7
Sep

Yahoo Inc: For Sale; How a $100 Billion Dollar company may be sold for even a quarter of it’s price

Yahoo Inc: For Sale; How a $100 Billion Dollar company may be sold for even a quarter of it’s price

In the series of events happening at Yahoo! Inc, Insider  reports, that, It is up for Sale,  suggesting the beleaguered search and email giant isn’t relying solely on industry-leading innovation,” as board chairman Roy Bostock claimed, to reverse the decline. Yahoo has today fired its CEO Carol Bartz replacing her with  Timothy Morse,  Several sources […]

5
Sep

Google Engineer uses the Power of Android and Google Maps to propose to his girlfriend

Google Engineer uses the Power of Android and Google Maps to propose to his girlfriend

The world is going insane, people are looking out for unique ways to propose to their girlfriend, The want it to be a memorable event, the one they will cherish for the lifetime, this quest has led a Google engineer to get an ultimate idea. Google engineer, Ari Gilder decided to propose to his girlfriend […]

2
Sep

How to change the default installation location for software/programs in Windows 7

How to change the default installation location for software/programs in Windows 7

So you are fed you of changing the location to install a software/program, there may be various reasons you choose to do this, either you Windows drive is empty, or you do this as part of a security testing method to install the application at the default location or maybe you just want to install a […]

31
Aug

Facebook testing Translate comment, spotted today August 31th 2011

Facebook testing Translate comment, spotted today August 31th 2011

We just came across a cool new feature that Facebook may be testing, a step in making the Facebook a World language.     This is what we are talking about, there is a translate option just besides the LIKE option for the comment, this will probably making comments made in different languages easier to […]

27
Aug

Difference between Android and iPhone users – Infographics

Difference between Android and iPhone users – Infographics

People are generally judged by the car they drive, the locality they live in, the brand of clothes they wear and so on,  but can someone be judged by the mobile phone that he/she keeps? According to an  Infographic  published by Hunch, users possessing a specific smartphone (Android or iPhone) tend to possess certain traits. […]

25
Aug

Facebook to kill ‘Places’, foursquare gets the advantage

Facebook to kill ‘Places’, foursquare gets the advantage

While Facebook was rolling out some  changes to its privacy policies today, the company also quietly announced it was killing off the foursquare-like Places function inside of its mobile app. The company has discontinued the feature  offering  check-ins. Instead, they have added the capability to add locations to sharing individual posts. Facebook spoke about the […]

24
Aug

Facebook Testing Video Ads

Facebook Testing Video Ads

With Social Advertising catching up and Facebook pioneering with it, Facebook has now started testing Video Ads in the Ads section on www.facebook.com, The video ad unit that plays the video in a popup box when the video thumbnail on the right side of the page is clicked. It’s the first time we’ve seen this […]

23
Aug

$1500 (..and counting) Bounty, to port Android to HP Touchpad

$1500 (..and counting) Bounty, to port Android to HP Touchpad

With HP deciding to close down WebOS and the TouchPad, there has been a chain of events happening in relation to HP, Firstly this Stock price dropped and then the HP WebOS TouchPad was being sold in the just for $99 in stores in the US. And now there are  effort already underway from both […]

22
Aug

HP spinning off PC Business: Why do We think Microsoft should buy it

HP spinning off PC Business: Why do We think Microsoft should buy it

Bloomberg News caused  a big stir in the tech world  with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to shred off its PC business to focus more on software and cloud services. HP is the largest PC maker in the world, shipping more than 15 million PCs last quarter, according to IDC data. The News of […]

20
Aug

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Mobile Patent suing mess – Simplified

Every second day you hear some or the other company suing another company for Patent infringement, Patent trolling, as we call it. Some days, back it was Apple suing Samsung for the Muti-touch gesture, then there was HTC suing Apple for infringing patent import and  Sales in the US, then Microsoft getting royalties for android […]