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You Will Never Get Lost with Google Maps Since 2005, Google Maps has proven to be an indispensable app that meets everyone's needs especially travellers. We have all used Google Maps at least once at some point to get directions for a specific destination because it's very accurate, easy to use and gives you a panoramic street view of your destination. You can't get lost with Google Maps even if you purposely want to! The only drawback throughout the past years is that it ...

With the unprecedented growth of internet censorship and government surveillance in addition to the ridiculous increase in severe legal penalties practised by copyright enforcement agencies and anti-privacy laws demanding ISPs to keep track of their users' online activities and personal data, a lot of internet users have turned to virtual private networks, VPNs, in order to secure their personal data, surf the web anonymously and gain access to restricted web content and...

The High Court has ruled in favour of the Publishers Association and ordered the UK's biggest internet service providers (BT, Sky, EE, TalkTalk, Updata, Virgin Media) to block major "pirate" ebook websites within 10 days, including: AvaxHome, Bookfi, Bookre Ebookee, Freebookspot, Freshwap, LibGen, and restrict UK residents from any having access to those websites from the UK. “Between them the sites purport to hold around 10,000,000 eBook titles and have been making su...

  Have you been experiencing problems with speed on Firefox browser and so fed up with waiting for longer moments for web pages to load? This is mostly due to a lot of tracking bugs which slow down your browser's loading speed. Recently, Mozilla has found a way to speed up its Firefox and make web pages load 44% faster through its Tracking Protection feature. How Can Tracking Protection Speed Up Firefox? Regardless to how much you care about web browsing protec...

Opera Software, the Norwegian company behind the successfully popular mobile browser "Opera Mini", has launched today another smashing service called Opera Max that offers maximum data compression on Wi-fi. The company is already famous for its long successful data compression techniques to help users make the most out of their mobile browsing with minimal amount of data. The new Opera Max update takes it to a whole new level. What's so special about Opera Max? If y...

What's the deal with Instagram "Highlights"? It looks like the trendy, up-and-coming social network is going through some sort of a mid-life crisis. Although Instagram is only 4 years old and has over 300 million active members and a minimum of 70 million photos uploaded per day, the lovable photo-sharing social network is fighting to keep its sturdy position in the market by coming after its less interactive users by invading their inboxes with "Highlights" emails since ...

Having so many friends can be a bit of a nuisance for some reasons. When you have hundreds of Facebook friends, you only interact with a handful and tend to forget who the others are especially if they share similar names, is it John from work or John from high school and it could be an another completely different John. What if you don't want to talk to one of the many Johns you have on your Facebook friends list? Let's face it, we all have some weirdos whom we like kee...

  AVG Technologies, one of the world's leading antivirus solution providers, has bought Privax Ltd., a desktop and mobile firm that is notably known for the world's most popular VPN service "HideMyAss". AVG struck a $60 million deal and will add HideMyAss to its portfolio together with the service's numerous features, including the VPN's extensive global network of servers and proprietary desktop and mobile internet encryption software. HideMyAss is a virtual...

Using a lot of Android free apps on your phone? You probably have visited over 200,000 websites, including: tracking and malware websites without even knowing it. Most apps are usually downloaded by users from Apple Apple Store or Google Play. While Apple makes sure to check all apps before displaying them on their App Store as a form of a security protocol, Google takes the subject a lot lighter and only removes obvious malicious software from its store. Researchers f...

It seems that Russia is following in China's footsteps in censoring the internet and controlling all web content in an attempt to repress political dissent and muzzle the opposition. Last year, the Kremlin declared war on free speech by passing the infamous "law on bloggers", which demands any website that has at least 3000 subscribers to publish its content under a real name and even register with the government if needed. Moreover, bloggers are prohibited from defaming othe...