Aware of BitTorrent Inc.? A San Francisco based internet tech company, BitTorrent is all for fast and secure which often stirs up a revolution of sorts. Its presence ranges from instant messaging to sync technology – all this without a cloud at hand. BitTorrent doesn’t entertain middlemen and thus, designs…
Instagram can also be called a holy grail for most of you foodies, amateur photographers and jobless stalkers (read people like me) out there. However, it can also be called the reason behind Mark Zuckerberg’s smile nowadays, courtesy the business analysts over at CitiBank USA. Way back in 2012, Zuckerberg brought the…
Sundays are fun. You get to wake up late, eat heavy brunches and lie around the house like a baby seal basking in the sun at the beach. The news is the last thing on your mind and frankly, we don’t blame you. But Monday soon follows Sunday and before…
The driving force behind innovation in technology is the need to make things simpler. Whether it’s instant messaging, that has made communication between two people in different parts of the world easy and instantaneous, or it’s e-commerce which has revolutionized the way people shop by making it possible for everybody…
Sometimes, too much information can be a bad thing and specially on the internet, where you’re bombarded with information left, right and center. So in order to save you the trouble of sifting through a thousand pieces of news and happenings from this week, we plunged into the bottomless ocean…
Desktops were an ideal part of every office table and almost every household for more than a decade. From a huge box to a slim sleek look, desktop monitors had gone through a complete makeover during this time. They became a part of us and as a 90`s kid, I…
Could you imagine the kind of comments that pass by when a women walks alone on the streets of New York City? That too a young woman wearing a jeans and crewneck t-shirt? You probably know what I’m talking about and it’s about a viral video “10 hours of walking in…
The FingerReader is a wearable device that is designed to help blind and visually impaired people to read printed text. It is a device that looks like a fat plastic ring and it is worn on the index finger. Developed by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, FingerReader is still…
Privacy is a much sought-after celebrity. I call it a celebrity as its sightings are as rare as a celebrity is in real life as compared to reel. We all seek it, but none actually gets it. So once, one is assured (or, rather, duped) by the privacy policy stated…
Just imagine. You awake one morning to find that you don’t exist anymore : your best friend doesn’t know you, your girlfriend fails to remember you, your credit cards are all registered to someone else – heck, even your dog growls at you! In a last bid, you’d probably turn to Google and…
Love is in the air and so are crowded signals. So GOOGLE uses water! The atmosphere is crowded with signals and traffic is too heavy to control. And therefore six tech giants including GOOGLE have decided to use undersea for communication. The project is called “Trans-pacific” and will use optic-…
When I was young and in library, a bunch of kids were always sitting around me, browsing and reading books. But these days at the library, I only see a bunch of senior citizens. After a lot of contemplation, I realized we’re moving into a digital era with Kindles and…
This is something unusual, funny, different and conceptually very interesting, true in reality yet fake in present. This is the new website named Shrturl.co which can make you laugh, wonder and will surely make you a magician among your friends and they wonder how you did the miracle, the truth…
Facebook’s new entry into the virtual world occurred sometime ago this month when Facebook decided to purchase Oculus, a 3D gaming and virtual reality startup with $2 Billion. Meanwhile, in the real world, Facebook has also got closer into everyone’s social lives by acquiring WhatsApp this year. But Zuckerberg has…
For the first time, Microsoft has made the source code of MS-DOS and Word for Windows 1.1a available to public. You can download the source codes freely via Computer History Museum. According to the press release from Computer History Museum, the original source of the two historical programs which was…
“India is the fastest growing and largest Azure Market”, said Karan Bajwa, the Managing Director, Microsoft India and that’s the reason why Microsoft did organize the largest Cloud Conference here! The conference spreads over two days in Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. Did you get a chance to attend the event? If…
Seeing the title one might think, ‘infinite scrolling is no disease to cure in the first place.’ Of course, the infinite scrolling facility has saved many an effort of you manually clicking on the ‘next’ button/link. But what is the basic intention of Internet? To provide relevant information as soon…
If you haven’t heard about the outernet yet, it’s high time you did. Because if this is not what you call the ultimate benison, I don’t know what else could be. A New York based non-profit organization called Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has come up with the brilliant plan…
Facebook Email? Do you know what that is? I’ve never even heard of it. I’ve only recently come to know that the service even was there and that it was shut down. The move comes after the service didn’t take off by that much and was still under development. To…