Technology Bites

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 tools to manage and organize files quickly. Collaboration [...]

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 no interest in entering the handset business.

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 program. YouTube already had a [...]

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 from April 30 2012, everything from the [...]

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.

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 all the games offered under the package without downloading.

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 thickness.

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.

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.

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 Mac and Skype 5.7 [...]

Much awaited Google Music launched with content partnerships with big labels as well as Indie artists. It comes with a cloud locker, streaming service, download store. It allows users to buy millions of tracks from the Google marketplace and fully integrated to android market. Google Music currently has around 13 million tracks and 8 million [...]

Virtual desktops are nothing but the virtual copies of the Windows desktop, with these virtual desktops you can have several desktops and these can be customized according to your needs. We have covered Windows virtual desktop before from sysinternals. nSpaces is another Windows virtual desktop manager for Windows that can be customized and easy to [...]

Google released official Google+ extensions for Google Chrome. These extensions will help you to see all Google+ notifications right from the browser and a Google+ button to share web pages.

Today Google announced that its search algorithm underwent an upgrade which affects 35% of the searches. The algorithm is tweaked to give more recent information where it matters. For example searches like sports events, elections and product reviews demand more fresh results than the other searches, this change will affect these kind of searches.

Google India today announced a unique program called “India Get Your Business Online” for small medium businesses (SMBs) in India. The program offers free websites, domain & hosting services to small medium businesses in India. According to Google there are 8 million small medium businesses in India but only 5% of them have the online [...]

Google has today rolled out a new design for its popular email service Gmail. The mew features in the redesign include a simplified and clean look, improved search functionality, improved threaded conversations and HD themes.