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If you are a Vodafone customer, here’s how you can get 25 GB of free Dropbox space! Vodafone, in order to make it Backup+ service attractive will offer 25 GB free Dropbox space to its customers for their first year of the service. The carrier and Dropbox announced their partnership today appealing mobile customers for safe and secure data storage. The exclusive service, available only for Vodafone customers, is expected to begin by the end of March 2015 in most of the Vodafone markets. Announcing their partnership, Vodafone notes that the Backup+ service will give their customers an easy and secure way to keep their mobile data safe with a Dropbox account. Dropbox also emphasizes their easy storage service by adding the proposition that it will simplify the process of switching phones for Vodafone users. The service, however, is only free for a year. Wouldn’t it be awesome if it were free as long as you had the contract for? How to claim your 25 GB free Dropbox Space? A comp...

Recently, Sell Hack, a browser plugin for the Google Chrome browser made quite a noise in the social networking arena. The email addresses of LinkedIn users was easily exposed via this web browser add-on tool. Made available as free extension for the Chrome browser, all one had to do was to download the plugin and install it on his/her machine and click “Hack In” button, popping up on LinkedIn profiles. And, with the click of a button, one could view the email address associated with the account, even if the account’s not a connected one. The plugin, thus exposed email addresses of all the LinkedIn users, leading to the issues of emails being flooded with spams. LikedIn intended to take legal action over the plug-in and also advised the users to uninstall the plugin. The Sell Hack team however was trying to maintain integrity all the while. They defended themselves saying the tool was created for marketing professionals and argued that all the data pulled for making email addresses wer...

Social media giant Facebook has just released ‘HACK’. Thinking “Wow, Great!”? But don’t get carried away, it has nothing to do with hacking and cracking.  Facebook releases HACK a new open-source programming language, developed for the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), Facebook’s PHP runtime environment, released in 2012. This new language, released on March 20, 2014, assimilates with the evergreen PHP language and is believed to allow their engineers and other programmers to increase their speed in writing codes as well as evade usual errors in programming. When started ten years ago, Facebook was initially coded in PHP by Mark Zuckerberg and his team. However, as the company grew, with the existing programming platform with PHP, it became difficult to manage and maintain the system free of bugs. As a result, the programming language HACK has been developed and Facebook releases HACK now so as to combine elements of static programming languages such as C and C++, which...

The world has seen enough of social networking websites and apps like Facebook , Twitter , Google Plus , Instagram, Whatsapp, Foursquare and a lot of others. Basically, all these apps, what they do is connect people living around the globe, forming their virtual network online.  In some ways, these services have been of great help to mankind while in some cases, we wish they’d rather not be present at all . There are many cases in our life when we’re trying get work done, but end up wasting all the valuable time on things like Facebook and Twitter. This is probably the downside of these platforms, about which even the most avid users agree. All the apps we’ve known till now basically promote social interaction. But have there been any service which can be dubbed as ‘anti-social’? Well, it’s just about the case with a new service called ‘Cloak’. It’s a new direction social media is heading to and we bet, we’ll have plenty of such anti-social apps in the future. Being anti-social me...

On March 12, 2014, World Wide Web turned 25 years old. Today, it has become a medium to connect the people and their ideas all over the world, in a flash of lightning. Its beginning dates back to March 1989, when Tim Berners Lee, a British scientist, wrote a proposal at CERN in Switzerland, for “a large hypertext database with typed links” which would eventually become the World Wide Web and leave a never fading mark in the history of mankind. Now here, we take a moment to list 25 numbers and what they tell about the World Wide Web. 294 billion – According to a digital research by Radicati group, more than 294 billion emails are sent on a day. 2.09 billion – According to worldwidewebsize.com, there are at least 2.09 billion pages on the Indexed Web. 920 million – According to internetlivestats.com, the total number of websites today is around 920 million. 400 million – Hotmail was born on July 4 th , 1996. It was the output of a Silicon Valley startup founded by Sabeer Bhatia and J...

Twitter has developed quickly as a highly effective medium for spreading information among large mass of people very quickly. But it doesn’t mean that all those sensational tweets, which gather focus of people all around the globe, carry any element of truth at all. There have been many instances in which a false information has spread like a fire amongst people , leading to detrimental consequences. One particular case occurred during the London Riots of 2011. What happened during the turn of events was that tweeters spread deceptive information about animals being released from London Zoo and London Eye and Selfridges being set on fire. This led to widespread panic with police attention being diverted from the actual case that needed attention. But such situations may not arise in near future. There have been reports that researchers across Europe are collaborating to devise a Lie Detector for Twitter to analyze the truthfulness of accounts that appear on social media on real time b...

Over the past few years, social networking sites have changed the lives of humans in so many ways. The way people communicate with each other, share ideas, give their opinions and learn about how things are progressing around the globe, have been drastically changed by such social networks. As of today, the total social network usage forms a huge chunk of the overall internet usage. They may have their pros and cons but a large portion of internet users spend their maximum time on the likes of Facebook , Twitter and Google Plus . So what are the most used social networks today? We present to you over here the most used social networks as of now. These most used social networks have been selected and ordered on the basis of their recent Global Alexa Rankings. 10. Ask.fm Alexa Ranking: 156 Founded in: June 16, 2010 Overview: Ask.fm is a social networking website where users can ask questions among each others. There is also the option of anonymity available. It is based on Riga, Latvia...

Hate it or like it, SnapChat is here to stay and increasingly to be adopted by Brands and Businesses you love. While many businesses are still figuring out how to jump on to the platform, some creative ones are already making use of it. One latest brand to join the Snapchat bandwagon is US based teen magazine Seventeen .  The magazine, hugely popular among teens in the United States also happens to be the first major magazine to join the platform according to a representative of Snapchat. Sending a tweet to its 700K+ followers , Seventeen Magazine requested its users to add them with their username SeventeenMag. The magazine had previously asked its readers to share their thoughts on go-to funny or flirty Snapchat ideas. Let's be friends on #Snapchat ! Username: SeventeenMag. You never know, you just miiiight get a celeb selfie snap this afternoon.. — Seventeen (@seventeen) December 18, 2013 Speaking to Mashable , Seventeen’s Editor in Chief Ann Shoket said: “As part of our ongoin...