Smartphone A specially designed smartphone for the blind and partially sighted has been launched in the United Kingdom. The device, called Georgie, has a voice-assisted touch screen and offers a variety of apps to help complete tasks such as catching a bus, reading printed text and pinpointing location. The handset is powered by an Android operating system and uses existing Samsung handsets such as the Sams ...

Google+ Events Themes Throwing a party or planning an event? Now you can celebrate before, during and after on Google+. “Today’s online event tools are really just web forms that ask, ‘Are you going?’ Worse yet, they bail when you need them the most: during the actual event, and after everyone leaves. In life we plan, we party and we keep in touch. Software should make all of this more awesome, and that's e ...

The getUserMedia API used in Chrome Beta allows sites to create cool new experiences that weren’t previously possible in the browser. Google has unveiled a new Chrome Beta release that enables you to grant web apps access to your computer’s camera and microphone without a separate plugin like Flash or Java. For consumers it means a future of fun new web apps (think music creation, video chat and real-time a ...

Google Internet search giant Google has launched an international campaign to legalise same-sex marriage, according to a report. The company has officially started its ‘Legalise Love’ campaign in Singapore and Poland at the weekend. According to News.com.au, Google plans to team up with companies and grass-roots campaigners in countries that discriminate against homosexuals.   “We want our employees wh ...

KARACHI: Shafay Thobani, an eight-year-old child has won the honour of being the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. Born on March 13, 2004, Shafay grew interested in computers ever since he was a baby. On April 9, 2012, Shafay appeared in the Prometric test and secured 91 per cent marks, thus making him the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Training Specialist (MCTS) at the age o ...

Windows 8 Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system will be available to consumers from late October as the software giant looks to update its platform for a variety of devices, the company said Monday. The announcement on Microsoft's new operating system - its release will be three years after Windows 7 went public in October 2009 - came at the software giant's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto. ...

Malware will inflict internet service by changing a user’s DNS settings without permission. More than a quarter million internet users across the world are to be affected by a DNS (Domain Name System) malware called DNSChanger which will curtail internet access from today (Monday) onwards, according to cnet.com. The cutoff is scheduled for 12:01am Eastern Daylight Time. Following this time, computers affect ...

RABAT: A solar-powered aircraft left the Moroccan capital on Friday for Madrid on its return journey to its home port in Switzerland. Piloted by Bertrand Piccard, the Solar Impulse, an experimental plane which flies without fuel, took off shortly after 6:00 am (0700 GMT), heading towards Barajas airport in Madrid. The hi-tech aircraft, which has the wingspan of a jumbo jet but weighs no more than a medium-s ...

An internet user looks at a Facebook page. AFP People resort to stalking each other on social sites like Facebook for endless hours out of sheer boredom and to satisfy their entertainment needs. According to a study, published in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, people Facebook to tackle boredom, and to satisfy their "entertainment" needs. The study said that Facebook also provides them w ...

An Apple retail store is seen in Carlsbad, California. Software giant Apple will be launching a smaller, 7" iPad in time for Christmas, sources have claimed. The new model, which will have a screen that is 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less than the current 9.7-inch version, is expected to set up a battle between Apple’s iPad, Amazon''s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7 tablet.   According to The Tel ...