Nokia announced that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 will be its mobile operating system of choice as the company begins to implement new strategy. Nokia and Microsoft have created what their respective CEOs are calling “a broad strategic partnership.” Bing will become the primary search engine on Nokia devices and services. Nokia mapping technology will become part [...]

Ever go home for the holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “techie tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet? You’re not alone. A bunch of folks over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support [...]

The latest Android release, Gingerbread, is coming soon to phones, but we can peek at it in the software developer’s kit. Here’s what’s new and notable in Android 2.3: better typing, darker looks, detailed battery and memory reports, and more. Google has “launched” Gingerbread, which, for them, means that users of the Android SDK can [...]

We know it seems like everyone and their mom is turning Apple’s latest iPod nano into a watch, but the TikTok and LunaTik concepts by Scott Wilson of Minimal Studios are definitely the best looking “iWatch” accessories we’ve seen to date. We say concept, because technically the products are still pipe dreams flowing through the [...]

Apple’s mobile advertising platform iAd is coming to the UK and France in December, as well as Germany in January, the company has announced. iAd is one of the crucial features of iOS 4.0, bringing HTML5-powered interactive ads to Apple’s mobile platform, letting users stay within their current application while engaging with an ad. Tweet

Walking to your computer to change a song or to skip to the next PowerPoint slide isn’t ideal. Instead, use LIRC to control any application on your Linux or Windows PC with any infrared remote. We’ve covered controlling your XBMC with a variety of apps and remote controls, but if you already have a universal [...]

StumbleUpon’s been serving up crowdsourced, personalized website recommendations since the turn of the century with the simple idea that like-minded surfers will enjoy the same stuff, and if that sounds like a fantastic formula for recommending apps, then you’re in a spot of luck. StumbleUpon’s bringing App recommendations to Android today as part of an [...]

Google’s webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends them back with the same formatting. Tweet

You can’t boot Windows XP from a floppy disk the way you used to be able to with DOS. One handy way to easily boot XP is by using a USB flash drive. Here’s how to make it work.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, has set the ball rolling for web addresses in scripts othter than Latin. This will allow Uniform Resource Locators(URLs), as web addresses are called in vertual parlance, in languages other than English, including Hindi, Tamil or Bhojpuri.

Google, the world’s largest search engine, and one of the biggest internet brands,is understood to be eyeing opportunities in the third generation of mobile telephony, or 3G, in India. Sources in the industry say Google is looking at broadband wireless access(BWA) in the country and may participate in the auction with an Indian partner. BWA [...]

A lot is being said about Apple’s iPad that was launched on Wednesday. Many had planned the device saying it is just a little more than gient iPhone. TheiPad, though, is better defined by what isn’t there. So, here is what iPad doesn’t have..

The first shot in the Google Microsoft OS war has been fired. Looking at Google’s initial plans and ideas for implementation of the new OS, it’s pretty clear that it will be years before Google’s new open source OS is anywhere near a Microsoft competitor. But this announcement is clearly a shot across the bow [...]

Apple released the most powerful Iphone called Iphone 3GS, where S stands for Speed. Iphone3GS will be a lot better than Iphone 3G in terms of features with capabilities for video recording, voice control and giving you a storage of upto 32GB!!! It’s the “most powerful, fastest iPhone we’ve ever made,” says Apple SVP Phil [...]

After a lot of dilemma over whether to upgrade to Windows 7 RC build, yesterday, i finally took the plunge. Since there was a direct upgrade option from my Vista, i did not lose any of my program or my files. The upgrade went smoothly. So far, i did not have problems with anything. The [...]

For those of you with a penchant for eco-friendly gadgetry, Micro Innovations will soon launch EcoSmart, an entire line of such products. We’re talking about a keyboard, a mouse, speakers, a 4-port USB hub, a USB keyboard, a webcam and media card reader/writer. All of these are to be made from materials that include organic, [...]