Sony’s new console in spotlight at Tokyo game show
Asia’s biggest annual video game industry event got underway in Japan on Thursday, with games for phones and tablets challenging traditional console kings Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nearly 200 hardware and software makers gathered for the four-day Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe convention hall, where gamers had their first chance to try More...
Apple planning early 2012 launch for new iPad
Apple plans to begin trial production of a next generation iPad in October with an eye to an early 2012 launch, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The newspaper, citing “people familiar with the situation,” More...
Skype buys messaging startup GroupMe
Skype, the Internet communications group set to be acquired by Microsoft, announced plans Sunday to buy the mobile messaging startup firm GroupMe for undisclosed terms. GroupMe was founded in 2010 at the Techcrunch More...
Facebook’s spam program catches innocent users
Facebook has sent notes of apology and is changing automated systems that blocked environmental activists and other people from posting on like-minded Facebook pages. The activists weren’t victims of censorship, More...
Google to acquire Motorola Mobility
Google said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Motorola Mobility, the cellphone handset maker, for $12.5 billion. The acquisition is the company’s largest, and would turn Google, which makes the Android More...
Now watch licensed movies on Yahoo!
It is said that over 30 million internet users download and watch 1.7 billion videos every month across India and to tap that online portal Yahoo! has launched Movieplex, which will bring thousands of licensed Bollywood More...
Reliance Communications hikes call tariffs by 20 percent
Reliance Communications, a part of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group, has increased call tariffs for its CDMA and GSM connections by 20 percent in selected circles, officials said on Sunday. “The tariff has More...
Government wants to monitor Facebook, Twitter accounts
It is not just your BlackBerry and mobile phones, the government also wants to snoop in on your Twitter and Facebook accounts. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Communication and IT Milind More...
Google launches custom made search feature
In a bid to trump Microsoft’s Bing, Google will start to populate individual users’ search results with posts that have been shared publicly by their connections on Google+. The new feature, which works More...