Fierce opposition by a broad alliance of companies and civil liberties groups, backed by innumerable internet activists, led to the demise of the detested SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP) act earlier this year. And now, a worrying, similar rendition of these earlier bills has come into the limelight- H.R. 3523 or [...]
Sony
Sony has started shipping its Xperia SmartWatch in the United States. The SmartWatch is essentially a tiny display on your wrist, acting as a watch, which acts as a companion screen to your handset (and is not a replacement for the handset itself), designed to allow users to ‘break free from the single screen experience’ [...]
Most people use their smartphone cameras as their primary point-and-shoot cameras these days. Since people tend to have their phones on them constantly, and with smartphone cameras improving drastically over the years there is no reason not to. Different attachable lenses for phones beef up the camera even further and the whole thing remains less [...]
We have tasted Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich by now. Not talking about some Dessert buffet here but rather the operating system Android and its versions. From the time of its first release back in 2007, Android has developed into an operating system that is everyone’s choice and preference these [...]
Hardly a month back, we updated you on a news that was good and exciting for all Android users. Koush of the CynogenMod and ClockworkMod Recovery has announced that he will be working on a third party App Market for Android. We haven’t yet received any good news from him but we do have one [...]
Viber is an app for both iOS and Android OS that can be used to call and text other Viber users free of charge. As long as the other users have Viber installed on their device too, all international calls and messages are free too. The app works on both 3G and Wi-Fi networks. All [...]
Bluetooth is an easy way to transfer files from one device to another from short distances. Users of iDevices however remain unable to enjoy Bluetooth connectivity, as Apple never included it in devices. There have been attempts to make Bluetooth file sharing possible for iOS devices previously too but there have been some major weaknesses [...]
US Copyright Office has been approached by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) once again, this time to make jailbreaking legal of all electronic devices including smartphones, tablets and video game consoles.
After 10 years of joint venture, Sony crop has decided to rebrand in 2012. Sony-Ericsson was famous for their Walkman phones, but from the next year it won’t be the same case, as they have decided to focus on Smartphone’s and leaving behind the walkman series as well as Symbian OS . Sony will be [...]
To get a boost in the market, Sony has announced a price drop for its current console PlayStation 3. This could mean that Sony is surely working on PlayStation 4 and it could be in the markets in 2012. The price of the console has been reduced down to $249 for 160 GB and to [...]
Apple’s growth in the market had not only brought Apple to number one when it came to smart phones by replacing Nokia recently but now Apple is reported to have went richer than the whole of United States government. Shocking? Well I certainly was when I heard this news.
Something that looked quite inevitable already! Apply has broken all the records and has now become world’s top smartphone vendor finally. Nokia claimed the title for about 15 years but now the title has been given away for good. Apple is the same company that has been known for making its smartphones, iPhones, which started [...]
Various reports have suggested Sony to have started working on its next generation PlayStation 4 which could be in the markets by 2012. After the release of Xbox Kinect, Sony has been lagging behind in terms of console gaming and with the release of PlayStation 4, it also plans to bring out its own motion [...]
A recent report from Digitimes has claimed that Sony is working on a gadget that is similar to Kinect. Kinect is currently the best motion sensing device that one could ever see and will be finally challenged in the market. A Taiwanese newspaper citing an unknown source has claimed that Sony will release their new [...]
Sony has been working on codename NGP for a long time but what is this? PlayStation Vita? Where in NGP? For those of you who might not know of codename NGP has been changed to PlayStation Vita and is also termed as PSV now. It is the successor to Sony’s First ever PlayStation Portable PSP [...]
Deus Ex 1 and 2 might not have been given as much attention that it demanded compared to the next edition of Deus Ex that has taken ages to be released. Let’s take a look at the game in steps to see what the game really is and whether people should wait for it or [...]
