Earlier this year, Netflix went global. The streaming service went live in 190 countries, but to the dismay of customers, its entire show catalog did not. Many shows from the American, Canadian, and UK versions of Netflix were missing in other countries. Even before the global rollout, tech savvy binge watchers around the world bypassed […]
Pokémon Go: 6 Things to Avoid While Playing the Game
It’s a world turned upside down today. Fourteen year olds are dating online, and thirty year olds are out on the streets chasing their favorite Pokémon characters. Pokémon Go is a location based game developed for Android and iOS devices. In the game, the player uses the device’s GPS and camera to capture and battle […]
Leap year bug zaps Zune music players
WASHINGTON (AFP) – It wasn’t a very Happy New Year for owners of Microsoft’s Zune. Thousands of the MP3 music players froze on New Year’s Eve around the world due to what Microsoft described as a bug in the device’s internal clock. The bug only affected the original, 30-gigabyte version of the music player that was introduced […]
iPhone 3G: REVIEW AND SPECS
It’s hard to think of any other device that’s enjoyed the level of exposure and hype that Apple found in the launch of the first iPhone. Who could forget it? Everyone got to be a gadget nerd; even those completely disinterested in technology seemed to come down with iPhone fever. But the original device was still […]
Brazil: Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes
In the small hours of last Thursday, July 10, the Brazilian Senate passed the ‘Digital Crimes Bill’, which typifies the cyber-crimes punishable by law and stipulates penalties accordingly. The proposal will now be proceeding to the House of Representatives for a review of the last amendments, and the next step is its approval or veto […]
Memristors – “Memory Resistors” A research Invention by Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard announced the fourth basic element of the electronic circuits along with the resistor, capacitor and Inductor. Memristors also called to be as the memory resistors are a class of passive ideal circuit elements that maintain a functional relationship between the time Integrals of current and voltage across their two terminals. This results in […]