Surojit Chatterjee

Amazon is reportedly getting ready to launch its Android-powered tablets that will be priced very aggressively - hundreds less than Apple's best-selling iPad. But the billion dollar question is - will it be just as good?

In light of Hewlett-Packard’s announcement last Thursday that webOS development for the consumer market is to be discontinued, it now falls to independent developers to keep newly purchased fire-sale TouchPads chugging along.

PC giant Hewlett Packard's decision last Thursday to spin off its PC business and drop all WebOS devices barely 2 months after the company launched TouchPad has left retailers such as Best Buy, Office Depot, Staples, and Wal-Mart scrambling to offload their stock of TouchPad by slashing the price of the tablet to $99. However, despite the fire sale, should you buy a TouchPad?

Social network giant Facebook, long criticized for failing to implement adequate privacy controls and for adopting a cavalier attitude towards the sensitive issue, is now trying to appease its users by streamlining how they manage and share their personal information.

Internet phone and messaging service provider Skype said, Sunday, it will buy mobile group messaging service provider GroupMe. But why GroupMe?

Samsung Admire, which has hit MetroPCS shelves for only $130 on Monday is probably the best sub-$200 smartphone you can buy without being locked into a contract.

Apple will kick off the trial production of iPad 3, the next generation model of its best-selling tablet iPad in October and is gearing up for a full-fledged launch in early 2012. But what features will it boast of?

Search giant Google said, Monday, it has bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, an announcement that shook up the technology industry and caught rivals napping.

The buzz on the release date of Apple iPhone 5 has reached a fever pitch and the latest scoop is that the smartphone will be released on Oct. 7 with pre-orders likely to begin from Sept. 29 or 30. And we are loving it.

Internet search engine giant Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility has shocked market watchers because the handset maker is struggling to keep pace with bigger Android rivals like Samsung and HTC but the deal could actually turn out to be Google's best move ever.

Most nights, before bed, I'll turn on my Xbox 360, load up Netflix and let an episode of ?Arrested Development? or some other old favorite lull me to sleep. But sometimes I get the weird feeling someone is watching me and through a recent message I figured out who: Microsoft.

Search giant Google Inc.'s acquisition of Motorola Mobility prima facie looks to shut out Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) and Nokia, which are struggling in the smartphone race, but instead the deal could make the companies attractive acquisition targets.

Twitter and The Weather Channel have teamed up to make your local forecast a more social experience. Now you can get the latest weather updates and read what Twitter users are saying with a new social media collaboration called The Weather Channel Social.

Yahoo and Bing are better at performing searches than Internet search engine giant Google, according to analytic firm Experian Hitwise.

A massive spaceship-like building will soon begin construction and will become the new home of technology giant Apple Inc., according to Cupertino City Council, which has revealed new renderings and blueprint details.

Mountain View-based SETI (Search of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute got a massive financial boost from donors that will enable its 42 radio telescope dishes near Mount Shasta to resume search for sounds of intelligent life form in the Universe.

When Google+ launched in late June, it instantly became the new cool place to be on the web. The hip factor associated with Google's new social networking venture very much stemmed from the fact that it was initially by invitation only. In the week before the 4th of July and the days that followed, streams on reigning social media giants Facebook and Twitter were full of users offering invites and even more people asking for them.

SMS what? Facebook stole the show this week with the launch of its free Facebook Messenger app, available for iPhone and Android users.

Fossil of a pregnant Plesiosaur, a giant, carnivorous four-flippered reptile that roamed the world's oceans in the Mesozoic Era, together with that of a fetus nearly intact, have been discovered by scientists, confirming beliefs that the sea monster and the modern day dolphins and whales have a lot in common.

Stargazers who are looking forward to a breathtaking view of the Perseid Meteor Shower in the celestial sky may end up disappointed if the sky turns cloudy even as a full moon threatens to wash out the event by illuminating the night sky this weekend.

Anonymous, the digital protesters who specialize in temporarily disabling targeted websites, posted a YouTube video July 16 threatening to destroy Internet giant Facebook. The video went viral the second week of August and now has over 1.4 million views. At the same time, the @anonops twitter feed, thought by many to be one of the official mouthpieces of the group, tweeted Operation Facebook was fake August 9. Anonymous has no central leadership or designated spokespeople, leaving analysts and F...

Facebook has done it again - weeks after it joined hands with Skype to beat Google+ Hangouts, the world's No.1 social networking site has launched Facebook Messenger, a free mobile app for iPhone and Android users that allows them to send and receive real-time messages from their Facebook contacts.

Apple has done it again - after blocking rival Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia, the technology giant managed, Monday, to get a preliminary injunction (or temporary restraining order) from a German court that prevents Samsung from selling Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the whole of Europe (excluding the Netherlands).

The release of iCloud Beta marks technology giant Apple's maiden venture into cloud business -- and it's going to be a wake-up call for rivals like Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Music Beta Digital Locker, Windows Live SkyDrive, Box.net, DropBox and SugarSync.

iCloud, Apple's ambitious cloud-based music, video, photo and data automatic backup and push out service, has finally been released but it's in beta form and out only to developers.

NASA, which has sent men to the moon and space for decades, may have to shelve its ambitious plans of sending astronauts to further reaches of space beyond the moon - it faces nearly $1 billion in cleanup costs for the deep chemical messes it has left behind at Kennedy Space Center and other launch centers.

People with low IQ are more likely to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) while the smartest ones prefer Camino and Opera Web browsers, a new survey suggests.

The world's biggest social networking site Facebook, which launched Facebook for Business earlier this week, and the youngest social networking phenomenon Google+ (or Google Plus) are heading towards a bloody face-off that will leave only one clear winner.

Rumors about Apple's next generation iPhone, dubbed iPhone 5, is buzzing louder and if they are to be believed, the new smartphone from the technology giant is not only going to be released in September but also it's going to look radically different from iPhone 4, with no home button.