Surojit Chatterjee

Tech-forward U.S President Barack Obama has indicated that the government will try to find out a workable approach on the controversial SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) issues. The president made that suggestion in reply to selected questions in the first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House, via Google+ Hangout.

As Facebook filed for its initial public offering (IPO) on Feb 1, the letter to investors was also released. The most notable remark by Mark Zuckerberg is that Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

Details of Windows Phone 8 (codename: Apollo), Microsoft's next generation mobile OS has been unveiled via a leaked video, which has been posted by PocketNow.

Samsung Galaxy Note hit the right note at CES 2012 by drawing a huge crowd of people, who were jostling with each other to catch a glimpse of the newly unveiled tablet/smartphone hybrid. On Monday, the South Korean electronics giant announced that Galaxy Note will go on sale in the U.S. market on Feb. 19 for $299.99 with a 2-year AT&T contract. Online sale kicks off on Feb. 5. So far, so good, but will Galaxy Note pose a threat to iPhone 4S?

Amazon tablet Kindle Fire will help the company post record sales, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Jordan Rohan.

Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy Note device will hit AT&T shelves on Feb. 19 and will run on the wireless carrier's 4G LTE network. The price? A cool $299.99 with a 2-year contract.

Wondering how Apple has always managed to keep details about yet-to-be-released products a top secret? Here's how - according to Adam Lashinsky's new book Inside Apple, Apple makes its new hires work on fake projects for several months until the company is certain the new engineer won't leak out its product information.

Apple, which was left upset by how the iPhone 4S launch party in Mainland China, was spoiled by scalpers, has set up a lottery system, for the iPhone fans in Hong Kong, aimed to keep the scalpers at bay.

The crackdown on rogue file-sharing and online storage site Megaupload intensified with the Feds announcing that the hosting providers of Megaupload will begin deleting files of at least 50 million users starting Thursday, Feb. 2.

Apple has pulled a snafu again. An app called QuasiDisk, which has the ability to tether via proxy, has escaped the detection of the Apple police and has found its way into the App Store.

The MacWorld-iWorld Expo, which kicked off on Jan. 26 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, has drawn a huge crowd as the trade show is the largest Apple-focused extravaganza in the world.

Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running on iOS 5 and 5.0.1 is out and the Cydia app store has witnessed a record surge in activity of jailbroken A5 devices. But should you jailbreak your A5 device?

The rumors about iPad 3, or Apple's next generation tablet, has touched a fever-pitch with expectations growing that the tablet will launch in late February or early March. From a better camera and Retina Display to a quad-core processor and NFC technology, here's a rundown of the features Tech & Trend thinks iPad 3 will boast of (and not boast of).

Nokia's ambitious launch of Lumia 900 is indeed shocking if the price is $99 only, based on a 2yr data plan.

Apple leadership has unveiled the tech-forward reward for Apple all employees, which number well over 60,000. Soon after announcing that in the holiday quarter, Apple has sold a record 37.04 million iPhones with a 128% growth compared to same period last year and 15.43 million iPad with a 11% increase, Apple CEO Tim Cook followed up by announcing in a town hall meeting that Apple will offer a total $750 discount on its products, which can be used once every three years.

YouTube, the world's most popular online video-sharing site, is showing inexorable growth. Google announced that people watch 4 billion videos on YouTube per day. And every minute, 60 hours of videos are getting uploaded. To celebrate this achievement, YouTube has launched a special comic-cartoony site (http://www.onehourpersecond.com/) to show what one hour per second means in various situation.

Internet search engine giant Google has announced that they plan to unify almost 60 services (such as Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Docs, Google+, Google Search, Google Maps, etc) to provide a simpler and more intuitive Google experience under one privacy policy. Chrome browser, Google Books and Google Wallet are excluded from the unified services.

The next generation Apple tablet, dubbed iPad 3, is expected to surface in late February/early March, bringing to a closure the growing rumors about its features and release date. Ever since iPad 2 was unveiled in February last year, Apple fans have been closely watching every move of the tech giant with the hope that they get some hint about the release date and specs of iPad 2's successor.

Is Facebook really a social network service, which is run by sharing information within close friends' network? A report by the Facebook data team has something interesting to tell.

The magic of Steve Jobs may be absent in his successor Tim Cook but Cook's leadership is working well in Apple. On Tuesday, the tech giant has announced that its net profit has more than doubled to $13.06 billion in the fiscal first quarter. The Holiday sale of 37 million units of iPhone and 15.4 million units of iPad sale were seen as the biggest contribution towards the outstanding profit in the holiday quarter. No wonder, iPhone and iPad account for 72% of Apple's total revenue.

Internet search engine giant Google has poured out $9.7 million on lobbying U.S. lawmakers and regulators in 2011, according to Google's latest bill in U.S. Senate Office of Public Records.

Just as iPhone 4S and iPad 2 posted record sales in their debut weekends, Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5 or 5.0.1 has become mega-popular - according to an iPhone Dev team blog post, at least 950,000 A5 untethered devices accessed Cydia app store between Friday and Monday afternoon, reflecting the pent-up demand for the A5 untethered jailbreak. The A5 jailbreak was released on Friday.

There's a good news for the jailbreak community - a few hours ago, the hackers dream team released the Linux version of GreenPois0n Absinthe A5 untethered jailbreaking tool, besides updating Absinthe to v0.3 for Windows and Mac users.

Kim Doctom, the founder of now defunct file-sharing and online storage site Megaupload, was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, even as he denied charges of Internet piracy and money laundering.

The sudden crackdown on popular online storage and file-sharing site Megaupload has prompted rivals FileSonic and uploaded.to to commit suicide by voluntarily limiting their file-sharing services and allowing users to only retrieve the files they have personally uploaded. No wonder, the U.S. feds' action has left everybody wondering whether other sites like Rapidshare, MediaFire, Dropbox, etc., which offer file-sharing and cloud storage services, will be next in the crosshairs of anti-piracy ...

Amid the fuss over crackdown on Megaupload, a rival file-sharing service provider FileSonic has voluntarily halted its service partially.

This is not the first time Megaupload's founder Kim Dotcom had his brush with the law. In 2002, he was convicted in what was then the largest insider-trading case in German history and a Munich court sentenced him to 20 months probation and a 100,000 euro fine. Can he win the legal battle this time?

If you look at the back of any iPhone, you're likely to come across the words, Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. Indeed, from the very first generation iPhone to the latest iPhone 4S, the world's most popular smartphone have come to be made in China and not in the U.S. An analysis, based on interviews with Apple's former and current executives and employees at Apple's supply chains and manufacturing experts by The New York Times, has now revealed why the wo...

The prospect that MS Windows Phone will beat Apple's iPhone in year 2015 has emerged. According to industry research firm IHS iSuppli, Windows Phone will increase its market share of smartphone operating system up to 16.7 % in 2015. Though Windows Phone has only 1.9% market share in year 2011, it will increase its market share gradually to 9% in 2012, 15.3% in 2013, 16.1% in 2014 and 16.7% in 2015.