World of Warcraft and expansion packs available at 75 percent discount

20 Jun, 2013, 3:41 pm IST Shunal Doke Gaming

Blizzard has announced on its Battle.net blog that its insanely-famous MMORPG—World of Warcraft—is on sale, along with all of its expansion packs... More

Shopify coming to India

20 Jun, 2013, 3:37 pm IST tech2 News Staff Web services

Singapore Telecommunications or SingTel, as it is known, has announced that it will expand the reach of Shopify in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. More

Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to 2 years in Sweden hacking case

20 Jun, 2013, 3:32 pm IST tech2 News Staff General

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced after being found guilty of hacking into computers at a company that manages data for the Swedish tax authority. More

Google adds 1,001 destinations to Street View; India still missing

20 Jun, 2013, 3:29 pm IST tech2 News Staff General

If you've explored a great deal of landscape on Google Street View, here's a good reason to crawl ... More

Android-based console GameStick delayed till August

20 Jun, 2013, 3:24 pm IST Shunal Doke Console

PlayJam, developer of the Android-based gaming console GameStick, has announced on the console’s Kickstarter page that it has been delayed from the More

Twitter purchases local discovery service Spindle

20 Jun, 2013, 3:03 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Diving deep into localisation of information, Twitter has purchased Spindle, a search technology company that specialises in informing users of what’s More

LinkedIn back up after hour-long outage following DNS issue

20 Jun, 2013, 1:21 pm IST Anujeet Majumdar Social Networking

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 Social Networking

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 Social Networking 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 Social Networking

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 Smartphones

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 Smartphones

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