Google Contributor – Experimental service for ad-free websites

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Google is testing its new service dubbed “Contributor” to help remove ads on the websites – but that is currently the main source of revenue for the websites or web publishers. Google Contributor will allow visitors of the website to pay a fee from $1 to $3 monthly if they really don’t want to see ads on the website they are exploring. Instead of the advertisement, the visitors will see a “Thank you” note.

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Mobile Internet usage in Pakistan to overtake Desktop Internet in 2014 – Says a Survey

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However currently the bigger ratio of internet usage is from the PC users but while the days pass, Pakistani internet users are gaining momentum in using their smartphones for the purpose. Desktop is dominant with 91 percent owning a PC at home, 45 percent also own a smartphone or tablet. 18 percent cite the latter as their primary device. Mobile devices are gaining momentum: 86 percent use PCs to access the Internet daily, 77 percent use smartphones, 73 percent use feature phones and 59 percent use tablets daily.

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Microsoft brings Atari Arcade gaming to web with HTML5 Browsers

Microsoft, with Atari and Grant Skinner, has just launched Atari Arcade with eight of the most popular Atari games that include Pong, Combat, Lunar Lender, Super Breakout, Yars’ Revenge, Asteroids, Missile Command, and Centipede. These classic arcade games will run on all modern browsers with support of HTML5. Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 PC will also be useful for playing the listed games.

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