So at last it gets down to the Police department paying the ransom. Well, in case you are thinking about any sort of human kidnapping, you are wrong. This was an act of kidnapping computers. According to the reports, some Maine Police agencies reported that they cannot use their computers. The computers cannot be used because they had been locked ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT): With the world going crazy pressing of the issues to over use of Electricity, Xbox One had brought up an answer to the question raised on it a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago, Microsoft’s Xbox One faced the hammer as the environmental group, Natural Resources Defense Council, blamed its ‘Instant On’ mode for excess use of ...

Six Greenpeace activists from countries across the world, US, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Austria used an adventurous method to protest against drilling in the Arctic for oil. Recently they had travelled on inflatable boats to reach an offshore oil rig under contract to the oil giant, Shell. The activists have shown no intention of vacating the Polar Pioneer ...

Not much encouragement can be expected from the mountains by Drought-weary Californians. On Friday, the officials said that the there is a lack of snow that fills the Colorado River. The range of snowpack in Wyoming and Colorado valleys from where the river originates is 51-79 percent of the normal, said the supervisor of US Department of Agriculture Snow Survey, Brian ...

After a high profile suit against AT&T filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) late last year, AT&T still has not decided to mend its ways as it continues to utilize legal loopholes to its advantage in its continued throttling of unlimited data customers. Last year’s FTC suit against AT&T was filed because it was alleged that nearly 3.5 million ...

Due to the increasing amount of global warming and deforestation, many birds and various species of animals became extinct and could not be traced back. Many extinctive birds disappeared over night and were not rediscovered again. But this time, luck was in favor of nature. A small bird which was assumed to have gone into extinction has been relieved in ...

Apple’s iOS App Store is one of the most important reasons behind the success of the iPhone and iPad. You will see hundred of new apps added everyday in the App Store and increases the competition between app developers. This is the reason, developers thought to bring a new system that will help them sale their apps more and will ...

Apple’s Spring Forward will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco just a few days later the conclusion of MWC 2015. Apple Inc. has already started sending out invitations for the event. Although, there is no clear idea about the constituents of the event, rumors for the same have already sprung up. The reports ...

After Canonical’s foray into a crowd funded mobile device had not yielded positive results, the company, which is a producer of Ubuntu software, had decided to rope in BQ and Meizu as hardware providers. This has culminated into the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu edition smart phone that is slated to be released at this year’s Mobile World Congress that will take ...

The year 2014 saw the launch of quite a few middle ranged smartphones, which took the mobile world on the swirl. The notable ones among them are smartphones from Xiaomi, Motorola and Asus. It is undoubted that the these devices have allowed the individuals with a bit of financial inhibitions to explore the Android and high configured devices at a ...