Microsoft is gradually jumping on the Social bandwagon by leveraging the power of Facebook. After launching Docs.com, Microsoft has launched a new social crossword game called – Team Crossword.

Apple now plans on using the amorphous metal alloys developed by Liquidmetal Technologies in the design and development of their next generation wireless antenna.

Today the US government has announced new laws that makes jailbreaking the iPhone legal. This means that iPhone owners can install unapproved third-party applications on their phone and better still, unlock it for use with other carriers. Jailbreaking has been going on for quite sometime actually. However, the works of these hackers were considered illegal [...]

Yes, we all saw this coming. After Steve Jobs tried to wash off his hand about the iPhone 4 antenna, by saying that every smartphone has the antenna issue, everyone knew that the other smartphone manufacturers are sure to reply. The first to reply was mobile phone giant Nokia. They said that they prioritize antenna design [...]

When I reviewed Firefox 4 Beta in Linux last week, I noted that the new tabs on top interface is not yet there for Linux. Well actually it is not there is in Mac too. Only the Windows have the new interface right now.

Brian Maupin, an employee of BestBuy, made a video spoof of iPhone4 Vs HTC Evo. The video became a big hit but his job may be on line because of it. According to Associated Press, Brian has been suspended from his job and he may be fired. BestBuy, which sells both the iPhone4 and the [...]

Opera has just released Opera 10.60 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is basically an improvement over Opera 10.5x. They claim that Opera 10.60 is 50% faster than Opera 10.50, making it the fastest browser.

Clementine is a cross-platform music player which has been influenced by Amarok 1.4. We have reviewed Clementine 0.2 in the past and we were very impressed with it. The Clementine developers have announced the availability of Clementine 0.4.

I am guessing that by now you already know about the issue signal reception issue and the correct way to hold an iPhone 4. If not head over to Engadget and come back after reading it. Now it turns out even Steve Jobs did not know the correct way to handle the iPhone 4. Look [...]

The second beta of VirtualBox 3.2 has been finally released and it includes an new feature – it can virtualize Mac OS X. Before you run off to install Mac OS X in VirtualBox, there is a bad news – it will only works on Apple hardware.

Adobe has responded to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ thrashing of Adobe and Flash with an ad campaign that says “We [Heart] Apple”. This ads leads to a statement from Adobe and an open letter from Adobe founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock. In the statement Adobe says that they support an open market and that [...]

Microsoft has finally jumped into the HTML5 video codec war by announcing that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9, will go with H.264 support not the open-source Theora. H.264 and Theora are video codecs which are competing with one another to be the standard codec used in HTML5. While Theora is an open-source format; H.264 [...]

Amazon has now released a new Kindle App for the Apple iPad which turns your iPad into a Kindle e-book reader.

Netflix has announced the launch of an app for the Apple iPad that will allow users to watch episodes of many popular TV shows and movies in high-quality, streamed directly from Netflix on the iPad. Netflix users on plans starting at 8.99USD a month can get the streaming on their iPads free of charge! Continue [...]

Microsoft has releases a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX conference. They did not say it explicitly, but by now it is pretty clear that its new browser will not be supported in Windows Xp. This is what Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch said: Building a modern browser requires a modern operating [...]

At its Mix Conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft gave a preview of what is to come with its next web-browser Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, which is a prototype to show how IE9 will handle the current web technologies and the new ones to come.

Safari is the default web browser in Mac OS X. Although it is meant primarily for Mac OS X, it is also available for Windows. However, no version of Safari is available for Linux. In this tutorial, w will tell you how to install Safari 4, the latest release of Safari, in Ubuntu. To install [...]

In a latest move to put a curb on obscene and inappropriate apps in the Apple App-Store, Apple has removed almost over 5,000 apps from its App Store, including some that according to Apple feature “overtly sexual” content. Telegraph UK reports that many app developers have received a message from Apple stating that the company [...]

Microsoft is planning to introduce 59 new Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for both Windows 7 and Office 2010. The LIPs will be also available for Visual Studio 2010.In addition to this, Microsoft will also be provide customers with new Caption Language Interface Packs (CLIP) which will make it possible for the software’s interface to show [...]

Starting next week, Microsoft’s automated Windows Update service will present users with a “Web browser choice screen” as required by a settlement agreed with the European Commission’s competition department last year. Next week’s rollout will be available as part of a testing process to some users in the UK, Belgium and France. It will be rolled [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo announced this morning that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have Microsoft’s Bing search engine power Yahoo’s sites. Microsoft and Yahoo engineers will now start working together to adapt Bing for Yahoo. The partnership means Yahoo will selling premium [...]

We earlier informed you about the release of 4rth version of Norton’s all in one security solution – Norton 360 for Windows. However, the iPhone/iPad app will take few more weeks before it is made available free of charge on the iPhone App Store. The app, once made available, will allow users to back-up data [...]

Yes, it certainly seems like Apple is starting to ban iPhone jailbreakers from the iTune App Store. Coming just after the release of the iPhone OS 3.1.3 and subsequent jailbreak shortly afterwards, it seems that Apple has started cracking down on hackers who are responsible for jailbreaking the new iPhone OS.

Earlier, we reported about Microsoft’s official launch of its highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 Series. We were generally impressed with the new Zune interface that the overhaul has brought about in the OS. However, OS does contain some notable backward steps.