Windows Blue, the next version of Windows which will be the successor to Windows 8 has made its first appearance on camera. No, the start menu is not back, but there are a lot of changes in terms of usability, which reduce the probability of going to desktop mode often. There are noticeable changes to…

Google’s Keep note taking service leaked over at Drive a few days back and now it has officially been unveiled. The service is pretty barebones at the moment, it allows you to create notes on the web or your android smartphone which are synced to Google Drive. Android 4.2.2 also gets a lockscreen widget to…

Google has added animated gif filter to image search results, and the news comes in when Google is trimming the fat by closing services like iGoogle and Google Reader citing lack of usage. Google Images already lets you sort results by face, photo, clip art, line drawing, and now with animated filter as well. So there…

Google’s Chrome OS initiative, aka Chromebooks has found several partners with new entrants joining in everyday, but if the following video is to be believed then Google is getting ready with a Chromebook designed by its own engineers. The laptop will be called Chromebook Pixel due to the fact that it will come with a screen…

It has been reported over the last few weeks that Dell has decided to go private. Now Reuters claims that the deal might be close to fruition and might just be announced as early as Monday, February 4th. Reuters says that “two people familiar with the matter,”  have informed them that the company could announce…

Intel has decided to leave the desktop motherboard segment, meaning that the company will not be making any motherboards for Desktops from now on, with the exception of the next-gen Haswell architecture. The decision comes in the wake of reduction in sales of Desktop systems as well as the current onslaught of smartphones and tablets.

Google Chrome has been encrypting searches from its omnibox for quite sometime now, but you needed to be signed-in to your Google account. Encrypting your search query protects it from being visible to prying eyes. Now with Chrome 25 beta update, all searches are automatically encrypted, whether you’re signed in or not. Therefore, you’ll see “https” in…

If you still have been holding out on upgrading to Windows 8, its time to get down to it. Back in October, when Microsoft released Windows 8, the company announced that Window 8 Pro upgrades will be available for $40 a pop, but only till January 31. The time is up, and we’ve already heard the…

Facebook recently announced its new social search platform “Graph Search”, a simple way to search all your Facebook content and connections to your friends. Mark Zuckerberg stated that there is a huge difference between web search and Graph Search, where web search is more keyword based, Graph Search relies on natural language phrases that make…

Microsoft’s Skype acquisition was a sign that deeper integration of its services with Skype was coming sooner than later. Although till now we had just seen an app for Windows 8. Now with the Skype 6.1 update we can see the integration taking place. This update adds the ability to call any mobile or landline from within…