Netflix is betting that more of us will be watching anime in the future. The company will partner with more studios in Japan to bring original anime titles to its platform either later this year or early next year, Netflix announced at its 2017 Anime Slate event in Tokyo today. This is in addition to …

Things are looking up for Xiaomi.  The company has just announced a record high of 23.16 million phones shipped in the last quarter, an increase of 70 percent over the previous quarter. Xiaomi has taken quite a beating from its local competitors such as Oppo, Vivo and Huawei in China, so its shipment record comes as good news for the …

Singapore-based MyRepublic wants more than just to be an ISP. It’ll be launching a mobile service in its home market by the end of the year, with launches in Indonesia and Australia to follow right after. Having lost the battle to secure Singapore’s fourth telco license to Australia’s TPG, the company is instead pivoting to becoming a mobile virtual network …

China’s clamping down on users who rely on virtual private networks (VPN) to break free of its notorious internet filter. Dubbed the Great Firewall, the filter blocks access to news sites deemed undesireable by the Chinese government as well as social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, platforms the Chinese government has no control over. To bypass the restrictions, …

Protests at next week’s G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, could also come from all over the internet. And that’s what’s worrying Germany’s top cybersecurity officials. Dozens of experts will stand by at a 24/7 command center among the 20,000 police with dogs, horses and helicopters there to deal with potential physical violence from the expected tens of thousands of protesters, …

Netflix‘s latest original movie is a treat for the eyes and ears, so you may be disappointed to learn that it will have a limited cinema release.  But the streaming service wants to prove that watching movies and TV shows in the comfort of your home can be just as good as heading to your local multiplex. That’s why it’s …

This year’s crop of winners from the iPhone Photography Awards are making the world a more beautiful place, and it’s all thanks to the much-maligned phone camera. From pictures of children framed against a pillar of smoke in the background in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah to protesters in freezing North Dakota to a beautiful shot of the inside of the …

Having shrunk the gap between premium and midrange phones, Qualcomm now wants to work on making budget phones snappier.  It plans on doing that with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 octa-core chips. Built on a 14nm process, these new chips offer a load of performance improvements over its previous 435 processor, including longer battery life and quicker browsing and gaming …

All you GIF lovers on Facebook, here’s your chance to go wild. The social media platform is now letting users post GIFs on comments as a new feature to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the GIF. Which means this is me right now: Giphy And this: Giphy A whopping 13 billion GIFs were sent on Facebook Messenger last year, 400 …

Screen size matters not, it seems, as more than half of us are now watching videos on our phones. A record high of nearly 57 percent of video plays worldwide in the first quarter of this year came from mobile. The Asia Pacific region led the pack with 61 percent of mobile views, and in North America, slightly more than …