Mozilla announced that it will add Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) into future versions of the open-source Firefox, in an agreement with Adobe to support commercial video streams. The company, which had been…
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Google Maps gets 17K UK routes with coast-to-coast transport data
Just a week after a major update roll out, Google has given its Maps service for iOS, Android and the Web, a high dose of transport date in the UK on Tuesday….
Twitter rolls out ‘Mute’ feature
Twitter on Monday launched a new mute feature that allows users to stop tweets and retweets from users they don’t want to see on their Twitter Feed.
Megashare is back with new .to domain
Megashare, the popular movie / TV streaming site is back with a new .to domain.
Google testing a major makeover for Gmail
Leaked pictures suggest that Google is testing a major revamp of its Gmail interface to completely redefine online email experience.
LinkedIn clocks 300 million registered users as it chases the next 3 billion
LinkedIn has reached yet another milestone – 300 million registered users – with 100 million of them from the US alone. “We are excited to announce that we reached a big milestone…
Facebook’s Nearby Friends connects mobile users
Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature dubbed Nearby Friends which will help users know which of their friends are nearby. Nearby Friends is an opt-in feature and helps users find…
Samsung: Milk Music’s ‘$3.99 premium service’ coming soon
It hasn’t been long since Samsung launched Milk Music – a free Internet radio service without ads. And the Korean electronics giant has already revealed that it is “soon” going to add…
European Media Tycoon: ‘We are afraid of Google’
One of Europe’s leading media tycoons has accused Google of abusing its monopoly position in the digital sector to build up a ‘superstate’ free of anti-trust and privacy laws. Mathias Dopfner, chief…
Twitter starts pushing mobile app-install ads
Twitter on Thursday announced a new advertising platform through which it intends to grab a share out of the increasing app advertising vertical. The microblogging site said the new mobile advertising suite…
WordPress 3.9 ‘Smith’ brings new editing features
WordPress.org on Wednesday announced the arrival of the much-awaited WordPress 3.9 with a host of new and improved features. The new WP 3.9 release is available for download for new users and…
Cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy pauses trading
Users of Cryptsy, the cryptocurrency exchange, which allows for trading of over 100 different types of cryptocurrencies has been having troubles since a few hours following which trading has been suspended for…
Virgin Media apologises for the email glitch
Virgin Media on Wednesday offered an apology to thousands of its customers whose e-mail inbox were bombarded with spam emails, following a mailing list error. The issue was that one of the…
Tor: ‘We’ll lose about 12% of guard and exit capacity’ because of Heartbleed
Tor (The Onion Router), the internet traffic anonymising service, is bleeding due to the Heartbleed vulnerability, claims a recent report. According to the Register, some of the Tor nodes are running compromised…
Game of Thrones season 4 episode 2 breaks previous torrent swarming records
Episode 2 of Game of Thrones season 4 has managed to break previous torrent swarming records with over 193,000 people sharing a single copy of the latest episode yesterday evening, a new…