Category: Tech news

India is inching closer to overtake the U.S. as Facebook’s biggest market, at least in terms of the number of active users. With over 100 million users as of March 31, India is now the only country where Facebook can aspire to have 1 billion users, thanks to a growing base of Internet users (currently around 200 million) and increasing proportion of mobile phone subscribers in its over 1.23… Read More

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed that U.S. government intelligence agencies spied on NGOs and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as part of its dragnet mass surveillance programs. Read More

Office for iPad has seen 12 million downloads to date, and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the decision to pull the trigger and release the suite, according to the company.

Microsoft’s Office for iPad team took to Reddit today to check in with the mass-market nerdish culture and answer questions. Read More

Zoove, a company offering a registry of unique mobile numbers for brands and consumers (StarStar Brand and StarStar Me, respectively) is now introducing its third product, a contact-sharing service called StarStar myInfo. Available to U.S. consumers on any of the four major carriers, the idea with the myInfo service is to offer users a way to both share and receive updated contact details from… Read More

You’ve probably noticed that your favorite restaurant probably has busy periods, which are usually dictated by when people typically get hungry. No surprise, that tends to be around lunch and dinner. But then there are other times when it’s not so busy. The thing is, restaurants have fixed costs that don’t really waver during ups and downs, like rent and employee salaries. Read More

A few months ago, Comcast announced its plans to purchase Time Warner Cable in one of the biggest acquisitions in the broadband or pay TV market. In a filing sent to the FCC and an extensive blog post today, Comcast made its pitch to government regulators, providing all the reasons that they should approve its latest massive acquisition. Read More

Imogen Heap and her team have developed gloves that allow you to make music through simple gestures.

Sketchfab just released the second version of its 3D platform. As a reminder, Sketchfab’s ultimate goal has always been to become a sort of SoundCloud for 3D models. On the website, you can upload, browse and embed 3D models from your browser. Yet, until now, the company first has been focused on building the foundation of Sketchfab and the web platform was neglected. “We spent the… Read More

MediaFire, the popular online file storage and image hosting site, today announced that its desktop apps for Windows and OS X are now out of beta. The integration looks similar to what Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive do in that they seamlessly integrate themselves into the operating system’s file managers and save dialogs. Using the desktop apps, MediaFire allows desktop uses to quickly… Read More

Casengo is a cloud platform for customer support aimed at online retailers and other small businesses to respond to customer questions faster. It does this by creating one inbox for customer chats, emails and social media posts. In theory, this speeds up response times, especially when customer teams are scrambling around trying to deal with the same single enquiry coming in via different channels… Read More

Apple has hired away a former Vice President of Search Technology from Amazon, according to 9to5Mac. Benoit Dupin’s profile was removed from Amazon A9′s leadership site, and his LinkedIn now lists him as a Director at Apple. The new role is said to be involved in revamping search specifically as it relates to Apple Maps, according to 9to5Mac’s sources. The job change is… Read More

Adobe’s Lightroom mobile app supports a new workflow that incorporates the iPad. The app cleverly allows editing of RAW files on the go without choking up your data allowance or bandwidth.

Cats and dogs occupy a unique place in the animal kingdom’s vast menagerie. They’ve come out of the wild and into our living rooms, an extraordinary evolutionary and sociological journey that now raises profound questions about what it means to be a person.

Trees are a data viz tool that has outlived empires and endured huge upheavals in the arts and sciences.

Having to enter phone number extensions or deal with multi-layered phone menu systems is a pain whether you’re on a landline or a mobile phone. Luckily, there’s a way to skip those annoying automated menus and dial your contact directly on your smartphone.