May 22, 2013

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Spyware Use by State Authorities – Under Investigation

If Bavaria’s local Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hacker group has not found out about the piece of spyware on a certain citizen’s computer, the Bavarian authorities would have kept their own people in the dark about this phenomenon. The discovery of the spyware took place after CCC was asked to analyze a laptop that had [...]

Skype Outage – Skype Problems Today

Millions of Skype Internet telephony worldwide could not make calls – or have been abandoned in mid-conversation – because of a failure of the network connection that began around 9 am PST Wednesday. It marked the second time this year that the popular, low-cost calling service has been hit by a major outage, and it [...]

Meet the ViewSonic “G Tablet” (Review)

ViewSonic G Tablet Image

ViewSonic is the latest manufacturer to announce an Android-powered tablet that will compete with the popular Apple iPad. The ViewSonic ViewPad G Tablet boasts a 10 in capacitive touchscreen, and runs the latest 2.2 version of Android which is designed to be consumer friendly. The 10-inch G Tablet has strong specs: a bright 1024 x [...]

Truphone Introduces Desktop Application; Replacing the Name “Truphone” to “TRU”

Truphone Desktop App Image

Truphone is going beyond mobile by launching a desktop application that brings the same benefits the company’s mobile users can already enjoy to a computer near you. VoIP telco Truphone have released a desktop app to allow pay-as-you-go VoIP calling from PCs, Macs and Linux. Truphone, In other words, using the Truphone application on your [...]

KiK Messenger : Real Kick to its Competitors

Kik Messenger is an application and service for Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices that allows for free texting across all three platforms. is a once in a lifetime startup success story, going from 0 to 1.5 million users in 18 days. Aside from being free, the app is available multi-platform and is insanely fast, in [...]

Kik Messenger : Everything You Want to Know

Kik Messenger is a new app for instant messaging. Much like the classic BlackBerry messenger, Kik Messenger offers the ability to chat with all the existing smartphone platforms (iPhone, Android) the only requirement is to have this application installed, an account and add your own friends. The program is very similar to Blackbery, PingChat and [...]

AIM Mail or AOL Mail

AOL Mail is also referred to as AIM Mail is a web-based email service provided by AOL. Its major competitors are Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. The “AIM” in the name means AOL Instant Messenger, AOL’s instant messaging program. AOL launched its 1st free Web mail service.AOL Mail users simply go to mail.AOL.com, [...]

Kik Messenger for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android – Video Review

Kik Messenger is the new app for instant messaging. Much like the classic BlackBerry messenger, Kik Messenger offers the ability to chat with all the existing smartphone platforms (iPhone, Android) the only requirement is to have this application installed, an account and add your own friends. It is very similar to BlackBerry, Ping Chat and [...]