ABOUT Shashank Bhardwaj
Shashank is a Computer Science undergrad in India. Apart from being a tech fanatic, he can also hold endless discussions on The Dark Knight trilogy. Follow his blog on Yaabot.com
Viber user? Your phone is at serious risk. A security flaw has been exposed in the popular voice-calling app that allows full access to your smartphone, bypassing any lock or security feature that you may have enabled on the device. Viber is a VoIP app available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, known for…
Microsoft has a new strategy in its campaign to get users to switch to its Windows Phone platform. In its latest attempt, Microsoft will be releasing an Android app – “Switch to Windows Phone”, to make it easier for potential users to switch from Android to Windows Phone. The Microsoft app will scan the apps…
Co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, and Head of Samsung Mobile – J K Shin is telling customers it doesn’t matter which variant of the Galaxy S4 – the quad-core or the octa-core model, they buy. According to him, we’ll never, or at least, most of us will never notice the difference in performance. Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy…
Facebook phones? That’s not how Nokia rolls. The Finnish phone manufacturer believes Whatsapp can work better, and has released the world’s first Whatsapp-dedicated device – the Nokia Asha 210. Broadly, the Asha 210 is primarily for ‘social networking’ – it comes with Facebook and Twitter preloaded. But Whatsapp gets preferential treatment, with a dedicated button…
The father of gesture-based typing – the Swype keyboard, has finally rolled out of its Beta Stage and arrived on Android’s Play Store. It is available for download for $0.99 ‘for a limited time’. Swype was among the first keyboards to allow users to type text by simply sliding their fingers across the screen. It…
Enough of this obsolete touchscreen technology. Samsung has decided to take user input methods to the next level – mind control. The Korean company is experimenting with a tablet that would perform actions courtesy mind-control from it users, according to a report in the MIT Technology Review. The aim is to expand the number…
Loved for its open-world gameplay, hated for its adult and controversial content (or maybe not), the Grand Theft Auto series has developed a cult following all over the world. The series has influenced the gaming industry (Saints Row, for example), and its customers too (6 New York teens were arrested for carjacking in 2008, inspired…
To all those who have missed the Start button on their Windows 8 taskbars – there is good news. Microsoft is reportedly bringing back the Start menu button in the latest Windows update – Windows 8.1 Sources close to Microsoft have apparently told The Verge that the Start button will make a comeback in the…
Google Inc. is doing its bit for charity, and asking you to do your part as well. Google has just launched a new app – One Today, that lets you donate $1 every day to a charitable cause. Google for Charity Google.org is the Google’s non-profit organization subsidiary that deals with charitable causes. One Today…
Intel is planning to ditch Windows 8 and launch convertible notebooks running on Android in the near future, sources working with notebook vendors have claimed. 11 inches, $500 In light of the major decline in PC sales recently, with the last quarter giving us the worst drop in history, Intel has decided to shake up…
Strong rumors have been doing the rounds lately, of a certain upcoming Nokia flagship – the EOS. Apart from supposedly having a superb camera, the phone is also expected to be the first Windows Phone with a quad-core processor. MyNokiaBlog claims it has received details from a “source familiar with Nokia’s plans” about this upcoming…
Google Babel has leaked (yet) again. Source code from the soon to be released unified messaging service offering from Google has been spotted in Gmail. Google Babel aims to consolidate all your conversations with your contacts into one place, in order to let you access them from any place – Google+, Gmail, Android, without losing…
2013 will mark the mass commercial deployment of 802.11ac – the new IEEE wireless protocol that promises speeds at least 3 times faster than conventional Wi-Fi. 802.11ac: New IEEE Standard 802.11ac is the new IEEE standard for wireless networking. You could consider it a qualitative increment over 802.11n, which is the standard most of us…
Samsung has found itself involved in legal issues once again. The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission is probing Samsung over allegations that the tech giant had paid students to promote and publish negative reviews about rival HTC’s devices online. The Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission launched its probe after receiving a number of complaints against Samsung,…
The first batch of Google’s Glass Explorer Edition is ready, and the first units are going to reach users in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the technical specifications for Google Glass are now public. Google has just released specifications for the augmented reality glasses we’ve all been waiting for, along with documentation for Mirror API –…