FBI’s iPhone Hack May Not Necessarily Crack Other Cases: Experts

In some respite to India’s cheapest smartphone makers, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday granted interim relief to Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd – the Noida-based firm that created a global buzz after announcing the launch of the controversial Freedom 251, a Rs. 251 smartphone, last month. While hearing the plea, the division bench of Justice B.K. Narayan and Justice Shashi Kant ordered the UP state government to furnish a status report on an urgent basis by April 5, further directing that no coercive steps be taken till then against the…

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Soon, Your Smartphone Could Be Your Passport

Forgot your passport on way to the airport? Relax as De La Rue, a Britain-based commercial banknote printer and passport manufacturer, is working on a technology that can store “paperless passports” in smartphones. The technology would allow travellers to do without the booklets and switch to “paperless passports” that would act similar to mobile boarding cards enabling a tourist to travel through an airport without documents of any kind, the Telegraph reported. “Paperless passports are one of many initiatives that we are currently looking at, but at the moment it…

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Samsung the Third Most Reputed Firm in the US: Report

South Korea’s No.1 tech firm Samsung Electronics Co. was named the third-most reputable company in the US, an industry tracker said on Wednesday. Samsung’s rival, the top tech giant Apple Inc., remained out of the top 100, Yonhap news agency reported. According to research conducted by US-based Reputation Institute, the South Korean tech giant came in behind Amazon.com Inc. and Hallmark Cards Inc. in terms of reputation in the country. Foodstuffs maker Kellogg Company, Japanese tech giant Sony Corp. and Johnson & Johnson followed Samsung on the list. Switzerland-based watch…

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Micromax Canvas Spark 3 With 5.5-Inch Display Launched at Rs. 4,999

Micromax, after listing its Spark 3 (Q385) smartphone on the company website earlier this month, has finally launched the handset in India priced at Rs. 4,999. It will be available to buy from Snapdeal via a flash sale method starting April 7. Registrations for the first sale however, will commence from April 1. The Canvas Spark 2 successor comes with a bigger and better display, more RAM, higher resolution camera, double the inbuilt storage, a bigger battery, and more. As mentioned before, the Micromax Canvas Spark 3 is a dual-SIM…

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HTC 10’s Speedy, Smooth Performance Touted by Company Ahead of Launch

Ahead of the April 12 launch, HTC has once again teased its upcoming flagship – anticipated to be called the HTC 10 – talking about its performance. In the meanwhile, the handset allegedly now passed the GFXBench benchmark, revealing its specifications. HTC India on Tuesday tweeted a teaser image of the HTC 10 showing the physical home button, and the two capacitive touch buttons at the front below the screen. “Not all phones are created equal. The fastest and smoothest Android. You’ll feel it,” the tweet mentioned. In the meanwhile,…

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Apple Could Use Brooklyn Case to Pursue Details About FBI iPhone Hack: Report

If the US Department of Justice asks a New York court to force Apple Inc to unlock an iPhone, the technology company could push the government to reveal how it accessed the phone which belonged to a shooter in San Bernardino, a source familiar with the situation said. The Justice Department will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The Justice Department this week…

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