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Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 billion

Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 billion

New York: Facebook is buying mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock, by far the company’s largest acquisition and bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done. The world’s biggest social networking company ...

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Mobile phone tariffs likely to go up: Vodafone

Mobile phone tariffs likely to go up: Vodafone

Vodafone India has said the mobile telecom industry has reached a point where annual tariff increases are needed to sustain itself. “We have had declining tariffs for 18 years; this cannot be sustained forever. We believe the point has come ...

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Apple to announce new Apple TV line in April 2014

Apple to announce new Apple TV line in April 2014

San Francisco: Apple Inc is in talks with Time Warner Cable and other content partners for a faster TV set-top box with a new user-interface that could be revealed as soon as April, Bloomberg cited sources familiar with the matter ...

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Viber CEO denies reports of talks to sell company

Viber CEO denies reports of talks to sell company

TEL AVIV: Viber Media denied a media report that the popular instant messaging application is in talks to be acquired by an Asian company. Israel’s Calcalist financial newspaper reported that Viber was in talks to acquired by a leading instant ...

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What Samsung is saying about the Galaxy S 5

What Samsung is saying about the Galaxy S 5

Samsung isn’t going to make a big song-and-dance when it finally reveals its next flagship smartphone, at least not literally. When it announced last year’s Galaxy S 4, the company put on a pretty grand show in New York. However, ...

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California Law Would Require Smartphone Anti-Theft ‘Kill Switch’

California Law Would Require Smartphone Anti-Theft ‘Kill Switch’

SAN FRANCISCO (AP): Officials in California on Friday are set to outline proposed state legislation requiring smartphones and other mobile devices to have a “kill switch” that would render them inoperable if lost or stolen. State Sen. Mark Leno, San ...

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Xolo Q1010 appears online for Rs 12,998, brings a 5-inch screen

Xolo Q1010 appears online for Rs 12,998, brings a 5-inch screen

The Xolo Q1010 has unofficially been launched in India like a horde of other devices and you will see a price tag of Rs 12,998 attached to it. The company has not acknowledged the device as yet and neither has ...

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Apple policies frustrating users?

Apple policies frustrating users?

Apple’s decision to remove a programme used to send and receive Bitcoins from its App Store prompted Barry Silbert to end a love affair with his iPhone. “I’m switching,” Silbert, chief executive officer of New York-based SecondMarket, said in an ...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 specs leaked in benchmark test

Samsung Galaxy S5 specs leaked in benchmark test

NEW DELHI: Ahead of its unveiling at Mobile World Congress 2014 in February end, Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone has once again become the talking point in the tech community. All the key specifications of the model have been leaked ...

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Apple iPhone 6 to have 10MP camera: Report

Apple iPhone 6 to have 10MP camera: Report

iPhone 5S has one of the best cameras among smartphones, but Apple may be taking things up a notch with the next-generation model. Chinese technology website IT168 has reported that Apple will use a 10MP camera in the upcoming iPhone ...

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Facebook 10th Anniversary

Facebook 10th Anniversary

” Social networking website Facebook is celebrating its 10th birthday this week, marking a decade of ups and downs that has concluded with outstanding profits, more than 1.2 billion users worldwide and the need to keep expanding so as not ...

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Facebook for Android can read your SMSs

Facebook for Android can read your SMSs

Leading social media company Facebook wants to read SMSs and other confidential information of people on the Android mobile phone platform, cyber security firm Kaspersky said today. “Over the last few days there has been a constant scrutiny over Facebook ...

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Samsung to unveil latest Galaxy smartphone in late February

Samsung to unveil latest Galaxy smartphone in late February

Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co will unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month, but expectations are low that features such as a bigger screen will lead to a sharp jump in sales given intensifying competition. Samsung ...

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Indian-American student develops 3-D printed loudspeaker

Indian-American student develops 3-D printed loudspeaker

NEW YORK: Led by an Indian-American student Apoorva Kiran, scientists at Cornell University have 3-D printed a working loudspeaker – seamlessly integrating the plastic, conductive and magnetic parts – and ready for use almost as soon as it comes out ...

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iPhone Allegedly Catches Fire in Teenager’s Pocket

iPhone Allegedly Catches Fire in Teenager’s Pocket

Apple is in the news yet again, and not for the right reasons this time. A 13-year-old girl in Maine, US suffered first- and second-degree burns as her iPhone spontaneously caught fire while in her pocket. According to a report ...

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Google Brings Chrome Apps To Android And iOS

Google Brings Chrome Apps To Android And iOS

Washington: Internet search giant Google has reportedly launched a toolset, which will help developers port their apps from Chrome desktop browser to iOS and Android. The move is being seen as an effort by the search giant, to expand the ...

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Google sells Motorola Mobility Unit to Lenovo

Google sells Motorola Mobility Unit to Lenovo

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is selling Motorola’s smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, a price that makes Google’s biggest acquisition look like its most expensive mistake. The deal announced on Wednesday will rid Google Inc. of a financial headache that ...

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Nokia Lumia 720: A pricey mid-ranger

Nokia Lumia 720: A pricey mid-ranger

Nokia Lumia 720 is the second windows phone we are reviewing for Bytes. Though it was launched nearly 9 months ago, still in Bangladesh the set is fairly new. It came in the market as a high-end phone but now ...

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Nokia Lumia 1320 UK Release In February

Nokia Lumia 1320 UK Release In February

Previously available in Asia, the UK is getting a release for Nokia’s mid-range phablet Back in October Nokia announced the Lumia 1320 but it was strictly for a release in Asia. Now consumers in the UK are going to be ...

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