Category Archives: Tech World

Apple Launches iTunes Match Internationally

Apple’s iTunes Match, a service which allows users to access their music library from Apple’s cloud, has started rolling out around the world. The service is now live in UK, Australia, Canada, France, Spain, Ireland, Brazil and will reach other countries soon. Read full article

October 16 is Steve Jobs Day in California

California governor Jerry Brown declared October 16 to be Steve Jobs Day in California. “This Sunday will be Steve Jobs Day in the State of California,” he tweeted last Friday. A private memorial service by Apple Inc will also be held on the same day at Stanford University.   Source: Mashable

Discovery to Air ‘iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World’ Documentary

Discovery announced on Monday that it will be airing a special one-hour documentary to celebrate the late Steve Jobs’ contributions in advancing technology and changing the way we do things. iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World will be hosted by MythBusters‘ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. It will feature interviews with former Apple employees, [...]

Remembering Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

On October 5, Wednesday, the world was shocked as Apple’s Board of Directors announced that co-founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs has passed away at age 56. The board issued a statement: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations [...]

Apple Officially Announces the iPhone 4S

Apple has officially unveiled the iPhone 4S. It looks much like the iPhone 4 on the outside, but it packs a lot of punch on the inside compared to its predecessor. Some of its features include the Apple A5 chip (also found in iPad 2), 1 GB RAM, 8-megapixel camera that can take 3264×2448 images, [...]

Facebook Unveils Timeline

On the F8 developer conference on Thursday, Facebook launched the new profile, Timeline, a major re-imagining of user profiles which will act like a virtual scrapbook featuring important milestones that have occurred since your time on Facebook. Besides the major profile redesign, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also announced several other features such as the Open [...]

Microsoft Launches Windows 8

Windows 8, Microsoft’s next-generation operating system is finally here. At its Build Conference in Anaheim, California, Microsoft launched its latest OS, Windows 8, which boasts features such as the Metro interface, touchscreen support, improved performance and Windows App Store. Read full article

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and co-founder, offered his resignation to the company’s board on Wednesday. Here’s a snippet from his resignation letter: To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, [...]

Digg Unveils Social News Curation Tool Newswire

Digg has announced a new feature called the Newswire, which will give users the ability to look at both what’s trending and what’s most recent and filter the results based upon categories and media type. According to their blog, Digg Newswire will give you the tools to shape the breaking stories on Digg. “While stories [...]

Red Dead Redemption is VGA’s Game of the Year

Red Dead Redemption, an open world action-adventure western video game from Rockstar Games, has just been announced as Game of the Year at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards. Besides bagging the big prize, it also took home 3 more trophies – Best Song, Best Original Score and Best Downloadable Content. Other multiple honorees are [...]

iPad Now Available at Walmart

After Apple expanded the retail presence of its popular tablet by bringing it to Amazon and Target, now rumor has it that iPad is coming to one of the biggest discount retail stores, Walmart, next week. According to MacRumors, who received a copy of documents allegedly for Walmart store managers, each store will receive 5 [...]

Apple Releases New Get a Mac Ad: ‘PC Innovation Lab’

Apple has just added the new ‘PC Innovations Lab’ ad to their Get a Mac Ad Campaign yesterday. The new ad suggests ridiculous “innovations” that PC thinks will help bring people back to the world of Windows. Justin Long and John Hodgman reprise their roles as Mac and PC, respectively. The American ad campaign started [...]

First Ever Solar-Powered Waterproof Cell Phone

Sharp and Japanese network KDDI Corp. had teamed up to develop the world’s first “eco-friendly” cellphone. The yet-to-be-priced phone has a solar panel on top that can derive 80% of its charge in total from the sun. A 10-minute solar charge will be able to provide one minute of talk time or two hours of [...]

Globe Launches WiMax

Globe Telecom just announced that their Globe WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) service is now commercially available, initially in South Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and will reach other parts of the country soon. WiMax is a standards-based technology designed to enable the deployment of wireless broadband access as a cost-efficient alternative to cable and [...]

Samsung’s New N310 Netbook

Samsung unveiled its latest netbook, Samsung N310, which is set for worldwide release soon. It has a unique ’rounded pebble like design’ keyboard & frameless screen and Samsung claims that the 10.1 inch, 1.23 kg budget netbook can sustain up to five hours of battery life. Also, another interesting feature of Samsung N310 is that [...]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Unveiled

Internet Explorer 8 is now officially released. After a year of public testing, its final version is now ready for download. Microsoft said that they’ve been working with developers and evaluators to check the stability, security and ease of use of the new and improved Internet Explorer. They also claim that IE8 performs faster than [...]