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Google For Jobs starts rolling out

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | June 25, 2017

Job hunting has always been one tedious job for job seekers, but Google is here to make this easy. With a new feature called as Google for Jobs, Google is trying to turn its search engine into an employment engine too. Google […]

Vivaldi powers up the Start Page and adds docked Developer Tools

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC | June 17, 2017

Vivaldi keeps working on the new features and functionality of the browser. This time the team has come up with a personalized Start page with increased functionality. The improved Start page in the latest version of Vivaldi 1.10 acts more […]

New Surface Pro and Surface Laptop now available in markets across the globe

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | June 16, 2017

Finally, the much-awaited members of the Surface family; i.e. Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, are now available in markets across the globe. Microsoft has made the two of its latest laptops available in 25 markets all around the world. Not […]

Chrome 59 released with Material Design as default

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | June 7, 2017

le has released Chrome 59 for Windows, Linux and macOS. The latest version includes a number of important security fixes and features. The most notable among them is the arrival of Material Design on the desktop. Chrome 59.0.3071.86 is being […]

Pipes is the new Yahoo Pipes alternative being launched

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | June 4, 2017

Yahoo Pipes, the web application from Yahoo and discontinued in 2015, now has a replacement. Pipes has been launched with new features. Yahoo Pipes was a web application used by the developers and programmers to manipulate, aggregate and mashup content from […]

Microsoft Planner mobile app now available for iPhone and Android

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | June 2, 2017

It seems Microsoft is pretty serious about making Microsoft apps available for iPhone and Android. This time, the new Microsoft Planner app is made available for iPhone and Android phones. The Microsoft Planner is an extension to the existing Planner […]

Pale Moon & Firefox users facing connectivity issues when visiting Microsoft online services

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | May 30, 2017

Firefox & Pale Moon browser users have started facing connectivity issues when visiting Microsoft’s online services, such as Hotmail, Live, Outlook, OneDrive, and Bing. Pale Moon browser has published the reason behind it on its forum. They also published the […]

Google fixes the sophisticated Google Docs Phishing Scam

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | May 6, 2017

The Google Docs Phishing Scam that was making rounds on the internet and also spreading wildly has been fixed by Google. Google mentioned on its Twitter account that they have taken action against the Google Docs phishing scam. According to […]

Microsoft to launch Windows 10 S Surface laptop

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | May 4, 2017

Those who are in love with Microsoft’s Surface Laptops, you can now own one with Windows 10 S operating system. As Microsoft’s team states, this will be a good choice for the students. The best part of Windows 10 S […]

NASA makes its massive Library, Publicly Accessible and Copyright Free

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC | April 30, 2017

If you are am astrophotography enthusiast or a fan of the other world, space, NASA has a wonderful gift for you. NASA has made its entire collection of 140,000 images, videos and sounds of outer space. The collection is now […]

Browse and plant trees with Vivaldi browser and Ecosia search engine

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC | April 28, 2017

While everyone in the world is worried about global warming, Vivaldi already has a solution to reforest the planet. Vivaldi 1.9, the latest version of the web browser has teamed up with the search engine Ecosia to make the world […]

Unroll.me found to be selling user data to make money

By AnkitChawla@TWC | April 26, 2017

Unroll.me is one of the most effective services on the Internet that help you filter out spam from your email. It helps list out all the websites you have subscribed to, letting you unsubscribe them in one go. But, things […]

Firefox new update brings Project Quantum and Compact themes

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | April 20, 2017

Firefox’s recent update is the first phase of Project Quantum which brings various performance improvements to the browser. The new Quantum compositor is expected a speed up Firefox and also help prevent the graphics crashes on Windows. The Project Quantum […]

Web version of Google Earth made available by Google

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | April 20, 2017

Google has released the web version of Google Earth and its own home page. According to the Google team, the new version of Google Earth is a whole new experience of exploring the world. The new version is not a […]

Surface Pro 4 firmware updates for Windows 10 Creators Update released

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | April 10, 2017

Recently, i.e. on April 6th, 2017, Microsoft released the Surface Pro 4 firmware updates. The last Surface firmware updates had been released a month back, i.e. on March 8th, 2017; while the updated before tat were released almost two moths […]

Dell, HP, Toshiba computers that will work with Windows 10 Creators Update

By AnkitChawla@TWC | April 6, 2017

Windows 10 Creators Update v1703 is now available for manual upgrade, with the OTA update coming later this month. All Windows 10 computers will be shifted to the new Creators Update, which brings along a lot of new features and […]

Verizon merges Yahoo and Verizon into a new company called Oath

By MahitHuilgol@TWC | April 4, 2017

After acquiring Yahoo Verizon is merging Yahoo and AOL into a new company called Oath. AOL has been the pioneers when it comes to internet technology and recently was part and parcel of the Yahoo deal. The Verizon deal was […]

New Windows 10 devices coming with Creators Update

By AnandKhanse@TWC | March 31, 2017

The Windows 10 Creators Update is all set to roll out globally starting from April 11. This update will also see some of the most innovative Windows 10 devices leveraging the creativity and gaming experiences enabled by the Creators update making […]

US Senate votes to let ISPs sell your Web Browsing History to Advertisers

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC | March 26, 2017

The Internet Service Providers can now send your personal data curtly to the advertisers without your permission and you literally can’t do anything about it. So, killing the Obama-era privacy regulations, the US Senate has voted to let the ISPs […]

Improved background tabs management in Google Chrome to extend battery life

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | March 16, 2017

The recent updates from Google mention about the improvement in background tabs management in Google Chrome that will help in extending battery life. The background tabs in Chrome 57 will have these improvements and users will certainly see a positive […]

WikiLeaks & CIA are undermining the security of the internet, says Mozilla

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | March 16, 2017

The recent disclosure from WikiLeaks is probably the biggest leak so far. This is because, WikiLeaks released thousands of pages that included detailed information about sophisticated tools, software and techniques that are used by CIA to access computers, smartphones and […]

We need to change 3 things to save the web, says the inventor of World Wide Web

By AnkitChawla@TWC | March 14, 2017

Tim Berners-Lee is famously known for pioneering a project, an advanced version of what we call the World Wide Web. The father of WWW is aware of the massive consequences his invention has on the world. Since his idea was […]

Deprecation coming to Google Chrome: Here’s how it could affect your workflow

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | March 14, 2017

Google Chrome is a solid web browser, but it does have its problems now and again. The latest problem to face the browser could affect your workflow in some ways. This will happen if you’re using a self-signed certificate for […]

UWP OneDrive app available now for Xbox One

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | March 14, 2017

We love the Xbox On because it’s more than just a video game console, but an entertainment hub as well. When the console first came on the scene, it had several features that drew our attention, and one of them […]

Old WikiLeaks post detailing how to skip Windows Activation surfaces

By AnkitChawla@TWC | March 9, 2017

Wikileaks just dropped their biggest leak bundle yet and it has some extremely confidential documents that entail how top international organizations have been major culprits of piracy and illegal software procurement. In a file from 2013, under User #3375374, it […]

Cyberfox will shutdown in 2018: Why is this happening?

By VamienMcKalin@TWCN | March 9, 2017

Firefox is one of the most used web browsers for over a decade, and since then, it has garnered several forks. One of the popular forks of Firefox we’ve come to love ever since it came on the scene back […]

NASA releases a bunch of Free Open Source Software you want to check out

By ShiwangiPeswani@TWC | March 3, 2017

NASA has released a bunch of free software to be used in various technical applications. The software catalog 2017-2018 officially released by NASA is organized into fifteen broad subject matter categories. The categories include free codes for highly advanced aircraft […]

Visio Online lets you access your Visio diagrams from anywhere, anytime

By AnkitGupta@TWCN | March 3, 2017

Any project is incomplete without Visio diagrams. It could be the flow chart or a process diagram or a pie chart; Visio helps us to put across any information in the graphical form. However these days, we need to access […]

DMOZ.org website to close down permanently

By HemantSaxena@TWCN | March 2, 2017

DMOZ, one of the largest human-edited web directory maintained by a community of volunteer editors is nearing its end. The open directory project. The main page of the web site bears the following message: IMPORTANT NOTICE: As of March 14, […]