With the increasing controversy on filtering content that is posted onto social networks, Twitter seems to have a solution in hand. In a move to censor messages, the micro-blogging website has recently refined its technology to suit requirements. This refined solution will offer the company an option to censor messages country-by-country. …read more
After all the controversy and agitation surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) and all the protests that it triggered from the various popular websites, they were finally stalled. They are now as good as dead within the walls of the U.S. Congress. But while one of the problems have been dealt with, there is a new one which poses to be a bigger threat than the previous two acts. …read more
The online mega body, Google has issued a statement before the court hearing regarding the alleged controversy of hosting objectionable and obscene content in India. According to Google, it is practically impossible to monitor all data that is submitted by users. As monitoring content on different websites is a tedious task, Google cannot come to terms with the Indian Government. …read more
Amidst the rumours about the launch of Apple‘s iPad mini and iPad 3 doing rounds, the company goes ahead and launches iBooks 2 – an upgrade version of the former iBooks app, bringing the digital textbook experience to iPad. …read more
With something new coming around, something old has to die.
Not too long ago, it had been reported that Google introduced a few changes to suit their search engine preferences. Thanks to these new settings, the entire aspect of Search Rankings has lost its purpose mainly due to the fact that there will be no term as a consistent Google Ranking. …read more
Nike, one of the biggest brands in the world, has introduced a new and amazing sports accessory which helps you calculate your entire day’s activity. This new device is a modern sporting accessory which uses modern technology to determine the amount of efforts put into an entire day’s activity. The new Nike+ Fuel wrist band is a brief impression of the modern sporting and health care technology. …read more
Yes, you heard that right, it ain’t Angry Birds!
However, inspired from Angry Birds, the popular smartphone game, matrimonial website Shaadi.com has recently introduced an online game known as ‘Angry Brides’. …read more
The current debate of censorship which threatens to change the virtual world forever is gaining momentum with PIPA and SOPA acts. Every state, country and individual share different opinions about the Internet. In fact, the web is currently being perceived as a disease to have affected the morals of modern society. Why, is anybody’s guess. …read more
So you love music and wanted to share a song with a friend on Facebook while you grooving to it. Possible? Now, yes!
Facebook will now launch a new feature to ramp up the experience of listening to music socially. “Listen With Friends” as it is known, is a unique feature which allows users listen to a song, along with a friend who is playing that same track. How awesome is that? …read more
IIT Chennai has blocked the access of Social networking site Facebook within its campus. The faculty has defended this decision saying it has no link to moral policing and that this step was taken to ease the network pressure. …read more
Zappos, the online footwear retail portal owned by Amazon, has recently been the latest victim of online hacking. It has now been sending e-mails to their customers stating that the web portal, along with account information, has been hacked. It is believed that around 24 million accounts have been affected, revealing customer information, including e-mail address, shipping and billing address, name, contact number, cryptographically scrambled password and credit card’s last 4 digits to the hackers. …read more
Jimmy Wales, Founder of the finest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been calling out to all social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, as well as search engines like Google and has requested them to go offline for one day. This request comes as a form of protest against the controversial bill that is currently entering into the U.S. Senate. The passing of this bill could have a lot of implications on the internet and its usage. …read more
Be it good or bad, the search engine giant, Google, and the social networking king, Facebook, seem to steal the limelight, like always. This time, both of them seem to be in trouble as they face a danger of being charged for criminal conspiracy by the Delhi High Court. Well, this case has been going on for quite some time now. …read more
Apple store in China recently saw the wrath of mob waiting in the line for their new shiny Apple product. This was a lesson learned for the otherwise ever-so-friendly Apple store employees. …read more
comScore released statistics which showed that Bing, along with other Microsoft websites, have managed to garner 2.75 billion search requests within the U.S. These figures are what the search engine had in the month of December itself. This means that Bing has effectively sped past Yahoo for the first time since the race for the runners up position to Google. …read more
