After few hours of completing the much-hyped acquisition of microblogging platform and social networking website,Tumblr, Yahoo! said it revamped its previously acquired photo sharing site, Flickr. CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer said the team gave Flickr an imperative facelift to make it "awesome again"....
Microsoft unveiled Xbox One, the latest version of its video game console, which the company touts as an "all-in-one home entertainment system." The new next-generating gaming console features a new Kinect sensor, a voice control system, live TV and Skype among others.
Microsoft said the third-generation...
Huge fan of Google Voice? You might want to think twice before upgrading your Google Talk to the newly released unified web messaging tool, Hangouts. The flagship feature was seemingly missing when users upgraded their Google Talk to Hangouts within Gmail. Google Voice is a telecommunication service...
Finnish startup Jolla, the company formed by a group of ex-Nokia employees, unveiled its first smartphone, which runs on a new operating system Sailfish.
Sailfish, a Linux-based mobile operating system, has been built from the Nokia's ditched MeeGo platform. Nokia had dumped MeeGo OS and adopted Microsoft's...
An Indian-American teenager has invented a device that can potentially fully charge your mobile phone within 20-30 seconds.
Eighteen-year old Eesha Khare of Saratoga, California won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 for developing the tiny device that can fit inside cell phone...
It looks like the world's largest smartphone maker is trying to play catch-up in the software arena. Samsung Electronics has announced a contest to encourage application development for its latest high-end smartphone in the fray, the Samsung Galaxy S4. The global competition comes with a hefty collective...
Eight years back, in May 2005, a small makeshift technology office was started in a garage, by three early employees of PayPal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Living their dreams, the trio started YouTube, which is now the most popular video streaming site. After being acquired by Google in...
Jordan Mechner, well known for creating the Prince of Persia video game franchise, recently has in his kitty one of the happiest news for the avid gamers to watch out for. Mechner, who created the beat'em up video game, Karateka way back in 1984, had originally programmed it for Apple II and was later...
Google's wearable computer, the Google Glass is fast heading towards pertinence in this age dominated by social networking. At its annual developers conference in San Francisco, the technology giant unveiled a host of new applications including Facebook, Twitter and CNN for its futuristic gadget. As...
Google seems to always be under the scanner for privacy concerns. Around the time the California-based search giant held its annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco, where it showed off Glass and gave software developers information about writing apps for the device, CEO of Google, Larry Page...
Apple devices running on iOS 6 operating system has been officially approved by the US Department of Defense for use on its military networks.
In a statement released, the Defense Information Systems Agency said the security technical implementation guide (STIG) for mobile devices using Apple's iOS6...
Google might have arrived late but it sure did arrive in style. The technology giant officially announced its advent in the lucrative music streaming business by launching the brand new 'Google Play Music All Access' service at its annual developers conference in San Francisco.
The subscription service,...
Apple announced that its customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps from its App Store, five years after the iPhone and iPad maker triggered the "app boom."
To commemorate the milestone, Cupertino, California-based Apple gifted a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to Brandon Ashmore, who downloaded the...
Nvidia has finally revealed the launch plans and price details of its widely anticipated android-based handheld gaming device Shield.
Shield, which was unveiled at CES in Las Vegas this January, will cost $349, making it more expensive than its competitors PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS. The device...
Google investors can heave a sigh of relief as there is no more mystery looming over CEO and co-founder Larry Page's highly publicized non-participation in key company events last year. The 40-year old, in a Google Plus post, said he has been suffering from a nerve-related vocal cord paralysis that...