Posts Tagged ‘technology’

Facebook is adding on Tuesday a “Listen” button to some its band and artist pages that give users an easy way to listen to their favorite songs directly on the site. As of now, fans can listen to songs from artists such as Justin Bieber and Linkin Park to former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash directly on Facebook via various music services [...]

India, New Delhi: Now, make and receive calls, send SMSs and do much more using your wrist watch. Does it sound strange? But now, no more. Burg, the Netherland-based wristwatch mobile phone brand, has expanded its business in India by opening its flagship showroom in Kirti Nagar Moments Mall, Delhi. The company introduced some innovative models [...]

YouTube‘s Partner Program, previously opened only to producers of very popular content, is now open to all content creators from the 20 countries where the program is available. To become a YouTube Partner, you need to enable your YouTube account and successfully monetize at least one of your videos. YouTube’s guidelines for successful monetization are here, but in [...]

April 10, 2012: That’s the date Windows Vista support moves from mainstream to extended (meaning paid for everything but security updates). On April 10, 2012, today — Windows Vista’s period of free, Microsoft-provided mainstream support comes to an end. What’s that mean to users still running one of Microsoft’s least publicly popular versions of Windows? [...]

Facebook has just finished a deal to acquire mobile photo sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram will remain an independently branded standalone app that’s separate from Facebook, but the services will increase their ties to each other. The transaction should go through this quarter pending some standard closing procedures Last year, documents [...]

Windows XP, the operating system that launched in 2001 and just refuses to die, will still be getting security updates and hot fixes until April 8, 2014. With “just” two more years to go, though, Microsoft today reminded these users that it’s about time to upgrade their PCs. Microsoft stopped selling retail copies of XP in 2008. [...]

1.The commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh Computer to the world. 2.Demo of the first Apple Macintosh by Steve Jobs, January 1984, in front of 3000 people. Andy Hertzfeld captured the moment quite well in his retelling: "Pandemonium reigns as the demo completes. Steve has the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face, obviously [...]

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. Speech and voice recognition technology have been around for half a century, but it’s still far from mainstream. Where are [...]

I am eagerly waiting for this.   Twitter users could soon be using a smoother photo-sharing service as the company plans to announce its intentions on such a service this week at the D9 conference in California, according to several sources, including TechCrunch, which broke the story. Currently, all photos that are posted on a [...]