What your Facebook profile picture says

From self-shots or 'selfies' to abstracts and party pictures, here's a look at some of the most common types of pictures that people choose for their social media pages.The relationship shotCute for some but a bit too in your-face for others, the lovey-dovey type photo is all about announcing to your friend list that you are indeed 'taken'...

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Google to launch Moto X phone on August 1

Google's Motorola division appears set to unveil its much anticipated Moto X phone on August 1 at an event in New York City.Email invitations sent to the media displayed the Moto X name in bold letters. The invitation depicted several youths holding the Moto X, the first smartphone Motorola has developed since its...

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Review: Pebble smartwatch

You have a cellphone, maybe a tablet. Sometimes you lug around a laptop. Do you really need one more gadget on you? Yes, you do. You need a smart watch. At least, that's what I learned after I got the Pebble, a $150 watch that connects wirelessly to iPhones and Android smartphones to notify you of incoming calls, texts and emails. The Pebble has...

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Now, get paid to unlock your phone‘s screen

Generally speaking, ads on mobile phones are a nuisance. They pop up often in free apps, look ugly and use up a little bit of your data without offering you anything in return. But that's about to change, thanks to a small US-based, start-up called Locket. Locket recently acquired VC funding and they plan to take over an...

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49.6% web users in India attacked by local malware: Report

Kaspersky Lab recently published its second quarter report, Kaspersky Security Bulletin, for April-June 2013, devoted to website threats, local threats, malicious and spamevolution during the second quarter of 2013.The report said that Kaspersky Lab products detected 1.99 crore internet-borne malware incidents on the computers of Kaspersky...

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How data centres can go ‘green‘

Most big data centers, the global backbone of the internet, could slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 88 per cent by switching to efficient, off-the-shelf equipment and improving energy management, according to a new research. The carbon emissions generated by a search on Google or a post on Facebook are related mostly to three...

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Smartphones making spying easier

Voice call records over five years. Places you visited the last year. Video calls you made in the last three months. Emails you sent in the last six days and all online chats in the last hour. These, and more, could be accessed by someone right now."You're already a walking sensor platform," CIA's chief technology officer Ira Hunt told...

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Zomato to enter NZ, add 5 new overseas destinations

Online restaurant guide Zomato has said it is foraying into New Zealand as part of a global expansion under which it will open five offices, including in the UK and South Africa."We are foraying into the New Zealand market by opening our offices in Auckland and Wellington. We are also strengthening our presence in the United...

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App to tell where you will exactly be in future

Do you know precisely where you'll be 285 days from now at 2 pm? Researchers have developed a new tracking software that can tell you exactly where you will be on a precise time and date years into the future.Adam Sadilek, formerly of Microsoft , and John Krumm, a principal researcher at Microsoft used information from...

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Microsoft loses market value worth $34 billion

Microsoft shares fell more than 11% on Friday, their biggest plunge in more than four years, a day after the software company posted dismal quarterly results due to weak demand for its latest Windows system and poor sales of its Surface tablet.The stock's selloff, from five-year highs, is the biggest in percentage terms since January...

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Robots to revolutionize US farms

Researchers are now designing robots for the last frontier of agricultural mechanization -- fruits and vegetables destined for the US fresh market, which have resisted mechanization because they're sensitive to bruising. The robots are designed to handle these delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics,...

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