioned the price and availability of the phone. We can, however, expect Quattro L55 HD to go on sale soon.
Karbonn Quattro L55 HD features a 5.5-inch HD IPS display with a pixel resolution of 1280×720. The dual-SIM devi

The upgrade would provide app events to Facebook and specify where developers want their ads to be displayed. Representational File Photo.
Social networking giant Facebook has announced its support to “App Event Optimisation” across Facebook, Instagram and its Audience Network from Tuesday, promising more installs of apps and actions within the app.
Launched in 2012 on Facebook, mobile app install ads allow developers to advertise their apps inside the social network’s propert

Online “fingerprinting” would have major marketing possibilities but at the same time exposes users to hackers. (Representational Picture)
Unique online ‘fingerprints’ left behind while using your device in public locations can reveal your identity, and can be used to track your movements, say scientists who are trying to find ways to protect against the fingerprinting of personal computers.
People leave behind online browser “fingerprints” at each location t

Mi India has announced a couple of new offers for its Mi 5, Mi 4 smartphones, Mi power bank and Mi in-ear headphones.
Xiaomi, which entered the India market in 2014, is celebrating its second anniversary in the country. Mi India has announced a couple of new offers for its Mi 5, Mi 4 smartphones, Mi power bank and Mi in-ear headphones. Mi Anniversary discounts will be available from July 20 to July 22 on Flipkart and Mi.com online. The company also unveiled several new products including Mi pow

CEO Reed Hastings blamed the disappointing performance on cancellations by subscribers facing price increases of as much as $2 per month, following the expiration of a two-year rate freeze.
After years of spectacular success, Netflix is starting to hit some potholes. The high-flying internet video service added only 160,000 US subscribers from April through June, its lowest gain in the period since splitting up its video-streaming and DVD-by-mail services five years ago.
In addition to the US s

LG Action Cam LTE users can directly stream to sites like YouTube Live with wireless 4G networks (Source: LG)
LG has added another Friends (read: smartphone accessories) with Action Cam LTE. LG Action Cam LTE is the latest addition to the LG’s increasing range of smartphone accessories.
LG, which announced world’s first modular smartphone, G5 at Mobile World Congress in February added several accessories to complement the device. The accessories, named as Friends, where meant to exp

LG X Screen priced at Rs 12,990 has been launched in India as a Snapdeal exclusive and will start selling from July 20.
LG X Screen priced at Rs 12,990 has been launched in India as a Snapdeal exclusive and will start selling from July 20.
For LG, the X Series are the new budget smartphones, which offer features seen on premium devices of the company. With the X screen, users get the ‘Always On’ display and Dual- Display on top, a feature which was part of the more premium V10 smart

Google’s mixed reality headset will feature outward-facing camera and Movidius chip for motion tracking
Google is reportedly working on its own standalone mixed-reality headset. The headset is reportedly not based on company’s Daydream, the mobile VR platform announced at Google I/O 2016 in May.
According to Recode, Google has killed its own VR project which was aimed at competing with Oculus. However, it seems Google is putting more focus on its mobile VR platform in a push to more

Xiaomi is reported to launch Redmi Note 4 and a laptop at its July 27 event in Beijing (Source: Weibo)
Xiaomi has confirmed its next product launch event will take place in Beijing on July 27. While the event invite doesn’t confirm anything about the product, now reports hint at Xiaomi launching two products.
In a Weibo post, Xiaomi’s Director of new media has confirmed that the company will announce two new products. Xiaomi has already started teasing Redmi Note 4 smartphone with d

WhatsApp is looking to add a new font to its iOS and Android app, and the feature has been spotted in Android beta build (version 2.16.179).
WhatsApp is looking to add a new font to its iOS and Android app, and the feature has been spotted in Android beta build (version 2.16.179). The new WhatsApp version is available via Google Play’s beta program, and the feature has also been spotted by iOS beta users.
Users of WhatsApp will now be able to use a different font for chatting. The font &n

Reliance Jio Infocomm seems to have spurred a data war. Let us take a look at how what other telecoms are offering in terms of data packs and tariffs in Delhi/NCR.
Reliance Jio Infocomm seems to have spurred a data war. The competition between telecoms is getting intense, with companies like Idea and Airtel slashing rates for their data packs. In what seems to be a retaliation to ‘soon-to-be commercially launched’ Reliance Jio’s 4G services, Internet packs offered by other com

Is this entry-level smartphone pretending to be a polished mid-segment piece? We find out.
Itel is among the new players entering the Indian market, this time with a offline-only strategy. Its first big offering is a selfie phone, the it1511. The phone has the ‘IT’ factor missing, but makes up for the loss by getting its pricing right.
For Rs 6,999, this 4G-enabled ‘selfie pro’ comes with an 8MP rear and 2MP front camera. To top it all off, it is packed with the latest A

Reliance Jio Infocomm seems to have spurred a data war. Let us take a look at how what other telecoms are offering in terms of data packs and tariffs in Delhi/NCR.
Reliance Jio Infocomm seems to have spurred a data war. The competition between telecoms is getting intense, with companies like Idea and Airtel slashing rates for their data packs. In what seems to be a retaliation to ‘soon-to-be commercially launched’ Reliance Jio’s 4G services, Internet packs offered by other com

While Pokémon GO has not yet been launched in India, there is still a lot of craze around the game in the country. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
Pokémon GO has captured the world’s imagination like no other game has in recent times. And as expected it is also getting a lot of media attention and coverage since its launch on July 6.
Meltwater, a global media intelligence company, has been tracking the conversations on social media and says most of it is happening in USA, Fr

LG X Screen priced at Rs 12,990 has been launched in India as a Snapdeal exclusive and will start selling from July 20.
LG X Screen priced at Rs 12,990 has been launched in India as a Snapdeal exclusive and will start selling from July 20.
For LG, the X Series are the new budget smartphones, which offer features seen on premium devices of the company. With the X screen, users get the ‘Always On’ display and Dual- Display on top, a feature which was part of the more premium V10 smart