Better late than never--that is what Microsoft’s announcement at CES last week on embracing the ARM architecture amounts to saying. That also shows how desperate--and very understandably so--the Redmond-based software maker is to take the ‘smart phone and tablet’...

Nvidia seems to have gained a good deal of spotlight almost overnight, on the back of recent announcements that some of the most promising Android tablets are being based on the Tegra 2 processors. The most significant of these devices are Adam from Bangalore-based...

Just as the rumours of a “Facebook shutdown” were subsiding, a boutique research firm analyst Albert Babayev posted an article where he says Facebook could be having a market cap of USD 224 billion in 2014, given of course, that assumptions held true. Now, this is...

Well, that’s because you won’t have the option of not having it--it's a compulsory thing. A post on the official Wall of Facebook by Philip Rha on January 11 read: The New Profile Is HereLast month, we introduced the new profile, which now makes it even easier for you...

As per a Microsoft release, Robert Muglia, Head of the software maker's Server & Tools Business, will be leaving the company this summer. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer communicated this to MS employees through an e-mail, the text of which has been published by...

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/facebook"We didn't get the memo about shutting down, so we'll keep working away like always. We aren't going anywhere; we're just getting started," said an official update on Facebook, explicitly dispelling the rumour that Facebook...

Weekly World News has posted a story citing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  that the No. 1 social networking site will shut down from March 15. http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27321/facebook-will-end-on-march-15th/I must admit that this sounds too shocking to...

Consumer pull swelled the number of emerging handset vendors in India to 68 in 2010. Empowered, these vendors can now rev up growth in tablet PCs and netbook segments Globally, the first half of 2010 was seen by many as the year of iPad, while the second half of the...

1. Consolidation is a very strong likelihood in the telecom market and even a few pan-India operators getting acquired shouldn’t come as much of a surprise2. 3G will fall short of becoming a mass consumer phenomenon, marred by fragmented licenses and delayed rollouts,...

Any guesses which country would win hands-down if an Asian Games for innovation in technology were to be held? No, Japan won’t. Neither will China.If the 2010 Red Herring Asia Awards is any indicator, India would score a towering victory, with China coming a distant...

As a racy and happening 2010 draws to a close, I’m tempted to make a note of the events that were most significant from a technology consumer perspective.The No. 1 event of the year was...well, the year itself. The pace at which the market rebounded from the doldrums...