VTech Hires Mandiant to Shore Up Security for Kids

VTech Hires Mandiant to Shore Up Security for Kids
VTech on Thursday revealed it has hired FireEye’s Mandiant to help improve security after reaction from parents around the world over news that itsservers were hacked. It also is cooperating with law enforcement agencies worldwide to investigate the incident and has temporarily shut down several websites, its Learning Lodge app store, and its Kids Connect service, which is similar to WhatsApp. Mandiant...

Star Citizen’s Second Alpha Hurtles Past $100M Landmark

Star Citizen’s Second Alpha Hurtles Past $100M Landmark
Racking in more than 200 times its original asking price, the crowdfunded space simulator Star Citizen earlier this week reached a landmark 100 million in backer dollars. At the same time, developer Cloud Imperium released version 2.0 of the game’s Alpha build. Alpha 2.0 is billed as the biggest Star Citizen update yet, as it features more pieces of Wing Commander creator...

Twitter Sics Promoted Tweets on Logged-Out Users

Twitter Sics Promoted Tweets on Logged-Out Users
Twitter on Thursday revealed it’s testing the expansion of promoted tweets aimed at logged-out users. The company has been searching for ways to monetize the patronage of the roughly 500 million logged-out users per month who hop off Google for a moment to read tweet or two. The glue here is more tweets, more content. The test will enable logged-out users to view promoted tweets and allow...

10 Outdated Gadgets Still in Use

10 Outdated Gadgets Still in Use
“Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.” – Godfrey Reggio True enough, from the moment we wake up, till when we go to bed, we use gadgets so regularly that we hardly even notice that. Even when we are asleep, there are gadgets at work, like there are clocks ticking away to wake ups up at the right time in the morning. With...

5 features we’d love to see on Android phones in 2015

5 features we’d love to see on Android phones in 2015
Smartphone technology moves fast, but manufacturers can also be pretty cautious at times. The easiest and surest route to profit is often to match the competition and build on what’s there, rather than go back to the drawing board. While there’s an ever-expanding roadmap of possibilities opening up before us, many prove to be dead ends, and it takes major success with a road less traveled before...

Upcoming Android Phones for Last Season of 2015

Upcoming Android Phones for Last Season of 2015
Looking for the best android phone for the last season of 2015? Android is very popular and almost all mobile phones by any names of the brands or companies uses Android as the OS of the phone. And for you as an Android hunter, it is important to get up-to-date with the upcoming android phones to always update the information of new Android that will be introduced in the market. And...

Top And Rising Emerging Technology Of The Future

Top And Rising Emerging Technology Of The Future
Renewable energy is the demand of today. With global warming increasing due to harmful emissions from hydrocarbon vehicles and increased depletion of the natural reserves of the oil, new resources are required to power automobiles that are environment friendly and abundant in nature. For that purpose, fuel-cell power vehicles have been designed that use hydrogen or natural gas to generate electricity...