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Federighi said Safari would give users the ability to stop social media platforms and other sites like Facebook and Google from tracking them across online.

Anne Lu Jun 06, 2018

Telstra will be refunding customers who are not getting the speed they were promised from nbn. The Australian telco admitted that about 1 percent of its nbn customers were promised speeds that could not be achieved realistically at their location.

Anne Lu May 15, 2017

Mother's Day is on May 14 and Google gets into the mood with the Google Mother's Day Photos app.

Ryan Patrick May 06, 2017

An Android flashlight app on Google Play is actually a remotely controlled Trojan that steals users’ banking details, according to new findings. The Flashlight LED Widget is said to mimic legitimate banking apps to dupe users into giving their username and password.

Anne Lu Apr 20, 2017

A student from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has created an infrared-based Li-Fi system that can reach speeds 100 times greater than conventional Wi-Fi systems.

Rhenn Taguiam Mar 22, 2017

Google has launched health condition cards in Australia that will mimic the US version. The cards will accurately answer the common health conditions queries.

Michelle Mapa Feb 01, 2017

Yahoo will be renamed following its $6.5 billion sale to Verizon Communications. The company will be named Altaba Inc following the sale that will include Yahoo turning over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools.

Leo Oliver Jan 10, 2017

The Australian Government has called for public comment as the government wants to use metadata for civil lawsuits.

Michelle Mapa Dec 24, 2016

InfoArmor chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov confirmed that a group was selling complete copies of Yahoo database on dark websites. He called the seller as Group E.

Michelle Mapa Dec 16, 2016

A mother carrying her baby in a sling has confronted an elderly woman after being declined to take a first-class seat on a train travelling from London to Brighton.

Michelle Mapa Dec 14, 2016

Australia's 152,800 premises will become NBN-ready over the Christmas week.

Michelle Mapa Dec 12, 2016

Optus prepaid customers can now earn extra data by watching ads on their smartphone. On Tuesday, Australia’s second largest telco announced the launch of Optus Xtra, an app that allows Android users to earn extra data or credit for every ad viewed on their smartphone.

Anne Lu Nov 29, 2016

Huawei’s CEO-in-rotation Ken Hu said in a forum on Thursday that the company focused on China and Japan market for the 5G technology.

Michelle Mapa Nov 28, 2016

Optus and Huawei have successfully completed 5G trial in Australia as part of the 5G collaboration agreement between Optus' parent company, Singtel, and Huawei.

Michelle Mapa Nov 17, 2016

Google announced on Nov. 8 that it will shut down its Map Maker tool in March 2017.

Michelle Mapa Nov 09, 2016

Android users can now cast spells just like Harry Potter using Google Search.

Alvin Alcalde Nov 02, 2016

The UK is revamping its national cyber security strategy that shall cover a four-year period.

Alvin Alcalde Nov 01, 2016

The cyber attack blocked access to some of the world's most popular websites.

Ana Maria Luide Pieraz Oct 26, 2016

Telco titan AT&T has announced that it will buy media giant Time Warner for US$85.4B (AU$112.25B) to reshape the evolving media industry.

Alvin Alcalde Oct 24, 2016

Vodafone will launch its NBN home broadband service next year as it looks to expand its Internet business.

Alvin Alcalde Oct 20, 2016

The Pirate Bay (TPS), ExtraTorrent, Kickass Torrents (KAT) mirror sites and other operational file-sharing sites may be shut down permanently. Anti-piracy outfit Excipio has started charging torrent users hard cash for downloading copyrighted content.

Ritwik Roy Sep 08, 2016

There’s good news for the Apple iOS 10 jailbreak tool as the Pangu team, the Chinese programming team in the iOS community that has developed the Pangu jailbreaking tools, is now focusing a lot on iOS 10.

Ritwik Roy Sep 05, 2016

There are rumours that the popular torrent site, The Pirate Bay (TPB) may also shut down after Kickass Torrents (KAT) got axed. However, reports say that if TPB goes down too along with other torrent sites, the US Library of Congress may become the next piracy haven.

Ritwik Roy Aug 31, 2016

While the original Kickass Torrents (KAT) site may not be back and may never be back, a mysterious KAT link has emerged online and users are surprised to find it’s working properly. Thus, everyone’s favourite torrent site KAT is still searchable. Numerous KAT mirror sites and proxies have come up and US authorities are relentlessly trying to take them down too.

Ritwik Roy Aug 31, 2016

After the US government’s crackdown on numerous torrent sites, Kickass Torrents’ (KAT) take down came as a shock to downloaders. KAT became the number one torrent site in 2015 after toppling TPB from its position. Soon after the ban, numerous KAT mirror sites cropped up, most of them fake. With respect to the current situation, there are five torrent sites users can download their daily doses from.

Ritwik Roy Aug 30, 2016

The future of torrents looks bleak as The Pirate Bay (TPB), known as the “godfather of torrents” and also the “king of torrents” may also shut down. TPB’s partner CloudFlare has been slapped with lawsuits for assisting piracy sites. Kickass Torrents (KAT) is already dead and Torrentz fled the scene.

Ritwik Roy Aug 28, 2016

Kickass Torrents (KAT) is dead and there is no better way to put that. Another site Torrentz also shut shop recently fearing similar legal action would be taken against its owners since the arrest of KAT owner Artem Vaulin. The Pirate Bay (TPB) and Extratorrents are among a few sites still holding up. However, the future seems bleak.

Ritwik Roy Aug 26, 2016

With over a billion websites online these days, there’s a few that can claim to have been visited by almost every Internet users. Google remains the most visited site in the world. Although there are a handful of others that offer the same service, such as Yahoo, Bing and MSN, Google is still unbeatable, taking a lion’s share of users.

Anne Lu Jul 21, 2016

Google is experimenting with a cryptography to protect Chrome against possible quantum hacks.

Jean Claude Arnobit Jul 11, 2016