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Do you stream movies with Popcorn Time? You might be interrogated by film studios A federal court in Oregon has granted a movie studio’s request to interrogate four users of the popular torrent streaming service Popcorn Time for allegedly illegally downloading the recent Adam Sandler film ‘The Cobbler’. TorrentFreak reports that the studio behind
How mobile became the perfect home for flat design There were doubters when flat design started emerging, but this design trend isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Flat design is only getting started and is more popular than ever when it comes to mobile UI design. The principles behind this design technique are so universally —
Google aims to be ‘cloud company’ by 2020, predicts more revenue from cloud platform than ads At today’s Structure event in San Francisco, Urs Hölze, Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, predicts that within the next five years, Google’s Cloud Platform revenues could surpass its advertising revenue. “The goal is for us to talk about
Samsung’s Note 5 now comes with a warning about inserting the S Pen backwards Remember Pen Gate? If you’re not familiar, the whole tech-o-sphere (including yours truly) made an uproar a few months ago over a design flaw in the Galaxy Note 5: if you insert the S-Pen backwards, you’ll permanently damage the ability for the phone to recognize when
Google Play will soon warn you about in-app ads before you download The ‘free’ ad model adopted by much of the web has been called the “internet’s original sin” and 2016 could mark the beginning of the end of ad-funded apps as Google unveils plans to introduce labelling across its entire app store. An email sent to
Social media can assure in times of disaster Now that so many people use social media – Facebook claims more than 1.5 billion users – it makes an excellent, swift, alternative means of communication. This can be useful in times of terrorist attacks, such as in Paris, during events such as the Arab Spring or
DARPA wants your crazy ideas for space robots I’ve always had a fascination with robots. I used to spend hours watchingRobot Wars as a kid and always dreamt of making my own. However, life got in the way and I never got around to it. But now, the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) has
INet Conference Inaugurated in Islamabad Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) in collaboration with The Internet Society – Asia Pacific (ISOC-APAC) is holding three days INET Islamabad – Pakistan’s first-ever conference on the Digital Economy and the role the Internet can play in sustainable development. The inauguration ceremony was held at a local hotel today. The three-day conference
Facebook’s Instant Articles arrive in India for Android users Facebook is bringing Instant Articles to its Android app in India today, where the social network counts 130 million users. Launched in May, the feature brings richly formatted stories along with zoomable images and auto-playing videos to your News Feed and loads them quicker than traditional
You can now search Google for Facebook profiles and posts on Android n you use Google search on your Android device, you should now see results that link you to content within Facebook, including public profiles, pages and posts. Each result will lead you directly to the content in Facebook’s app rather than a