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Change your passwords! Heartbleed Bug Exposes Millions Of Usernames, Passwords

On Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
A newly discovered computer bug has security experts scrambling. It’s called “heartbleed” and it affects what’s called openSSL. [adsenseyu1] Without getting into the jargon, the security flaw has to do with that little padlock you see on websites and the HTTPS in the address bar. That’s supposed to mean a website is secure. But now ...

Rakuten buys Viber

On Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
Rakuten, Japanese Media Holding, buys Viber Media Inc, which has developed Viber messenger app. The sum of this transaction isn’t a secret. Rakuten purchases internet calling app-maker for $900 million. [adsenseyu1] Rakuten hasn’t announced what they are going to do with the acquisition. However, the head of the company (Hiroshi Mikitani) mentions that Viber has ...

Nokia Teaches us not to Leave Valuables

On Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
Nokia Inc. announces the release of Treasure Tag. The device is fixed to some valuable things – for example, keys, wallets or bags. If one of these things is left anywhere, Treasure Tag pushes a notification to your smartphone. Treasure Tag is a miniature accessory, which boasts its perfect form and fashionable look. The device ...

Apple announces CarPlay, an iOS experience on four wheels

On Monday, March 3rd, 2014
Apple isn’t leaving the car infotainment system industry to other players like BlackBerry’s QNX or Microsoft’s Windows Embedded. It has just announced its new CarPlay integration with the iPhone. The integration was first announced last year during the iOS 7 unveiling back in June 2013. [adsenseyu1] Only Lightning connector-enabled iPhones (iPhone 5s, 5c, 5) are ...


Google stock surges, tops $1,000 per share

On Friday, October 18th, 2013
JENS MEYER / AP An illuminated Google logo at the Hanover industrial fair, July 7, 2009. Google’s stock hit $1,000 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday. Google shares jumped to an all-time high above $1,000 on Friday after the search engine giant reported a surge in mobile and video advertising that helped drive quarterly ...

After S4, Samsung caught cheating on benchmark tests with Note 3

On Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
Samsung has been caught cheating on benchmark tests once again and this time with the Galaxy Note 3. Previously it was the Samsung Galaxy S4 that was caught in the middle of this controversy. [adsenseyu1] ArsTechnica has done a detailed post on how Samsung Galaxy Note 3′s US version with the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon quad-core processor ...

iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record

On Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Running up to the launch weekend of the iPhone 5s and 5c, analysts were conservatively predicting sales of somewhere between 5-8 million units. Turns, out, Apple beat even the most optimistic guess from industry watchers. Despite clear shortages of the 5s, Apple managed to sell 9 million iPhones between Friday and Sunday. That is – ...

Discovery of Huge Underground Water Aquifer at Lotikipi Basin in Kenya

On Thursday, September 12th, 2013
Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200 ...