UPDATE: After more than nine hours and 30 minutes, Internet service has been restored in North Korea,according to technology news service Dyn Research. Access is only partial, Reuters reports, but the country's main news service and newspaper both are back online. ORIGINAL: North Korea's Internet is offline —...
Nearly 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords have been hacked, apparently from third-party apps that users allowed to access their accounts.The Next Web was the first to notice the leak on a site called Pastebin, where hackers have already leaked about 400 accounts. The hackers promise to release...
Microsoft released its first Windows 10 Technical Preview at the beginning of October, and the company is now revealing that 1 million people are helping test the upcoming operating system through the Windows Insider Program. "That equates to a lot of people using the Windows 10 Technical Preview...
The wait is finally over - Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially revealed the hefty new iPhone 6 Plus and its 5.5-inch screen in Cupertino alongside a long-rumored (and handier) 4.7-inch model. This thing won't seem all that foreign if you frequent the geekier corners of the web,...
Earlier in the week, Xiaomi announced to release the much-awaited budget smartphone Redmi 1S in India on 2 September. Considering the Redmi 1S' feature-rich specifications and its dirt-cheap price-tag, the Xiaomi phone in all probability will stir up a huge storm in the Indian budget smartphone just like...
Online retail major Flipkart has announced its plan to stop selling Moto G smartphone in the country. At present only the 16GB version of MotoG is available in India, and Motorola and Flipkart will not replenish the inventory once the smartphone's stock runs out, according to a statement posted...
The Internet is alight with the Ice Bucket Challenge, a silly joke that’s being shared on social media by billionaires. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dumped a bucket of ice on his head. He was followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, in a playful video, built a contraption...
The selfie has come out of nowhere like a narcissistic whirlwind and become one of the most popular things we can do with our smartphones. Don't believe us? Sony has gone so far as to release a handset dedicated to taking selfies. And now, over in Japan there are...
Is there anything that Microsoft can do at this point to create a substantially larger user base for Windows Phone? At this point things don't look great, but we wouldn't completely count Microsoft out just yet. Neowin's sources say that Microsoft is working on two new smartphones that will...