Netflix wants you to keep tabs on how fast your internet connection is. That’s why it trademarked and launched a data speed test site that launches instantly as soon as you enter the website http://www.fast.com. This is likely to help customers who are having trouble with their internet connections to identify the issues fast.

While we still have speedtest.net, there are still many people who cannot understand what the speed test is actually measuring or how to even start a speed test using Speed Test’s interface. Netflix has so much internet traffic already but believes it’s still up to the task…

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Micromax subsidiary YU Televentures has postponed the unveiling of its upcoming Yunicorn flagship smartphone. The device, which was earlier scheduled to be made official on May 19 (today), will now be announced on May 31.

Apparently, the reason behind the delay is lack of media coverage – May 19 has been chosen as “vote counting day” by the Election Commission of India (several states in the country went for elections recently), so obviously the media will be focusing there.

Coming back to Yunicorn, YU is marketing it as “the phone that will redefine flagships.” Not much is known…

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Signing up for an app that’s in Beta has always been a cumbersome process. You’ll usually be invited to try a Beta app through a link that puts you on a whitelist to download the latest build of such apps. The problem with this model that has been plaguing it for a while, is that the system always took several moments for the Beta request to go through before you could even download the application.

Google is taking new steps in order to make it simpler for people to discover new apps in Beta by putting these apps in the search results for the general public to download and access. This…

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