Pirate bay, Vimeo blocked in India : Anonymous launches Operation India

Following the ban in UK, Indian High Courts have instructed the ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay and Vimeo. The ban has taken place immediately. As the leaders of the internet censorhip battle, the hacker group Anonymous have expressed their support and initiated Operation India (#OpIndia). This is the first time India has seen [&hellip

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Talk to Sachin Tendulkar on Airtel : Shady Schemes

Airtel’s service called Talk2Me allows its subscribers to talk to celebrities and guests directly using their cellphones on a designated time and date. On 18th of May, the next guest is Sachin Tendulkar whose public appearances craved for, and this being the IPL season makes it so much easier for the telecom company to set it’s trap. They’re [&hellip

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Piratebay UK Ban : Any publicity is good publicity

The Piratebay, the swedish torrent website known for its notoriety and “large scale breach” of copyrights and Intellectual Property Rights was to be blocked by the leading service providers from the UK, as ruled by UK’s high court. Interestingly, the ban brought PirateBay 12 Million more visitors that day. The ban was quickly followed by the [&hellip

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Is MediaFire under Fire ?

MediaFire.com, the famous file sharing website has been suspending uploader accounts massively and blocking access to flagged content temporarily by displaying the following messages (check the screenshots) on the front end to the users. From their recent actions, it seems like MediaFire must have received some sort of warning (or threat) from law enforcement agencies. [&hellip

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Christmas Giveaway at Etiole! : 2 Binverse Premium Accounts up for the loot!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all our readers! We do not intend to miss the party either! To make sure of that, we are giving away 2 Binverse Premium Accounts! Binverse is a Usenet solution. Usenet network arrangement enables users to download data at the fastest speed possible. When you generally download anything from [&hellip

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Mass Interception of Internet, Phone Calls and Text Messages by Governments : Wikileaks

Interception of your smartphone usage by private companies was just being debated on. Just then, Wikileaks releases 250+ documents under the Spy Files project, full of classified information about interception of electronic devices and platforms by the governments of various countries. These documents are coming from 160 “Intelligence Contractors”, many of them located in the western [&hellip

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How To Upgrade Your Blackberry Curve 8520 OS From 5 to 6

Blackberry screwed itself and RIM was into pieces. Just then, they were in time for the smartphone explosion in India with their cheaper line of handsets. The problem again is that RIM did not release OS updates for handsets like Curve 8520. Never mind, we here at etiole.com give you a way to update your [&hellip

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iPhone 4S bangs the Indian Market On 25th November

By far it’s been the quickest entry of the latest iPhone into the Indian Market (Officially, that is) from the date of launch. iPhone 4s is going to be offered by two carriers in India.They are Airtel and Aircel. Aircel has already begun its advertising campaign flooding its galleries with banners. Pre-ordering will begin a week [&hellip

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3D Holograms in Air without screens now possible : The future as you see it

The last decade in Hollywood marked the dawn of Modern Science Fiction in Movies. Be it Iron Man or Avatar, they’ve shown the concept of holograms in the air. Something like this seemed impossible a decade back but in 2006, it was finally invented. Upon further work by a company based out of Tokyo, the [&hellip

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Flash did turn out to be Adobe’s Achilles’ Heel

Adobe’s decision to halt the development of Flash Player on the Mobile came as a blow to the company’s 2+ year long commitment. They almost went to war with Apple to protect it. And now this. Adobe’s shift in focus from Flash to HTML5 for Mobile Browsers was taken keeping most developers out of focus. It [&hellip

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