The end of 2011 saw the back-to-back releases of both the new iOS 5.0 and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile operating systems by Apple and Google respectively. Both were highly anticipated as something out of this world. But when they did finally turn up, they caused a lot of disappointments too, in addition[.....]

When you install Windows 7, you get an option to set your country, timezone, language, etc. Based on your choices, Windows installs some default wallpapers and themes on your hard drive. But those are not the only ones present! You see, Windows 7 comes with 5 theme packs for different English speaking countries: United[.....]

While people are still busy jawing about Siri’s amazing ability to understand voice commands, a group of hackers demonstrated that Siri can read your mind too. Yes you read that right, Siri can be used with mind control. Two guys Ollie and Josh claimed in a video that Siri can understand brainwaves also, by[.....]

Google rolled out its long awaited Gmail app for iOS on Wednesday but pulled it back within hours following the unpleasant response of the users. The iOS users declared the app unimpressive, useless and buggy. Users were looking forward to it and were very hopeful of the push notification feature of the app because[.....]

Recently, Nokia turned heads towards itself with the unveiling of it’s new Lumia line of smartphones, the flagship Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. The phones use the Microsoft Windows Phone Mango platform. Now Nokia and Microsoft are again in the limelight with a new announcement: they will give away 85,000 new Lumia smartphones[.....]

We were all made to believe that Nokia had no place in the ever-escalating war between Android devices and the iPhone. It’s last smartphone, the N9, failed to attract people. But Nokia did not back down. The Finnish giant is now back in the smartphone market with it’s sexy new Lumia line of phones,[.....]

Think ‘Apple’s App Store’ when somebody mentions app downloading? Not anymore! The Android Market has taken a lead on Apple’s iOS App Store by a ratio of 2.4 to 1. According to ABI Research, Android topped iOS in the second quarter of 2011, thus becoming the leader with 44% of current market shares while[.....]

Since 2007, the world has enjoyed the web-based file-hosting service of Dropbox. Even though there are other services available for people to use, what sets Dropbox apart is their desktop syncing client which automatically syncs the Dropbox sharing folder with the web-based service. This means little or no activity on behalf of the user.

Motorola has forced Android haters to think twice about their choice. This October, Motorola has unveiled the slimmest Smartphone ever – the ‘Droid RAZR’ which is just 7.1 mm thick. RAZR, the hot series by Motorola, was first launched in 2004 and turned out to be a huge success due to its smooth and[.....]