mobile
Nashik rape case: Mobile internet services suspended for two days
The Nashik police on Monday ordered suspension of mobile internet and bulk messaging services for two days to maintain peace and check the spread of rumours and provocative messages in the city, wh…
Social Media
Internet scammers milk Narendra Modi's popularity, target Facebook users
Moving over the lottery scams, internet scammers are now targeting Facebook users by offering them an opportunity to earn up to Rs 5 lakh a month by working from home. The writeup on the…
Reliance Communications
Facebook and Reliance release 'Internet.org' in India
Facebook has partnered with Reliance Communications to bring its Internet.org app to India, in a bid to provide affordable internet to people even in remote areas. The move comes just three…
Star Trek
Star Trek-style transporter comes closer to reality
German scientists have invented a Star Trek -style transporter that can scan an object and 'beam' it to another location. The new machine scans a physical object, destroys it in th…
World
China shrugs off 'irresponsible' reports of involvement in North Korea internet saga
Reports that China was involved in cutting off North Korea's Internet are 'irresponsible', China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying m…
social networking
The 6% of global population suffer from internet addiction
A new study has revealed that internet addiction is more common than people think, as 6% of the global population suffers from it. It was found that the prevalence of Internet addiction …
Tech
'BGR Dream 500 Million Smartphones' event kicks off with Xiaomi's Hugo Barra
The "BGR Dream 500 million Smartphones" event kicked off today in New Delhi, with a packed audience and a multitude of speakers from the smartphone industry. Every one from phone …
Windows
First impressions of racing game 'The Crew'
The Crew is an open world racing game that really let's you explore America right from the countryside to the urban areas, is nothing like anything that has been seen before. You …
YouTube
YouTube allows offline access to popular Indian music, movies
Youtube has decided to take the slow internet connections of developing countries like India and Indonesia into consideration by introducing an offline feature in their mobile app. This n…
Twitte
T-shirt, Bengali accent vital clues in Mehdi Masroor Biswas's arrest
It was the mistake of talking twice to Channel4 and the time-tested method of old-style tracking through elimination process by central agencies that proved to be the undoing of Mehdi Masroor B…
Spanish
Google News to shut in Spain ahead of new publisher rights law
Google said it was closing its news-linking service in Spain next week due to new legislation under which publishers can charge search engines for using their content. In a statement, the glo…
suggestions
New Facebook update allows you to search for individual posts
Facebook has launched a new update to its search product allowing users to search for specific posts and not just other people and pages using keywords. Now, when users type an entry into…
INTERNET
People Behind the Biggest Apps in the World Infographic
We all use biggest and most successful apps like WhatsApp, Instagram and play games like Flappy Bird everyday in our daily. To be frank, most of us have been addicted to those apps. But have you eve…
Whatsapp
Messenger more popular among teens than Facebook, says study
Teens are increasingly spending less time on Facebook than on instant messaging apps, with many saying the social network is not as "cool" as it used to be, a new study involving 170,0…
Whatsapp
Users turn away from Facebook to WeChat, WhatsApp to reach friends
An increasing number of people are now using mobile messaging apps like WeChat and WhatsApp to communicate with their friends rather than using social networking platforms such as Facebook and G…
World
China wants to control Internet everywhere
China showed governments and the planet's biggest tech firms last week its vision for global Internet governance - clean, controlled and choreographed. Public officials and firms worth $2.5 tril…
Technology
5G Services for Super-fast Internet in the Offing
Researchers are now close to finding how software-defined cellular networking might be used to give smartphone users the next generation of super-superfast broadband - 5G. A collaboration betw…
tech stories
5 digital parenting tips you cannot afford to ignore
Around four years ago, Prof. David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center, coined the term “juvenoia” — mixing ‘juvenile’ and ‘paranoia’ — t…
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