UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently released its annual report ‘Measuring the Information Society 2013’ which indicates that by the end of 2013 around 40 percent of the globe will connect with…
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Microsoft may recycle your Outlook, Live accounts if inactive for 360 days
Microsoft Outlook.com service agreements have a clause wherein users are required to sign-in “a minimum of every 270 days” otherwise their data may be deleted and account cancelled. However, there is more…
Google gives Google Docs a facelift with streamlined header, focus on content
Google in a bid to clean up the existing design of Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Apps Script has announced a revamp of Google Docs and its components stating that “things…
H33t.eu domain unreachable
H33t.eu, one of the alternative domains of the huge torrent site H33t, is not reachable as of now weeks after the main website H33t.com disappeared off the web. One of the biggest…
Facebook: we will reduce ads in your newsfeed as we know they are annoying!
Facebook has acknowledged that its ad targeting technology is annoying users and has confirmed that it will be upgrading its algorithm in a bid to improve the quality of the ads that…
Facebook nows allows post edits
Facebook understands drafting anything 100 percent correct in the first attempt is a bit difficult and so the social networking giant has decided to offer its users an ability to edit and…
Google ‘Hummingbird’ algorithm update adds advanced search capabilities
Google has applied a new update dubbed ‘Hummingbird’ to its core algorithm enabling its search engine to answer increasingly complex search queries posted by users. The update was rolled out sometime last…
Bitcoin-Central exchange reopens after 6 months hiatus
Bitcoin-Central, a Bitcoin currency exchange based out of France and operated by Paymium, has reopened again after six months of suspension. Bitcoin-Central suspended its operations in late April this year following a…
BitTorrent removed from Google piracy search filter?
Recent spike in search for keywords like ‘BitTorrent’ and ‘uTorrent’ indicate that Google may have removed these two terms from its piracy filter. In a bid to reduce piracy and reduce the…
Wanna upgrade to Windows 8.1? No choice but pay full charge
Software giant Microsoft today announced that it will be charging full rate for Windows 8.1 upgrades from Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. Which means every single disc of 8.1 sold…
Microsoft announces a new Bing with new logo and fresh features
It is one of the major refurbishing that Microsoft’s Bing search engines has ever undergone. Over the new few weeks, announced Microsoft today, it will be making “significant changes” to its…
Windows expert wants Steve Ballmer to look into buggy Windows updates
This may be pretty embarrassing for software giant Microsoft. Susan Bradley, a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) has dashed off a letter to company Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Steve Ballmer in…
Who owns your images?
In December of last year Instagram announced a move set to shock the internet world. If you missed it, they wanted the rights to sell any and all photographs you uploaded to…
Twitter warns attacks will continue
It seems to be an almost daily occurrence in the news that high profile twitter feeds are being hijacked with nonsense tweets. Just today (30th April) the Guardian’s twitter account has been hacked by pro-Syria…
BitTorrent Live Streaming goes Live.
Long has it been known that you can watch TV and movies on BitTorrent as soon as they are released anywhere in the world, however today BitTorrent finally releases their new feature…