Rumour: Sakshat Tablet Set to be Released by Month End

16 Jun, 2011, 11:23 am IST Aaron Almeida Tablets 9 Comments

IIT Rajasthan will be the first to receive this budget friendly tablet by the end of June. More

Mozilla Announces Thunderbird 5 Beta Email Client

04 Jun, 2011, 12:26 pm IST Aaron Almeida Software 6 Comments

With Mozilla's rapid release feature, updates to the emailing client will be quick. More

Rapid Release Firefox 5 Beta Available for Download

23 May, 2011, 9:16 am IST Aaron Almeida Web services 4 Comments

Frequent updates will now be seen in the Firefox Rapid release feature. More

Simmtronics Launches India's First Solar-powered Desktop

21 Jul, 2011, 6:05 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Desktops 3 Comments

How’s this for green computing? Simmtronics Semiconductors have launched a new range of desktop PCs that are powered completely by solar energy. More

Linux Kernel 2.6 to Become 2.8, Next Big Release 3.0

24 May, 2011, 10:26 am IST Rossi Fernandes Linux 3 Comments

Change in version numbers meant to keep up with amount of development. More

Windows 7 Still a PC Favorite

10 Aug, 2011, 4:54 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Windows 3 Comments

According to a recent research report published by Gartner, Microsoft’s popular, latest operating system, Windows 7 will be able to successfully counter all competition in the OS space. More

Ubuntu falls behind Fedora, Mint, openSUSE

26 Nov, 2011, 1:13 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Windows 3 Comments

According to the latest ranking list put forth by DistroWatch, popular OS, Ubuntu has lost out on its top position to Fedora, ... More

The Kinect is Now a PS3 Peripheral

22 Mar, 2011, 10:52 am IST Sriram Gurunathan Console 3 Comments

Shantanu Goel has hacked Microsoft’s motion sensing controller so it works with Sony’s PS3. More

VisionMobile Report: Android Not a Very 'Open' Platform

06 Aug, 2011, 3:20 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Android 2 Comments

One of the reasons for Android’s success is the belief that it’s an open operating system and people generally tend to like that. More

Android Now Invited to Ubuntu's Cloud

01 Jul, 2011, 10:42 am IST Rossi Fernandes Android 2 Comments

Ubuntu is the first distribution that comes to mind when you think about Linux. One of the unique features introduced by Canonical, the company behind the distribution... More

Windows XP turns 10, loses global usage to Windows 7

24 Oct, 2011, 12:55 pm IST Naina Khedekar Android 1 Comments

 Windows XP has been around for a decade and unscathed by successors (read Vista). Launched in 2001, it was widely accepted even after 2006 when More

Mozilla Firefox 4 to Release on March 22

17 Mar, 2011, 4:56 pm IST Sriram Gurunathan Android 1 Comments

The browser finally has a final release date. More

Samsung to pay Microsoft royalty

29 Sep, 2011, 5:08 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Android 1 Comments

South Korea-based Samsung Electronics will now pay Microsoft for every Android-based handset or tablet it sells, hereon as royalty fees. More

Acer Introduces 'Gorgeous by Nature' Series of Notebooks

03 Aug, 2011, 5:48 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Notebooks 1 Comments

Acer has just launched a new notebook line-up under the ‘Gorgeous by Nature’ banner, which uses ‘earthy’ colors like Amazon Green, Pacific Blue, Desert Brown, Sunset Red and Monsoon Black. More

Google accuses Microsoft of 'extortion' over Android

30 Sep, 2011, 5:48 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General 1 Comments

Yesterday, we learnt that South Korea-based Samsung Electronics agreed to pay Microsoft, fees (royalty) for every Galaxy S II smartphone and, or Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet it shipped, since they were based on Android – a platform whose patents, Microsoft claims that it owns. More

Chinese Company Launches $150 PC

26 Apr, 2006, 5:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

In the last decade quite a number of companies have been talking of introducing cheap computing to the masses. Most of them have announced ambitious p... More

Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux Announced

18 Jan, 2007, 7:28 pm IST Sharon Khare

Adobe Systems has announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. More

Opera Releases Update for Mobile Browser Emulator

26 May, 2011, 3:53 pm IST Rossi Fernandes

Allows developers and designers to preview their work on their desktop. More

Linux turns 20 today

25 Aug, 2011, 4:14 pm IST tech2 News Staff

25th August 1991 was the day when Linux was conceptualised by a student at University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds. More

Google Earth 6 Has Some New Features to Show

30 Nov, 2010, 4:11 pm IST Ashish Koshy

The latest version is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. More