Technology Updates

Earlier it was expected that Windows 10 wouldn’t arrive till October. But, now you won’t have to wait that long. Today Microsoft made an official announcement of the upcoming launch of Windows 10 launch. This happened at the Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) summit in Shenzhen, China. The software giant hasn’t given an official date but said that it will be release this summer. The most advanced and complete Windows OS will be released in 190 countries and 111 languages. The official blog post by Microsoft says: We continue to make great development progress and shared today that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Windows is being provided as a free upgrade to the existing users and the users can avail this offer starting this summer. The millions of Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 customers will be getting this offer. This free offer is valid just for a year, after that users will have to pay some undisc...

You may find it hard to believe, but a US based company Outernet is aiming for providing free Wi-Fi to every person on earth using low-orbit earth satellites. Outernet, also calling themselves as Humanity’s Public Library, is a global broadcast data startup currently being incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995 by Saša Vučinić and Stuart Auerbach. They recently began providing free Wi-Fi to 1.3 billion people across North America, Europe and most of the Middle East. They have covered regions of Asia Pacific by end of 2014 and by June 2015 the company aims to provide free internet to everybody across the globe. Currently, it is providing 200 MB of data per day through its high-speed signals, but soon it would be upgraded to 1 GB. The company is eying on providing 100 GB of data per day to users across the globe According to MDIF, the initial content access includes int...

Microsoft is unveiling new features and details of Windows 10 with every passing day. Windows 10 is poised to be the best and complete operating system ever built by Microsoft. Yesterday, it was leaked that Microsoft will be delivering new updates by using the peer-to-peer technology used in Torrents. Today, Microsoft made an announcement via its blog about the storage savings in the new version of Windows. Microsoft said that it is working on reducing the “disk footprint” of Windows 10 which will give more data storage to you. With the new improvements being made, you can save nearly 15GB of storage depending upon the computer configuration. So let me break it down to you, how Microsoft aims to achieve this much space saving: Using the file compression technique, Windows 10 will now use 2.6GB lesser on 64-bit machines and 1.5GB lesser storage space on 32-bit machines. Microsoft isn’t making Windows 10 to use separate recovery image for OS’s refresh and reset options. This will f...

The long-awaited moment has finally arrived. After replacing different services used for texting, photo sharing, and video calling, Facebook is ready to challenge PayPal and other money transferring services with its Facebook Messenger. Now your favorite Facebook Messenger won’t be just used for sending texts and cute smileys. Facebook is now going to provide you a way to settle the friendly debts right from the chat-box. Today Facebook announced a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger. This service will let you connect your Facebook Messenger with your Mastercard or Visa debit card. By clicking on a simple “$” button, now you can send money to your Facebook friends on the desktop, Android and, iOS. This service won’t cost you extra money transferring charges. The rival friendly payment app Venmo, owned by eBay’s PayPal unit, charges 3% extra commission fee on each transfer. Facebook will do the same for free. Facebook said in a news release: "Today we’re adding a new...

Take a look back to when we were kids. VCR’s, large batteries, walkman, cassettes – all the bulky retro stuff. All that stuff made us think that we were at the edge of technological advancement. Then walked in our CD’s, our classic mobile phones, mp3 players and all. These took us to another level of awesomeness altogether. Just when we thought that this is it, we are living in the future; came in our pen drives, hard disks, iPod and what not. Everything got smaller and smarter. Did you ever think that we can potentially use a battery as thin as a plastic wrap? Did you ever fathom that you could wear a flexible battery? A new flexible and ultra-thin battery has been developed which is thinner than a credit card, and this could be integrated into various applications such as wrinkle-smoothing patches, smart cards and watch straps. I mean, WATCH STRAPS! Imagine charging your phone from your watch. This flexible battery, about 0.5 mm thick, achieves its ultra-thinness by positioning ...

The launch date of Goolge’s Project Ara modular phones is coming nearer and big names like Toshiba are showing off the first modules for Ara. Inspired by Project Ara, One Education- One Laptop Per Child’s non-profit partner is working on a new educational laptop for the past one year and its soon to be launch has been confirmed. This hybrid modular laptop/tablet is named XO-Infinity. The very first XO laptops were shipped back in 2007 and since then there has been a constant improvement in the specifications and performance. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hasn’t launched any new device in past few years; now its Australian partner One Education is revitalizing the project. XO-Infinity is a new modular laptop design which is promised to outlast a childhood.

Microsoft Convergence 2015 is being held at Atlanta, GA from March 16-19 2015. In yesterday’s conference Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela revealed that Microsoft will be dropping its Internet Explorer brand with the launch of its Windows 10. He also informed that Microsoft’s Project Spartan is currently working on a new brand name for its upcoming explorer. As per Capossela they will continue to have Internet Explorer along with a new browser internally coded as Spartan based on its research Project Spartan; Microsoft is still working to get a name for this new browser. Hence whether the new name will be “Microsoft Spartan” or “Spartan” is not yet confirmed however the Internet Explorer will be totally killed, this is confirmed by The Verge report. (Please note we have used “Microsoft Spartan” name just as a reference to the new explorer). Some users feel that mere “Spartan” should be the new name for the browser however Microsoft feels that by adding “Microsoft” in...