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Chrome 27 released with faster web page loading times

Chrome 27 released with faster web page loading times

22 May, 2013, 4:14 pm IST | tech2 News Staff | Software Software

Google has announced the stable channel release of Chrome 27, and it includes a whole bunch of goodies. More

Leak shows forthcoming VPN and Bluetooth 4.0 support for Windows RT

Leak shows forthcoming VPN and Bluetooth 4.0 support for Windows RT

22 May, 2013, 2:17 pm IST | Anujeet Majumdar | Software Software | 2 Comments

Leaked images have revealed some of the features that will come with Windows 8.1 RT and hopefully to the Windows Phone Blue as well... More

Samsung Galaxy S3's Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean test firmware leaked

Samsung Galaxy S3's Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean test firmware leaked

21 May, 2013, 3:43 pm IST | tech2 News Staff | Software Software

Heads-up, people with the Galaxy S3! The folks at SamMobile have got their hands on an image of the test firmware Android 4.2.2 update More

Google shows developers how to hack Glass and run Ubuntu

Google shows developers how to hack Glass and run Ubuntu

18 May, 2013, 10:02 am IST | Shunal Doke | Linux Linux | 3 Comments

Google has shown attendees of its Google I/O event how one can go about running another operating system – namely Ubuntu – on their More

Microsoft working touchscreen feature into Chrome

Microsoft working touchscreen feature into Chrome

17 May, 2013, 3:11 pm IST | Anujeet Majumdar | Software Software

In order to expand its flexible Pointer Events interface beyond Windows 8 and Internet Explorer, Microsoft programmers are now trying.. More

iTunes 11.0.3 update brings along refreshed MiniPlayer, songs view

iTunes 11.0.3 update brings along refreshed MiniPlayer, songs view

17 May, 2013, 1:43 pm IST | Nishtha Kanal | Software Software | 1 Comments

It’s that time for iTunes users again! Apple has released an update for iTunes on Thursday that is bringing along a revamped MiniPlay More

Mozilla's plans to block third-party cookies by default in Firefox postponed

Mozilla's plans to block third-party cookies by default in Firefox postponed

17 May, 2013, 12:58 pm IST | Shunal Doke | Software Software

Mozilla has announced that it plans to block third party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22 in a blog post. The reaso More

Google says 900 million Android mobile devices activated

Google says 900 million Android mobile devices activated

16 May, 2013, 8:12 am IST | | Software Software

Some 900 million smartphones and tablets running Google Inc's Android software have been activated ... More

Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 (a.k.a Blue) as a free update

Microsoft announces Windows 8.1 (a.k.a Blue) as a free update

15 May, 2013, 9:33 am IST | Anujeet Majumdar | Software Software

The newest update for the Windows 8, previously known as “Windows Blue” was officially announced by Microsoft on Tuesday. While off More

Amazon offers a Cloud Player experience without the browser barrier

Amazon offers a Cloud Player experience without the browser barrier

14 May, 2013, 3:43 pm IST | Anujeet Majumdar | Software Software

Web giant Amazon announced on Monday the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for PC users... More

Google adds push notifications to Chrome browser, Chrome OS

Google adds push notifications to Chrome browser, Chrome OS

11 May, 2013, 11:09 am IST | Shunal Doke | Software Software

Google is expanding its Chrome web browser and operating system by adding Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome. The main feature of the ne More

Windows 8 might never get an iTunes app

Windows 8 might never get an iTunes app

11 May, 2013, 10:15 am IST | Shunal Doke | Windows Windows

If you've been holding out for an iTunes app for Windows 8, you might have to give up. According to CNN, Financial Officer of Micr More

How a teenager plans to censor spoiler tweets with a browser plugin

How a teenager plans to censor spoiler tweets with a browser plugin

10 May, 2013, 7:31 pm IST | Anuradha Shetty | Software Software

What Twivo does is use keywords that a user enters, like the title of a show or the names of the characters and actors, to sniff out an More

BlackBerry 10.1 OS update out now

BlackBerry 10.1 OS update out now

09 May, 2013, 7:07 pm IST | tech2 News Staff | Software Software

Canada-based company, BlackBerry has begun rolling out its OS 10.1 update. GSMArena reports that they have only received confirmation o More

Opera joins hands with Karbonn, Lava and 5 other Indian mobile phone OEMs

Opera joins hands with Karbonn, Lava and 5 other Indian mobile phone OEMs

08 May, 2013, 6:39 pm IST | tech2 News Staff | Software Software

Opera Software has signed up with seven Indian mobile phone OEMs to preinstall the Opera Mini mobile web browser on all their upcoming More

Symantec beats estimates on demand for security products

Symantec beats estimates on demand for security products

08 May, 2013, 11:43 am IST | | Software Software

Symantec Corp's results beat estimates for the fourth consecutive quarter driven by demand for its data loss prevention and inform More