Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 bn. It seems like there is a lot of buying going on. Well who is going to be brave enough to take on Google? On Thursday 28th July 2016 Oracle announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NetSuite, the very first cloud company. The proposed transaction is expected to close in 2016. Until the transaction closes, Oracle and...
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Cicret Bracelet turns skin into touch screen android interface. According to Nicole Arce of Tech Times: While leaders in smartphone technologies Apple and Samsung are touting ion-strengthened glass screens and 4K displays on their devices, a group of four visionaries believe the next revolution is about to happen on the user's own skin. A four-man team from France has come up with the idea for a bracelet that...
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Google Android 7.0 Nougat is Here!!! Google has indeed kept to naming their releases after the order of the English Alphabet. This is the 14th letter so far, lets see if they make it to "Z" Nougat (Android 7.0) is currently available as a developer preview, with the final release scheduled for the third quarter of 2016. Nexus devices are always first in line to get new Android...
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Verizon buys Yahoo!!! Oh Yes! Indeed you read that right. Yahoo's days as an independent company are over. Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion in cash. The two companies confirmed this on Monday and this is the end of a purchase process that started months ago. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017. Verizon is an American broadband telecommunications company and a...
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The alleged owner of popular torrent website, Kickass Torrents, has been arrested by U.S. authorities. With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay. On 20 July 2016, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had seized the KAT.cr domain and had identified its alleged owner. The remaining domains were...
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Surprise!!! Fanta renews branding. Fanta which is the second-oldest brand of the Coca-Cola Company has renewed its brand. It is however in four countries so far so we have to be patient till the new brand gets to us. According to Carmen Moreno on freepikblog the brand has only gone live in four European countries so far: Italy, Poland, Serbia and Malta. This brand reminds one of an...
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iOS 10 is the next iphone update which is coming this fall. iOS 10 according to Apple inc. is going to be BBB-Big, Bold and Beautiful. It comes with rich notifications which allows you view your photos and videos or respond to a message right in your notifications. The iOS 10 ensures your privacy by using on-drive intelligence to identify people, objects and scenes in Photos, and...
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It seems people want to do their website design themselves and why not? There is a wealth of material on the internet giving us tutorials on how to do things ourselves. Which in its entirety isn't a bad thing. For example you can learn how to curl your hair by watching a video, however some of us then take it too far and think we...
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An Android-based malware called Godless , is targeting devices running Android Lollipop or earlier. Malicious apps related to this threat can be found in prominent app stores, including Google Play, and has affected over 850,000 devices worldwide Godless uses a framework called "android-rooting-tools" to gain root access to Android-based devices. From there, the malware phones home and receives instructions from its creators. Godless often surreptitiously downloads unwanted apps,...
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