Are you a smartphone user who had just moved from a Blackberry phone to a new iPhone or Android device? If yes, there would surely be one feature that you are missing and that is the Blackberry’s BBM (Blackberry Messenger) service app for instant messaging. If that is true for you, there is some good news! You are not going to miss chatting with your friends anymore as Blackberry is soon going to bring its ...

Toshiba perceives that the rapid growth of tablet computers is nothing but a fad that people would soon get over with. The company is even visionary about its future devices for mobile computing. Mark Whittard, Toshiba’s managing director in Australia, commented about tablets in sync with the comments given by Thorsten Heins, the CEO of BlackBerry. Both the experts predict that the future death of tablets i ...

Ever since the introduction of mobile phones, there had been constant innovations and revolutions in the mobile communication industry. The basic features of the mobile phones that enabled communication between two users could no longer withstand the growing expectations of the humans. Obviously, this led to the birth of the smartphones. Though the idea of the smartphone was coined in the 1970’s, it was ava ...

To ensure the safety of the country, military strength and latest technologies are very important. The U.S. military has incorporated many advancements and innovations over the years to tackle the threat from the enemies. The National Defense of U.S had listed out ten technologies that may be required by the army before going for the next war and they are: Non-killer weapons The U.S military had decided to ...

The emergence of the Cloud is perhaps the biggest tech related news of the 2010s. Even though the technology seems pretty straight forward to most of us, there is more to it than meets that eye. In terms of our digital lives, cloud-based storage and services really have become more integrated than anyone could have imagined before. Today, the Cloud is not just a web-based storage service; it is more of a sh ...

Newspapers are being replaced by television and college dorms are a perfect example of how technology has almost surpassed the need to daily newspapers. Students at American universities get a free copy of the New York Times and the Washington Post but most don’t really bother as they prefer catching the news on some 42 inch plasma that is placed in the TV lounge. So here, you wouldn’t find discarded sectio ...

Researchers at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and the Toshiba's Cambridge Research Lab have come up with a new virtual assistant that may not be able to do any office work for you, but it sure would make your phones and computational devices a lot more human than they are now. The program is called Zoe and uses the head of Hollyoaks star Zoe Lister. Based on the actress who pla ...

Let’s admit the fact that avant garde technological advancements have interminably changed the world for better. Whether you apple polish the touchscreen devices for their seamless accessibility or sing the praises for devices that have summed up your entire social world in one little chassis, technologies have indeed made many things simpler, better and faster. While we have been reaping the benefits of su ...

Responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military, the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) develops hi -tech technologies and equipments for the army. Since years now, the Strategic Technologies Office has been conducting research on the weapons, which can designate high-end communication equipments. The top 14 military technologies that have the ability to change the ...

It is not easy to keep up with Google. Every now and then, they launch new products in the market. Some are extremely functional, efficient and helpful but there are also some products, which can be termed as bizarre and even weird. They have a knack of experimenting with new ideas. Some of them have become huge hits like the Android OS and Google Maps but others have failed to grab attention. Here we will ...