IBM announced its fifth annual ”Next Five in Five” – a list of innovations that can potentially change way people work, live, and play over the next five years. IBM predicts the Next Five in Five based on market and societal trends that are expected to transform our lives. Here are the top five technologies predicted by IBM [...]
Amazon: Kindle is the Bestselling Product of All Time on Amazon
December 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Amazon announced that Third-Generation Kindle became the bestselling product of all time on Amazon worldwide. Amazon introduced the latest generation Amazon Kindle for $139 just five months ago. With in the five month, Kindle topped the sales of ”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and became as bestselling product of Amazon. As usual Amazon did not reveal [...]
Facebook Fellowship Program Goes Global
December 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Facebook announced that it is extending the Facebook Fellowship program to support international Ph.D. students. The Facebook Fellowship program started last year, but only for Ph.D. students from a U.S. university working in a broad area of Computer Science and Social computing. In addition to extending the Fellowship to international students, Facebook also expanded the [...]
Skype Outage Condition Improves: It’s Working for 10 Million Skype Users
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Skype updating on its biggest outage, said that a there is a significant increase in the number of people using Skype this morning. Skype estimated that about 10 million users were able to their Skype account. This is only an approximate estimate as it is not possible to get an exact number because of the [...]
60,599,541 Tabs for Charity: Chrome For a Cause
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Google announced the tabbing statistics from its five day browsing for a cause program. Last week, Google invited Google Chrome’s users worldwide to “donate” their tabs in Chrome for up to one million dollar. In just five days Chrome users browsed for the cause by opening 60,599,541 tabs for five worthy causes. Here is the [...]
Microsoft Announces Top Microsoft Stories of 2010
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It is time to look back. Looking back, Microsoft definitely did some catch up working on multiple domains. It made some progress in search with Bing, released Windows Phone 7, Kinect for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Office 2010. Here is the top Microsoft stories of 2010 picked by Microsoft. Windows Phone 7: A Fresh Start for the [...]
Skype Explains its Big Downtime Today
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Earlier this morning, millions of Skype users had a big shock waiting for them as they tried to login to their Skype account. As one tried to login, Skype tried for a while and came back telling users that “Can’t connect to Skype. Please check your network settings and try again”. Later in the morning, [...]
Google Offers Some Cool Android Tips and Tricks
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Fresh from launching the latest version of Android, Android 2.3/Ginegerbread with the new Google Phone Nexus S, Google offered Android tips & tricks in its blog. In addition to general tips, Google also offered some Android keyboard shortcuts and a few Android apps that every Android users will love. Here are the cool Android tips from [...]
Apple to Sell More than 1 Million Apple TV this Week
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Motorola Teases a Honeycomb Android Tablet
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Motorola released a new YouTube video that looks at the evolution of Tablets, starting from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic tablets to the modern tablet. The YouTube video ended with a teaser for a new HoneyComb Android tablet from Motorola at CES 2011, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow to held from January 6-9 at Las Vegas. [...]