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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…

Xiaomi launched its first laptop, the Mi Notebook Air, which may give stiff competition to the Apple MacBook Air (2015). Here is a comparison of the two from Xiaomi and Apple. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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 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…

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…

By Mike Williams Moldova-based CactusVPN has ‘only’ been around since 2011, but tailored products and keen pricing has won the product plenty of attention. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” plan, for instance. Instead the company offers a “US VPN” (four servers in the USA), a “UK VPN” (six servers in the UK), a “Liberty VPN” (four servers…

By Desire Athow Hannspree is one of the very few remaining Taiwanese display companies left. Alongside the likes of BenQ, AG Neovo, Acer and ViewSonic, they have had to fend off increasing competition from the likes of TP Vision (AOC, Philips), Samsung, LG and Japanese rivals (Ilyama, NEC and Eizo). This has caused diversification to…

By Desire Athow Hannspree is one of the very few remaining Taiwanese display companies left. Alongside the likes of BenQ, AG Neovo, Acer and ViewSonic, they have had to fend off increasing competition from the likes of TP Vision (AOC, Philips), Samsung, LG and Japanese rivals (Ilyama, NEC and Eizo). This has caused diversification to…

By Mike Williams Every internet security company offers some form of privacy protection – ad-blocking, anti-tracker, secure browsing – but Avira takes this to the next level with its own VPN product. Avira Phantom VPN is aimed very much at the home user. There’s no complexity, no choice or even mention of technical details such…

By Mike Williams Every internet security company offers some form of privacy protection – ad-blocking, anti-tracker, secure browsing – but Avira takes this to the next level with its own VPN product. Avira Phantom VPN is aimed very much at the home user. There’s no complexity, no choice or even mention of technical details such…

Xiaomi unveiled its first laptop, the Mi Notebook Air, and it seems to be gunning for the MacBook Air’s audience. The laptop comes in two variants and stands out in a few key areas, including affordability and portability. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Mark Wilson On top of this you can stitch together multiple images into a panorama or collage, work with animated GIFs, convert RAW images, create slideshows, and print photos using a number of templates – the list goes on. User experience When you first fire up the program, you’re greeted by a strange circular…

By Mark Wilson On top of this you can stitch together multiple images into a panorama or collage, work with animated GIFs, convert RAW images, create slideshows, and print photos using a number of templates – the list goes on. User experience When you first fire up the program, you’re greeted by a strange circular…