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Microsoft Band fitness tracker device for $199

Posted on October 30, 2014 by ramesh xavier

The Microsoft Band will launch in Microsoft stores and online Today, October 30, for $199. As was rumored, the band features an elongated display that can track sleep, exercise and display notifications from your smartphone. The Microsoft Band is definitely

YouTube To Offer A Paid, Ad-Free Subscriptions

Posted on October 30, 2014 by sherly

YouTube, the video-streaming service owned by Google (GOOG), is exploring whether to offer paid subscriptions that would let users watch content without advertising. “YouTube right now is ad-supported, which is great because it has enabled us to scale to a

The World Wide Web Consortium Finally recommends HTML5

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

Microsoft Announces Unlimited OneDrive Storage for Office 365 Subscribers

Posted on October 29, 2014 by ramesh xavier

Microsoft has now announced it is blowing the roof off OneDrive storage limits for Office 365 subscribers. The move comes as a surprise to many as the company just recently upped its limits to 1TB for subscribers and doubled its

How to Safely Clean Your Laptop

Posted on October 29, 2014 by ramesh xavier

Like everything else in your home (or pockets), gadgets tend to get dirty. An unnaturally large number of people are not too particular about cleaning their gadgets and that is the reason we end up with layers of dust on

Mozilla Thunderbird exceeded maximum number of connections

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Annie

Mozilla Thunderbird has default limit of 5 simultaneous connections. However, some mail servers allow only a lower number of simultaneous connections. When the limit set by the server is reached, the above, or similar, error message might be encountered. In

Amazon shopping, Jet Airways booking With RuPay

Posted on October 29, 2014 by sherly

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)’s domestic card payment scheme RuPay is getting more adoption from online merchants: It has tied-up with Amazon and Jet Airways, enabling RuPay debit card holders to make online transactions on the respective sites. RuPay

Skype wants to make it easy to call from your browser

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

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

What is Google Safe Browsing ?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Google Safe Browsing is a service provided by Google that provides lists of URLs for web resources that contain malware or phishing content. The Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox web browsers use the lists from the Google Safe

How to use Computer for the Blind & Visually Impaired

Posted on October 27, 2014 by sherly

Digital technology has also given blind people ever-expanding opportunities for personal and professional growth. To make such a highly visual environment accessible to those unable to see a computer monitor, assistive technology must do two things: 1. Enable users to