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Nextbit - a manufacturer who's Kickstarter based Robin handset has made media headlines is now facing a manufacturing dilemma as it can not keep up with demand . The manufactuer , who sells the handset through its website has listed the device as Sold out .More stocks of the handset are in production so those of you who want the $399 handset will still be able get once in a few days time The Nextbit Robin is a Cloud centric smartphone which comes with a 100GB cloud storage for its customer .The handset features a Snapdragon 808 Soc , 3GB of RAM and a 32GB local storage option . The handset has a 1080p  with a size of 5.2" and it has Gorilla glass protection . The main camera of the handset is a 13MP module with LED flash and a 5MP front facing camera provides for selfies and video calling . The phone has a 2680 mAh battery and this supports Quickcharging 2.0 as well . Written by Rakitha for MasHD Source - GSMarena

According to a new Report from Russia , Apple mobile devices -namely the iPhone series and iPad tablets are said to be be banned from sale starting from 1st of January ,2015 . The move ,according to sources is said to be the result of a new legislation that dictates that all online services should keep localized data in Russia , currently , Apple's iCloud service has servers based in the U.S and so Russia is doubtful and concerned about data stored beyond its borders .One solution to overcome a ban will be for Apple to open a dedicated Server site in Russian soil catering its citizens ,and if the law goes into effect , users currently owning iDevices will be shut out from accessing iCloud due to ISP banning but so far Apple has kept silent on the issue . Source - Ubergizmo

Personally , i have a thing about trusting the security of cloud services , although i don't use it to store personal data and other valuable information in the fear of a privacy violation and because i don't have a unlimited data connection ,millions of users dont share my opinion and they use such services and keep using them on a daily basis , DropBox - one of the most popular cloud storing sites are now acknowledging a new mega- incident where hackers stole passwords of 7 million DropBox passwords .The incident was denied by Dropbox at first , but after hackers demanded ransom via bit coin - and posting 400 passwords on PasteBin , Quote - Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts To see plenty more, just search on [redacted] for the term Dropbox hack. More to come, keep showing your support things started to get a little serious as hackers claim that the remaining 6.9 million passwords and accounts will be vi...

The Cloud , a service that basically becomes a dump to store all your data online can be beneficial as you can sync the data to multiple devices almost anywhere but like everything , there is a catch , and this catch is privacy .Personally , i rarely use the cloud , and my usage usually revolves around me syncing mostly not so useful documents , but the majority tend to upload many other things , such as pictures , which may be scandalous at times , and such a scandal did happen today as a new iCloud leak dumped nude #nsfw photographs of 101 famous stars including some pictures from popular ones such as Jennifer Lawrence ,Avril lavigne and even unexpected ones like  Ariana Grande and Victoria Justice . The leak , or lets say the file dump was first released to 4Chan and then Reddit .the photos , which were downloaded off celebrity iCloud accounts , quickly spread around the #nsfw community and now , some of the stars who's alleged photos were leaked have started to express their ...

Xiaomi has recently enjoyed a lot of enthusiasm in the global market , the Chinese manufacturer , which is now the 5th largest OEM in the world , is responsible for best sellers like the Mi3 and the Redmi Note , which made up most of Xiaomi's foreign sales , but now , it turns out that Xiaomi's MIUI interface , which runs on -top of Android is making some users feel uneasy after it introduced a cloud texting service , which is similar to Apple's iCloud . The service comes as default and now it is basically making many people feel worried after the service is known to have privacy issues where details about the phones IMEI , contacts , messages , phone numbers and other data are stored in a Server in China . Although using any cloud service has its vulnerabilities , the Xiaomi incident is kind of worrying to many as the Chinese government can easily tap into the information , this however led the ex Google'r Hugo Barra , VP of Xiaomi  to explain that the feature will n...

Dropbox , as you know is one of the most famous cloud storage networks in the known world , offering you gigabytes of online storage , the service became very common after smartphone manufacturers started bundling free storage with their respective devices Although we have our doubts about the security and the privacy of storing stuff online , cloud storage services have been beneficial to many . and one benefit of cloud services like Dropbox was file sharing , and most of the time , many of the shared files were usually ripped music , movies and other material that was uploaded to share among friends and other interested parties.But now ,Dropbox has started scanning all uploaded files that are set for sharing online. The move was not public , but a user found out about it the hard way when a personal folder was issued a DMCA take down. wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. pic.twitter.com/fSKxJUrFus — darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitela...

This week the folks at NVIDIA have let it be known that they’ll be pushing the gaming industry forward with a technology called NVIDIA GameStream. Expanding on the PC streaming abilities of NVIDIA SHIELD, this technology will allow GeForce GTX graphics cards to work with SHIELD and large monitors as well as NVIDIA GRID. This streaming technology takes what the original NVIDIA SHIELD presentation pre-supposed and makes it real: streaming outside of the home network. image - Legitreviews http://goo.gl/ifWzZa This GameStream technology takes the NVIDIA SHIELD universe and expands it with extended streaming capabilities within NVIDIA GRID. Streaming from an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan graphics card-toting PC to an NVIDIA SHIELD device straight out to a 4K television is just one of the several abilities inherent in this setup. Another is streaming out to a massive television from the Android software built-in with NVIDIA SHIELD. Tegra 4 is being pushed today as a game console, as well...

This week the folks at HP have had a couple of leaks of a device that’s obviously exciting enough to chat about in secret – now made official in the HP Chromebook11. This device takes on Chrome OS in a colorful manner, coating the outside and bottom half of the inside in a shiny white plastic and the accents in black or one of several brightly colored tones: blue, green, red/pink, or yellow. This Chromebook takes on the estimated street price of $279.99 USD, too, so it’s certainly ready to do battle with the rest of the Chromebook universe right out the gate. HP goes so far as to suggest that their Chromebook11 is “inspired by the Pixel’s iconic design” – that’s the Chromebook Pixel, if you did not know. This beast is the first Chromebook with an IPS LCD display as well, sporting 1366 x 768 pixels across it. To power this little beast you’ll find a Samsung Exynos 5250 SoC with Intel HD Graphics and 2GB DDR3L RAM to back it up. This machine works with what HP calls an “island-style ...

We live In a world that is rapidly evolving ,we shifted from harddrives to flash.memory and now we are about to embrace cloud storage as the next step in evolution ,but did we ever think about the cons of the cloud ? And the possible dangers it may pose to our privacy ? Apple's co founder Steve Wozniak (the woz ) after a trade show in Washington said " I am really worried about everything going to the cloud ,I think it is horrendous and I think there are going to be many problems in the next 5 years " what he says is true ....most of us simply dump our important documents to a cloud storage and sometimes forget to encrypt a password ...even if it is encrypted it still can be accessed ....imagine if a PSN (PLAYSTATION NETWORK HACK OF 2011)  style hack happens to a cloud service ...all your photos and important files remain at the fate of the hackers who may use it for their purposes ...and what if your data suddenly gets confiscated for no reason ...most cloud sites have t...