Facebook Search Could Become a Social, Local Affair

Facebook is making changes to its search function by adding a user's search history within the social network to the Activity Log, the ...

Nvidia's Ginormous Gift to Linux Gamers

What a difference a year makes. It used to be that gaming was Linux's "Achilles' heel" of sorts, cited by more than a f...

Sony teases flagship phone to challenge iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3

Sony won’t give up the fight to become Apple and Samsung’s equal and plans to develop a smartphone that will stand toe to toe with the iPho...

Windows Blue: Microsoft’s plan to release a new version of Windows every year

Way back in August, three months before the release of Windows 8, we learnt about the existence of a project at Microsoft codenamed Blue. A...

Facebook Gifts Now Lets You Buy iTunes Credit For Friends And Recommend What They Should Purchase

Facebook and Apple deepened their alliance today, as Facebook Gifts is starting to sell iTunes digital gift certificates. Upon purchase, Fa...

Living Without Audio CDs

During a recent apartment move, I became aware of how much stuff I had that was redundant. It was with great pleasure that I was able to du...

Linux Mint 14 released

The developers behind the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distribution have announced the immediate availability of Mint 14 (Nadia). The new relea...

Microsoft to Kill the Messenger, Supplant It With Skype

Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Messenger, its consumer instant messaging platform, over the next several months as its users are mov...

Smart TVs: You Won't Just Watch Anymore

TVs are becoming some of the smartest appliances in the house. In the not-too-distant future, "the TV is likely to be the central devic...

Facebook Welcomes Newbies With Privacy Grand Tour

Facebook has rolled out a new round of security features intended to better educate new users about what information they can keep private...

Surface Success May Hinge on Cool Covers

The Microsoft Surface tablet made its official debut on Thursday, and while a book should never be judged by its cover, many are judging th...

How to close Windows 8 apps, and how to disable SmartScreen

Image credit How to close Windows 8 Metro apps When Microsoft first debuted Windows 8 last year, you couldn’t actually close Metro ...

Researchers create flexible, transparent, 3D non-volatile memory

Speaking at the American Chemical Society, James Tour of Rice University has apparently demonstrated non-volatile 3D memory chips that ...

Sony's Xperia TL

Sony's latest handset's claim to fame is its appearance in the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, handled by no lesser a man's man...

Kindle Fire HD

This design process is exactly what it sounds like. It begins with writing the press release for the product. A concise summary of the pro...