Over 1.5 billion airline boarding passes will be delivered via mobile phones or tablets by the end of 2019, new research claims. According to a report from analyst Juniper Research, mobile boarding…
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Twitter updates usage rules to counter revenge porn
Twitter has updated its privacy policy rules in a bid to take on online user abuse and harassment issue. The updated Twitter rules now restrict users from posting intimate photos and videos…
uSwitch names best and worst broadband streets in the UK
New research shows Brits in some parts of the UK are struggling with 135 times slower broadband speeds than others. According to uSwitch, Williamson Road, in Romney Marsh, Kent, has the slowest…
UK ISPs at war with online piracy; block Pirate Bay proxies
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK have started blocking some of the biggest file sharing sites said to carry copyright infringing material including the Pirate Bay as per the orders of…
Face-to-face bullying worse than cyber bullying, new research finds
A new study has claimed that face-to-face bullying is worse than cyber-bullying despite the latter becoming a more prevalent form of harassment. Involving 156 students, the study asked participants to describe their…
Nest planning to take a dive into home audio industry
Home automation company Nest is considering venturing into the home audio business, new job listing suggests. The news comes via a job ad on Nest’s website, first spotted by TechCrunch, which seeks…
Management reshuffle at Microsoft sees Tsunoda’s role expand
Microsoft has revealed that it has expanded Kudo Tsunoda’s role at Microsoft Studios in a major management reshuffle that saw roles of quite a few other executives change or expand. Tsunoda’s new…
Apple’s core services back to normal post Wednesday outage
Apple’s iTunes, App Store, iCloud, iBooks Store and Mac App Store were found to be working normally on Wednesday afternoon following a long and rare breakdown. The global outage, which began around…
HTC One M9 goes up for pre-orders in UK
HTC’s recently announced flagship smartphone – the HTC One M9 – is currently up for pre-orders in the UK. UK carrier Carphone Warehouse has already begun taking pre-orders for the HTC One…
ICANN wants India to take lead in governance of the web
India Head Samiran Gupta has called on India to take leadership role in governance of the web for being the largest democracy in the world and its heritage of “frugal” innovation and…
Google rolls out Calendar app for iPhone
Google has rolled out its Calendar app for iPhone, months after it debuted an Android version. The Google Calendar iPhone app has the same features as its Android counterpart. First and foremost…
Facebook removes ‘feeling fat’ emoji from its status-update options
Facebook has removed the ‘feeling fat’ status and emoji from its status update options after an online petition was filed by several activists who complained that the social network is promoting body-shaming….
LG aiming to sell 10 million LG G4 smartphones in 2015
LG seems to be quite confident of the success of its next flagship – the LG G4 – as it intends to sell around 10 million G4s by the end of 2015….
Samsung ups production targets for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge smartphones
Samsung Electronics has upped its production target for the recently announced flagship Galaxy smartphones – the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge – in wake of positive market response, reported the Electronic…
Three men charged in largest ever U.S. data breach
The US law enforcement agency has charged three men believed to be involved in one of the largest data breaches in US history. According to a statement from US assistant attorney general…