For all of you who cannot do without the efficiency and speed of modern technology but are still nostalgic about the old electronic equipments, Skype has introduced a way in which you can have the best of both worlds. The Internet voice and video chat service has used the simple but not exactly the latest […]

San Francisco — After months of delay in pursuing its “everything web” endeavor, search engine behemoth Google on Wednesday disclosed that it would add offline capability to its Apps suite of cloud-based software, including Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs that can work even when there is no internet connection, an essential component for making the […]

Redmond, Washington — A Michigan woman this week filed a lawsuit against software monopolist Microsoft Corp. that accuses it of storing location information about its Windows Phone 7 operating system tracks its users without their permission, the centerpiece of the company’s efforts to grab part of the burgeoning mobile market.

Recently, NPR’s Andy Carvin at the Edinburgh International TV Festival had been able to quiz Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO with a question about Google+ real names policy. In justification Schmidt said said that if users of Google+ do not like the social networking site’s policy of using one’s real name, then Google+ is maybe […]

Technology and consulting major IBM seems to be on an acquisition spree. On Thursday, it announced that it was acquiring Algorithmics, a Toronto-based risk management analytics software company for $ 387 million. A day before, on Wednesday, it acquired British crime and fraud analytics specialist i2 for a reported $ 500 million.

Software Giant Microsoft’s adCenter online advertising platform had been facing service problems since 29th August afternoon. This was noted via the updates it posted on Twitter. However, it was quick to add that they were working on addressing the issue. The problems were faced by many customers of Microsoft adCenter who later on reported their […]

Flipboard has been planning to move out of its shell as it is entering the world of TV shows and films which would be incorporated directly into their existing app. Flipboard has been successful as a magazine and news aggregation app and its move ahead seems to make the Chairman of the company happy. Mike […]

Facebook had adopted the bug bounty progtam last month and for the rewarding, they have already paid out $40,000. The program was launched to highlight the security flaws which were currently prevailing in their social networking site. Monday saw an announcement from Facebook which noted that within a span of three weeks, they have shell […]

Google’s case relating to the drug ads has been finally settled with the Department of Justice (DOJ) as the search engine giant paid a whooping $500 million. The drug ads were for Canadian pharmacies, targeting U.S. consumers. Wednesday saw the DOJ ruling that Google would forfeit the amount via AdWords proceeds relating to the online […]

Mountain View, California — Security researchers have unmasked a forged web certificate for Google.com circulating on the internet that empowers attackers the means to impersonate Gmail and virtually every other digitally signed Google properties has been published online, according to media reports on Monday.