Mobile Phone

The “Game of Thrones” effect is in full force for HBO NOW, the premium network’s streaming service for cord cutters. According to new data from app market data provider App Annie, the iOS and Android versions of the HBO NOW mobile app have together generated $19 million in U.S. revenue …

For years, advocates of net neutrality have warned against the damage that could be done if companies are allowed to separate the Internet into pricing tiers. Verizon was inevitably going to be the first telco to make this kind of move; the firm sued to block relatively toothless net neutrality …

Musical.ly, an app best known for its lip-syncing music videos, but which has more recently begun to air shows from Viacom, NBCU and Hearst, is today rolling out an overhaul of its mobile app that will put an increased emphasis on personalization and recommendations. Most notably, the update includes a …

Google announced a major update to its mobile search results pages today. Whenever your query brings up a video, Google will now show you a silent six-second clip to help you decide if it’s actually a video you want to see. This will work for the vast majority of videos …

From now on, all Beijing train lines will support NFC-enabled smart phone entrance. The passengers no longer need to utilize public transport cards or tickets, and can simply swipe their phone to go into the train, Chinese media Beijing Youth Daily is reporting.Smartphones installed with NFC(near-field wireless interaction)module can support …

he federal government stated it is not possible to monitor all cellphone messages, consisting of whatsApp, in the nation. Read More

Future Android phones could come equipped with some fancy new camera features thanks to technology being developed by Qualcomm. The company has yet to announce its next-generation Snapdragon system-on-a-chip (SoC), but it’s already showing off some wild things it’ll be able to do. An updated version of Qualcomm’s image signal …

Google’s consumer-facing chat application Allo, a successor of sorts to Gchat, is today available on the web for desktop users. The service, which lets you chat with friends while taking advantage of features like stickers, “smart replies” for one-tap responses, and Google Assistant integration, among other things, has been in …

Google today is expanding its speech recognition capabilities to support dozens of new languages, particularly those in emerging markets in India and Africa, the company announced this morning. That means more people around the world will gain the ability to search the web by voice as well as type via …

Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on mobile that includes its own link in the app’s main navigation. This follows the company’s earlier announcement this spring of a redesign for Trending Topics, an increasingly important part of Facebook’s social network, where it tracks the news stories that are buzzing across …