Whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday criticized Google for allegedly handing over private emails and other information of three of its senior staff members to the US authorities, terming it as “an attack…
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Video subscription service Vessel rolls out an invite-only beta for iOS, web
Premium video subscription service Vessel has reportedly rolled out a closed beta version of its service on Wednesday. What’s unique about Vessel is that videos posted to Vessel won’t be available anywhere…
Twitter collaborates with Bing to roll out tweet translation feature
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has teamed up with Bing Translator to roll out new ‘tweet translation’ feature for users. “Tweet translation is available on twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, Twitter for Android, and TweetDeck,”…
WhatsApp finally lands on Desktop
WhatsApp has finally rolled out a web client version of its popular mobile messaging application for desktop users. “Our web client is simply an extension of your phone: the web browser mirrors…
Facebook updates News Feed to take on fake news stories
Facebook on Tuesday announced it has updated its News Feed with a new feature that will work to take on “hoaxes” and fake news stories. The social networking giant said it has…
Symantec warns LinkedIn users of phishing emails
Internet security firm Symantec has warned LinkedIn users to be careful of phishing emails claiming to be sourced from LinkedIn’s support team. Symantec said that it has observed an increase in phishing…
Sky to turn on adult content filter by default soon
UK Broadband provider Sky has announced its Broadband Shield content filter will be turned on by default, unless customers choose to turn it off. This means that Sky Broadband will block all…
Facebook showing warning labels on violent graphic videos, pictures
Facebook, on Tuesday, announced it has begun placing warning labels on graphic videos posted to its site. The warnings placed over flagged images and videos warn users that the content might “shock,…
Facebook still aces social media charts
A recent survey carried out by US-based global thinktank Pew Research Centre has culminated into a verdict pronouncing Facebook as the leader of social media and that elders are increasingly adopting the…
Overusing internet? You might be suffering from ‘netbrain’
According to a new research, as many as 5.7 million people in the UK – about 11 per cent of UK’s total population – suffer from a disorder dubbed ‘netbrain’, which is…
Yahoo’s gain is Google’s loss
Yahoo’s inclusion as the default search choice in Mozilla’s Firefox browser in the U.S. has given the search engine a major boost, helping it achieve its biggest share gain since 2009. According…
YouTube to get 360-degree video content support soon
Google has confirmed it will soon be adding 360-degree video content support to YouTube. The new feature will let You Tube users upload videos taken with the special 360-degree cameras that are…
Google lands 345 million takedown requests in 2014
Copyright and piracy issues have become more of headline grabbers in last couple of years for the fact that copyright holders have been increasingly pushing out takedown requests to Google and other…
Twitter recovers from Monday outage which caused timeline and tweet delays
Twitter says that it has managed to clear up the mess that resulted in an outage affecting posting tweets and refreshing timelines late on Monday. Twitter users complained of facing issue with…
Zuckerberg starts book club on Facebook to fulfill New Year’s resolution
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has created a page of the social networking site as a step towards fulfilling his new year’s resolution of reading a book every 15 days and called it…