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About Vineesh Mohan

A Technical Support specialist with strong customer service and good communication skills. I live in the city of Cochin, which known as the Queen of Arabian Sea.

Open sourcing Twitter emoji for everyone

After being the partner of Iconfactory to design emojis for its web client, Twitter has decided to open source the entire cutesy library. Developers can grab the library from Github and start implementing the fancy little characters into their apps,


A new malware called WireLurker attacks Apple products

Recently a new malware has been detected which is targeting Apple products. The virus is called “WireLurker.” It was discovered by cyber security software maker Palo Alto Networks. WireLurker zeroes in on OS X desktop software and Apple’s iOS mobile


Opera Brings Video Compression To Its Mini Browser For iOS

Opera Software announced a new version (v9) of Opera Mini for iPhones and iPads that incorporates a data-compression feature to cut down on data-transfer problems. The latest version of Opera’s browser for the data-conscious implements the Skyfire Rocket Optimizer engine


Message read confirmation coming soon on WhatsApp

WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging service, is testing a new feature that will tell a user when his or her message has been read by the recipient. The app already confirms the delivery of a message by showing two


Google developing pill that can detect cancer

Google is already in our cars, our homes and on our wrists, but now it could soon be inside our bodies too. Google X developing digestible pill that contains nanotechnology that works alongside wearable device to spot early signs of


The World Wide Web Consortium Finally recommends HTML5

The HTML5 standard is now officially being recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards organization for the World Wide Web. The HTML5 standard has been around for years and powers many of your favorite sites. As


Facebook’s third quarter 2014 result shows it has 1.35 billion users

The social media giant Facebook dropped its third quarter 2014 results today, which includes a mighty impressive monthly active user base of 1.35 billion. That’s the roughly the same population of China the country with the highest population on the


Free one-minute international calls on Google Hangouts through 2014

If you are a person, normally makes a lot of short calls overseas, there is a good news for you. Google had started offering the first minute of Hangouts calls to 25 countries at no charge. It only lasts through


YouTube plans to offer an ad-free subscription package

As we knows, the preroll ads on YouTube videos really annoys everyone, there’s some good news – the Google-owned service could one day let you pay to switch them off. At an event held in California yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan


Skype wants to make it easy to call from your browser

Today Skype announced that it has begun work with the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to let you call from within a browser more easily. The company believes its ORTC API for WebRTC