HTC has been making headline since the last two weeks for all the wrong reason – two back to back defeats in patent lawsuits in the UK and Germany against Nokia. In…
PlayStation 4 to surpass Wii U in global sales by May this year says analyst
PlayStation 4 will probably outsell Wii U in terms of global sales by spring this year believes Michael Pachter, analyst known for his gaming-related sales trends and predictions. While speaking with GamerFitNation,…
Yahoo reportedly serving malicious advertisements
Users visiting yahoo.com are being reportedly served with malicious advertisements, which when clicked upon and were redirected to an exploit kit via HTTP redirect. Security firm FOX IT revealed yesterday that they came…
Internet of things to shine at CES 2014; dumb devices to get brains
Internet of things will be at the centre stage of the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 this year alongside smartphones, tablets and other gadgets. Once known as an event where television…
SnapchatDB.info back online as Snapchat promises app update
Update [03/01/2014 23:16 GMT] We have heard back from the hackers and according to them SnapchatDB.info was taken offline because their “hosting provider was intimidated by the overwhelming public interest.” “It wasn’t…
Vine’s 6-second videos go online
Twitter-owned Vine has announced full web profiles for all its users thereby taking the 6-second videos to the web and has also announced a new TV Mode enabling you to watch videos…
FreeBSD 10.0-rc4 released, final build expected soon
FreeBSD 10.0-rc4 for major architectures including amd64, i386, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures has been released with an expectation that it will be the final rc build of the 10.0-release cycle. The latest…
New BBM for Android beta gets voice calling, channels
A new beta version of BlackBerry Messenger for Android has been released with features such as voice calling and Channel. BlackBerry announced in December 2013 that it will be adding quite a…
Rockstar clarifies doubts surrounding GTA Online hacked money spending, bounties
Rockstar has clarified doubts surrounding GTA Online hacked money after concerns were raised if users will be banned if they spend the hacked money gifted to them and if they were allowed…
Acer outs Android-powered AIOs
Acer is betting a lot of chips on Android-powered all-in-ones and has announced two AIOs – the 27-inch TA272 HUL and the 21-inch DA223 HQL. The TA272 HUL is a 27-inch behemoth…
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Lite leak hints at 720p display and LCD screen
Samsung isn’t going to pack a full HD display in its rumoured Galaxy Note 3 Lite, but will instead pack a 720p LCD display, new reports indicate. A device with a model…
Techie bits: Snapchat speaks up after hack; Surface Pro 2 upgraded; Facebook sued over private messages
Here is a recap of what has transpired since our last roundup of news: Snapchat has finally spoken after hackers leaked details of over 4.6 million users exploiting a vulnerability in the…
uSwitch: iPhone 5S most popular smartphone in the UK
Apple iPhone 5S Gold was dubbed the most popular smartphone in the UK during Christmas beating Samsung Galaxy S4 for the third month in a row. The data based on live searches,…
Steam & Origin servers hit by separate DDoS attacks
The same individual / group which claimed the responsibility of taking down Dota 2, LoL, Quake Live, Club Penguin, Battle.net servers a couple of days back have taken down EA’s Origin servers…
YouTube to stream 4K videos thanks to Google’s VP9 codec
YouTube is going to show off low-bandwidth 4k video streaming at CES 2014 with the help of Google’s VP9 code, GigaOM reports. For those who are not aware about 4K format or…