A new vulnerability discovered by an 27 year old user Karam Dauod, allows anybody to bypass the Apple iOS 7 security passcode and make calls. A user needs to perform a few steps via the iOS7 Emergency dialer screen to get past the lockscreen, once done they can call any number of choice including international and premium numbers without any restriction. Do watch the video demonstration posted below.

The much awaited BlackBerry Messeger (BBM) App for Apple iPhone and Google Android release got delayed as the company has decided to pause the global roll-out of BBM for Android and iPhone citing quality issues which are being worked upon now.

Luckily, the brief release of BBM Messenger for Apple iPhone was enough for users to grab the .IPA file and post it on the internet for others to install. The results were so overwhelming that there were about 1.1 million active users in the first 8 hours without even launching the official Android app. The official Blackberry Messenger app is now pulled down from Apple iTunes store, but here is how to grab it now and install without requiring a jailbreak on Apple iPhone.

While Google Drive is no-way near the massive offering of free cloud storage like 10 TB from weiyun it does offer an excellent streamlined document editing, sharing and storage solution to Gmail users. Google has two great news for users, first they are giving away the popular Quickoffice mobile application to open and edit Microsoft® Office documents across your Apple iOS and Google Android devices for free and also topping up the offering with another perk by giving away an additional 10GB of free cloud storage space on your "Google Drive" account if you link the two by September 26, 2013.

While we are debating on security of Apple iPhone 5S fingerprint scan and it's misuse/theft, a group of individuals have already started a crowd-funded bounty hunt at istouchidhackedyet.com with money prize for anybody who breaks the Apple iPhone 5S Touch ID and fingerprint sensor. While a working crack/hack for Apple iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor is not available now, here is an interesting newly surfaced video showing a cat unlocking the new iPhone using Touch ID authentication.

Thanks to the aggressive TV campaign OLX needs no introduction to Indian users. The online classified advertising service allows anybody to post and access free ads in India, catering a wide range of categorized buying and selling advertisements the service has now native mobile apps for all platforms. The new OLX Classifieds Mobile Apps are optimized for searching, finding, selling and buying the products from users mobile phone faster and easier. Available on Apple iOS, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Phone, Nokia, Blackberry and even Amazon Apps platforms the native apps provides platforms look and feel with support for features like Auto location, photo clicking and upload during the ad posting process.

Photozeen is a new free app for Apple iOS platform, just released worldwide the app. gives incentivized and thematic photo-taking assignments to eager photographers in an effort to teach better photographer skills through detailed instructions/lessons, practice, and other users' feedback. It's easy to use and has a pretty cool UI.

There's already a photo app for practically anything you would ever want to do with your cell phone camera. Photos can be filtered, Snapchatted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, Tweeted, or, in some cases I suppose, even sexted. What none of these apps will do, though, is actually help your photography skills. With Photozeen, your phone becomes a photo kit and the entire world is a tutorial. We're already taking photos with our phones, why not get some instruction and feedback and be better at it?

In light of the PRISM spying by NSA, German experts earlier warned their Government against using Microsoft Windows 8 by companies and authorities. And once again a German data-protection specialist Johannes Caspar warns against using iPhone 5S's new Fingerprint ID function. While Apple claims this to be secure by saying 'your fingerprint is only stored on the iPhone, never transmitted over the network' the expert arguments that 'The biometric features of your body, like your fingerprints, cannot be erased or deleted and stay with you until the end of your life without changing. They are crucial and should not be used for something as non-vital or casual as unlocking your device.

There are numerous web-services like Speedtest.net which allow users to simply open a web-browser and benchmark their internet connections upload and download throughput with ease. However, if you need something similar for your server which does not have an graphical interface here are a few options to check network throughput from terminal/console. One can simply check download speed by using something like the command below at the terminal,

wget --output-document=/dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip

But for a thorough check with option for outputting beautiful shareable badge like the one on the right, we will use the "Speedtest" command-line utility as shown below.