Bharat Bandh: Twitterers take to their timelines

31 May, 2012, 10:59 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking 9 Comments

Bharat is on bandh in protest against the rising petrol prices and as always, the Twitter community gathers ... More

TATA Docomo Introduces Facebook, Twitter Access via USSD

16 Jul, 2011, 3:53 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile services 8 Comments

Social networking access seems to be that one important feature that would complete a mobile service. More

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Hard Drive Contest is now Live

04 Jul, 2011, 4:54 pm IST tech2 News Staff External drives 7 Comments

Enter Tech2's Seagate GoFlex contest and you could win a spanking new 1.5TB FreeAgent GoFlex ultra portable hard drive by answering a simple question. More

Google+ Reportedly Open to Everyone

07 Jul, 2011, 11:16 am IST Padmini Harchandrai External drives 5 Comments

According to an unofficial Twitter account of Google+ enthusiasts (it's unofficial because it's not Google managed), Google+ is open and without need of invitations. More

Will Anonymous Take Down Facebook in November?

11 Aug, 2011, 10:03 am IST Aaron Almeida External drives 5 Comments

The key strengthening fact of hacker group Anonymous, like their name suggests, is the fact that they are anonymous. More

LulzSec States Motive Behind Recent Hacks

18 Jun, 2011, 1:43 pm IST Aaron Almeida General 4 Comments

LulzSec issues a press release in celebration of their 1000th tweet. More

Social Networking Leading to Identity Crisis

04 Aug, 2011, 6:52 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General 4 Comments

The very idea of having one’s private space to oneself is soon turning into a myth. More

Facebook launches 'Subscribe' button

15 Sep, 2011, 11:51 am IST Padmini Harchandrai General 4 Comments

Facebook's on a small 'control how you share' roll. Yesterday, they launched an improved friends list. More

IFA 2011: LG unveils LW980T 'Dual Play' HDTV for video gamers

05 Sep, 2011, 11:18 am IST Aaron Almeida 3D TVs 4 Comments

LG has been setting the standard with their 3D technology in televisions. At IFA 2011, they have done one better and introduced the LW980T Dual Play TV. More

Saudi prince invests $300 million in Twitter

20 Dec, 2011, 4:52 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai 3D TVs 4 Comments

Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal has invested $300 million in Twitter. Other investments he's made previously include Citigroup, Disney and Apple. According More

Is Microsoft Now Gearing Up to Take on Google+?

25 Jul, 2011, 11:25 am IST Roydon Cerejo 3D TVs 3 Comments

In the cut-throat world of social networking, staying relevant is all that matters. More

Indian Government Wants to Monitor Social Networks

09 Aug, 2011, 11:00 am IST Padmini Harchandrai 3D TVs 3 Comments

The Union Home Ministry has written to the Department of Telecom (DoT), asking it "to ensure effective monitoring of Facebook and Twitter". More

Microsoft: Windows 8 will be as big a change as Windows 95

17 Aug, 2011, 11:00 am IST Rossi Fernandes Windows 3 Comments

Microsoft’s PR engine is firing on all pistons on the coming Windows 8 launch. Microsoft has launched a blog designed to help communicate some More

Twitter for Android Gets Big Update

14 Jul, 2011, 4:53 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Android 3 Comments

Twitter for Android has gotten a huge update bringing two big features, namely push notifications and multiple account usability More

Salman Rushdie booted off Facebook because of name

15 Nov, 2011, 12:08 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Android 3 Comments

Salman Rushdie, the award winning author of Midnight's Children, has had a bit of a social networking issue. Facebook had deleted his account this past More

Google+ Crosses 10 Million Users Mark

13 Jul, 2011, 3:21 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Android 3 Comments

This clearly has to be the best report card I’ve seen in a long, long time. More

Google Temporarily Stalls its Realtime Feature

05 Jul, 2011, 4:40 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Web services 2 Comments

At least for a while, users availing the real-time updates from Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed on Google will not be able to do so.  More

PayPal UK Twitter Account Hacked

07 Jul, 2011, 10:48 am IST Aaron Almeida Web services 2 Comments

Twitter accounts seem to be the latest victim of hackers with the PayPal UK Twitter account being seized. More

Seesmic Support for Blackberry Will End

21 Jun, 2011, 6:11 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Apps 2 Comments

Last week Blackberry and Research in Motion revealed their quarterly earnings which have been percieved as "not amazing". Now Seesmic, a Twitter client for More

Rockmelt Browser Launches for iPhone

21 Apr, 2011, 1:16 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai iOS 2 Comments

It looks quite different from its desktop counterpart. More