Google Project Glass: What Would It Make of Apple and Facebook? (Image: bfishadow, via Flickr / CC)

Google has recently unveiled yet another mobile gadget to take up the future and make people pass on those smartphones. Google presents augmented reality glasses; a project that they dubbed “Project Glass”.
 
Along with the unveiling of “Project Glass” was the release of a concept video on YouTube and an announcement that the search giant is to begin public tests of the gadget very …

The Australian Parliament will investigate the pricing policies of Apple and Microsoft this year. (Image: eGuide Travel, via Flickr / CC)

Apple and Microsoft are in hot waters after the Australian Parliament has decided to investigate why customers in the land down under have pricier bills than other markets when it comes to media file downloads.
Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications in Australia, has officially commenced the parliamentary inquiry in an effort to induce publicity and …

Nokia earns more money from royalty license fees than Lumia sales. (Image: Darla Mack, via Flickr / CC)

Nokia makes more revenues from royalty license fees of its patents to Apple than how its WP7 Lumia smartphones does in the market.
More than a week ago, the Finnish phone maker announced on its Q1 2012 financial report a staggering $1.7 billion loss, and now a report says that Nokia rakes in more money from royalty license fees as opposed to Lumia smartphone sales.
Last week, Strategy …

Microsoft's venture into Barnes & Noble's subsidiary may mean a Windows 8 Nook tablet is coming. (Image: Seth Miller, via Flickr / CC)

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Barnes & Noble to invest in a newly built subsidiary, which consequently ends the courtroom skirmish between both companies over Android OS, the mobile operating system from search giant Google.
The Redmond-based software maker and Barnes & Noble went back and forth legally for more than a year after …

'Angry Birds Space' is now the fastest selling mobile game in history. (Image: Jordan Owens, via Flickr / CC)

Rovio has announced a new milestone for its massively popular and habit-forming game series of highly agitated birds after the latest title, Angry Birds Space, registered a whopping 50 million downloads in just 35 days from launch, which makes it the fastest selling mobile game ever.
Rovio said in a statement,
The team is thrilled to see such a fantastic reception for the …

Google+ vs Facebook. (Image: Sam Steiner, via Flickr / CC)

Search giant Google may have finally caught up with social networking – and thus, Google+  – but the media still couldn’t get over the Google+ vs Facebook comparison. Demand for invites on the new social network is reportedly on the rise and reviews are mostly positive with regards to serviceability. But we may ask: Do we really need Google+? Can it really offer more than what Facebook already provides? We’ll find out in a …

At the launch of Intel's 3rd-generation Core processors – Ivy Bridge. (Image: ftchris, via Flickr / CC)

Intel has acknowledged reports that its latest Ivy Bridge processors run hotter than its past-generation Sandy Bridge chips.
The American chip maker unveiled Ivy Bridge last week and highlighted its 22nm process node as a technological breakthrough. The company’s relatively smaller process node, alongside modifications in materials used for the die and the heat spreader …

Netgear unveils world's first 802.11ac Wi-Fi router. (Image: Netgear)

Netgear has introduced the world’s first 802.11ac Wi-Fi router that allegedly reaches bandwidth speeds of up to 1.3Gbps.
The American network equipment vendor built the R6300 Wi-Fi router with Broadcom’s 802.11ac chip, providing bandwidth of up to 1.3Gbps on the 5GHz Wi-Fi frequency band, and cutting down to 450Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Netgear confirmed that its R6300 router will support existing equipment …

Google Translate now translates one million books worth of text daily. (Image: Geek Grunge, via Flickr / CC)

Google has announced that its six-year-old Translate service is now chomping foreign languages at a superb rate of one million books worth per day.
According to reputable Google Translate research scientist Franz Och in a blog post, the service was not so smooth back in 2003, and that it would take “40 hours and 1,000 machines to translate 1,000 sentences”.
Things have …

Trial runs show usable white space spectrum improves wireless connectivity. (Image: Daniel Novta, via Flickr / CC)

Trial runs by the TV White Spaces Consortium (TWSC) have discovered that white space can help improve broadband coverage in the UK.
The TWSC, which includes BBC, BSkyb, BT, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung and Virgin Media, has exhausted several tests over the last 10 months for potential applications of white space, a part of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum that falls between TV …