Archive : Tech

Facebook is up to something. Facebook sent out an invitation to the media early this morning (Thursday afternoon San Francisco / Pacific Time), inviting media personnel to attend an event on April 4 where Facebook would show off their “new home on Android.” The invitation, as pictured on the right, says, “Come See Our New Home on Android,” and includes no other details as to [...]

Google today released a ‘patent pledge’ which promises that Google won’t sue developers that uses their patents. The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge  will initially see 10 MapReduce patents receive protection. MapReduce is a computing model for processing large data sets developed at Google, whose open-source versions  are now widely used. At Google we believe that open systems [...]

Yahoo has announced that it had acquired the trendy  news reading app Summly, along with its seventeen year old London based founder and entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio. Summly is an app that uses an algorithm to pull out relevant information from news articles and turns them into neat paragraphs that fit on an iPhone screen, while also linking to the full article. Yahoo didn’t disclose how much [...]

Apple has acquired WiFiSLAM which specializes in extending location data and positioning to indoor locations using Wi-Fi for “around” $20 million according to a report by The Wall Street Journal  that . WSJ also was able to get Apple to confirm the accquisition, but did not share its purpose for the company. According to the available description of the firm, the company has created technology [...]

Apple had released a 2-step verification for Apple accounts last week on the lines of Google’s 2-step verification,and it has created an epic embarrassment for Apple, not unlike Apple Maps fiasco. The issue was reported by The Verge, who observed that a series of lock screen exploits makes it possible to reset a user’s password using only their email address and birthdate, the only protection [...]

Starting today Microsoft will begin rolling out Windows 7 SP1 automatically through the pre-installed Windows Update to Windows 7 users who still are running the RTM (release to manufacturing) version without SP1 installed. Microsoft posted more details on it’s Blog. Starting tomorrow, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will begin rolling out automatically on Windows Update.  Updating customers [...]

Google has had Chat feature since the launch of Gmail, the newer services too got the chat feature limited to the application, for instance – If you are working on a Google Doc on your corporate GDrive account, your colleague will not be able to text chat with you from Gtalk/Gchat. This is repordely going to change. Google reportedly plans to re-brand and unify its various chat services, like [...]

Pinterest, the third social network, announced some slight changes to the design of the site and some new features. Pinterest  has been testing the new look since January. Pinterest still has the big photos in a grid, just a bit bigger now,along the top of the homescreen is a new navigation bar. A new button in the top left, next to the search bar, gives out  a list of categories, including Animals, [...]

Dropbox is buying the Mailbox mobile app and Gmail client for the iPhone. The details of the deals weren’t disclosed. Mailbox would remain a separate app as the entire team joins Dropbox. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston told the WSJ that his company felt it “could help Mailbox reach a much different audience much faster.” “Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, [...]

Google Now can start using the feature in Google’s Windows browser and Chrome OS platform  enable the option if they know the relevant Google Now server. As the feature is not yet public, Google Now  notifications are not yet displayed. Discovered by Francois Beaufort, a fan of Chrome, he posted the information to his Google+ page. In a recent Chromium release, engineers have added a potentially [...]