Category Archive For "Tech News"

“It’s time you encrypt” – Yours truly, Google

All communication should be secure by default. That’s what Google has been urging for some time now. They finally seem to have taken a step to ensure that as well. Last week at Enigma Conf 2016, an engineer from CloudFlare showed the potential manifestation of a Chromium proposal which wants to have insecure content marked …

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It’s a Free World – The Future of Open Source

There was time, when then-CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer had called the open source Linux operating system a cancer. That was 2001. A decade and 5 years later, in the 9th Future of Open Source Survey, 78% of respondents said that their companies run part or all of their operations on OSS. So, what changed? …

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What we consumed best at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016!

We wait for the International CES (Consumer Electronics Show®) with baited breath every year. It’s a huge playground, the best kind. The world’s gathering place for all who thrive on consumer technologies. This year too we couldn’t help but gawk at the new products and technologies. Most people were of the opinion that CES 2016 …

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This festive season, scooter boards are the new hot cakes

Electric hands-free scooters popularly known as hover-boards have captured the imagination of kids and adults (remember the Filipino priest?) alike. Although initially dismissed as a fad, hover-boards have literally flown off the shelves for most part of this year. So what is it about this toy that is making everyone hover over it? It’s simple. …

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Drone Tax, because the best things come with a price

We are obsessed with drones. Maybe, because they are cool technology that just sounds important or because we realize that we could do a lot with them in our daily lives. A New Year is generally the best excuse to give into our temptations and pamper ourselves; and naturally it was not surprising that a …

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Hybrid Apps Are The Way To Go

Apps Hybrid Apps are the way to go! If you are an owner of a small enterprise, chances are that all you’ve heard the last couple of years is the need for an online presence; how your world will crumble if you do not get your business app developed, or how you are missing out …

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New Snapchat Like Features Added to Skype

The newest update of Skype is a very interesting one. It leading video chat platform has introduced video messaging filters much like Snapchat. Users can do a lot of fun activities by choosing features like ghosts, floating balloons, negative filters or face distortion. A user simply needs to select the contact they want to message …

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