Its Official! Yahoo has now confirmed the purchase of Tumblr social blogging platform for $1.1 Billion. Yahoo has pledged that Tumblr will remain an independent entity with Founder and CEO David Karp remaining at the helm as the CEO of the company under Yahoo. Last week when news began to float regarding a possible acquisition...

An email sent to Microsoft employees debunks rumors that the next-gen XBOX Durango or Xbox 720 will not require an always on internet connection for games to be played.  The following email was sent to the XBOX team: Durango is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today’s Internet....

Microsoft is launching the preview of Skype for Outlook.com, starting with the UK and will make its way to the US and Germany in the coming weeks. Skype for Outlook.com requires for you to download a plugin, which is available for internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. Users can connect their existing Skype accounts to outlook.com or...

Microsoft is going to reveal the next-gen XBOX on May 21. So we thought why not do a round-up of what we know till now. The XBOX 720 or just XBOX whatever it may be will be one of the biggest reveals of the year and if Microsoft gets the launch right there’s little else...

The Nokia Lumia 520 is up for pre-order on Flipkart for Rs. 10,499. If you pre-order now, you’ll get a free 8GB MicroSD card alongwith the device. The Lumia 520 has a 1GHz dual-core snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB Internal storage and runs Windows Phone 8. Here are the detailed specs of the Lumia...

Google has added the option to purchase Movies from the Play Store in India. After Books and the Nexus 7, it seems Google has begun considering India as a capable market for its products. You can purchase the latest movies like ‘The Amazing Spiderman‘ for Rs. 190 for the SD version and Rs. 490 for the...

Google has finally blessed India with its first official Nexus device. The Nexus 7 16GB model is now available on the Google Play Store in India for Rs. 15,999. It starts shipping April 5. The 7-inch tablet has already proved its mettle by becoming the most sought after android tablet due to its specs and...

Google has updated its Android Developer Console for app publishers to the new version, which is now available to everyone. But that’s not all, it still has some gripes with auto-translate and seems a bit hurried. The auto-translate feature on user comments and reviews, sometimes just doesn’t work. At one time you would have all...

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...

Indiatimes Shopping is running an offer this Holi in India where the Nokia Lumia 620 is available for Rs. 12749 instead of its Rs. 14999 MRP. You can head over to this link to order the Nokia Lumia 620 which features a 3.8-inch WVGA display with a dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, Windows Phone 8, 512MB...

With the Samsung Galaxy S4 about to make its international debut in April, Samsung, it seems, is prepping for its sibling, the Galaxy S4 Mini. Some leaked images show a phone with the same design as the Galaxy S4 but with a smaller display. The Galaxy S4 mini would be what the Galaxy S3 Mini was...

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...

Microsoft is being investigated by US Government officials over claims of bribery of foreign officials to get an upper hand in software contracts. WSJ reports citing sources familiar with the matter that both the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into Microsoft in reference to allegations of kickbacks in China, and...

Sony has announced two new premium android handsets, the Xperia SP and the Xperia L. Both are caterred towards design-conscious individuals who want substance and style both.  Both the Xperia SP and Xperia L feature 8MP camera, NFC and run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The Xperia SP is the more premium version with LTE...

Lava has added 3 new entry-level Android smartphones in Iris series, Iris 349, Iris 351 and the Iris 355. All 3 phones comes with dual SIM support, 3.5-inch HVGA (320 x 480 pixels) capacitive multi-touch screen,  and run Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread). These smartphones are powered by a single-core 1 GHz processor with 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and...

Samsung has unintentionally spilled the beans on the US price of the Samsung Galaxy S4, with a retail price of about $579. The price was revealed in Samsung’s ongoing online campaign where 48 Galaxy S4′s are up for grabs. The price of $579 is for the 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 and it would still be...

Dropbox has acquired Mailbox, the user email app for iOS devices which generated quite a buzz with its virtual queue for users to register and download the app. The terms of the deal are yet unknown, but according to the statement made to the WSJ the Mailbox app will remain separate and the entire team...

Here are some images of the Samsung Galaxy S IV, the most awaited smartphone of the year. The Galaxy S4 will be available in two colors, Black Mist and White Frost. Furthermore, there will be two different processors that will be embedded in the smartphone based on your region, one is Samsung’s own octa-core Exynos...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is now official, with a 5-inch 1080p display and the Exynos Octa eight-core processor. The display is Super AMOLED with a pixel density of 441 ppi and it can recognize touch through your gloves as well, much like the Nokia Lumia 920. Among other things it has 2GB RAM and will be...