Category: Technology

A number of things about Amazon’s Fire – the company’s new smartphone – has been revealed over the past few months. Despite the information that we already have, a few questions still remain that will answer details such as name, price and release date. Apart from that, there are other details that we’ve already gathered…

It’s official: Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP.   However, with people not wanting to move away from Windows XP, experts suggest that this inaction on their part poses a risk as it exposes them to malware and viruses, thanks to Microsoft not working on security patches anymore.   But that’s not entirely true.  …

Despite a number of rumors stating that Microsoft was planning to sell off Bing have persisted for sometime now, recent developments at the Build Developer’s conference point clearly to the opposite.   That said, there was a time when Microsoft had planned to sell off Bing, which, to them, was just a ‘search engine’ but…

Microsoft has given its Web Office Apps a makeover. Even if the company has done little or nothing to promote these apps, the truth is that they are capable of carrying out a number of tasks as that their offline counterpart can. Now, with a flatter design, easier navigation along with other new features, the…

Late last year, Google began talks with DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence company, which has now been confirmed for almost $500 million. In describing the company’s vision, Larry Wasserman, a Professor in the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, wrote, “The startup is trying to build a system that thinks by combining machine learning and…

It’s not every day that one of your products gets used on a giant telescope in space. But that’s exactly what happened to Denton Vacuum, a designer and manufacturer of systems that deposit ultra-thin metallic and dielectric coatings. In an official press release, Denton Vacuum announced on Oct 16, 2013 that it has provided its…

In a retrial of the patent infringement lawsuit between Samsung and Apple, where the stakes were almost 1 billion, the former has been asked to pay $290 million to the Cupertino company. It was clear that after this decision that neither side got exactly what they wanted since Apple wanted $380 million while Samsung only…

Google’s decision to share user data across its service, which was revealed in a policy update in March 2012, isn’t compliant with Dutch privacy law, according to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). In a press release disseminated by DPA, the following conclusion was revealed, “Google combines the personal data from internet users that are…

Experts believe that Apple has released the most dramatic iOS update that will impact more people in shorter period than any other prior update. Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, reveals how big a change this is, in saying, “Measured by the number of people that are going to see a big change within the same…

It’s clear that Facebook isn’t going to stop with 1 billion users now will it stop when everyone is connected to the Internet either. While some people might say that Facebook wants more users, his vision is really to make the world (quite literally!) to be more open and connected by spreading the internet itself…