Rocky-Planet Astronomers have discovered what they claim is the smallest-ever rocky planet outside our solar system, named Kepler-10b. A team at NASA says that its Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of the exo-planet, measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth — its discovery is based on eight... [Read More]

verizon wireless blackberry Verizon Wireless and AT&T will both benefit from offering the iPhone. Also, check out what happened behind the scenes through the years. You heard it here first: Verizon Wireless and AT&T will both benefit from having the iPhone in their respective smartphone portfolios,... [Read More]

apple-iphone-keyboard The iPhone is going to dominate the discourse this week because it’s an easily comprehended story and one people have been following for years. It’s not about technology, it’s about drama: Apple and Verizon have strong “personalities” that readers connect... [Read More]

MarkZuckerberg “We didn’t get the memo about shutting down, so we’ll keep working away. We aren’t going anywhere; we’re just getting started,” the New York Daily News quoted Facebook as tweeting. The Internet rumour was sparked by a report from a website, Weekly World... [Read More]

do-you-have-facebook New York, Jan 10: “Oh My God! No, it can’t happen, please!!!” It was the reaction by millions of Facebook users around the globe after the hoax rumor of Facebook Shutting Down on Mar 15, that spread like a wild fire in internet. After hours of confusion, Facebook... [Read More]

North_Pole The sun has risen at the North Pole after six months of darkness, and now the season for human extremophiles has begun — with a motley array of marathoners, ski trekkers, sky divers, climate scientists and tourists preparing frantically for various polar projects. pole marathonThe North... [Read More]

earthcam Runways at a Florida airport are to be given brand new numbers, but not for cosmetic reasons – the changes are thanks to movement in the Earth’s magnetic field. Changes in our planet’s core are causing the north magnetic pole to speed towards Russia at nearly 40 miles a year. But... [Read More]

blog Blogging platform WordPress has issued a challenge to its users for 2011: “to write more, write more”. It is launching the Post a Day and Post a Week ‘campaigns’ to get users into the habit of writing. WordPress is encouraging users to tag their posts with either “postaday2011” or “postaweek2011”... [Read More]

f35-6 The F-35 is the result of the Defense Department’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which sought to build a multirole fighter optimized for the air-to-ground role with secondary air-to-air capability. The JSF requirement was to meet the needs of the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and allies,... [Read More]

Apple_iMac_Leopard New York, Jan 7: Now it’s official, Apple Mac App Store is on for public with exciting applications exclusively for Mac devices. Apple has started the new flagship store on Thursday, Jan 6. This new store opens a great opportunity for app developers to create app for Mac OS. Unfortunately,... [Read More]

wordpress Over the New Year holiday, WordPress issued a challenge to its blogger-users: Write and publish one post a day (or a week) throughout 2011. For non-professional and personal bloggers, writing and posting every day can be a tall order, so the good folks at WordPress have launched The Daily Post,... [Read More]

motopad Greetings from Las Vegas, everyone! This is Brad reporting from CES, as I wander the halls of the massively huge Las Vegas Convention Center. Today was press day, the big day in which all the major announcements are typically made, and I certainly spent a lot of time going back and forth to see... [Read More]

Experts at the NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul-funded Caparo Innovation Centre here have developed a new and innovative iPhone application that helps households reduce the amount of food they waste. “Consume Within” is an innovative and easy to use application that is the first to track... [Read More]

29sld-htc-mozart-desire-hd A quick roundup of smartphones that were released in 2010, smartphones that are due for launch in the New Year and pathbreaking technologies that promise to produce clean energy inexpensively and transfer high-speed data on photon networks instead of fibre optics.HTC to launch... [Read More]

Here we are, just a few days before the giant Consumer Electronics Show gets rolling in Las Vegas, and what company is generating the most buzz? The one that won’t be there. Once again this year, Apple (AAPL) will be a no-show at CES. And once again, no company will generate more attention. Business... [Read More]

voyager1 The 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into... [Read More]

microsoft-windows-phone-7 Extensively publicized as Microsoft’s make-or-break mugging on the Smartphone market, Windows Phone 7 was made public in October 2010, prior this year. While subsequently, producers have sold over 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 (WP7) devices globally, Microsoft made public announcement. With... [Read More]

Skype downtime today Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate. Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers... [Read More]

skype If you’re a regular Skype user, they you may have noticed today, the system going up and down like a yo-yo. Now as many of you are probably aware of, Skype doesn’t act like your traditional phone system or messaging network. Skype relies on what are often called “SuperNodes”, computers... [Read More]

apple_tv A variety of Apple TV users have reported extremely long download times when trying to rent movies. The problem does not appear to be with Apple’s servers, the Akamai Content Delivery Network Apple uses to deliver media downloads efficiently, nor the design of iTunes or Apple TV hardware.... [Read More]

iphone Motorola has thrown down the gauntlet in the tablet wars: a new ad for the upcoming Motorola tablet takes potshots at the iPad, calling it “a giant iPhone,” and the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is criticized for running a version of Android for the phone. The unnamed device will run... [Read More]

While iPods might dominate the store shelves, there are rival MP3 players that are out to give iPods a run for the money. We review the upgraded new Apple iPod devices and their closest match in market today.Creative Zen X-Fi Style: Price Rs 6,999 for 8GBBefore you head out to buy another iPod, maybe... [Read More]

09ss1 Air power is an indispensable aspect in any nation’s security apparatus. Countries like India are today aggressively pushing forward with plans to build a robust air force, arming themselves with tech-loaded aircraft. Let’s take a look at some of the best fighter aircraft around the... [Read More]

facebook_changes Facebook has undergone so many tweaks and changes to its design over the years, a new facelift should not make the news anymore. Besides, the changes amounted to just tiny tweaks to the font size and small rearrangements of lists and groups. On Sunday night, though, Facebook’s... [Read More]