Digital security company Gemalto NV was hacked by American and British spies to steal encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications, news website Intercept reported, citing documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The hack by the National Security Agency (NSA) and UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) allowed the agencies to monitor a large portion... 

Videocon Telecom on Thursday said it has plans to invest Rs. 1,200 crores over three years on high-speed 4G mobile services to be launched in UP and Bihar by December at rates at par with 2G and 3G Internet services. The company will also offer 4G mobile Internet plans bundled with mobile devices in these service areas. “We have partially launched our 2G services in UP East, UP West and Bihar... 

OnePlus, as promised, on Thursday revealed more details about the upcoming OxygenOS and also introduced the team behind the new OS. The company showcased the new logo for the OxygenOS while also announced March as the release month for the new OS for OnePlus devices during a Reddit AMAA session. Carl Pei, the Co-founder, Director of Global at OnePlus in a blog post introduced the team working on the... 

Motorola, as promised, has started rolling out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the budget Moto E and high-end Moto Maxx smartphones. The company announced the rollout on Twitter. Notably, the Android 5.0 Lollipop update is rolling out to limited Moto E and Moto Maxx users who are under the company’s soak test. The Lenovo-owned company confirmed soak test for the Moto Maxx in Brazil and Mexico... 

Apple Inc has a secret lab working on the creation of an Apple-branded electric car, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The project has designed a vehicle that looks like a minivan, the newspaper quoted one person as saying. It would take years to finish the project, and it is not certain if Apple will eventually build a car, the Journal said. The news... 

Motorola India has announced a bevy of offers on Moto devices in India on completing a year in the Indian market (since the launch of the first-generation Moto G) with its exclusive online partner, Flipkart. The new offers are valid on the purchase of the Moto E, Moto G (Gen 2), Moto X (Gen 2), Google Nexus 6 and Moto 360 via Flipkart from February 9 to 15. To start off, the company has temporarily... 

HTC has confirmed that the Android 5.0 Lollipop update is now rolling out to HTC One aka HTC One (M7), specifically, the unlocked and Developer Edition variants. HTC’s VP of Product Management Mo Versi in a tweet early on Friday confirmed the news. Notably, the HTC One will receive Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update with Sense 6 UI. Unfortunately, the Taiwanese company is yet to reveal the changelog... 

WhatsApp has rolled out its new free voice-calling feature to a few users India which appears to be available on invite-only basis, as of now. The invite-only basis basically means that users will get a call through WhatsApp from someone who already has the feature updated. The feature is also restricted to Android only and you will need the updated 2.11.508 version to access the app. A report by GSM... 

Xiaomi’s 2013 flagship smartphone, the Mi 3 is now receiving MIUI 6 update based on Android 4.4 KitKat in India. Xiaomi India, at the Mi 4 launch event, had confirmed that the Mi 3 will receive the update starting Wednesday. The Chinese company also confirmed that the MIUI 6 update will be rolled out to all the Xiaomi smartphones that have been sold in India. Apart from the Mi 3, the Redmi Note... 

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is closer to losing its crown as global smartphone leader after posting a plunge in quarterly mobile earnings on Thursday, a day after rival Apple Inc reported the biggest profit in corporate history. The South Korean giant said earnings from smartphones and other mobile gadgets dropped 64 percent annually in the October-December period to 1.96 trillion KRW ($1.80 billion,... 

Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has commissioned Nokia Networks for the expansion of its fourth generation (4G) presence in six new circles, a joint statement said Tuesday. “The deal marks India’s first FDD-LTE (frequency division duplex-long term evolution) deployment on 1800MHz that will witness the launch of super-fast mobile broadband in six circles. Nokia Networks, already a... 

The government Wednesday decided not to contest a Bombay High Court ruling that telecom major Vodafone was not liable to pay tax demand of Rs. 3,200 crores in a transfer pricing case, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said and hoped that the decision would boost foreign investors’ sentiment. “The cabinet has decided not to move the Supreme Court in this regard. This is...