By: Shahbaaz+
August 11, 2012
Do you have multiple Gmail accounts? Are you tired of signing in and out of different Gmail addresses everyday? If the answer to these questions is dramatically Yes, yes, yes!, here’s some good news for you. Google has started rolling out a new feature that allows users to stay signed in to multiple accounts simultaneously. [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
August 11, 2012
Apple announced an amazing new feature during the iOS 6 launch ceremony at WWDC 2012. It’s called the Passbook. Apple iOS Passbook, as the name goes, is a digital dossier for all your digital coupons, and tickets. It can hold all your boarding passes, retail coupons and loyalty cards among other things in a very [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
August 9, 2012
When we first saw LCARS, the super-duper computer in the Star Trek series, we were completely bowled by the sophistication of design and the ultra-interactive technology that the movie portrayed. Yes, that was truly amazing but fictitious to the core. Decades later now, technology has evolved and things have changed. Such movies have inevitably inspired [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
July 12, 2012
In a startling revelation this morning, Hackers posted passwords and usernames for over 453000 user accounts associated with Yahoo. The extracted user credentials were posted publicly by the group of hackers called D33Ds Company. Early reports suggest that the service under attack is identified as Yahoo Voices. The published list contained unencrypted plain-text user IDs [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
July 2, 2012
If you know about Facebook, you pretty much know the importance of keeping your online contacts safe, unaltered and precisely, the way you want them to be. But, a recent bug in the Facebook’s debacle-spelling email address rollout messed up emails of a muckle of users. Facebook users around the globe have been complaining about [...]
By: Abbas+
April 12, 2012
Thanks to Facebook, Google and a gazillion other companies who feed on user information for advertising dollars, “Privacy” has now become a unique selling point. Most of these companies track user behavior and use other user related information to show relevant advertisements and improve product experience for the user. With so many privacy policies floating [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
December 23, 2011
In a shocking incident yesterday, user credentials of almost 38 million users was compromised in a series of attempts by hackers. The hacking community broke into multiple gaming sites and grabbed user names and passwords of millions of users. Some of these were also published online (see screenshot after the break). The affected portals are [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
December 18, 2011
Joining Microsoft and Google in the social networking space, Microsoft announced its own social network. It’s called So.cl (read “social”). True to its name, Microsoft So.cl brings a whole lot of social features to your web. Basically, it’s a research project developed by Microsoft FUSE Labs. It combines the experience of the web and at [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
December 13, 2011
In an effort to promote digital education particularly involving the use of internet videos in classrooms, YouTube has just launched YouTube for Schools. The primary idea behind this is to provide only educational content to students and schools and not any irrelevant media. This YouTube achieved by developing a new network setting that allows only [...]
By: Shahbaaz+
November 11, 2011
Just a niggling two days after the Firefox 8 final release went live, Mozilla today released the first beta release of Firefox 9 web browser. The new browser is now available for all developers to download, test and try it. There’s not much improvements to brag about the new release, but is worth noting that [...]