Internet service providers in Australia might be hit with a new piece of legislation soon that will require their action in the prevention of piracy in the online medium. A new bill called the Copyright Amendment was brought in front of Parliament in Australia today, proposing the complete block of websites that may contain and distribute copyrighted materials. The legislation ...
Read More »Twitter launches Periscope to take on popular app Meerkat in streaming
Twitter has been pretty vocal about its reluctance to accept Meerkat, the recently uber-popular video streaming app that has surfaced in the past few weeks. After blocking streaming from Meerkat, Twitter has finally taken a step forward and announced its own video streaming service, dubbed Periscope. Meerkat has risen to the top of trending apps and topics on Twitter thanks ...
Read More »Xiaomi holding special event filled with surprises on the 31st
Xiaomi, the Chinese company that has taken the world by storm with its affordable, high-end devices, has a birthday coming up. On the 31st of March, Xiaomi is turning 5, or at least it is celebrating 5 years since it started making gadgets like those that have yielded millions of positive reviews from customers across the world. Although the company ...
Read More »Facebook On This Day is kind of a throwback Thursday
Facebook is taking the Throwback Thursday tradition to the next level with a new feature they’ve announced today, called On This Day. People are usually interested in how they’ve evolved over time and I know I certainly love looking back at my old posts and laughing my face off at the stupid things I posted a couple years ago. That’s ...
Read More »Nokia and Meizu working on a new MX Supreme phone
Nokia and Meizu are supposedly teaming up for the next behemoth from the Chinese company, dubbed the Meizu MX Supreme. Although these are just rumors, it would be very interesting to see Nokia partner with Meizu for a new smartphone. Meizu’s MX4 and MX4 Pro are leaders in the phablet-market in China while Nokia can boast with excellent quality hardware ...
Read More »Nexus 10 getting Android 5.1 over the air now
Although Google has already released the factory images for the new Android 5.1 software update online, the OTA has only been sent out to a a handful of Nexus devices. Today, Google has finally started rolling out Android 5.1 OTA to the Nexus 10, so you should check for updates if you haven’t made use of the factory images. Android ...
Read More »Sony finally rolling out Android 5.0 to its entire Xperia Z series
Sony has finally verified the Android 5.0 Lollipop build from Google and sources tell us the update is ready to be sent out to the entire Xperia Z series of smartphones and tablets. Sony went ahead and confirmed on Twitter that the update is finally verified and that users of the Xperia Z, Xperia Z1, Xperia Z2 and Xperia Z3 ...
Read More »Android 5.0.2 out for Galaxy Tab S 10.5
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 is reportedly getting the Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update as we speak, although the rollout seems to be restricted to Canada and France at the moment. The Galaxy Tab S 10.55 is one of the biggest and most popular tablets from the South Korean company, and users have been waiting for the new update for ...
Read More »Oppo working on bezeless smartphone
Oppo, a Chinese smartphone famous for its Oppo R5, briefly the thinnest phone on the planet, is supposedly working on demolishing a new record: that of the bezeless smartphone. The race for creating bezeless smartphones got a new edge when Sharp launched the affordable Aquos Crystal last year and ever since, OEMs and users have been focusing more and more ...
Read More »New Google Glass coming this year, confirmed by exec
It should come to nobody’s actual surprise that Google Glass is not in fact, dead. It has never been dead and ever since it was first unveiled in 2012, Google as a company and its Google X Labs were confident that the wearable device would eventually end up on retail shelves. After pulling the Google Glass Explorer edition in January, ...
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