SAN FRANCISCO: AOL is giving its AIM instant-messaging software a new look and new features in hopes of stanching an ongoing exodus of users who have turned to texting and other online messaging services. The new AIM software marks the service’s biggest revamp in several years and comes as AOL tries to revitalize its business. […]
Google Inc is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc, the largest seller of songs on the Web. The service, scheduled to be unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles today, will let users store songs online and listen to tracks on multiple devices, […]
Google has just released the source code for the latest build of Android, deliciously titled “Ice Cream Sandwich.” In a Google Groups post, Google engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru says “this is actually the source code for version 4.0.1 of Android, which is the specific version that will ship on the Galaxy Nexus.” The source code is […]
HONOLULU/HAWAII: Broader adoption of the internet will keep governments on their toes as wired-up citizens exercise their newfound power to check rights abuses, Google chief Eric Schmidt said. “In nations and communities around the world, citizens are turning to online tools to keep their governments honest,” he told business leaders on the sidelines of the […]
SEOUL: Google Inc and LG Electronics Inc may unveil a television using the search giant’s software at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to two people with knowledge of the project. The product would be LG’s first model with Google TV, said the people, who declined to be identified because the discussions […]
Mozilla has released the latest desktop version of Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Since Firefox 4, Mozilla has been following its rapid release schedule under which Firefox, like Google Chrome, gets updated every six weeks. The new version of Firefox adds Twitter as a search option. Twitter is now included as a search […]
NEW DELHI: After the launch of third- generation (3G) telecom services, India may see more advanced 4G services in the second half of next year, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said. “We have large capacities in spectrum to move forward in 4G which is hopefully going to be launched towards end of next year. Later half […]
Microsoft has released a new Bing mobile app for iPhone and Android devices. Surprisingly, it has not done so for its own mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. The new update uses HTML5, this means that users will get the same experience whether they are using the app or are accessing it through m.bing.com from […]
TOKYO: A Japanese supercomputer has broken its own record as the world’s fastest machine by performing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, its developers announced. The “K Computer”, which has more than 88,000 central processing units — the computer’s “brain” — compared with the fewer than four in the average desktop, smashed its own record of […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Fans of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will get a chance to see previously unreleased interview footage of him when “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” hits theaters later this month. The 70-minute interview was recorded in the 90s before Jobs returned to Apple Inc. He and co-founder Steve Wozniak started Apple in 1976 and […]