The Days Of Gigabyte Is Over

GÉANT has been upgraded to a maximum capacity of two terabits per second, with individual researchers and scientists able to enjoy connections of up to 100 gigabits per second.         European scientists are pumping out an ever-increasing amount of data – just look at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider experiments for example – so here’s some welcome news for them: GÉANT, Europe’s research data backbone, has just completed a two terabits-per-second (2Tbps) upgrade.         That’s a whopping amount of capacity for the network, which connects Europe’s national research and education networks (NRENs)...

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Meet Mynd: the iOS calendar app that keeps track of how you spend your time

Built by former Good Technology employees, Mynd helps users stay on top of their schedule and then lets them look back and see where they’ve been, who they met with and more.            Yes, there’s another app about to launch that wants to help you stay productive and on top of your daily tasks and appointments. But this one, Mynd, also wants to help you decide if you’re spending your time wisely.          Mynd goes live in the iOS App Store Wednesday morning, where it will be free to download. The app is a calendar that uses your contacts, maps, location, and Facebook, Evernote...

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Micromax A240 with Octa-Core Processor Rummoured to be launch soon

  According to XXMNewscaster (Micromax serial leaker), Micromax’s next device will be called the Canvas A240 (aka canvas 5), will likely feature MediaTek’s MT6592 octo-core SoC and is expected to go official in Q4 of 2013 this Diwali or  Christmas priced around Rs 20,000. According to rumors,in terms of hardware, the Micromax A240 could feature a 5-inch full-HD screen, Octa-Core MediaTek procesor with 2 GB RAM and a 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front camera along with LTE (4g) connectivity, as it will be a fool decision for Micromax, if they launch the next Canvas flagship with Quad-Core processor or HD display, because...

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How to hide folder in windows without actually hidding it

This is not a high-tech geeky trick, it's just a short and simple trick. When each time you create a new folder in Windows, Microsoft has made “New Folder” as the default name. Even you enter the spacebar so many times to create blank spaces, it still will generate the “New Folder” text like this. So first we will delete the name of the file, after which it will looks like this. To do this, you need a keyboard with numpad. 1) Create a new folder in your specified directory. 2) rename the folder or file by pressing F2 key or Right Click -> Rename. 3) Now hold ALT button and press 0160 ( or 255) using numpad keys. 4) Hit Enter then you...

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MediaTek Announces TRUE Octa-core Processor For Mobile Devices

            There has been talk of MediaTek coming up with a new octa-core chip, which should be seen in mobile devices by November. While the date for mass production stays unchanged, the company has officially introduced the new octa-core processor, codenamed MT6592.             Samsung already has an Exynos 5 octa-core processor out in the market. But the reality of the chipset is another matter all together, as it makes use of ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture. This is basically a combination of two quad-core processors, the first being a Cortex A15 chip, which is bunched...

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11 Mobile Etiquette You Must Know

Cellphones are ubiquitous and research shows that although most users think they have good mobile manners, many people report being irritated or annoyed by the use of the phones in public places. Clearly there's a lack of understanding of what is and isn't acceptable in terms of cellphone etiquette. Following is a list of do's and don'ts:  1>Do respect those who are with you. When you're engaged face-to-face with others, either in a meeting or     a conversation, give them your complete and undivided attention. Avoid texting or taking calls. If a call is        important, apologize and ask permission...

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Get ready for a TV-like Twitter

        Social networking site Twitter, which has more than 500 million registered users, will become comparable to a non-evolving, static structure like TV in the future, a new study predicts.         The study from scholars at Columbia Business School and the University of Pittsburgh questions the sustainability of Twitter. "Get ready for a TV-like Twitter," said Professor Olivier Toubia, co-author of the study.       The research examined the motivations behind why everyday people, with no financial incentive, contribute to Twitter.      The study examined roughly...

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Create your own RAM cleaner using NOTEPAD

Many times our computer become slow, when we keep using our PCs for long time or working with many programs. It may be due to RAM, as our RAM eventually get's filled up with unnecessary programs. So, if you can clean or clear the RAM by deleting those unnecessary programs that you are not using any more, your computer will again run at normal speed, but many of us don’t know how to do it. So, in this article I will show you how to clean RAM using notepad in 4 simple steps: 1) Open notepad. 2) Type "FreeMem=Space(51200000)". Above code is only for those who have 512 MB RAM, if you have 1GB(1024*1 = 1024 MB) RAM than replace 512 from above...

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Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

This Firefox tricks will improve the speed & load time of firefox. And you will be able to surf considerably faster. Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes. network.http.max-connections-per-server =32 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16 network.http.max-connections = 64 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10 network.http.pipelining = true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200 network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0 network.http.proxy.pipelining = true network.http.proxy.version = 1.0 Lastly right-click anywhere and...

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Apple's iPhone activation servers experience Up, Up and Away

iPhone users reported being unable to activate their new iPhones due to issues with Apple's activation servers on Thursday.       Apple's iPhone activation process experienced hiccups Thursday, with users reportedly unable to activate their new phones.           The check-in process phones home to Apple before users are able to use the device, leaving new buyers out of luck. The security measure has been a source of frustration during previous product launches, when the servers were swamped with new owners. Apple declined comment on the apparent downtime, which was reported earlier...

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All you need to know about Android Master Key vulnerability

                As you may have heard by now, the recent discovery of the Master Key vulnerability is by far the most threatening vulnerability in Android. If you are still uninformed about this development, sit back and see what it’s all about and why there’s good reason to be scared. What is Master Key?        To understand what Master Key is, we must first understand what happens when you install any application on your Droid. All Android apps and games are APK files (short for Android Package). These are essentially bit-compressing .zip files that have a different file extension...

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Sony announces 4.3 Jelly Bean will come to Xperia Z devices

                Sony has confirmed that the latest version of Jelly Bean will be coming to the Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia SP and Xperia Z Ultra. For now, the only tablet that is confirmed to be getting Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean is Xperia Tablet Z.                           Android version 4.3 Jelly Bean may have only been revealed by Google few day ago in Nexus Range, but Sony isn’t wasting any time at all. The company has released a software roadmap for Xperia devices that will be taken into the 4.3 Jelly...

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Youtube in a new avatar, celebrating its up-comming geek week

YouTube has decided to celebrate its upcoming Geek Week event, and has started an Easter egg hunt on its Twitter feed.If you wanna see just what the video giant has planned, head to the site and type "/ geekweek" minus the quotation marks into the search field, you'll be presented a Unix terminal-style conversion and gawk away. Fair warning: Your eyes might hate you for what you'll see. [Youtube Twitte...

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Motorola unveils 3 phones under Droid range

                  Verizon Wireless, the biggest US mobile service provider, on Tuesday announced three new phones under its Droid smartphone brand from Google's Motorola and said that Motorola would be its exclusive Droid phone vendor going forward.                The phones, the Droid Mini, Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx will go on sale for $99, $199 and $299 for customers who sign a two year contract and will be available in Verizon stores August 20, according to Verizon Wireless.          The Droid brand helped to resuscitate a struggling...

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Beebone PC virus threatens Indian cyberspace

The deadly 'Beebone' computer virus attacking the Indian cyberspace can take as many as 20 aliases to compromise the security of a computer system.                     According to the Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In), a new variant of the Trojan win32/Beebone virus is spreading in the Indian cyberspace. The national Internet and computer security sleuths organization has stated that the Beebone Virus is from the Trojan downloader family and can install other malware and programs without the users consent. The latest virus detected on the country's internet network is so...

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Android 4.3 announced, for Nexus 7, Nexus 4, Nexus 10 And Galaxy Nexus

After weeks of leaks, other leaks, and false starts, Google finally took the wraps off its next version of Android at an event on Wednesday in San Francisco. The new version of Android is actually the third version to carry the "Jelly Bean" label, as opposed to the rumored next-generation leap, "Key Lime Pie." Android 4.3 isn’t an overly dramatic advancement over Android 4.2, but its highlights include:...

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6 YouTube Tricks You Probably Don’t Know

              This post intends to deliver tricks that will add more dimension to your experience on the YouTube platform, and allow you to enjoy some of the little-known shortcuts, hacks and special features you can use on Youtube. 1. Specific Start Time          If you want to share just a certain portion of a video with a user, you’ll notice that there is no official option to do this. Normally you have to inform others which minute they can pull to start from. Bet you didn’t know that there is a handy hack to send a link to a user or embed a certain portion of the YouTube...

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Record iPhone screen video using xRec[No jailbreak required]..

Until now, the only way to record the display of our iDevices was to run the jailbreak and install a special tweak. Apple doesn’t allow apps in the App Store that can record video of anything on the screen… until now. A new app has slipped on the App Store, its called xRec, it can fully record the iPhone’s screen, including any audio. The interface is actually quite nice.Users can record screen activity, although the application requires an active Internet connection to function.The recorded video can then be saved to your camera roll or exported to other applications installed on the device. When the application is registered, a red bar...

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Canonical looks to raise $32 million via crowdfunding to develop Ubuntu Edge phones

Canonical, the firm behind Ubuntu has announced a crowdfunding campaign to build the first batch of Ubuntu Edge phones. The company hopes to raise $32 million in 30 days to manufacture a limited batch of 40,000 devices that will run both Android and open source Ubuntu Touch operating systems. Canonical is using the Indiegogo crowdfunding service, which is similar to the more popular Kickstarter, for the campaign and the Paypal electronic payment facility to collect the contributions. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, said in a press note, "Ubuntu Edge is the ultimate convergence device - challenging established norms for PCs and...

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New iPhone 5S photos leak appear

New iPhone 5S photos appear, specs hint at 12 MP camera, higher CPU clock, quad-core GPU                       Parts for the iPhone 5S have leaked quite a few times before, and now we have another batch of what seems to be chassis waiting to be stuffed with internal silicon.           The more interesting part here are the claimed specs accompanying them, which say that we'll get a 4" 2272x1280 pixels IGZO display accounting to whooping 652 pixels per inch<ppi>, meaning high brightness at frugal battery consumption, the same A6 SoC like in the iPhone5,...

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App to tell where you will exactly be in future

                              NEW YORK: Do you know precisely where you'll be 285 days from now at 2 pm? Researchers have developed a new tracking software that can tell you exactly where you will be on a precise time and date years into the future. Adam Sadilek , formerly of Microsoft  John Krumm                 They used information from a pool of 300 volunteers in the Seattle metro area, Sadilek and Krumm  gathered a mountain of location data.                ...

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Actual Mobile Paying Device Through Credit Card

For those who fear Virtual Money Transfer and The Under Developing Countries GOOD NEWS !!! iZette            Enter iZettle, a Stockholm, Sweden-based company which wants to solve this problem by introducing a credit card reader which does work with smart cards.            Instead of swiping a card, this little device lets you insert them into iZettle to read the chip contents. In that sense iZettle is not plugged on the headphone jack but on the Dock connector, making the device bigger than Square but I guess something’s gotta give.              ...

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SIM Card flaw makes millions of mobile vulnerable to hacking

An eighth of all SIM cards used around the world could be at risk of fraud, theft, or being bugged, a German security expert has claimed. It has been revealed that the encryption that is used by some mobile SIM cards can be a direct source for hackers in remotely controlling their host handsets. According to The New York Times report, this flaw is directly linked to cards using DES (Data Encryption Standard). Karsten Nohl, the founder of Germany’s Security Research Labs, who has supplied some hacking achievements previously, brought in details of the attack to both the New York Times and Forbes. According to Nohl, two targeted...

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