Google, Facebook and 19 other social networking sites faced legal action for offences of promoting enmity between classes after the Government granted sanction to prosecute them. The Government today told a Delhi court there is sufficient material to proceed against the ... Continue Reading »

A new video game has gotten its hooks into Brian Kealer, a 26-year-old San Francisco software engineer. He's not killing birds or using his vocabulary to impress his friends. No, Kealer is after real prizes, like the iPad2 he just ... Continue Reading »

The computer has come a long way since the mid 70's, from being a scientist's toy to now becoming a critical productivity tool for businesses, and a full fledged infotainment device for public in general. Personal computers have enveloped every ... Continue Reading »

Apple Inc. halted the release of its iPhone 4S at retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai on Friday after a riot almost started outside one of its stores in the Chinese capital. An angry mob of people who had waited overnight ... Continue Reading »

Get ready for more Google+ data in your Google searches as the company aims to personalize your results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa Photos. The search giant recently announced the significant change to ... Continue Reading »

Apple is not taking part in the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas but is present at the trade show through rip-offs of its products. From MacBook Air-inspired ultrabooks, to iPad-like tablets, smart TVs, and cloud computing technology, you ... Continue Reading »

When I was working on the UK’s best known computer magazine I wanted to be a motoring journalist. Those around me all had similar affectations. They wanted to write about music, travel, food, arts. We might have enjoyed what we ... Continue Reading »

One theme clearly will dominate this year's International Consumer Electronics Show: catching up with Apple. Mind you, no companies are putting it that way in their announcements for this week's Las Vegas gadget fest, but the subtext fairly rings out. The big ... Continue Reading »

The annual gadget bacchanalia known as CES kicks off next Tuesday in Vegas, but as has been the case for the past decade, the most important new product in consumer electronics won’t be there. This year’s star no-show, however, wasn’t invented ... Continue Reading »

Apple Inc is becoming a favorite of information technology departments, with the popularity of the iPad and Mac computers eroding what businesses are spending on Microsoft Corp machines, according to a new report. The Cupertino, California-based company will sell $10 billion ... Continue Reading »

These laptops run the gamut from bare-bones budget laptops to slim and sleek premium laptops, but each one is aimed at delivering productivity features for small to medium business (SMB) users. The ThinkPad Edge S430 plays more toward the image-conscious business ... Continue Reading »

Mobile markets love Christmas. Smart phone activations go through the roof, and app downloads explode once the holiday season rolls around. Yet while sales boom at the end of every year, 2011′s holiday sales went off like an atomic bomb. ... Continue Reading »

There are plenty of Android tablets on the market, but none have captured a portion of market share that can come close to rivaling the iPad. Right now, it looks like the most successful of all of them will be ... Continue Reading »

Can the government force you to give up your password in the course of an investigation against you? That’s the controversial debate that’s shaping up in U.S. District Court in Colorado. Ramona Fricosu has been charged with bank fraud and the ... Continue Reading »

Apple forecast monster revenues of $37bn for Q1 2012 at its last quarterly results call. Expect that lofty figure to be surpassed. The company has an $81bn cash stockpile, but could it pass $100bn in 2012? Apple's coffers will be boosted ... Continue Reading »

the world's personal computers use software that is pirated. In India, it's worse. Only about one-third of the software sold is genuine, according to Business Software Alliance (BSA), a trade group representing some of the largest software makers, including Microsoft ... Continue Reading »

The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) Tuesday assured that it is fully committed to fully implement this year and beyond its Five-Point Development Program in line with President Aquino’s national development agenda. DoST Secretary Mario G. Montejo explained that the ... Continue Reading »

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software company, received a patent for technology that would permit players of video games to multitask. Patent 8,083,593, issued Dec. 7, is for a game-playing console with a built-in digital video recorder. According to the patent, ... Continue Reading »

Google, one of the biggest advertising companies in the world, has finally embraced advertising for itself. The search giant made its first push into advertising with a Super Bowl ad in 2010 about a young couple falling in love. But through ... Continue Reading »

Trawling through possible password combinations could become a distant memory in the future as new smartphones and tablets will allow access to users at the sight of their owners face or a single touch. According to the Sunday Times, software giants ... Continue Reading »