LinkedIn back up after hour-long outage following DNS issue

20 Jun, 2013, 1:21 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar Web services

LinkedIn went down yesterday in the US (today morning for Indian users) for an hour while battling a DNS issue... More

Steve Jobs talks legacy and obsolete technology in never-before-seen 1994 video

20 Jun, 2013, 12:31 pm IST Nikhil Subramaniam General

A never-before-seen 1994 video of Steve Jobs shows the late computing legend in a ponderous mood and talking about how technology turns obsolete soon. More

Yahoo! assures it has ID recycling under control

20 Jun, 2013, 12:30 pm IST Nishtha Kanal General 1 Comments

Yahoo! has allayed fears of detractors who believe its new recycled ID system will expose users to hackers. The assurances from the web company comes even as More

Gog.com kicks off summer sale with a free copy of Torchlight

20 Jun, 2013, 12:02 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

DRM-free digital distribution platform Gog.com has kicked off its summer sale. To commemorate the sale, the website is giving away hack-and-slash RPG More

Google to open Android Nation stores in India

20 Jun, 2013, 11:23 am IST Nikhil Subramaniam Smartphones

Google is preparing a retail onslaught in India, when it opens a new Android Nation store in Delhi later this year. More

Facebook rolls out ability to insert images in comments

20 Jun, 2013, 10:58 am IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Facebook is rolling out a feature that allows users to upload images into a comments stream More

PC version of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag delayed

20 Jun, 2013, 10:57 am IST Shunal Doke Social Networking

Ubisoft has revealed in an interview with ElderGeekDotCom that the PC version of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag will not be released More

Aping Vodafone, Airtel slashes prepaid 2G rates by 90 percent in Punjab, Haryana

20 Jun, 2013, 9:37 am IST Nishtha Kanal Mobile services 3 Comments

A day after Vodafone announced a drastic 80 percent price cut in tariff for its data customers in some circles, it is Airtel’s turn... More

Sony announces free PlayStation Plus games for July

20 Jun, 2013, 9:31 am IST Shunal Doke PlayStation 3 1 Comments

Sony has announced the next line-up of free titles for PlayStation Plus subscribers on the official PlayStation Blog... More

Facebook has never been stronger since IPO, Sandberg says

20 Jun, 2013, 9:13 am IST PlayStation 3

A year after Facebook Inc's fumbled IPO, Wall Street remains slow to recognize what Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg argues has been an across-the-board improvement in its business... More

Microsoft considered buying Nokia's devices unit

20 Jun, 2013, 9:08 am IST Shunal Doke PlayStation 3 4 Comments

A lot of companies seem to be keeping an eye on Finnish phone maker Nokia. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has talked to the company... More

Dotcom 'in tears' after Megaupload files deleted

20 Jun, 2013, 9:01 am IST PlayStation 3

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom says he's "in tears" after a European company announced it had deleted all the data it was hosting from the shuttered file-sharing site... More

Leading 3-D printer firms to merge in $403M deal

20 Jun, 2013, 8:57 am IST Science and Technology

Stratasys, a leading maker of 3-D printers, is buying another 3-D printer manufacturer, MakerBot, for $403 million in stock. Stratasys Ltd. says the acquisition will enable it to offer affordable desktop 3-D printers. More

3D-printed tiny batteries developed

20 Jun, 2013, 8:49 am IST Science and Technology

US researchers announced they have successfully used the three-dimensional (3D) printing technique to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand... More

LG to start mass producing flexible displays later this year

20 Jun, 2013, 8:48 am IST Shunal Doke Science and Technology

It has been quite some time since we got our first look at flexible displays, and so far, it looked like Samsung would be leading the way... More

Head of revived watchdog pledges open look at US surveillance

20 Jun, 2013, 8:41 am IST Science and Technology

The head of a newly revived federal privacy oversight board pledged on Wednesday to be "as transparent and public as possible" as the board reviews recently exposed U.S. government secret surveillance programs... More

Microsoft removes always-online requirement from Xbox One

20 Jun, 2013, 8:39 am IST Shunal Doke Console 2 Comments

In response to all the complaints from gamers and Sony’s policies about DRM on the PlayStation 4, Microsoft has announced... More

John McAfee resurfaces as ranting video star, mocks McAfee software

20 Jun, 2013, 8:33 am IST Console 1 Comments

Eccentric former software pioneer John McAfee is back in the spotlight - lashing out at the anti-virus software that bears his name in a profanity-laced video... More

Microsoft offers hefty bounties to thwart hackers

20 Jun, 2013, 8:30 am IST Console

Microsoft Corp is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000... More

U.S. has struck right balance on Internet surveillance: Obama to Merkel

20 Jun, 2013, 8:24 am IST Console

The United States has struck the right balance between the need to gather intelligence and safeguarding civil liberties, U.S. President Barack Obama said... More