As of now, existing users can log in to Spotify’s official website and change the country to be able to use make payments to the Premium plans. For which, they need to go to this page, change the country to India (in case you have selected another country), and wait for a few minutes before the plans are displayed on the screen. On the other hand, those wanting to use the service for the first time may not be able to sign up and pay for the plans currently....

While convenient, this form of contactless payment exposes you to attack from crooks with RFID-enabled devices. They need only stand close enough to your wallet and cards to steal your information. Tap or click here to see how to protect your payment cards. There’s not much our smartphones can’t do at this point, including the ability to pay retailers and other people for goods and services. Simply set up your phone with a payment app and you’re good to go....

Microsoft expanded the functionality within its productivity apps with giving Dropbox integration in Android smartphones the green light, but that’s not all the company is tweaking. As revealed by the Skype blog, the latest update for the app, which should be available for Android smartphones now, will allow for one major change for heavy users: The new Skype for Android will let users send pictures to users in their friend’s list, even if they happen to be offline when it’s sent....

For those who do not want to share their location, Snapchat is including a feature called “Ghost Mode.” So You can decide if you want to share your location with friends or simply keep it to yourself. https://youtu.be/bvl82FfnUvw To use the “Snap Map“, you need to pinch on your Snapchat camera home screen. From there you can scroll around to see where your friends are in your city or anywhere around the world....

The Son of a former Brazilian president has been under custody for copying Wikipedia informational page CTRL+C. Wikipedia is a giant source of knowledge and has a wide range of information regarding everything in the world. However, using it as the primary source for something or copying entire texts is always dangerous and even suspect, even if it involves a million real works that can be the subject of a police investigation at any time....

You typically use SMS messages for when you want to send texts and only texts, while MMS is for when you want to send multimedia messages (in fact, that’s what the two Ms stand for)SMS does not require an internet connection, while MMS doesMMS uses more data than SMS–this is because there are more steps to sending an MMS than an SMS (you can learn more about this in a later section)SMS has a length limit (160 characters), while MMS does not have any kind of limit on length–only on file sizes you can send...

Thus, the company published its Background defocus app in the ay store. The app lets you select the object that remains in focus while the background gets blurred out. After you snap the photo, you can then adjust the blur level blur effect. For best results, Sony says to shoot the object from 0.5- to 1.5-feet away. The app only works with Sony’s Xperia devices, so if you were looking to download it for your other-br phone, you’re out of luck....

A quick recap of our discussion in the previous article: Apps may make HTTP connections and send sensitive data in clear text, which will put the application in risk. Apps may ignore SSL warnings making the app potentially vulnerable to MiTM attacks. Even if developers safely implement SSL connections in the app by not ignoring SSL warnings, it is still possible for the attacker to intercept the traffic. By adding PortSwigger CA certificate to our machine’s trust store, one can see the SSL traffic in Burp without getting any errors on the client application....

Sony’s German affiliate has just launched [translated] a trio of new devices that are meant to stand out in a crowd, thanks to unique pieces of art printed on the back of each device. The devices span the Z3 lineup, including the Xperia Z3, the Xperia Z3 Compact and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. Each one features a piece of artwork specifically designed to feature a major city of the world....

If you have not already figured it out — 2014 is the year of fake ‘bokeh’ effect in the smartphone world. While HTC used a second camera to achieve this effect, other OEMs are just using software tricks to achieve the desired results. Even the latest update to Google Camera introduces Lens Blur, which allows users to blur the background behind the subject. Joining them today is Sony that has uploaded its Background defocus app on the Play Store for a limited set of Xperia devices....

Apart from Google, no other major Android OEM has ever provided any word on their official Android update policy. Sony, however, is bucking the trend and has provided an official statement on its Android upgrade policy for its devices. The company says in its statement that it aims to support its premium flagship devices with the latest Android updates for two years after they are first released. For mid-range and entry-level devices though, the company decides on whether it should go ahead with the upgrade or not after testing them....

Sony may have just had their Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact leak out, but that’s obviously not going to stop them from focusing on the devices that are out there in the wild, in customer’s hands. For anyone who owns the Xperia M2 or M2 Dual, you’ve got a fresh update to Android 4.4.4 KitKat rolling your way now. Sony officially unveiled the Xperia M2 in February of this year, and the M2 Dual not too long after that....

Now, Sonos, which for much of its existence had dogmatically avoided standalone speakers, has finally moved out of the house and gotten a job as a respectable Bluetooth speaker with the Sonos Move. In fairness, it has done this without compromising on its commitment to networked audio as the Move is a full-fledged Sonos speaker – albeit a larger one than the Sonos One owing in part to its integrated battery....

But new information arouses and shows that a wide range of popular flagship devices will even be left out. All the devices which are based on SoCs 800 and 801 are excluded, yes, now many of you might getting shocked after reading this, but, it is true, and all this happens because of the Qualcomm. Apart from the tech giant Google, smartphone manufacturers themselves are only responsible for the part of the components which are used in Android updates....

Sony has little to no presence in the U.S. market so its not surprising to see the company launch its flagship handsets in the country four months after its official release. Not too surprisingly thus, the company is not launching its super-premium Xperia Z5 Premium in the country, which is the first smartphone in the world to feature a 4K resolution display. As for specs, both the Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact are powered by a Snapdragon 810 chipset and sport a 23MP rear shooter with an f/2....

10/10/10 – Experts predict Virus Attack There are rumors about a possible virus attack on web on this special day. Some of the experts have warned about the malware attack on web at 10:10 am/pm Sunday, Oct 2010 as it appears like 10.10.10, a date whose symmetry has occurred once a year since 2001 and will do so until 2012. They predict Y2K kind of a scenario where people feared the computers to stop working once the clock hits a particular time....

Most people own more than a couple of accounts on social media sites and use them fairly regular (even every day, as we have mentioned above). They connect with others and share personal information, videos and pictures of them and their loved ones. They also share their thoughts and anything else worthy of attention. Due to the significant increase in the social media accounts and their gravity, there have been major incidents of hacking....

Sony’s original SmartWatch 3, with its rubber band, went up for sale near the end of 2014. In early January, though, the company unveiled a stainless steel variant. And now, Sony has confirmed that the premium wearable will go up for sale beginning sometime “this week.” That means it should be available in many different markets around the world at some point this week, so if you’ve been waiting to get your wrist underneath this particular wearable, the wait is finally coming to a close....

Despite the fact that Sony actually launched the Xperia Z4 earlier this year, it looks like the company already has a new handset on the way. As revealed by Xperia Blog, and based on press images of the unannounced handset that were apparently released, but quickly pulled, by Sony’s PR team, these are images of the upcoming Z5. As one can immediately tell, the Z5 looks like the Z4, as far as the major strokes of design are concerned....

Given Sony’s tradition of biyearly flagship launches, it hasn’t been surprising to see that the Xperia Z3 is already under testing less than three months after the Xperia Z2 went up for sale. We’ve seen live photos of a device purported to be the Xperia Z3, and today, Sony’s upcoming hero device has taken a step closer to launch with a stopover at the FCC. The early FCC certification indicates that Sony is aiming for a simultaneous launch of the phone in the US and other markets, instead of making stateside customers wait months on end like it has done until now....