Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg didn’t travel to New York’s Times Square for the company’s big day. He did it unconventionally like you’d expect a hacker would. He opened the bell remotely from the company’s Menlo Park Headquarters after Facebook employees had just finished a long, all-night Hackathon — their 31st. They played midnight hockey and worked on extra projects, as you [...]

What’s this? A report from Kantar WorldPanel says that Windows Phone is actually starting to increase its market share? After about a year and a half of struggling to lure customers away from competing systems like Android, iOS, and BlackBerry, Microsoft’s OS is enjoying a modest surge in popularity so far in 2012. Having a stable of snazzy new phones like the Nokia Lumia line-up to carry the [...]

Alienware has a long history of packaging high end components into blisteringly fast computers that let you play games with the settings turned to 11. But until now you’ve only really had two choices: an Alienware laptop or a large desktop case. Today, a third option has been revealed, and it could fight for space under your TV next to your consoles. The Alienware X51 is a desktop PC, but in a [...]

The Google Maps team is showing that its application can be used for much more than just getting directions or seeing satellite views of the Earth. Pictured above is a screen grab from an official video that shows a new game based on Maps coming to Google+ this February. The action depicted in the teaser video below has Maps showing off the potential of WebGL, by making data from Maps into a four-sided [...]

This morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the ‘normal’ algorithmically-generated results we’ve come to expect. There have been plenty of critiques of the news, including John Battelle’s discussion on how this isn’t actually integrating ‘Your World’, as Google calls it, but rather just its [...]

Lahore/New York: Microsoft founder Bill Gates has asked doctors in the United States to make arrangements for treatment of Arfah Karim, world’s youngest Microsoft certified specialist from Pakistan. Arfah’s father, colonel ret Amjad Karim confirmed to the media that officials from Microsoft had contacted him. He said the officials told him that a panel of doctors had been formed on the directives [...]

Kickstarter has been the starting point for many a clever gadget, but raising the target cash to allow an idea to come to fruition needs a great description and awesome video. David Barnett, a philosophy professor, has come up with a clever new iPhone case and asked for $12,000 on Kickstarter. His video is either a love or hate affair depending on your tastes, but if you hate it, you definitely [...]

Hot on the heels of the release of the Canon S100 (the successor to the popular S95), Canon has announced the G1 X digital camera. This high-end point-and-shoot is the next in line in the storied “G” series, which has previously released models like the G12 and G11. In addition to bucking the naming convention the G1 X will have a imaging sensor that, at 18.7 x 14mm, is over six times the size [...]

Nokia was expected to announce the Lumia 900 at today’s CES 2012 event, and when CEO Stephen Elop took the stage, he didn’t disappoint. The Windows Phone flagship that the US never got is finally on its way. While leaks had it being called the Nokia Ace, the Finnish company appears to be sticking with the Lumia 900 branding. The Mango-running handset is essentially a larger, LTE-equipped version [...]

Either this is the most revolutionary product of the decade, or the biggest hoax in recent memory. A California based company called Liquipel claims that it has perfected a process in which it can waterproof your iPhone or other smartphone both inside and out, without having to use a case. A pretty tall order that bears some explaining. When I called the company for a comment on the process in which [...]