An advertisement by Swedish internet provider Umeå Energi has raised some interesting ideas about how badly latency affects our performance in online games. Using an Oculus Rift, a Raspberry Pi, and...
Despite its competitors like Google already offering such a service, Skype has always maintained group video calls as part of a value added service which costs US$8.99 per month or...
Microsoft has issued a security warning for users of the Internet Explorer browser. A 0-day exploit that allows hackers to hijack vulnerable systems through almost all active versions of the...
Remember the IDrive promotion for Android users, allowing users to pay only USD$0.99/year for up to 100GB of storage space? Well, good news for iOS users because IDrive has just...
For a while now, Facebook has given us some leads and stories that we have posted on the Lowyat.NET frontpage but it's never really been considered a reliable source for...
Not every computer comes with a proper word processor, and this is occasionally a problem for those who do not have the disposable income to buy a yearly subscription to...
If you ever wish to go back in time to see how the world has changed before your very eye, here’s your chance. Google has just announced a new feature...
It’s 23 April 2014 and if you’ve been waiting to see what Xiaomi has got to offer in its product launch, here it is. The Chinese company has just taken...
GameSpy has confirmed that its expansive multiplayer servers will be shut down for good by 31st May. Hundreds of games will be affected, although recent titles will be spared. The...
A couple of weeks ago, an app called Virus Shield was released into the Play Store and almost immediately jumped to the top of the paid app list with over...
Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the largest media group in Germany, has published an open letter to Google chairman Eric Schmidt outlining all the reasons for the public to distrust the...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a hugely ambitious plan. The new CEO of Yahoo tasked to rebuild an ailing company is hoping to convince Apple to ditch Google as its...
