Facebook has announced its new ‘Home’ app bringing an immersive Facebook experience at the forefront of mobile usage. The app will be available starting April 12th in the US with the international launch following soon after. The Home experience is centered on converting your home screen to host your Cover Feed. Full-screen stories and photos will constantly stream through and a new notification system will let you handle multiple notifications. A swipe adjacent is the launcher screen [...]

The patent wars are here in India too now. Only it is Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson that sued Micromax Informatics Ltd. this time instead of our favorite sparring pair of Apple and Samsung. Ericsson moved the Delhi High Court against Ericsson asking for Rs 100 crores in damages making it the largest patent suit in Indian legal history. As it happens, Micromax uses technologies owned by other companies to make its mobile devices. Players in the industry [...]

The digital memo apps market is already quite crowded with the likes of Evernote and Microsoft’s OneNote to name a few. So when Google launched its Keep service last week, it got everyone scratching their heads. So let’s check it out. Google Keep aims to be a deeply integrated and do-it-all app for all your note-taking and daily tasks. Google Keep is currently available only as an Android app for smartphones and tablets running Android 4.0 and [...]

I don’t know if you caught it or not but in an effort to encourage a public debate on the 12th Five Year Plan, the Planning Commission recently organized a Google+ hangout. The Commission has also started making extensive use of other social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to this end. Taking it a step ahead, a 32 hour ‘hackathon’ is now being organized. The Planning Commission is teaming up with the [...]

Truckloads of dollars or not, a luxury brand name or not, one thing Apple has surely built up with its iPhone range of smartphones in the last few years is a monstrous rumor bank. And here I present to you the round-up of all that has been going around in that department over the last few weeks. At the top of the mountain is the news, which is spreading like wildfire mind you, that Apple is finally [...]

The first we saw of Internet Explorer 10 was when Windows rolled out their new operating system and until now, it was restricted to the OS. IE10 is now being made available for download for Windows 7 as well. This surely took a long time coming considering that the preview version of IE10 for Windows 7 came out last November. People running the preview version will be first in line for the auto-upgrade plans of the [...]

Google is taking on the Facebook and Twitter challenge in the social circle of internet with the company announcing that Google+ accounts can now be used to sign into apps and websites. This pretty much translates to even more Google stuff on the internet in the coming days. Oh dear! The plus side is lesser instances of having to create a new account to log into website. This move follows down the road services like [...]

Google’s Glass is without doubt the hot topic in consumer technology these days. They look cool and futuristic, sure, but at the end they’re actually an augmented reality head-mounted display that can perform many of the same functions as a smartphone. But hey, Google’s not the only one fiddling with augmented reality these days. Check out Canon’s Mixed Reality System (MREAL) and it will blow your mind away. Traditional virtual reality systems create a virtual [...]

Google has released its next product in the ChromeOS line – the Chromebook Pixel. It is not a laptop for the normal guy like me who plays games and runs MATLAB and other biggies on his machine. This one is solely for the cloud enthusiast. But seriously, the Pixel is without doubt the best Chromebook around. Let’s dig in, shall we? Why Google named it Pixel is a no-brainer. For pixels are the one thing [...]

Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Inc., is buying back the leading PC-manufacturer. Hoping to change the fortunes of the struggling company, Mr Dell is partnering with technology investor Silver Lake to buy-out the remaining shares. The estimated $24.4billion move which will take Dell off NASDAQ stock exchange after 25 years will be financed by four banks and a $2billion loan from Microsoft. In a fairy-tale story that all Silicon Valley honchos seem to have [...]