Internet media has reported that the NSA, the secretive United States Government Organization, has direct access to servers of some of the biggest web and technology companies in the world. Google, Microsoft, Skype and Facebook have all been in the … Continue reading →

Third party messenger service apps have undoubtedly found more takers than traditional messengers. Apps such as Viber, Kakao talk and WeChat are being used by an increasing number of customers. Perhaps the most popular of the third-party messenger service apps … Continue reading →

Not even a full year has passed since Google Now premiered with Android’s latest offering, Jelly Bean. It is now a crucial tool for many users across the planet. For all the perplexed users who really can’t see the point … Continue reading →

iOS, Android, Chrome, Gmail and G+ to get linked. There have been plenty of whispers about a unified, single messaging service from Google. Purportedly, this revolutionary service would only be available across Google’s own Chrome OS and Android platform. It … Continue reading →

Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft (in no particular order) were recently attacked by hackers. This led to a number of questions being raised. How did they manage to get into the servers of such big corporations? Why did they want to … Continue reading →

While I know it’s not Unix or Linux news, I thought this was pretty interesting. Google has applied for a patent on software that can identify and tag any object(s) in an image uploaded by any internet user.

I read an article on ZDNET. You can read it for yourself here. The Author was raising the point about companies who release Linux based services but fail to even mention Linux or their services’ heritage and what provides the … Continue reading →

The issue of Oracle challenging Google on the use of Java APIs may, on the surface, appear to be a case of IT corporate establishing themselves on a common turf. However, the implications of these digital corporate wars are serious. The ongoing … Continue reading →

There is a lot of stuff that people can do on their Android. This is the reason why most people connect to Android. I read an interesting quote in an article on a fun technical blog: If you want to … Continue reading →

I’m sure you, as an average Android user, know what rooting is. But just to revive your memory- rooting means getting extra permissions and rights to use the phone software. With extra privileges, you can load your own custom software … Continue reading →