Archives for 2011

SkyDrive gets app-centric sharing for Office, improved file management and HTML5 uploads

Microsoft's SkyDrive got some improvements and updates, a blog post on Inside Windows Live outlines. SkyDrive is a personal cloud storage and offers 25GB of free storage for users to store and share documents, files and photos. The improvements include sharing Office files with one click, powerful ... Read More →

Idea Cellular launches cheap 3G smartphones

Idea Cellular launched a range of 3G smartphones to attract its 2G subscribers to its 3G services. Idea launched these smartphones in association with Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE. According to Idea Cellular executive this excercise is to create the ecosystem for its 3G penetration and they have ... Read More →

YouTube adds Disney Movies to Rentals

YouTube announced a deal with Disney that will add hundreds of Disney titles including classics, Disney Pixar Movies and Dream Works Studios Movies to its rental program in US. The announcement also highlights that in the coming weeks more Disney Classics and new releases will be added to the rental ... Read More →

Google to shut Knol, Wave, Gears, Friend connect

Google announced Knol, back in 2007 with the aim to create an authoritative knowledge base written by experts. The effort didn't take off really except the initial hype. Everyone including Google seems forgotten about Knol till now, Google announced now that it is retiring the service with effect ... Read More →

Lenovo 5-inch tablet images leaked

According to Engadget Lenovo may be working on a 5-inch tablet, an anonymous tipster sent pics of the supposed tablet to Engadget. Not much information is available now, except few leaked images, basic specs, and it will run on android. ... Read More →

Apple now allows game subscriptions on the App Store (updated)

Apple is now letting game companies to offer monthly subscriptions like newspaper or magazine subscriptions according to Bloomberg report. Currently game developers could only sell in-app purchases and required users to download the game. With the new subscriptions users can buy a package and play ... Read More →

Motorola RAZR launched in India for Rs 33900

Motorola RAZR has been officially announced in India today, it is one of the much-anticipated android smartphone. Motorola RAZR in its latest avatar is available at 35500 and in select cities at best buy price of 33990. The RAZR is the slimmest android smartphone on the market now with 7.1mm ... Read More →

iPhone 4S price in India

iPhone 4S is now available for pre orders from both Airtel and Aircel mobile carriers starting from today. The official launch date is November 25th for the iPhone 4S. ... Read More →

PayPal launches app for sending money to Facebook friends

PayPal launched a Facebook app for sending money to your Facebook friends, allowing friends to easily exchange money through the largest social network. The app is simply titled "Send Money", and it seems is quite easy to send money to friends. ... Read More →

Call your Facebook friends from Skype desktop app

Facebook and Skype partnered in July that allowed Facebook users to video chat with each other using browser. Today Skype announced that users can initiate Facebook to Facebook video chat using the Skype desktop app. To do this users can download the updated versions of the Skype, Skype 5.4 beta for ... Read More →