In a move to curb bullying, fourteen smart and innovative students Metropolitan Business Academy have developed an app that victims can use to report bullying they’ve experienced .The app: named BOB which stands for “Back Off Bully,” as a technology class project, and under their newly created school company “Spontaneous Tech,” they turned it into… Read More: New Haven Students’ Anti-bullying App »
Last year December Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt assured the company will be rolling out a tablet in six months. The project is a collaboration between Google and Asus.The 7-inch tablet dubbed the Nexus 7 is rumored to be out in the market in June. Based on the specifications the tablet will come with Android 4.1… Read More: Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet uncovered »
Most of the people often mistake rogue or Fake antivirus programs to be real antivirus programs. Well, to be honest they actually look like. But, the fact is that they aren’t. They are usually generated by a Trojan that takes control of your computer. Some peddlers of fake anti-virus software actually design the viruses, spyware… Read More: How to discover and avoid fake antivirus »
The battle between Oracle and Google over Java appears to have come to an end.A jury on Wednesday cleared Google of violating any of Oracle’s patents with its Android mobile software. Oracle had claimed that Google’s Android infringes two patents that Oracle holds on its Java software, a ubiquitous programming language powering everything from phones… Read More: Android doesn’t infringe Oracle’s patents:jury »
Did you know Google intentionally hides a number of websites from you. The online empire is growing day after with new websites with legal and illegal content. The search giant said Thursday it would begin chronicling the thousands of requests it receives daily to take down search results that link to copyrighted material. Google said… Read More: Google blocks 250,000 sites in a week »
A US jury has found that internet giant Google breached copyright in a case brought by Oracle over its Java programming language. But the jurors were unable to agree on whether Google’s actions constituted “fair use” under copyright law.Oracle was asking for $1bn (£630m) in compensation in one of the biggest such technology lawsuits to… Read More: Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyright, US jury finds »
A report titled “Facebook & Your Privacy,” shows that about one out of every four Facebook users lies on their profile.The focuses on the ways people interact with the social-networking site to share information, and what happens to that information after they do. In a survey of 2,000 households, 25% of users said they falsified… Read More: Facebook user profiles and false identities:study »
At this years’s Webbys, BBC News website walked away with the people’s Voice award for news. Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile. Included in the list of… Read More: Award winners:Webbys Awards 2012 »
It has been a tough issue but finally but the U.K. High Court has now reached a decision that all ISPs in the U.K. must block The Pirate Bay, the world’s most resilient BitTorrent site. The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music, software and video. Popular U.K. ISPs, including Everything Everywhere, O2… Read More: UK ISPs to block The Pirate Bay »
For the last 14 years Nokia, a cellphone company based in Finland has been leading the global mobile phone market. Samsung, a South Korean company, took over the top spot, shipping 92 million cell phones in the first quarter, compared to the 83 million that Nokia shipped, according to IHS iSuppli. Samsung have been boosted… Read More: Samsung knocks down Nokia »