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Can You Provide Full Protection Against Identity Theft with a VPN? Here’s What It Can (and Can’t) Do
News May 22, 2025
Nowadays, it feels like every click and every login to our email or social networks opens a window for those trying to steal our information. Identity theft has reached levels we couldn’t have imagined just a decade ago. According to the latest official statistics, total fraud and identity theft cases…
July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages
News Jul 6, 2024
Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar last…
I’ve noticed that lately I seem to be forever plugging my iPhone in to charge. As well as being rather inconvenient, it’s really annoying, so I decided to hunt for ways to make my iPhone battery last longer. Some of them are pretty obvious but others had never occurred... Read more
This is it, folks. The day that Windows XP users have been dreading for the past several months since Microsoft announced that it was going to end support for the beloved operating system. April 8 is here. The XPocalypse is here. And it comes alongside the latest Windows 8.1... Read more
Behind The Scenes With Project Ara
Mobile April 7, 2014
Google has given us a glimpse of the work that is going into Project Ara, the company’s modular phone concept, that is being developed by its Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group, via a new video (below). In order to appeal to the masses, Google explains how there is... Read more
HTC One M8 Beats Rivals In The ‘Drop Test’
Mobile April 7, 2014
It is inevitable that at some point you will drop your smartphone. It’s happened to the best of us; either they fall out of our pocket or they slip through our butter fingers. So what we need to know is, which is the most sturdy and is built to... Read more
Are you a gamer? What web browser do you use? Well, if you haven’t tried it already, you should give Google Chrome a trial run on your PC and see if you like it. Google Chrome is one of the best desktop browsers currently available on the planet. Millions... Read more
Novena: The Open Source Laptop
News April 5, 2014
You may have been one of the hoards of people who snapped up the Rapsberry Pi when it first came out. I know my husband was. And for just $35, it really did create a stir at the time, providing a low-cost platform that could be customised in countless... Read more
Just over a year ago we announced Piriform (the software house behind everybody’s favourite PC utility CCleaner) were working on an Android version of their popular desktop software. Earlier this week Piriform finally released a public beta of the CCleaner Android App. To test the app for free, you... Read more
Plextor Adds Full-Disk Encryption To Solid-State Drives
News April 3, 2014
Plextor, a digital storage technology professional, has announced the initiation of the M6M mSATA and M6S solid-state drives (SSDs). Due in the second quarter of 2014 in 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB capacities, we look forward to seeing them soon. The M6M will have a server-grade Marvell 88SS9188 controller, Toshiba... Read more
It’s less than a week before Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows XP, but it doesn’t look like Microsoft’s attempts to get people off the operating system has made a significant impact. NetMarketshare just released the latest data on operating system market shares, which only goes to show that the... Read more
14-year old Suvir Mirchandani was studying ways to reduce the use of ink and paper for a school project when he discovered that using the Garamond font, rather than Times New Roman and other popular fonts, businesses and organisations could save thousand of dollars every year on printer ink.... Read more
Microsoft Buys Wearable Tech IP For $150 Million
News April 1, 2014
If there were any doubts about wearable tech being the future, this is the time to re-think those doubts. Microsoft just joined the wearable tech race to the tune of $150 million; at least that’s the estimate of those in the know. According to TechCrunch, Microsoft has spent a whopping amount... Read more
Appbucket Founders Convicted
Internet March 31, 2014
The leader of a piracy group and a co-conspirator, that was engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android apps have pleaded guilty for their roles in the plot that distributed more than a million copies of copyrighted apps. The total retail value of these apps was... Read more
Privacy is always a touchy thing, whether or not you have something to hide. And when people in “power” do invade privacy in one way or another, the proverbial excrement does hit the spinning blades. Last week, the case of Microsoft snooping on a Hotmail user’s emails because of... Read more
Can you imagine being able to recharge your smartphone or tablet just by lying it out in the sun? Well scientists from the Nanyang Technology University (NTU) have created the next-generation solar cell material, which not only converts light to electricity but also emits light. The solar cell has... Read more
Depending on how many science fiction movies you’ve seen, this article may be a little hard to believe, but it is also nonetheless true. It seems that doctors have found a new way to save lives – by killing their patients – only to bring them back to life... Read more
Microsoft FREE Trials For Software & Services
News March 27, 2014
Yesterday, I expressed surprise about the things happening at Microsoft – a potentially free operation system and the MS-DOS source code being made available. Here’s another pleasant “surprise”, in case you are not aware of this: Microsoft is offering a free trial for its various software and services. It’s... Read more
Google Now is Now Available On Your Desktop
Internet March 27, 2014
If you’ve used Google Now at all, you probably either love it or hate it. I probably line up in more of the former category myself. While I wasn’t all that sure about it at first, it quickly grew on me based on the way it adapted itself to... Read more
MS-DOS Source Code Now Available To The Public
DevelopmentNews March 26, 2014
Surprise, surprise! It does seem that Microsoft is really going through major changes. Not only have we heard about rumors about a free version of Windows 8.1, but now, Microsoft has released the MS-DOS source code to the general public. Free AND Microsoft? Strange bedfellows, huh? Arguably, MS-DOS is... Read more