Making the rumor rounds this week is a report about a new 12-inch MacBook Air to be released sometime soon; well, at least before summer. The rumor can be traced to a single post on a Chinese forum called Weiphone.com (translated post). The author of the post has in the past posted accurate images of […]
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if you want to monitor network throughput on the command line interface, use nload application. It is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in and outgoing traffic using two graphs and provides additional info like total amount of transferred data and min/max network usage. […]
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men;No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard. Is Google Making us Stupid? This reminds of the eternal “calculators are evil” debate in school times. First it’s calculators, then PDAs, then laptops, and now it’s real-time access to information. As a […]
Google is reportedly working on an 8.9-inch tablet that will hit the market late this year. Market research firm IHS Technology has told technology website CNET that Google is working on a “high-performance” tablet with an 8.9-inch display. The internet search giant sells its smartphones and tablets under the Nexus brand. Rhoda Alexander, director of tablet […]
Nokia X is already in the market and it has Google less Android running on it. However, it is easy to put Google Apps on a Nokia X. I do not know why would someone with an Android device like to have a Nokia X App store, when they already have the mighty Google Play Store on […]
Motorola unveils Moto 360 smartwatch with Android Wear for summer 2014 Motorola is the latest to jump onto the wearable bandwagon with the launch of its first smartwatch, the Moto 360. The Moto 360 smartwatch will run Google’s Android Wear, a software project that extends Android to wearables. LG has also announced its G Watch, […]
iPhone 6 may include sensors to detect the weather, says analyst Taking a page from Samsung’s Galaxy S4, the next iPhone may be able to feel the temperature and humidity, claims a Chinese analyst. Will the next iPhone be able to detect the weather? It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. And Apple’s next iPhone […]
Google is cutting the monthly cost of extra storage for Google Drive today. Users always receive 15GB for free, but they can now jump up to 100GB for $1.99, down from the previous price of $4.99. Perhaps the most appealing option is the 1TB tier, which has fallen from $49.99 each month all the way down […]
20,000km undersea cable to link Singapore to Europe The new 100Gbps fiber-optic link will open up international communications for 15 telecommunications companies and protect against severed cables or other problems. The Sea-Me-We 5 consortium, a group of 15 telecommunications companies, has awarded Alcatel-Lucent and NEC a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to lay […]