IT news
Facebook to acquire photo-sharing app maker Instagram for $1 bn
10 Apr 2012
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, yesterday agreed to buy the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram, for about $1 billion in cash and stock
America Online to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.56 bn
09 Apr 2012
Following the sale, New York-based AOL will continue to hold a significant patent portfolio of over 300 patents and patent applications spanning core and strategic technologies
Growing audience catapults Pinterest to No 3 social media site
07 Apr 2012
The social networking site allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections including events, interests, hobbies, etc
Google brings seamless, mobile internet on an eyeglass
05 Apr 2012
The system that incorporates a small see-through display screen, cameras and built-in microphones, can be operated through voice commands
Kindle case lets users “top up” on solar power
04 Apr 2012
Yahoo to eliminate 2,000 jobs: report
04 Apr 2012
The layoffs, expected to be announced before the stock market opens for trading in New York today, will affect up to 14 per cent of its global workforce
Self-sculpting sand
03 Apr 2012
New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts
3D planning tool for the city of tomorrow
03 Apr 2012
Anonymous: No net outage on Saturday
31 Mar 2012
The rumour that hackers associated with Anonymous were planning to shut down the internet gained credence on Friday after Interpol's secretary general, Ronald K Noble was quoted as saying that the threat was real
Google plans low-priced tablet
30 Mar 2012
Unfazed by a failed bid to market and sell smartphones on its own, Google is planning to sell co-branded tablets directly to consumers through an online store