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Passwords Becoming More and More Vulnerable
0By: Umair Yousuf | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News
Hackers are becoming increasingly active as they look to gain access to the growing value of information available online. The first line of defence, “the password” is already falling as new research shows that 90% of all user made passwords will be vulnerable to hacking in 2013. Research conducted by global consultancy firm Deloitte...
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Apple Pricing Strategy Unique in Every Way
By: Umair Yousuf | January 18th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, News
Apple has a unique method of pricing its products which has resulted in the consistent prices that can be found for its must have gadgets at all different retailers. Famous gadgets like the iPads, iPhones, and iPods are rarely ever discounted with the Cupertino giant maintaining a strong hold on the retail operations. A recent articl...
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Internet Throttling Complaints Reach All Time High in Canada For 2012
By: Ali Raza | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
When an internet service provider intentionally slows down the speed of the internet the practice is called bandwidth or internet throttling. This problem is quite common with the internet service providers in developing countries, as they do it to manage internet traffic and reduce bandwidth congestion. However, now it seems that even developed countries are facing internet throttling. As new rep...
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China to Remain Top in Global Smartphone Market
By: Umair Yousuf | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News
China will once again retain its position as the top market for smartphones this year according to analysts. With domestic Chinese companies dominating the market through their low priced smartphones analysts believe that 2013 will see almost 240 million devices sold in the country. That figure accounts for almost one-third of global shipments with a majority built by domestic compani...
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Rogers Becomes First Telecom Carrier to Offer Local and International LTE Roaming Service
By: Ali Raza | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Leading Canadian telecom carrier, Rogers Communications, which earlier announced that they will offer Research In Motion’s upcoming Blackberry 10 smartphones to users, has now made it known that it has launched LTE roaming. With this launch Rogers has become the first carrier in North America and the very firs...
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Google E-Commerce Product Zavers Stores Digital Coupons on Mobile Phone
By: Jeff Stewart | January 18th, 2013 | Business, Google, News, Smartphones
Technology giant and leading search engine Google has involved itself in different e-commerce related projects overr the years to diversify income streams. The most recent venture from the multinational corporation was Google Wallet which uses NFC technology to make payments through smartphones. It seems that with each investment in the...
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UBS Analyst Claims Microsoft’s Surface Tablet Is Off To A Slow Start
By: Jeff Stewart | January 18th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News, Tablets
When Microsoft was gearing to launch its very first piece of hardware, the Surface tablet, the maker of Windows had estimated that it would sell around 2 million units of the new slate. However, due to several glitches in their latest OS the multinational company failed to leave a good first impression on tech users. As a result of...
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Bing Adds Facebook Search Results to Social Bar
By: Umair Yousuf | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News
Just a few days ago Facebook announced the opening of beta testing for its new Facebook Graph Search project which allows users to find information through friends and connections. However, another technology giant is offering similar services even before Facebook. &n...
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Facebook’s New Graph Search Fails to Draw Positive Reviews
By: Zain Nabi | January 18th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
Soon after Facebook introduced its new search tool that will enable people to search for more personalised information, a number of reviewers have voiced negative views about the new tool, which initially was considered to be a big hit. Brian Wieser, a senior analyst at Pivotal Research Group, has raised some concerns with respe...
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Restaurant Ordering Platform ChowNow Gets $3 Million In Funding
By: Talha Bhatti | January 18th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Daher Capital, Double M Capital, and Velos Partners have invested $3 million in ChowNow during the latest funding round for the startup. The online ordering service offers restaurants a platform to take orders from mobile and Facebook users. ChowNow lets its customers customize and brand their apps for both the social network and mobile dev...
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