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B itTorrent on Thursday announced a revamp of its Bundle offering as a pilot project, giving it a new name, "BitTorrent Now." Heavily used by independent musicians and filmmakers, as well as the BBC and other organizations, the service now accepts ads. BitTorrent Now's first streaming app is available for Android. Apps for iOS and Apple TV are in the works. "BitTorrent Now ... adds our first mobile streaming apps, and it adds an important new business model for our creative partnerships: ad-supported streaming," said Christian Averill, BitTorrent vice president of marketing. 70/30 Split Creators who participate in the pilot will keep 70 percent of all ad revenue. "That's better than the industry standard," Averill told TechNewsWorld. BitTorrent gets the rest. BitTorrent's Bundle let publishers keep 90 percent of all sales revenue and 100 percent of all fan data, and "the 90/10 split remains for direct sales

Sony turned it all around with the Xperia Z5, making up for the lacklustre Sony Xperia Z3+ with a far more stable phone. It also benefited from one of the best fingerprint scanners we've seen on a handset and a camera upgrade that made for much clearer photos. Yet we can't help but feel that Sony could have done even more. There are still missing features and undercooked specs and there's only so many times the company can wheel out essentially the same design, even if it has been increasingly polished. It's a tough market right now too. If Sony wants to sway people away from the Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5, HTC 10 - and the upcoming iPhone 7 - it needs to make the very best phone it can. But making the best phone it can might mean ditching the Z line altogether, as Sony currently seems a lot more focused on the Xperia X range and it's unclear whether we'll get a Sony Xperia Z6 at all. Cut to the chase What is it? Sony's next Z-branded flagship

According to the TechNewsWorld :The water- and shatter-resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 Active on Friday became available exclusively from AT&T through its website or at its brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers who have eligible service can get the Galaxy S7 Active for US$26.50 monthly for 30 months on AT&T Next, or $33.13 monthly for 24 months on AT&T Next Every Year. With a new two-year wireless agreement, customers who opt for AT&T Next also can get a free Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch, with qualified wireless service provided for both devices. As an alternative to the smartwatch, consumers can opt to pay 99 cents for the Samsung Galaxy Tab E, with wireless service included for both devices. Buying two Galaxy S7 Active devices on the AT&T Next plan also will get purchasers up to $695 in bill credits over 30 months. "Getting the S7 Active is a pretty good get for AT&T, as the device is, essentially, Samsung's flagship Galaxy S7 in an integrated

According to TechNewsWorld: Data stolen from more than 32 million Twitter users has been offered for sale on the dark web for 10 bitcoin, or around US$5,800, LeakedSource reported Wednesday. LeakedSource has added the account and email information to its searchable repository of compromised credentials. The data set came from someone called "Tessa88@exploit.im," who has been connected to other large collections of compromised data, including the credentials for 425 million MySpace accounts. The Twitter information consists of 32,888,300 records, LeakedSource said, with each record containing such information as email addresses, usernames and passwords. The information likely came from compromised user systems rather than from a breach of Twitter's systems, according to LeakedSource. The hackers were able to infect tens of millions of users' systems with malware that collected saved username and password information from browsers like Chrome and Firefox, the

The group in charge of Bluetooth development has announced that the 5.0 specification of the technology is likely to be unveiled in a few days, june on the 16. Shortly afterwards, it will start finding its way into the phones, laptops and car stereos. We'll have to hold back until the unveiling event to get the full rundown on what Bluetooth 5.0 can do, however, many details of the new cordless transmitting standard have previously leaked out. Here's 5 things you need to know about the new technology. Continue Read

The latest rumor reports around the highly anticipated iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus (or Pro) have some wild hardware specs and what could be a big change in screen design for the next generation variants of Apple's iPhone. Here are the latest details. Release Date Thanks to Apple's stable iPhone development cycle over the past many years, this one is pretty rock solid, though the devil is in the details. The general sense in the tech press is that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be released in September 2016, which goes along with every iPhone launch in recent memory (besides the unusual iPhone 5se, of course). The specific release date is a little hazier, but ITPRO is putting it on September 13. This is also not a big stretch of the imagination, but it could be off by a week or two, depending on Apple's supply chain and launch strategy. Hardware Specs Rumors There are a bunch of rumors swirling around the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, many of which are fueled b

According to TechNewsWorld : M icrosoft on Monday announced the general availability of its Planner collaboration tool, which will roll out in the next few weeks to all eligible customers -- those who have Enterprise E1-E5, Business Essentials, Premium or Education subscriptions to Office 365. Planner lets users create new plans, as well as organize, assign and collaborate on tasks. Users also can update statuses and share files. It provides visual dashboards and email notifications to keep members of a team informed. Planner sets itself apart visually, making it very inviting and extremely easy to use, while "delivering a holistic set of capabilities ... teams need to build plans, assign tasks, collaborate on tasks, and track progress," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement provided to TechNewsWorld by company rep Lenette Larson. "It's a component that has been left out of Office 365 for a while, and I'm surprised it hadn't been integrate

T elenor Pakistan and Daraz. PK have partnered to create easy shops over the national country, where users who don't have access to the internet will be able to browse products available on Daraz.Order and pk the products and acquire them at their places. Telenor Easy Outlets will have marketing materials of the running products and will be offering available over the counter, which shop agent will help customers to assist in customers in browsing and ordering products on customer's behalf using his machine. Easy Shops will receive payments and process the order which is delivered to the client at specified address in even and hassle-free way. With this collaboration of two companies, individuals within an area with low broadband connection can use eCommerce sphere through Telenor's easy retailers. "The project initiates development of 20 pilot shops and hopes to develop throughout the nation, joining faraway places where e-commerce is still a u

W ASHINGTON (AFP) - Astronauts entered an inflatable add-on room at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday for the first time since it was fully installed last month, NASA said. US astronaut Jeff Williams told the US space agency’s mission control that the flexible habitat -- known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) -- looked "pristine" and was cold inside after entering for the first in a two-year series of tests, NASA said in a statement. NASA is testing expandable habitats astronauts might use on the Moon or Mars in the coming decades. Williams opened the module’s door at 4:47 US East Coast time (0847 GMT) before entering with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka to take an air sample, start collecting data from sensors and check air ducts. "First steps into #BEAM will expand the frontiers of habitats for space," the ISS tweeted before Monday’s operation. Astronauts will enter the module again on Tuesday and Wednesday to test sen

M icrosoft last week announced it would open its Windows Holographic platform to partner firms looking to develop products for the Hololens ecosystem. Microsoft already is already working with a range of partners -- including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and others -- to build a hardware ecosystem that can support mixed-reality environments, company officials said at Computex. "We are providing an opportunity for our OEM, ODM and developer partners to build devices and experiences that utilize the Windows Holographic platform to build mixed reality perception-capable experiences regardless of whether they are developing for AR, VR or anything in-between," a Microsoft spokesperson said in statement provided to TechNewsWorld by company rep Molly Terrell. "For our OEM and ODM partners, this means new business opportunities through unlocked device capability and experiences. For developers, this represents a first step in growing and scaling our platform," the spoke

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The world’s first 3D printed office building opened this week in Dubai. A 2,700 square foot, single story building is built in just 17 days using gigantic, it is 20 feet tall 3D printer and a special mix of concrete it is fiber reinforced plastic and glass fiber reinforced gypsums. The printer used to build this building was two stories tall, 120 feet long and 40 feet wide it is only needed one staffer to make sure that it is working properly. There were 18 other crew members who managed to install the building and completed the job for a mere $140,000 in construction and labor costs. This building will serve the headquarters for the Dubai Future Foundation. Next year this structure is scheduled to become the home of Dubai’s Museum of Future. “This is the first 3D-printed building in the world, and it’s not just a building, it has fully functional offices and staff,” the UAE Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Mohamed Al Gergawi said. According to Gergawi, Dubai plans to h