The Pirate Bay has managed to comeback online after after its shut down by Swedish Police 7 weeks ago. A Phoenix has replaced the infamous pirate logo to celebrate the site’s rise from asses.
The Pirate Bay has proved to be quite resistant considering that police authorities were hunting down it’s founders and some of its founders had broken away from the torrent website.
Its is believed that the website runs on multiple virtual hosts from unknown hosts around the world which means that no single server room raid could take down the website.
Torrent users are definitely going to celebrate another ‘win’against the authorities since a Phoenix has risen.
Yes, you read that right. The money bags at Microsoft have splashed a few million dollars into Cyanogen’s research. The motives of these guys is not yet clear but this is most definitely coming to bite the Google boys and their Stock Android in the b#tt.
Surely, there are many ways to get back to your competitor. These guys are being referred to as minority investors who are fueling Cyanogen with a whooping $70 million for the start. This company-Cyanogen Inc. is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars as put by investors. Currently, the boys over at Cyanogen have raised about $100 million through financing and trust me. That’s more than enough money to start a war in the already boiling heat amongst the big names in the Operating System business.
Windows Phones have notably been loosing out on the party between iOS and Android. So they figured out that Cyanogen would probably shake things up with an entirely different strategy…
Reports also suggest that Phones shipped with Cyanogen will most definitely come with Bing and other Microsoft services pre-installed ditching all Google’s apps and services-pretty smart huh?
Okay despite all that, Microsoft is known for being a spendthrift-flashing money in every direction. So, this will not be a guarantee that Cyanogen will grow to ultimate success over night.
OnePlus, the company behind the budget priced monster spec smartphone the OnePlus One has announce that it has been working on a new Rom dubbed “Oxygen OS”.
Oxygen OS whose name was chosen by one of its Forum users will is a move to roll out their own company built operating system after getting issues with Cyanogenmod in India.
OnePlus said more information will be available on 12th February and according to TechCrunch this will not be an official rollout but rather a tease and feature showcase that will result in a future rollout.
This move might result in a better experience for its users who stated in the comments that they care more about performance.
Google announced ‘Send Money in Gmail’ which is a service that enable users send and receive money to anyone straight from their Gmail accounts using the Gmail desktop version.
To send money in Gmail, hover over the attachment paperclip, click the £ icon to attach money to your message, enter the amount you wish to send, and press send. You can also request money in Gmail by hovering over the attachment paperclip and clicking the £ icon to attach the request to a Gmail message.
Users who receive money for the first time are required to set up a Google wallet account where they can link it to their debit cards and bank accounts.
A twitter update today launched new twitter features like Group Direct Messages, Direct mobile capture and sharing.
You can start a private group conversation with up to 20 of your followers in form of group Direct Messages.
Users will now be able to use their mobile phones to record and share videos directly from the Twitter app. I believe this some sort of war against Instagram after the micro-blogging website asked it celebrities to stop sharing Instagram links and post photos directly to Twitter.
The recorded videos can be up to thirty seconds long and the app lets users edit the video within the app.
An iOS update has been pushed and an android update is on its way.
The Facebook based Internet.org initiative to provide free and cheap internet to developing nations through Internet.org has finally made it’s way to Ghana after having launched in Colo Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.
The internet.org application grants free access to educational, health, news and sports content to users.
The app will come with free access to these services;
AccuWeather – Get updated weather information BabyCenter & MAMA– Learn about pregnancy and children BBC News – Read news from around the world Ebola Information – Get information about Ebola from UNICEF Facebook – Communicate with friends and family Facts for Life – Find health and hygiene information from UNICEF FunDza – Read books & stories GhanaWeb – Get news and information about Ghana Girl Effect – Read articles and tips for girls Jobberman – Search for jobs Messenger – Send messages to friends and family News24 – Ghana news Scholars4Dev – Find scholarships abroad SuperSport – Get sports updates Tonaton.com – Buy and sell products Wattpad – Read books & stories Wikipedia – Find information
After announcing the new features of Windows 10 yesterday, Microsoft has announced that it will release Office 2016 during the late half of this year.
Much as Office 2016 features haven’t been announced, Microsoft will test the Office for Windows 10 in the coming weeks to offer an optimized version for tablets and touch enabled devices.
“We will have more to share on Office 2016 in the coming months, but this suite will remain the comprehensive Office experience you’re long familiar with, best suited for a PC with keyboard and mouse,” says Julia White, Microsoft’s Office general manager. “We expect to make Office 2016 generally available in the second half of 2015.”
Windows 10 will be free for a year.
This has already been talked about in our earlier stories. All devices running on Windows 7 and above will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge. Windows 10 has brought in a new concept on “Windows as a service”. It will also run on all devices including desktops, laptops, tablets, phones and hybrid devices.
It a huge change from the way Microsoft has been licensed in the past. The trick though is that you will have to pay after the One year trail period. Microsoft, however, confirms lifetime free service after the upgrade.
All devices will be able to access the Windows 10 experience
Microsoft pointed out the concept of a continuous experience across all devices. There have been reports of disruption that users get when they move from their desktop to their phone or tablet and vice versa. With a feature called Continuum, Microsoft wants to fix this problem. Users will be able to switch from desktop to tablet mode depending on the device being used at the time. It is also bridging the gap between the desktop and mobile versions of their OS such that apps work seemingly similar across all platforms.
Windows 10 on a tablet
This was followed by a demo on how Window 10 behaves on tablets. New features include a floating keyboard, replying instantly to notifications and pulling up the keyboard with a voice command.
Cortana to be brought to Desktop
Cortana will be launched from the task bar and will be used for search the same way the integrated search functions. Cortana will be sermoned by simply saying “Hey Cortana” then followed by your query like “What will the weather be tomorrow?”
Cortana will be launched from the Start menu
Users on desktop can also type in simple commands like a name of the app and a shortcut will be presented by Cortana which you can use to launch it. The Start menu is still present but Cortana is now caring out some of the functions there. She will also have a notebook which contains information about you of course. This is aimed at improving suggestions and you can remove anything Cortana learns about you to maintain privacy
Universal apps will work across all devices
Microsoft is aiming at developers building apps once and be able to run them on all windows devices from Desktops to Xbox consoles-so cool. Microsoft showcased how these apps will behave and be distributed.
Windows 10 Calendar app
The image you see is of the Calendar app that automatically adapts to the different interfaces. It also showed off the Ribbon interface in Word the way it appears in Windows Phones, this; it described as “nearly no compromises” experience. The advantage in this is that once you get used to a menu in a single device, the same functions are placed in nearly the same locations with a slightly different layout on different devices or platforms. This is a closely similar way Android handles its phone-tablet approach.
Project Spartan: The rebirth of the Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer has really face it rough. It has been beefed by most internet junkies despite it growing into a decent browser. Microsoft is said to be looking to the future with a project code named Spartan.
New Windows 10 browser
The whole browser has been torn apart and rebuilt from scratch. It has a ton of new stuff like an in-built notebook mode that enables you to freeze up a page and annotate it, some reading mode that strips down a website into plain text that will make reading easier, and lastly; an inbuilt PDF reader-cool stuff. Cortana is also integrated into the browser so most of the voice commands will work within the browser’s search bar. The browser also has auto prediction incorporated. For example, during the event; Cortana gave flight information when “Delta” was typed because it knows you are looking out for a flight. It also pulls up more information depending on the website you have visited. Like when you are looking up a restaurant, direction, menus, hours and more information pops up.
There will be an Improved Suite of built-in Apps
When Microsoft launched Windows 8, there was a bunch of new and improved apps. Not many were used unfortunately because the Modern-style interface was somewhat hard to use. Many of these apps are getting upgrades and updates that will not only stop at making them easy to use but also contain more handy features that make them more useful.
Improved Suite of built-in Apps
These apps for example contain Photos, Maps, Music, OneDrive, the People contacts app and more. These have been around for a while, no doubt but check them out when Windows 10 is unboxed.
Xbox also gets an app on the Windows 10 desktop
Picking a leaf from Steam’s generation, Microsoft has brought a new Xbox app for its Windows 10 operating system.
Windows 10 Xbox app
This handy app for Xbox live users will come pre-loaded on all Windows 10 devices allowing them to chat and also voice chat with all their friends, they will also be able to see all their games, screenshots and videos from players and record your own videos for any Windows app all on the app.
Xbox can now Stream to Windows 10 devices then play with a PC player
Gamers will surely love this one. Microsoft will enable Xbox One users to stream their games live to PC, games running on your console and stream across a Wi-fi connection to your desktop.
Xbox gaming with PC gaming
This means an Xbox player will be able to play live with a PC player. This will not however be running for all Xbox one game but some games will definitely exploit this feature.
