The race among intelligent voice assistants has been on for some time now. The hype was always with Apple’s Siri since it came out with iPhone 4. Though Google, with Voice Actions, and Samsung, with S Voice, tried to raise a challenge to Siri on Android platform, Apple’s Siri has always maintained a cutting edge [...]

Mozilla is coming to smartphone screens. Not as a browser, but a browser which will work as an OS. Amazed? Though there were rumors about such a project, codenamed Boot2Gecko, Mozilla, which makes the popular Firefox browser, chose not to comment. Now it has officially admitted that the smartphone OS will launch in 2013. The [...]

Once again, rumors are turning out to be true. Beats Electronics, the company which makes the world famous Dr Dre headphones, is buying the music streaming service MOG. Both companies have confirmed the acquisition officially, putting an end to the long-running speculations about the deal. The deal will help both companies survive in the competitive [...]

Which is the best, Apple’s Siri or Google Search? To measure the abilities of the much-hyped intelligent voice assistant form Apple, a group of researchers led by Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray recently put Siri to a street test. The team asked 800 questions to Siri in a quiet room without headphones and did the [...]

Teasers just take different forms and roles. Some make us switch over to ultimate curiosity levels. And, more often than not, teasers tend to make us set the clock to see the product arrive finally. Believe us, this one is a gem. And HTC is the one doing that. As if to make things climb [...]

There was a time when we had to watch Bond movies to see awesome gizmos. Now, technology is giving life to most, if not all, of our hitherto maverick dreams. How many of you wanted to have a camera that takes a picture when you blink? Well, your dream is being developed into a reality [...]

Many have hinted to us about an instability issue with their MacBook Air machines which seemed to be caused by the Google Chrome browser. We have also found many users making the same complaint in Apple’s discussions forums. Now, an official response from Google has confirmed our doubts. According to Google, the issue is found [...]

Nexus 7, which is touted as the Kindle Fire killer, is out. Now it is Amazon’s turn to show off its counter-weapon. Reports indicate that the online retailer-cum-gadget maker is prepping two potential counter weapons –  a 10-inch tablet and a revamped version of the 7-inch Kindle Fire. There have been rumors about Amazon designing [...]

The showcasing of Microsoft’s Surface tablets has made many big players of PC making industry sit and think. If sources close to upstream supply chain companies who provide hardware components to PC makers are to be believed, they fear the emergence of a bigger rival in the market, almost like Apple. But unlike Apple or [...]

We have been looking for a Swiss Army Knife in the router market. No, we are not kidding!  Whenever we got a router, we always felt the need to look for some other model or accessory since nothing has given an all-out solution. Finally, we have found a Swiss Army knife in the router world [...]

Again there are some movements in the hallways of the apex body of the telecommunication sector in the country – the Federal Communications Commission. This time, we have spotted a new handset from Sony passing through the gates of FCC after receiving the much-needed approval from the apex body to hit the US market. The [...]

It’s that time of the year when Android fans get over excited as Google nears the launch of the new version of their favorite smartphone platform. Google is expected to unveil the new version of the Android platform at the Google I/O event in a few hours’ time. Giving the inevitable signs of the upcoming [...]

Apple’s much-hyped new Retina Display-equipped MacBook Pro reportedly shows ghost images. As per a thread of complaints spotted in Apple forums and a video uploaded to YouTube by a user, the high resolution display, on at least some of the new MacBook Pros, shows sort of ghost images or screen burn. The phenomenon is similar [...]

Major PC makers are mad at Microsoft with the recent launch of Surface tablets. If the grapevine is to be believed, the reason for enragement is not just the presence of a new rival. They feel that Microsoft has referred the tablet designs submitted by them to decide on the features of the Surface tablets. [...]

Scientists are trying to unravel a mystery human has been chasing from time immemorial – to read the mind of a human being. Now, they have developed a device called iBrain, which can catch brain waves and interpret it. iBrain is a simple black head band, but contains neurotransmitters which can capture brain waves and communicate [...]