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India Set to Beat US as Second-Largest Internet Market

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Strong growth in Internet consumption on mobile devices, the number of people online in India is forecast to touch 302 million by the end of this year, overtaking the US as the second-largest Internet market in the world. According to

China’s Tianhe-2 retains top supercomputer rank

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Sibi Antony

The Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, was named the world’ top supercomputer for the fourth consecutive time by the TOP500 project. The Tianhe-2 relegated the U.S.-developed Titan to second spot with a performance of

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

How to perform a WHOIS search in CentOS

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Annie

To instal whois run following command. You can use the whois command as follows: This command will output the following result: stefin@fwhwin:~ $

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,

Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App

Posted on November 19, 2014 by ramesh xavier

Facebook is launching a new free mobile app for its popular Groups feature that lets users create and interact with communities on the site, whether they’re based on hobbies, geography or culture. More than 700 million of Facebook’s 1.35 billion

Software Removal Tool For Chrome from Google

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Google recently launched a new tool in the fight against crapware and spyware, and it’s an excellent start to helping clean up a computer that has been infected with nonsense like the Ask Toolbar. Google calls is as Software Removal