Pay to Remove Ads With Google Contributor

Want an ad-free Web experience? Now you can, via Google Contributor, a pilot program that lets people donate money to rid certain sites of advertising. Marketed as "an experiment in additional ways to fund the Web," Contributor requires a small monthly fee for you to visit participating sites without the hassle of public notices. Google is rolling out the new service with 10 initial...

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CORPORATE WATCH

Mobilink, Twitter enter partnership KARACHI: Mobilink has joined hands with Twitter to accelerate internet usage in Pakistan and to enable its users share ideas and information instantly through Twitter’s mobile services, said a press release on Thursday. As part of the partnership, Mobilink users will not incur any data charges on Twitter usage for a limited time period, it added. Topline...

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25 years after Lotus Notes, IBM tries to reinvent email again

Verse email from IBM is the sort of service you'd normally associate with a scrappy startup. Its mission: Make email less of a headache -- and, if possible, deal a blow to Google and its near-total dominance of the Web-based email market for individuals and businesses. A blog post by Jeff Schick, VP, IBM Social Software, provides details about Verse in a demonstration video. Verse...

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HALF A BILLION TERRORISTS: WhatsApp encrypts ALL its worldwide jabber

WhatsApp has announced that it will encrypt all its 600m users' text messages by default, which is a serious stride forward for privacy - and one which will no doubt be criticised by spooks and police worldwide. The rollout, announced today, was described by the app maker as the "largest deployment of end-to-end encryption ever.” The feature will, it's hoped, safeguard messages from eavesdroppers...

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Facebook rolls out standalone Groups app to improve focused communications

Early this week there were discussions about Facebook at Work, including ZDNet posts on the pros andcons of the idea. Facebook just announced a dedicated Groups app for iOS and Android that makes it easier to communicate with project teams, family and friends. Groups remain a part of the full Facebook application, much like Messenger, but pulling it out as a dedicated...

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Nokia N1 Android tablet causes a surprise

Nokia is launching an Android-powered tablet, marking the Finnish company's return to consumer electronics. The surprise launch pits the firm against Microsoft, which completed its takeover of Nokia's previous mobile-devices business in April. The N1 tablet is due to go on sale in China towards the start of 2015, ahead of other countries. Nokia said it was not making the device...

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Mellanox To Team With IBM On $425 Million US Supercomputer Program

Things are looking well for Israel’s Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems. In the past week the company has been selected to take part in a $425 million project funded by the U.S. Department of energy to construct supercomputers, had its tech chosen by Minnesota Supercomputing Institute...

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Nokia launches N1 Android tablet, an iPad lookalike, just six months after selling handset unit to Microsoft

HELSINKI— Finland’s Nokia launched a new brand-licensed tablet computer on Tuesday which is designed to rival Apple’s iPad Mini, just six months after the company sold its ailing phones and devices business to Microsoft for over US$7 billion. Nokia, a name which was once synonymous with mobile phones until first Apple and then Samsung Electronics eclipsed the Finnish company with the advent...

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Hackers lurk in hotel Wi-Fi

WASHINGTON, 17 November 2014: Hackers have developed a scheme to steal sensitive information from top executives by penetrating the Wi-Fi networks of luxury hotels where they stay, security researchers said last week. A report by Kaspersky Lab said the “Darkhotel” espionage effort “has lurked in the shadows for at least four years, while stealing sensitive data from selected corporate executives...

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Cake Boss Star Arrested for DWI In NYC, police say

Cake Boss star Buddy Valastro has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, and he did not go down without a fight. New York City police officers pulled over Valastro in his 2014 yellow Corvette around 1 a.m. in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood on Manhattan, according to Page Six. Cops followed the celebrity baker for 12 blocks as he swerved down the street in his sports car. “You...

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پانچ سال کی عمر میں مائیکرو سافٹ سرٹیفائیڈ پروفیشنل

برطانیہ میں پانچ سال کی عمر میں پاکستانی نژاد برطانوی شہری آیان قریشی مائیکرو سافٹ سرٹیفائیڈ پروفیشنل امتحان پاس کر کے دنیا کے کم عمر ترین کمپیوٹر پروفیشنل بن گئے ہیں۔ برطانیہ کے شہر کووینٹری کے رہائشی آیان قریشی نے پانچ برس کی عمر میں مائیکرو سافٹ سرٹیفائیڈ پروفیشنل کا امتحان دیا تھا۔ آیان کا خاندان سال 2009 میں پاکستان سے برطانیہ منتقل ہوا تھا۔ آیان کے والد آئی ٹی کنسلٹنٹ ہیں۔ آیان اب چھ...

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US spies on mobile phones from the sky

San Francisco - US justice officials are scooping up mobile phone data from unwitting Americans as part of a sophisticated airborne surveillance program designed to catch criminals, the Wall Street Journal reported. Small aircraft deployed by the US Marshals Service from at least five major airports have been taking to the skies with "dirtbox" equipment designed to mimic signals from cell...

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Top Features That Android 5.0 Lollipop Comes With

Google has released its new Nexus devices, the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, and both come with the new Android 5.0 Lollipop, one of the most expected OS releases this year. Google started the first beta for Android 5.0 Lollipop back at their I/O conference that was held in June 2014. It seems that many developers enjoyed this new OS but at the same time all the press was full of information...

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BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY) Sells Security Software to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) And Other Rivals

As the popularity of BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ:BBRY)‘s devices is declining in the Smartphone industry, the company is focusing more on the expansion of its mobile-security arsenal. It is making all the efforts it can for selling its mobile security software on the rival’s devices. BlackBerry has introduced a number of upgrades in its mobile security portfolio. The new security upgrades will...

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