Mark Zuckerberg's keynote at the f8 conference in San Francisco Thursday introduced a radically different FaceBook since its launch. For long-time users these changes could be hard to keep track of or even accept. Here are some of the most important FaceBook changes.
The iPad will continue to dominate its rivals until 2014 according to a new report from the research firm Gartner.Apple's iPad will account for 73.4% of tablet sales worldwide and will hold that market dominance for years to come, said Gartner. Bad news for other tablet makers, the analysts also say that no other platform besides Android will have more than a 5% share of the tablet market during this time.
People are more willing to trade in their old iPhone, expecting the new iPhone 5.
A scientific way to read minds is a work in progress, but technology has moved forward yet again, matching YouTube videos to blood flow analysis by MRI scanners, The Telegraph (UK) reports.
Hackers are now luring children into kiddie online games rigged with malware to infect computers with data-stealing Trojans. Parents are urged to be more vigilant to advise children not to download too much games especially from untrusted sites.
Two computer security researchers have found a way to take the "S" out of the "HTTPS" or secure Web browsers exposing the vulnerability of banking and payment websites from hacking.
Amazon is finally joining the band wagon as it makes free e-books available to libraries nationwide.
Facebook's new Subscribe button has given users of the social networking site Twitter-like power to follow the activities and posts of their friends online but they should take caution because of its spying ability that can invade one's privacy.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) lost in a court case the regulator filed against search engine giant Google. ACCC complained that Google violated Australia's trade practices law by its using advertisement placements as basis for ranking of search results.
Four years after Australia’ competition watchdog labelled its search results as confusing and misleading, giant internet firm Google won the nod of the court, which declared on Thursday that the company hardly violated any provisions in the country’s consumer law.
Facebook has unveiled Timeline at its annual f8 developers' conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also showed off the social network's new integration with Spotify, Hulu and Netflix, saying media companies have partnered with Facebook to reinvent the industry.
Before the iPad, there were netbooks and ultra-mobile PCs. HTC was known back then for mobile phones and it came to a surprise when they launched the HTC Shift back in 2008. The HTC Shift came with a TFT resistive touchscreen and Windows Vista Business. It was a pretty sweet setup with its sliding keyboard. Now it comes back to life with the developer preview Windows 8.
The military is thinking green and looking at hybrid replacements. Oil costs and transportation dangers are making America's largest fuel consumer rethink how it powers its ships, planes and ground vehicles.
A couple of days before Facebook's much anticipated f8 convergence in San Francisco, California, Facebook users have spotted numerous changes in the social network, making some users wonder if Google+ is as simple and neat as Facebook used to be when it was "new."
Facebook Music is due to be launched tomorrow amidst user furor on their new interface. A new piece of information to the new service was leaked by Ji Lee, a former creative director at Google, with his tweet which he deleted minutes later.
Apple donated thousands of free iPads to Teach for America.
Social networking sites roll-out their new features to users.
This weekend, there is one-in-3200 risk that the speeding debris of the defunct 6-tonne, 35-ft NASA satellite the size of a school bus would hit someone on Earth. What do you do if you got "lucky?" NASA says, "Don't touch it."
The changes elicited mixed reactions. Some liked it not, some liked it real hot.Its 750 million users were shocked to see changes in their home pages in the past few weeks, such as larger photo displays and a feature that categorizes friends' lists. But more is yet to come.
Share photos with friends in Twitter via text message.
Nikon on Wednesday unveiled its first mirrorless cameras, Nikon 1 J1 and Nikon 1 V1, priced at $915 and $1300. They have large sensors, giving good picture quality, but no optical viewfinders, enabling manufacturers to keep the camera body compact and light.
Amazon has launched its new service that allows U.S. based Kindle users to borrow ebooks from 11,000 libraries across America. The service is now in the Beta testing stage in two libraries in Seattle and will eventually be available on other libraries in the U.S.
A principal of Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School, in Tweed Heads has used his school newsletter to lash out against global social networking sites, in particular Facebook.
Electronic Arts and PlayFish's "The Sim Social", has topped the list of fastest growing FaceBook games with more than 50 million users playing the social game last week. The game attracted 15.5 million new users to take the top spot with 51.5 million total monthly players.
Microsoft will start updating the Mango OS for its Windows Phone in a "week or two" according to a senior staffer.
Apple board member Al Gore said that the company will announce their new line of products on Oct. 4 including the much anticipated iPhone 5.
Now, shopping and paying for your purchases could be as easy as a button click on your mobile devices and gadgets.Electronic payment whiz PayPal recently announced it is working on a technology that will allow mobile devices to scan product codes and then support payments from a mobile account. It will also allow users to send and receive money using their smartphones, as well as check product inventory and make reservations at stores where available, and pay for items without falling in lin...
Shakers and movers of the tech industry climbed their way to the dominant position of America’s wealthiest for the year 2011, with perennial frontrunner Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates heading the list again with his estimated net worth of some $59 billion.
Angry Birds mania continues to spread rapidly even beyond the techie world. Proof of this is that Angry Birds soft toys are also selling like hotcakes at the rate of one million pieces monthly.
Yahoo! Inc. issued an apology Thursday over the blocking of e-mails that contained or mentioned the website of Wall Street protesters saying it was unintentional.
