Speeding up the web is on Microsoft’s agenda as they plan on submitting a proposal for a quicker Internet protocol to the standards body responsible for the development of HTTP 2.0. The standards body would have to be the IETF – Internet Engineering Task Force …
If we were to believe the people from GigaOm, it seems that Google plans on introducing its online storage service as early as the beginning of next month, after years of rumors regarding the introduction of such an online service. Google Drive (GDrive) is expected …
Opera Mini 7 was released yesterday on the Android platform, bringing WebGL hardware acceleration borrowed from the Opera Mobile version. This new version improves the compressed browsing feature named Turbo by bringing hardware acceleration and it also expands the proprietary Speed Dial landing page to …
Even though 3D smartphones are not very popular among buyers, researchers of such devices think that products like these have a real future so it’s safe to say that more models will be launched in the years to come, even though up until now the …
At the beginning of this week a Tokyo court has approved an injunction against Google after a person allegedly got fired due to the reason that his name was associated with various criminal acts in the search engine’s autocomplete function which not all people seem …
Last week on Wednesday, Adobe announced that the Photoshop component of the soon-to-be-released Creative Suite 6 has reached its public beta phase which can be tried by users before the company’s well known manipulation and design software is released later on in 2012. If we …
We have some interesting and funny news coming from an Apple store located in Manhasset, Long Island. It seems that an 83-year-old woman by the name of Evelyn Paswall is suing the company for no less than $1 million after she hit a glass wall …
It seems that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will be getting sometime this week HBO Go as well as Comcast’s video on-demand service, according to a report published by GigaOM, a technology news website. Both HBO Go and Comcast were announced for the gaming console last fall, …
The researchers from Kyoto University led by Masaharu Komori have revealed the four-wheel drive Permoveh wheelchair saying that this Personal Mobility Vehicle is a prototype of a next-gen wheel chair. Komori is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the university and this new generation …
The Finnish mobile phone company and Nokia and giant Microsoft are about to make their relationship stronger as they have decided to invest up to $12 each in the Finland’s mobile economy in the next three years by participating in the AppCampus development program which …
After more than a year of hard work, the team behind XBMC has launched the 11.0 version which is known as Eden and can be downloaded from xbmc.org. The latest iteration of the software brings add-on rollbacks, significant updates to the default skin (Confluence), as …
It was only about a month ago when Google initiated the Pwnium competition aimed towards hackers who are “asked” to find security flows in the web browser. Two weeks later, we already have a winner as the company’s Sundar Pichai announced on his Google+ page …
Those of you who are iOS users and want to download a bigger application over a 3G or a 4G connection will be glad to hear that Apple has increased the download limit for content to 50MB. Up until now, the download limit over a …
At the beginning of this year the Korean company Samsung announced that the Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet will be getting the Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) update in Q1 of 2012, along with the update for the Galaxy S II. While the latter already received …
The phone you see in this picture is the Enigma E2 which its manufacturer Tripleton is saying that this is the “world’s most secure mobile”. It better be since it costs a whopping $2,094. This would have to be a very basic handset that is …
The new generation of the iPad was launched last week and it seems that there already are two things wrong with it, if we judge the complaints coming from customers and DisplayMate Technologies. The first one is related to the fact that the tablet has …
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It is no secret that Encyclopedia Britannica has given up printing in favor of providing online info. Many people have wondered what pushed this global brand into taking such a decision. Critics have stated that Britannica simply couldn’t handle the competition given by Wikipedia. Why …
Considered by many as one of the best DVRs available on the market, the ones sold by TiVo now come with a lower monthly fee as it now costs only $15 / month with a one-year commitment. They also made some modifications as far as …
Although many people were waiting last year for the iPhone 5, Apple only introduced an evolution of the iPhone 4 rather than launching an entirely new smartphone. The 4S brought several improvements to an already excellent phone, but some were disappointed that it was essentially …
If tablet manufacturers will be willing to put Retina-class displays on their products, the upcoming Windows 8 will be able to support these screens, according to David Washington who works at Microsoft as the senior program manager. He wrote in a blog post that the …
Google has been working on a new method to deliver ads based on our behavioral profiles as well as the environment around us, and they have filed for a patent. The US patent 8,138,930 is mentioning that a phone or another similar device is capable …
Earlier this week, Western Digital has announced the introduction of the first portable 2.5-inch external HDD that offers a capacity of 2 TB. This would have to be the world’s single-volume external drive available that comes with a 2 TB capacity, which is 0.5 TB …
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and he told the people over at BBC that he has discovered a method to get wealthy passengers to Mars for “only” $500,000 and the plan will be published pretty soon. It wasn’t a long time ago when …
According to a recent study conducted by the researchers from Stanford and HopeLab, playing a video game can be good for our health. Re-Mission is a video game in which players have to pilot a microscopic robot by the name of Roxxi in order to …
Another day, another rumor about the upcoming and highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III which will probably be the most important smartphone of the year, unless Apple decides to launch the iPhone 5. Anyway, according to Korea Times who had a chat with one of …
In the last few years there were many studies that showed that teenagers are texting more and more every year. Pew Internet Research Center located in the United States has conducted a similar survey that has shown that teenagers nowadays are texting more than they …
According to the news website Ars Technica, there is another patent war going on and this time we’re talking about Samsung and RIM, two mobile phone producers that have installed emoticon shortcut menus on some of their models. Both companies were sued by a company …