By Mike Williams Invisible Browsing VPN (ibVPN) is a brand of Romanian-based firm Amplusnet and has been offering VPN services since 2010. The company currently offers no less than six products, including a free plan, a Standard VPN ($18.48 per year – which is around £14, AU$25) and Ultimate VPN ($58.06 – that’s £44, AU$77),…

By Mike Williams AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield is a very popular VPN service, best known for its free account. Hotspot Shield Elite is the £18.95 ($25, AU$33) per year extended edition (£63.95 lifetime plan – that’s $84, AU$112) which drops the ads, supports private browsing, virtual locations, allows “access all content”, and supports up to five…

By Mike Williams AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield is a very popular VPN service, best known for its free account. Hotspot Shield Elite is the £18.95 ($25, AU$33) per year extended edition (£63.95 lifetime plan – that’s $84, AU$112) which drops the ads, supports private browsing, virtual locations, allows “access all content”, and supports up to five…

By Hugh Langley Earlier this year, Eidos Montreal announced a partnership with prosthetics specialist Open Bionics to create bionic arms inspired by the game franchise Deus Ex. The human augmentations of Deus Ex made for an obvious tie-in, but the announcement also brought to light the work Open Bionics is doing to make prosthetics more…

By Mike Williams Buy a VPN service and you’ll probably expect access to some carefully designed network of managed servers, smartly linked via highly secure protocols to prevent unauthorised access to your traffic. Hola isn’t like that at all. The Israeli company describes its offering as a “community powered (Peer-to-Peer) VPN” which routes your traffic…

By Mike Williams Buy a VPN service and you’ll probably expect access to some carefully designed network of managed servers, smartly linked via highly secure protocols to prevent unauthorised access to your traffic. Hola isn’t like that at all. The Israeli company describes its offering as a “community powered (Peer-to-Peer) VPN” which routes your traffic…

By John Biggs As TC’s resident watch hound I like to try to find you all a few interesting crowdfunded timepieces. What’s important to me, however, is the quality and the unqiueness of the piece. That’s why I like the perfect storm of crowdfunded watch magic called the Scuro. It is a massive dive watch…

A new report claims Apple is planning on removing a feature from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus/Pro. On the other hand, the smartphones are said to feature a new 3D Touch Home button. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Mike Williams HideMyAss has been a popular provider of VPN services for more than 10 years, but is now owned by AVG Technologies. The company offers 940+ servers in 350+ locations across 190+ countries, many more than the bulk of the competition. Load balancing allows HideMyAss to recommend the server with the minimum load…

By Darren Allan We now have the full specs on the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460 graphics cards, the lesser and more affordable siblings of the already launched RX 480 – assuming the press slides which have been leaked are the genuine article (and they certainly look it). AMD has already released some details…

By Jon Porter The world’s first Apple Watch RPG, which was revealed by a teaser site just last week, has been released today. The game, called Cosmos Rings, is available right now at a discounted price of $5.99 (£4.49, AU$9.99) as part of a simultaneous worldwide release. The regular price of the game will be…

By Mike Williams EVenture Limited subsidiary Hide.me is a Malaysia-based company which has been providing VPN services since 2011. Hide.me’s free plan offers a reasonable 2GB data transfer, although the extremely limited server choice (Canada, Netherlands, Singapore), “best effort” bandwidth and one device limit might put you off. Registration requires an email address, too. Want…

Apple achieved a major milestone and just shared the news with the world. The company has sold its one billionth iPhone and here’s a look at how each iPhone made it happen. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Mike Williams ExpressVPN is a small British Virgin Islands-based provider of VPN services. The company’s products are eye-wateringly expensive, from the $12.95 (£9.96, AU$17.43) for a one-off month option to the $99.95 (£77, AU$135) plan for annual payments. We browsed the feature list looking for an explanation, but couldn’t really find one. Sure, the…

By Mike Williams CyberGhost is a Romanian-based company which has been providing comprehensive and capable VPN services for several years. The current range starts with a baseline free account. This has relatively poor performance, and includes ads, but you don’t have to register to use it, there are no specific bandwidth or data caps, and…