Facebook launches Shared Albums feature

Facebook on Monday began letting members collaborate on shared online photo albums at the leading social network. The Shared Album feature was to be introduced slowly, first becoming available to a small group of English-language users before gradually spreading across the social network.  "A shared album is an album that multiple...

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iPhone 5S to be powered by A7 chip: Report

Tech giant Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 5S is speculated to have a higher processing chip which would speed up the phone's functioning by 31%. Sources said that the new iPhone will have an A7 chip which will be faster than the current A6 model. According to the Daily Express, Apple is also testing 64-bit processors which would...

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4 things TV buyers should know

I'm looking to buy a new TV during the festive season. I'd like to know what is the best-sized display to buy, and whether I should buy a plasma, LCD, edge-LED, or LED. Also, what is a Smart TV? - A Kotkar, Shailendra Singh, Rajeev Kaul Given the different technologies being employed today, buying a TV can be quite daunting. Here's...

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How to find your missing phone

Oh boy, now you've done it. Not only are you supremely hungover from last night's rager, but your phone is nowhere to be found. Could you have left it at the bar, in a cab, in the gutter somewhere? Who knows! But don't panic, there's a host of apps that do. Here's how to find your phone when it goes missing.  While there's no...

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Yahoo buys image search startup IQ Engines

Yahoo has confirmed that it has bought image search specialty startup IQ Engines to add the company's technology to its Flickr photo service. "IQ Engines is joining the Flickr team at Yahoo," the startup said in a message at its website. "As longtime Flickr fans and fellow photography enthusiasts, we look forward to working on improving...

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China hit by ‘largest ever‘ cyberattack

China has been hit by the "largest ever" attack on its Internet structure, crashing the country's .cn servers, according to a government-linked agency. The national domain name resolution service came under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for around two hours early on Sunday, the China Internet Network Information Centre...

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Keep texting even when phone‘s battery is down

Researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have developed a new technology that lets wireless devices communicate with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.  The new communication technique, called "ambient backscatter", takes advantage of the TV and cellular transmissions that already surround us around...

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How to store more data into DVD

Digital videodiscs can store different amounts of information, depending on the number of data layers available. A DVD with a single layer for storing data can hold up to 4.7 gigabytes.  A DVD with a double layer for storage (also called a "dual-layer" DVD) can store up to 8.5 gigabytes of data.  So the amount of recorded...

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Google Handwrite lets you search the web in Hindi

Even though there is plenty of Indian language content available online, it's not easy to search them. That's because it's difficult to key in the search words in an Indian language, as most computer and mobile phone keyboards are in English. The only way is to use the translation feature to get the Indic script and paste it in the Search...

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How padhaaro.com has changed tourist’s Indian experience

Most of us treat our guests well, but if anyone's abiding by the Indian adage of Atithi Devobhava, they are the two founders of padhaaro.com - Ish Jindal and Saurabh Jain. But not without a reason.  When Ish and Saurabh found themselves stuck in Russia with alien signboards and inedible food, they contacted an acquaintance they'd...

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Samsung Galaxy S5 may come with 16MP camera: Report

As the launch of Samsung's Galaxy Note III flagship phablet nears, the tech grapevine seems to have turned their attention to the company's other flagship smartphone Galaxy S4. Speculations have already started about the next-generation of Galaxy S4, most likely to be called Galaxy S5. A South Korean news website has reported that the...

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Google Glass: What early reviews say

Geeks aren't the only people wearing Google Glass.  Among the people testing Google's wearable computer are teachers, dentists, doctors, radio disc jockeys, hair stylists, architects, athletes and even a zookeeper.  Some 10,000 people are trying out an early version of Glass, most of them selected as part of a contest.  To...

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Dell launches new cloud and virtualization solutions

Dell has announced a new range of cloud and virtualization solutions. These include data centre and cloud client computing solutions based on the company's partnership with VMWare.  "Customers are in the driver's seat when it comes to procuring cloud and virtualization solutions and Dell is on target with its new offerings as...

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Facebook: Govt agencies asked for data of 38k users

Government agents in 74 countries demanded information on about 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of this year, with about half the orders coming from authorities in the United States, the company said. The social networking giant is the latest technology company to release figures on how often governments seek information about...

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