Source: Thenextweb

Eric Schmidt believes government censorship will be wiped out within ten years

November 20, 2013

Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, said in a speech at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies that believes government...

Nokia Music rebranded as Nokia MixRadio

November 20, 2013

Nokia has Nokia Music rebranded as Nokia MixRadio and has relaunched its Windows Phone app. The new app has a Play Me...

Alibaba gives free smartphones to retailers in China in an effort to boost m-commerce

November 20, 2013

Alibaba, a Chinese Internet giant, is giving away free smartphones in an effort to encourage merchants to shift from PC-based online shopping...

Samsung looks to London for better software

November 19, 2013

Brendon Kim, senior director of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center, has said that a London-based center is likely to launch in...

Twitter removes option to let users receive direct messages from any follower

November 19, 2013

Twitter recently released the option to let users receive direct messages from any follower. All you needed to do was enable...

Google greatly extends its proactive Patch Reward Program

November 19, 2013

Google recently started providing financial incentives for proactive improvements to OSS. Less than six weeks later, Google is already expanding the program to...

McDonald’s is rolling out free 2Mbps Wi-Fi across China

November 19, 2013

Several McDonald's restaurants in Shanghai already offer free 2.0 Mb/s Wi-Fi to diners but that number will rise to 1,400 restaurants all...

Amazon announces the release of Fire OS 3.1

November 18, 2013

Amazon's Fire OS is a forked build of Android 4.2.2. that supports Android apps and HTML5 apps. The OS will soon be getting a major...

Chinese smartphone makers are trying to change the ‘Made in China’ stigma

November 18, 2013

The stigma for products made in China has made most consumers wary of any product that comes out of the...

Supercomputing startup PiCloud joins Dropbox

November 18, 2013

PiCloud will be closing its service in late February because the startup will be joining with Dropbox. However, its service...

Google and Microsoft are taking steps to block links to child porn in Internet search results

November 17, 2013

Google has finetuned its algorithms to clean up the results for more than 100,000 queries that might be related to the...

Google Play Music is worlds better than Spotify

November 16, 2013

If you're a music lover, chances are you've used Spotify at some point. You may have even tried Google Play...