About Ashraf
Happily married to the most beautiful woman ever, Ashraf is the founder of dotTech. Ashraf spends insane hours on dotTech (usually writing articles but sometimes doing absolutely nothing except staring). Yes he is weird, but he is also very friendly.
Do you find it annoying whenever you have to re-download a full package just for an incremental update to a program on Windows? Yeah, well, Android has been doing the same thing for a while and it was (is) bloody annoying, especia...
Adobe Flash’s development on Android has been terminated and new downloads have been frozen from Google Play Store. For the most part, most people won’t miss Flash, especially seeing as how the web is moving to HTML5. ...
The free 2GB Dropbox gives you not enough? Free 5GB of Google Drive doesn’t satisfy your hunger? Need more than the free 7GB of Skydrive? Missed out on Box.net’s earlier promotion of free 50GB? Box.net is here to help....
Every quarter Kaspersky releases an IT Threat Evolution report which looks at the state of the digital world in terms of security threats. As part of this report, Kaspersky has a section devoted to mobile threats. In its 2012 Q2 I...
If you own an iPhone, you may not be able to trust the text messages you are receiving. An iOS hacker going by the handle pod2g has pointed out a bug in iOS that allows for text messaging spoofing. In other words, it allows hacker...
If you are on Verizon Wireless you could shell out almost $600 to purchase a Developer Edition Samsung Galaxy S III with an unlocked bootloader. Or you could follow this guide which shows you how to unlock the bootloader on the re...
In a droptest between the Galaxy S II and iPhone 4S, we saw how much more durable the Galaxy S II was (at least in that specific test) than Apple’s iPhone 4S. Curious how the iPhone 4S stands up against Android’s lates...
Despite rumors that Microsoft will sell its Windows RT Surface for US$199 and price the other Windows 8 Pro Surface around the same as current ultrabooks, pricing on the much-anticipated Windows 8-powered tablets have eluded us fo...
Is the title of this article a mouthful? Rightly so, because the phone being discussed in this article can be described as nothing less than feature-full (yes, this is my failed attempt at a play on words). Last year Xiaomi, dubbe...
Before we get to the punch line of this article, let’s have a little background. In the ongoing Apple vs Samsung battle, Judge Lucy Koh allotted Apple and Samsung 25 hours each of trial time. In other words, each side could ...
Facebook is notorious for retaining user information, even after users has opted to remove it from Facebook. One such example is photos. Although officially Facebook claimed it allowed users to permanently delete photos from Faceb...
After being sidelined by electronics retailers for years, Apple decided to launch its own retail outlets in 2001. Today Apple has 373 Apple Stores worldwide and is one of the success stories in the retail industry. Apple moves abo...
Melvin Skinner was arrested in 2006 for alleged drug trafficking. He was tried and eventually convicted of two counts of drug trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Law enforcement agencies where able ...
As reported earlier, Microsoft is facing a challenge by European retailer Metro AG over Microsoft’s use of the name ‘Metro’ in Windows 8 branding. As such, Microsoft is looking to eliminate the use of the name ...
Favicons are one of those small niceties of the Internet; they allow users to quickly visually recognize a website without having to read any text, such as when navigating between multiple tabs or bookmarks. Google, one of the mos...