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H MD Global , proprietor of the Nokia telephone mark, on Sunday reintroduced the great 3310 element telephone at the Mobile World Congress, alongside a line of fresh out of the box new Nokia cell phones that keep running on the Android stage.  The relaunch of the 3310 is the reimagination of one of the world's top of the line include telephones as a smooth, lightweight gadget that components 22 hours of talk time and a whole month of standby time. Its normal retail cost will be only 49 euros (about US$52). The telephone will come in four hues: warm red and yellow with a reflexive complete, and dull blue and dark in matte. The reintroduction was a piece of a bigger rollout that included new cell phones - the Nokia 3, Nokia 5, Nokia 6 and Nokia 6 Arte Black Limited Edition - that will work on the Android Nougat stage and incorporate Google Assistant. The dispatch is the primary major Nokia telephone item presentation since Microsoft concurred a year ago to offer the c...

There is no motivation to overpay for your motion pictures when you have choices.  The Gear VR is sufficiently agreeable that you can without much of a stretch lay back and look at your most loved motion pictures. Presently Oculus Movies, is constructed appropriate in with the goal that you can buy and watch the films that you are truly craving for. However there is somewhat of a catch here. That is on account of obtaining a motion picture through Oculus Movies is really more costly than it is anyplace else. No one needs to overpay for substance unless they need to, and that is certainly valid here. Gratefully with regards to looking at motion pictures in VR, you have a couple of choices to look at. What different administrations are accessible as applications? When you consider spilling motion pictures or TV, there are most likely two administrations that promptly fly into your head. Hulu, and Netflix. Both of these wonderful gushing applications are accessible for do...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook offered $3 billion to buy the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat in 2013. Snapchat’s founder, Evan Spiegel, turned down the offer. Ever since, Facebook and some of its top apps — including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — have been trying to tap into the explosively popular photo-sharing features pioneered by Snapchat. The latest sign of that came on Monday as WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application used by 1.2 billion people, unveiled a version of its Status feature that takes a significant number of cues from Snapchat. Similar to Snapchat’s Stories feature, WhatsApp’s Status now lets people share images, GIFs and videos as a status update, all of which last for 24 hours before disappearing. The move follows a string of actions by Facebook to emulate Snapchat. In August, Instagram introduced a Stories feature that was a near exact copy of Snapchat’s. In December, Messenger revamped its look and feel to emphasize sending photos, just like Snapchat. ...

Last night, developer Victoria Fierce had some harsh words for Vice President Mike Pence. Incensed over the Trump administration's recent rollback of transgender protections, Fierce let loose on Pence. "F**k you," she tweeted. "I gotta piss, and you're putting me — an American — in danger of assault by your white supremacist brothers." Almost immediately, she got the notification. Twitter had detected "potentially abusive activity" on her account, and put her in temporary timeout as a result. For the next 12 hours, only followers could see her tweets — which meant she wouldn't be able to lobby the Vice President. It's part of a broader shift in the way Twitter deals with abuse — one that's drawn fire from many of the same communities calling for stronger enforcement. In some cases, the account-lock could even be triggered by quote-tweeting a profanity-laced tweet, since the resulting tweet would include both profanity and the s...

Each parent ought to reconsider before giving out Internet-associated toys or shrewd toys to their kids, as these unpleasant toys represent an alternate kind of threat: protection and information security dangers for children who play with them. This same occurrence was occurred over a year back when Hong Kong toymaker VTech was hacked, which uncovered individual subtle elements, including snaps of guardians and kids and visit logs, of around 6.4 million youngsters around the globe. Presently, in the most recent security fizzling of the web associated brilliant toys, more than 2 Million voice recordings of youngsters and their folks have been uncovered, alongside email locations and passwords for more than 820,000 client accounts. What's more, What's far and away more terrible? The programmers bolted this information and held it for Ransom. California-based Spiral Toys' line of web associated squishy toy toys, CloudPets, which permit youngsters and relatives t...

Moment Apps for Android, reported in Google's I/O designer gathering a year ago, was labeled as an element that would perpetually change how clients download applications into their cell phones. In a post on the Android Developers blog, it was uncovered that the component has now been discharged through a couple applications, as a major aspect of a restricted test that clients can partake in. What Is Android Instant Apps?  The Instant Apps highlight for Android will permit clients to download and run applications on their cell phones and tablets without going through the full establishment handle. While getting to specific sites, clients may see proposals to rather download a specific application. The application will take into consideration a streamlined cell phone understanding to get to the substance of the site, however clients can skirt the establishment procedure of the application and get to the program adaptation of the site. Moment Apps will permit Android a...

The organization that offers advanced crime scene investigation and portable hacking instruments to others has itself been hacked. Israeli firm Cellebrite, the well known organization that gives computerized criminology instruments and programming to help law implementation get to cell phones in examinations, has had 900 GB of its information stolen by an obscure programmer. However, the programmer has not yet freely discharged anything from the stolen information chronicle, which incorporates its client data, client databases, and a huge measure of specialized information in regards to its hacking devices and items. Rather, assailants are searching for conceivable chances to offer the entrance to Cellebrite framework and information on a couple chose IRC talk rooms, the programmer told Joseph Cox, donor at Motherboard, who was reached by the programmer and got a duplicate of the stolen information. Then, Cellebrite likewise conceded that it as of late experienced "una...

A newfound bug in Apple's iOS versatile working framework is being abused in a trick that gives anybody a chance to crash your iPhone or iPad by simply sending an emoji-filled iMessage, as indicated by a few reports. YouTube star EverythingApplePro distributed a video highlighting a succession of characters that briefly solidify and restart an iPhone, which individuals can send to their iPhone mates to inconvenience them. You can watch the video show beneath. Here's the main troublesome content: A white Flag emoji, the digit "0" and a Rainbow emoji. This basic numeric character, banner, and rainbow emojis confound iOS 10 gadgets when it tries to consolidate them into a rainbow hail. When this content is gotten, the iPhone's product endeavors to join the emojis however comes up short, and the informing application crashes and in the end reboots in almost no time. The beneficiaries don't need to open or read the message. Video Demonstration  A...

KickassTorrents is back from the dead! Back in July, the world's largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT) with millions of unique daily visitors was shut down by the U.S. authorities following the arrest of its alleged owner Artem Vaulin. Shortly after the shutdown, a group of devoted original KAT staffers launched the Katcr.co forum in hopes of bringing back KickassTorrents to its former glory, in the near future. Now, Katcr.co has launched a fully operational torrent website, which looks identical to the original Kickass Torrents (KAT) portal, TorrentFreak reports. Note: In case the new KickassTorrents website does not immediately load, give it a few tries, as the site is experiencing a massive surge in traffic. Launched today and located at KATcr.co/new, the new Kickass Torrents site starts with a clean user database while many members of the original staff are back on board, including its dedicated uploaders. Here's what ...

Some few hours ago, the US President-Elect Donald Trump met with some of the World Technology Leaders, also in attendance investor Peter Thiel and his Vice President-elect Mike Pence who sat at his side. Although, the US President-Elect has been approved but the inauguration is to take place next year January but I really think, he is starting to involve himself to be known as the new US President, of which we acknowledge that. Opening the meeting with Trump was CEOs from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others by thanking Thiel for his support. He said some Honorable and encouraging words stating that, they should try to love him a little bit and work with him all through out his tenure. And right now, there are some rumors that Donald Trump did not invites Twitter CEO Dorsey to the tech summit. And the rumored reason is due to the “emoji debacle” Well, till now, he has not said anything regarding that news but Trump is an out-spoken man, we believe, he’s got something to s...

As the world attempts an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber security experts have raised serious concerns and revealed how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds. And what's more interesting? The hack uses nothing more than guesswork by querying multiple e-commerce sites. In a new research paper entitled "Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?" published in the academic journal IEEE Security & Privacy, researchers from the University of Newcastle explains how online payments remain a weak spot in the credit card security which makes it easy for fraudsters to retrieve sensitive card information. The technique, dubbed Distributed Guessing Attack , can circumvent all the security features put in place to protect online payments from fraud. The similar technique is believed to be responsible for the hack of thousands of Tesco customers in the U.K last month. The issue rel...

Have you considered the possibility that someone could be watching you through your webcam? Or Listening to all your conversations through your laptop’s microphone? Even a bit of thought about this probability could make you feel incredibly creepy. But most people think that they have a solution to these major issues i.e. simply covering their laptop’s webcam and microphone with tape, just like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and FBI Director James Comey. But it's 2016, and a piece of tape won't help you, as a new experiment has proved that how easily hackers can turn your headphones into a microphone to spy on all your conversations in the background without your knowledge. A group of Israeli security researchers at Ben Gurion University have created a proof-of-concept code (malware) that converts typical headphones into microphones and then use them to record all your conversations in the room just like a fully-featured spying device. Speake(a)r Malware Weaponizes ...

Lifestage: A video app for teenagers from Facebook that allows to post photos, videos and send out ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ The widely popular social networking site, Facebook currently with 1.71 billion monthly active users is looking to target teenagers by launching a social-media network that only those under the age of 21 can join. On Friday, Facebook introduced a new app called Lifestage for sharing photos and video that might emerge as rival to Snapchat. With this app, the teenagers can post photos, videos and send out ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’. However, it doesn’t support messaging feature like Snapchat. Lifestage is a type of video diary where you answer biographical questions about yourself. Instead of providing more of a textual-based experience, the company has focused on video with this new app. The app will ask you to record video snippets of your happy face, sad face, likes, dislikes, best friend, and more that can be viewed by other visiting your profile. Also, you...

This hack makes it possible for hackers to remotely factory reset any Samsung smartphone including Galaxy S7 and Galaxy Note 7 Android devices have a factory reset option which is mostly used by smartphone owners to wipe out data if their smartphone is lost or stolen. Smartphone owners also use it when Android starts acting weird. However, hackers seem to have found out a way to remotely factory reset any Samsung make smartphone by triggering this factory reset option. A new video on YouTube channel RootJunky shows us that the factory reset protection can be bypassed on Samsung devices, including the Galaxy Note 7 and the Galaxy S7 series. The method works on older devices as well. The remote factory reset option exploits a security hole  from Samsung. Rootjunky used a Samsung Galaxy S7 running on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow to demonstrate the flaw. The whole process is explained by Android Police as below : After confirming that the FRP is activated in the bootlo...

Samsung Galaxy S7 continues to work in spite of being submerged in lake water for two hours Earlier this year, the South Korean electronics giant, Samsung launched its flagship smartphones, Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge with water-resistant capabilities, a feature that was missing from its previous devices. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge boasts an IP68 rating, which means that its capable of withstanding submersion underwater up to depths of 1 meter for up to 30 minutes at a time without any damage and still work. IP68 certification is a really useful feature on any smartphone, since it means that the device could be used for clicking pictures or recording videos underwater. Further, to check the smartphone’s water-resistant capabilities, a YouTuber Max Lee had posted a video in which he threw his new Galaxy S7 into an LG washing machine with only a phone case to protect it. Surprisingly, the Galaxy S7 survived without any noticeable damage. Now, a Redditor with the user handle ‘a...

Nokia’s First Android Smartphones Could Arrive By End Of 2016 Recently, we had reported that Nokia is planning to launch two Android Nougat smartphones before the end of this year. According to a new report, the Finnish company plans to launch several smartphones and tablets by the end of this year. Nokia executive Mike Wang, president of the joint management team in China, has confirmed the news to local site ThePaper that three or four new Nokia-branded Android devices are set to be unveiled in the fourth quarter of 2016. These devices will be split between new smartphone and tablet launches. However, the devices may not hit the market until early next year. The upcoming products will be designed by the HMD Group, which comprises of ex-Nokia and ex-Microsoft employees. For those unfamiliar, Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft a couple of years ago, and recently Microsoft sold the feature phone business to Foxconn. It was also reported on Tuesday that HMD has hired...

Essential keyboard shortcuts that will help you to navigate Windows 10 like a pro I know when you read the title of this article, you went Oh No! not another article with keyboard shortcuts. I already know all the Windows shortcuts! But I beg to differ from you. When Microsoft rejigged its Windows architecture for Windows 10, it added some quite brilliant keyboard shortcuts which I am sure you may now know. There are plenty of ways to navigate Windows 10, but sometimes using keyboard shortcuts is the most convenient and can save time and effort. You can click on the start button or tap it with your finger on a touchscreen to access the power controls or you can just hit the Windows button on the keyboard without lifting a hand. Using Windows shortcuts to call out menus in a jiffy is also a sure shot way impress your female friends or office colleagues. The Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts are so easy that once you assign them to your memory, it will take just two clicks with ...

Lenovo announces two VR ready Windows 10 desktop gaming systems The last few years has seen the sales and market share of laptops’ decline. Thanks to the arrival of smartphones, tablets and phablets. As a result, companies have been periodically launching powerful gaming laptops keeping the requirement of the gamers in mind. Now, Lenovo, the company, best known for ThinkPad and Yoga laptops, has unveiled two Windows 10 desktop PCs at the Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany yesterday that emphasize gaming power and virtual reality experience on the go: the IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and IdeaCentre AIO Y910 . “With VR, live streaming and lifelike visuals that dwarf consoles, PC gamers have completely new ways to experience and immerse themselves in games today,” said Johnson Jia, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President, PC & Smart Device Business Group, in a statement. “Our new IdeaCentre Y710 Cube and IdeaCentre AIO Y910 gaming desktops are the products of years of listening to the gr...

South Korea Has the Best Mobile Data Speed in the world, USA Lags Behind China and India comes last Today everything is driven by Internet and so speed becomes  much more important. Have you ever thought where your country ranks globally in mobile data speeds? Do you think that your country provides you the best mobile data speeds? If you compare your country with other countries of the world, you may find yourself wrong. OpenSignal, a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping, today released their sixth Global State of the Mobile Network report on the global state of mobile networks. The information which was crowdsourced from users using their Android or iOS app and readings from mobile networks in 95 countries showed that South Koreans enjoy the fastest Internet speeds in both cellular and Wi-Fi connections, according to the report by OpenSignal. Among the 95 countries, 93 of them had 3G or better signal availability more than half of the time while the...

Gone are the days when one had to queue up in bank halls in other to perform some simple banking transactions like checking of account balance, transferring or sending of money from one account number to the other, paying of bills and lots more. Now, all these and more can be done right from the comfort of once room. Thanks to mobile banking Ecobank, one of the financial institutions with branches all over Nigeria and across the African continent lunched its USSD on the go service known as “Quick Balance”. With “Quick Balance”, Ecobank customers can conveniently check their bank account details right from their mobile phones without paying a visit to the banking hall or using an ATM. You can recall that Guarantee Trust Bank have a similar service with the GTBank *737# Code which can be used to check bank account balance, transfer funds, recharge cards, pay decoder bills and lots more.           ADVANTAGES OF QUICK BALANCE 1. It is very ...