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Microsoft to replace Nokia Store with Opera Mobile Store

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sherly

Opera Mobile Store will replace Nokia Store as the default app store for Nokia feature phones, Symbian and Nokia X smartphones, following an agreement between Opera Software and Microsoft. Beginning in the first quarter of 2015, people who access Nokia

Facebook games may actually do some good in your family life

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sherly

Do not fret if your child is playing Farmville on Facebook with his/her siblings or cousins. This will only cement the bond between them in the long run. New research shows that beyond being a fun distraction, social network games

Yahoo Replaces Google As Default Search Provider in Mozilla Firefox

Posted on November 20, 2014 by sherly

Yahoo and Mozilla just announced a “strategic five-year partnership that makes Yahoo the default search experience for Firefox in the United States on mobile and desktop.” The companies said they will explore other potential “future product integrations and distribution opportunities

IBM launches new email service ‘Verse’

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Tech giant International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) has launched a new e-mail application ‘Verse’ for enterprises that integrates social media, file sharing and analytics to learn a user’s behavior and predict interactions with coworkers. A number of new innovations such

Twitter search now indexes every public Tweet

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Twitter has announced that it’s making its entire public tweet archive searchable to everyone. Previously it had only made the archive accessible to select partners. From a blog post by Twitter search infrastructure engineer Yi Zhuang: Twitter’s search engine will

Google will give you $5 for inviting a friend to use Wallet

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Google announced a money giveaway promotion to encourage Google Wallet users to invite friends to the service. Existing customers can initiate a money-send request in an amount as little as one penny. If the recipient has never created a Google

Cannot receive emails

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Annie

There are number of reasons that may cause you can not able to read emails. The most common reasons are: * Username is incorrent. Most email clients only suggest the first part of the email address (user instead of [email protected])

WhatsApp Now Provides End-to-End Encryption For Your Messages its Android app

Posted on November 19, 2014 by sherly

WhatsApp is making a big push for privacy, adding end-to-end encryption to its Android app. The “end-to-end” part means WhatsApp won’t be able to decrypt your messages, even if it is compelled to do so by law enforcement agencies. This,

Google Nexus 6 to go on sale in India today

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Google’s flagship Nexus 6 is all set to go up for pre-orders in India on today. Flipkart, which listed the Google Nexus 6 as “coming soon” on its website several days ago, has now changed the status of the device

Snapchat launches Snapcash payment feature with Square

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Snapchat, is in the news again. Today Snapchat unveiled a partnership with payment processor Square to launch payments inside the Snapchat app. The feature, dubbed Snapcash, allows users to send money to friends and family on the network by simply