In an attempt to help deal with abuse and harassment, Twitter has rolled out a new feature which makes it easier to report threats on its service to the police.
Twitter’s Blog posted that users can file a report by simply clicking on, ‘Email Report’. After this, Twitter will send the user an email that packages the threatening tweet along with the URL. It also adds in the responsible Twitter username and URL, and a time-stamp as well as your...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
After announcing that Windows 10 will release this summer, Microsoft also revealed towards the end of their blog that it is working with Chinese handset maker Xiaomi to offer some customers a test version of Windows 10 on their smartphones.
Microsoft wrote on the company blog post that it will help a select group of Xiaomi Mi4 users ‘flash’ their phones with the new Windows 10 OS on their handsets and let them contribute to its future release...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
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Cyber attackers caused the outage of Dutch government websites and a prominent satirical news portal for most of Tuesday, a Dutch government official said on Wednesday.
The outage affected most of the central government’s main websites but phones and emergency communication channels remained online. Other websites, including GeenStijl.nl, which mocks politicians and religions, were also hit by the “distributed denial of service” attack,...
There have been a lot of Uber specific announcements off late. Yet another new announcement is its partnership with Google Maps. It looks like you can now book Uber rides through Google Maps. This service was first introduced in select countries abroad back in May last year.
If you have the Google Maps and Uber app installed on your phone, and if you are looking for ways to get from point A to B, you will be provided with a list of options....
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
One of the most popular file-sharing service, RapidShare, has called it quits. It has announced that it will shut down the service on March 31.
After March 31, all accounts will no longer be accessible and get deleted automatically. The service also states that customers will be able to use Standard Plus (€49.99 per month) and Premium (€99.99 per month) subscriptions only until February 28.
RapidShare has also asked its users to secure...
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Xiaomi India has been embroiled in a legal battle with Ericsson. According to the latest reports, Ericsson has claimed that Xiaomi is violating the Delhi High Court’s order by still selling phones with the MediaTek-based chipsets via a website called www.xiaomishop.com. But Xiaomi’s lawyers have refuted the claim saying that the company has absolutely no stake in the website and in fact some third party is misusing its name.
This issue...
Law enforcement cannot indefinitely forbid Yahoo from revealing a grand jury subpoena that seeks subscriber account information, a U.S. judge ruled, because doing so would violate the company’s free speech rights.
US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California on Thursday wrote that the government’s request would prohibit Yahoo from disclosing the subpoena, even years after the grand jury concluded its probe. The court order does not...
Saturday, 7 February 2015
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Starting February 16, users will have to move away from Google Talk and embrace Hangouts, whether they like it or not. Yes, Google is all set to force users to switch to Hangouts, as it seems to be the future for the search giant.
This isn’t surprising as Google had already made it clear as Gtalk was unavailable for download from Google. Lats year, GTalk was suddenly replaced with Hangouts and most people started finding it very confusing....
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Four years ago, we wrote about YouTube’s early support for the HTML5 <video> tag and how it performed compared to Flash. At the time, there were limitations that held it back from becoming our preferred platform for video delivery. Most critically, HTML5 lacked support for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) that lets us show you more videos with less buffering.
Over the last four years, we’ve worked with browser vendors and the broader community...
Monday, 26 January 2015
Today photographic instruments are evolving at a great speed. The need for remote shutters has been present since a long time. And the remote controllers for the camera are really expensive, and also they do not offer much productivity and ease of control. Plus you need to carry them every time, and everywhere you take your camera. now just imagine a scenario, where you could remotely control the Android device using your smartphone. Here is a...
So you are here because you probably have had set a Pattern lock on your android device, and somehow you forgot the the pattern. So just rather than getting a whole factory reset of your device, we have a very easy and nice tutorial to get your Phone unlocked while not even loosing a single contact out of your Phone.
Pattern lock on an android device provides users a great security which further prevents your smartphone with any accidental...
.NET Cross-Platform, .NET Open Source, ASP.NET 5, C#, Cross-Platform Mobile Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio Community 2013, xamarin
Visual Studio and .NET have been two bedrocks of the Microsoft developer ecosystem for over a decade. With over 1.8 billion installations of .NET and over 7 million downloads of Visual Studio 2013 in just the last year, Visual Studio and .NET are enabling millions of developers to build some of today’s most important software and services powering businesses, apps and sites.
Today, we are taking the next big step for the Microsoft developer...
Saturday, 24 January 2015
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Google owns the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, but hasn’t been able to churn out an instant messaging app that everyone could rely on. If you remember, it tried buying WhatsApp for $10 billion. The deal didn’t materialise and it lost to Facebook who bought the most popular messaging app for a whopping $19 billion.
This has left Google with Hangouts, one of the most popular (rather the only) feature to emerge out Google+....
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MS Office 2016
Microsoft made some big announcements earlier this week at the Windows 10 event, but there wasn’t much talk about its productivity suite.
At the Windows 10 preview, it spoke about the lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on tablets and phones running Windows 10. They will also be available to download from the Windows Store for other Windows 10 devices. “But they’re really just lightweight...
Apple Inc.
BEIJING: Apple has agreed to China's demand of carrying out security checks on its products, including iPhone, the country's cyber security regulator has announced. The decision makes Apple the first foreign company to accept its proposal on security checks, Cyberspace Administration of China, said.
The move is significant because other US companies including Google and Facebook have earlier refused to undergo security checks....