Samsung and LG say they don’t slow down older phones, either
Following Apple’s admission that it deliberately slowed down older phones to allow the battery to continue to power the processor, the list of rival smartphone manufacturers announcing they don’t follow the same practice continues...
‘Virtual gold’ may glitter, but mining it can be really dirty
As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness. As it rose from under...
P2P WiFi Plan Challenges ISP Dominance
Open Garden on Monday announced the launch of a new peer-to-peer service that allows users to share Internet connections and unused plan data for free, with compensation in a new Ethereum cryptocurrency as an...
E-commerce market may cross $50 billion in 2018
Mumbai: The digital commerce market in the country is expected to cross $50 billion in value by the end of 2018 from the current level of $38.5 billion, on the back of a growing...
5 Best Windows Apps to Monitor Internet Usage
When you get internet for home or as a student, there’s always a cap on your internet usage limit. But when you’re online, you tend to get carried away and sometimes end up exhausting...
How to download music from YouTube for free
YouTube contains possibly the largest collection of videos and music on the internet. As such it is of no surprise that people find a lot of content they want to download. However, YouTube does...
Why it is important to switch off your Bluetooth when you are not using...
There are many digital entrances that you leave open all the time, such as Wi-Fi and your Bluetooth connection. Here we explain why. What is the deal in Bluetooth? The benefit of reducing your Bluetooth usage...
OurMine Hackers leak Vevo’s celebrity dossiers
OurMine has been grabbing the news recently for a string of hacks into company networks and social accounts. They recently gained access to Vevo servers. The background to the OurMine Hack The hacker group posted a...
ACT Fibernet launches 1Gbps broadband service in India
Hyderabad becomes India’s first city to get 1Gbps broadband service launched by ACT Fibernet ACT Fibernet on Thursday became the first ever Indian broadband service provider to launch 1Gbps (gigabit per second) wired broadband internet...
This new search engine could be way smarter than Google
Search engines that aren’t Google rarely have much that’s interesting to offer to the average consumer. But Omnity, a new search engine aimed at researchers — or even just students doing their homework —...