The world's most popular messaging app is Now blocked by Iranian authorities. WhatsApp, recently acquired by Facebook, was a key avenue for people to communicate with friends and relatives inside and outside Iran, but Iran's Committee on Internet Crimes has ruled.

What reason could there be for this? It's Mark Zuckerberg's fault apparently. Because he is an American who now owns WhatsApp, it must be stopped. The messaging service joins WeChat, which was banned last year.

"The reason for this is the assumption of WhatsApp by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg," said Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, head of the aforementioned internet crimes committee.

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The jury in the Federal patent trial between Apple and Samsung on Friday concluded that Samsung must pay Apple an amount of $119.6 million. Most experts had expected a higher damages total considering that the devices involved in this case were more current than the ones involved in the first trial.

The jury concluded that Samsung infringed on Apple's '647 data tapping patent, which deals with saving data on your device, and then calling it up and using it later. The jury also ruled that Samsung did not infringe on the '959 patent or '414 patent. The latter deals with syncing data. The infamous '721 "slide-to-unlock" patent, was found to have been infringed on by some Samsung devices, like the Samsung GALAXY Nexus. The jury also computed the damages that Samsung owed for infringing on Apple's (172 Autocorrect patent). Judge Lucy Koh had already ruled that Samsung had infringed on that patent and the jury only was asked to decided the amount of the damages.

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Well, It's a common knowledge that the blue glow emitted from your mobile device's screen is anything but a stimulate towards healthy sleep. The information overload from browsing and consuming content hardly helps, either. There is such thing as over-eating on information, and frankly, our brains love it but it comes at the expense of sluggish performance when used to do anything else. Check out this Infographic.

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Most of the New flagship Smartphones this year has Wireless charging support, but not all models. However, most automakers have been focused more on the automation and integration with mobile in general rather than a nice-to-have feature.

Toyota brought wireless charging to its Avalon vehicles for the 2013 model year, the company chose to incorporate the Qi wireless charging standard. Toyota has continued with that standard as it brings wireless charging to the Camry 2015 year model vehicles.

The 2015 Toyota Camry is not yet available, but you can expect to see it make its debut sometime this summer.

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In developed markets, LTE service has quickly become the norm. The data service has proven to be an improvement over the older "3G" networks in just about every way. While we refer to LTE service as "4G,".

LTE-Advanced meets the true definition of 4G and as such, the insiders refer to LTE-A as "true 4G." Since LTE-A is already seeing commercial deployment, eyes are already starting to look at what is next. What is in store for us with 5G?

Mr. Onoe, along with Nokia Solutions and Networks VP of research and technology, Lauri Oksanen, said there is still a great deal of work to be done just to reach a definition of what 5G will be, but there are some things they both expect to see written into the specification.

5G will most certainly operate with much higher frequency bands and utilize millimeter wave radios. This is based on the expectation that providers will simply need access to more spectrum. With higher bands though (28GHz and above) comes the requirement for more densely arrayed antenna systems.

That means 5G will definitely have some spec requirements related to the physical facilities on the back end. 5G will have a more comprehensive multi-frequency standard as well, since the lower frequency bands will eventually migrate to the new standard and will be needed for the same reasons they are desirable now. Machine-to-machine communication will be in the picture as well.

Onoe believes the year 2020 may see the first launch of 5G and we may begin seeing testing of the technology as early as 2018.

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