Mi Neckband Bluetooth Earphones Launched in India for Rs. 1,599 Xiaomi has expanded its audio portfolio in India by launching the Mi Neckband Bluetooth earphones that wasoriginally released late last yearin China. The device comes with a price-tag of Rs. 1,599, and will beavailable for purchase on Mi.comstarting July 23. The Mi Neckband Bluetooth earphones are said to be made with soft, durable and skin-friendly rubber material, while the Micro-Arc collar design is said to sit‘perfectly and comfortably’around the users’ neck....

Microsoft Warned Nearly 10,000 Customers of Nation-Sponsored Cyberattacks in 2018 In an era where vote tampering is one of the biggest fears among the voters, Microsoft reveals that it’s working on an election system that can not only make the process a lot more secure but accessible as well. Also, Microsoft revealed in itsofficial blog postthat nearly 10,000 customers were targets of cyberattack by nation-sponsored actors in the previous year and their data was compromised....

Netflix will Finally Announce a Cheaper, Mobile-only Plan in India Netflix may be one of the most popular video streaming services in the world right now, but the company has struggled to gain a strong foothold in India, mostly because, even though the company’s subscription plans for India are slightly more affordable than they are in the US, they’re still pretty expensive for an emerging market. For what its worth, the company seems to have recognised that, and in a new letter to investors obtained byThe Verge, the company has said that it will be launching a new mobile-only plan that will allow users to get much more affordable access to the company’s library of TV shows and movies....

Realme Takes a Swipe at Redmi K20 With ‘Kill the Hype, Let’s be Real’ Campaign To counter the intense media hype over theRedmi K20 and K20 Pro launchin India on Wednesday, Realme probably felt it needed to up its social media game to let prospective customers know that it intends to take Xiaomi’s latest offerings head-on with its all-new mid-ranger, the Realme X. To steal Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 thunder, Realme on Wednesday launched a‘Kill the Hype, Let’s be Real’campaign on social media to assert that its new phone is actually an overall better value proposition than either of Xiaomi’s latest offerings....

Samsung Begins Mass Producing 12Gb LPDDR5 Mobile DRAM to Enable 5G, AI Features Samsung on Thursday announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 12-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR5 mobile DRAM, which has been optimized for enabling 5G and AI features in future smartphones. The company also said that it plans to start mass producing 12-gigabyte (GB) LPDDR5 packages later this month, each combining eight of the 12Gb chips, in line with growing demand for higher smartphone performance and capacity....

Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Rumored to Launch August 7 With the Galaxy Note 10 At itsGalaxy Note 10 launch eventin New York on August 7, Samsung will also reportedly launch its next-gen flagship tablet. That’s according to a new report from Android Headlines, which claims that the upcoming device will be named theGalaxy Tab S6instead of Tab S5 so as to avoid confusion with the Tab S5e that was released last February....

Two Apple Ads Nominated for ‘Outstanding Commercial’ Emmys It’s that time of the year when the best television programs in the US are awarded with Emmys – the TV industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. The nominations for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Tuesday, with‘Game of Thrones’receiving a record-breaking 32 nominations, the most for any drama series in a single year. Meanwhile, two Apple ads created by Apple’s longtime advertising partner, TBWA/Media Arts Lab, were nominated in the‘Outstanding Commercial’category....