Google on Monday has updated its terms of service that explicitly illustrates company’s email scanning practices. The updated terms of service includes a new paragraph that explains how Google’s software scans and…
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Netflix speeds soar by 65% on Comcast
Netflix on Monday released new stats that reveal the ISPs with the fastest access to the service’s streaming video. Comcast has reportedly moved up six spaces to the fifth position on the…
Facebook is trying to refine news feeds
Keeping with the promise it made last summer, Facebook is gearing up with new ways to filter out spammy posts from the users’ news feeds. By spammy posts, Facebook means the posts…
Twopchart: 44% of Twitter users are silent birds
Twitter in February revealed a figure of 244 million monthly active users in the last quarter of 2013, but a social media tracking site Twopcharts claims that 44 percent of all Twitter…
Verisign: Web crosses 271 million domains mark
Latest report from Verisign reveals that around 271 million domain names have been registered on the web as of December last year. The Domain Name Industry Brief report published quarterly by Verisign…
Twitter rolls out pop-up notifications
Twitter announced on Thursday that it is bringing real-time interactive notifications on the Web over the course of next few weeks. Users accessing the microblogging site through Twitter.com website will start seeing…
Heartbleed bug turns into web’s security disaster
‘Heartbleed’ bug, the so-called security flaw in crucial encryption code, has made headlines this week as the most significant and dangerous vulnerability to ever hit the internet. According to security researchers, this…
Facebook Messenger to be mandatory to send, receive chat messages
Facebook on Wednesday announced that its mobile app users will now need to install a separate messaging app in order to send and receive chat messages. Previously users could send messages from…
Dyn to shut down DynDNS free service
Dyn, Domain-name service provider, has announced that it will discontinue its free services, effective May 7. DynDNS, a free dynamic DNS service and also the first offering from the company, allowed users…
Netflix rolls out 4K Streaming
Netflix announced that 4K HD streaming of the second season of its original series House of Cards and some nature documentaries is now available. According to a report from Multichannel, Netflix 4K…
Twitter revamps profile pages with Facebook-like feel
Twitter’s latest update being rolled out in a phased manner on Tuesday will see profile pages displaying a larger profile picture, larger header image and showcasing users’ most popular tweets. “Moment by…
Facebook hits 100 million user milestone in India
Facebook has announced that it has hit the 100 million user milestone in India, the second country after US to have reached the 100 million mark. The company claimed its Indian user…
Facebook tests 3 new tweaks to privacy settings
Facebook is currently testing 3 new tweaks to its privacy settings thoroughly before rolling them out to its users, recent reports have claimed. Raylene Yung, Facebook’s privacy engineering manager and Michael Nowak,…
Stanford scientists develop tool that predicts virality of photos on Facebook
A recent report claims that a group of Stanford computer researchers have developed an algorithm which can predict if a photo will go ‘viral’ on Facebook. Stanford researchers said that the rate…
Twitter feeds to get 15 new types of ads
Latest report claims Twitter is adding a slew of new advertising types over the next six months to attract e-commerce companies and mobile-game developers to boost its ad revenue. Twitter will be…