During this festive time of Christmas no stone is left unturned to decorate every nook and corner of the house or street or town. Then why ignore the system that sits on our desks and is our companion for hours. You can put some interesting wallpapers which show the Christmas festive season. It can be the Santa or Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, Christmas tree with dec   Read More...

Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pag   Read More...

Considering that it’s still one of the App Store’s top grossing apps of all time, I Am T-Pain is pretty great. With that said, it’s not exactly something you’d want to pull out at your family Christmas party. Believe it or not, Grandma probably wont be impressed with the on-the-fly Auto-Tuning technology be it that you’re singing songs about strippers.

Making   Read More...

Though its had an application store of its own for many months now, Palm’s webOS has really yet to flourish as a development platform. As it currently stands, webOS’ App Catalog only offers up around 400 applications. This stunted growth is largely because Palm still considers the App Catalog “beta” – thus, they’re being rather selective with what gets in. Once the be   Read More...

Sometime in the past few hours, the Mac Detailed Status page on Chromium’s website has been changed to the “Mac OS X Roadmap.” Why? Because the team has wiped out the bugs that were blocking a beta release of Chrome for Mac, and it is on the verge of launching.

Yes, those 8 remaining bugs we noted a few days ago are gone, as you can see here. On the new Roadm   Read More...

A couple of days ago we wrote about the Black Screen of Death, a problem that caused Windows-based machines to freeze and lock out users, leaving them teary-eyed and black-screened.

The issue, however, doesn’t seem to be a common one, nor is it tied to Microsoft’s security updates, as we’d previously thought. In fact, UK security company Prevx, who pointed ou   Read More...

We’ve already talked about using RSS as a business intelligence tool, but how do you choose the right software to get maximum benefit out of your news reading? With a number of options and myriad features on multiple platforms, it can be a daunting task to even get started.

In this article we’ll take a look at some of what you might consider when shopping for   Read More...

Remember that rumor a while back that Google was going to build its own version of the Internet? It turns out that the idea might not be so far-fetched after all.

Last month, Google (Google) revealed that it was working on its own protocol that could perhaps one day replace HTTP, dubbed SPDY. Today, Google announced that it’s going after another fundamental p   Read More...

SINGAPORE: Oil was higher in Asian trade Thursday, bouncing back from overnight falls as investors digested key US inventory data, analysts said.

New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery rose 20 cents to 76.80 dollars a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for January delivery added 42 cents to 78.30 dollars. Oil prices fell sharply in US tra   Read More...

GUWAHATI: Left-arm seamer Doug Bollinger grabbed five for 35 to set up Australia’s six-wicket victory over India in the sixth one-dayer on Sunday for an unassailable 4-2 lead in the seven-match series.



New ball bowler Bollinger dismissed Sachin Tendulkar (10) and Yuvraj Singh (6) off successive overs in his opening spell before claiming Mahendra Dh   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani conceded during a debate in the National Assembly on Saturday that the military operation in Malakand or South Waziristan was no lasting solution and the government was taking measures to bring stability to the region.

However, the prime minister refrained from responding to a lawmaker’s criticism of Interior Minis   Read More...

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives late Saturday approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top domestic priority.

After hours of bitter debate and an appeal from Obama to ‘answer the call of history,’ lawmakers voted 220-215 for a 10-year, trillion-dollar plan to extend heal   Read More...

NEW DELHI: India’s premier rolled out the welcome mat for foreign investors Sunday, promising to step up economic reforms to draw global funds and put the country on a high growth path.



Prime Minster Manmohan Singh, speaking to a blue-chip international economic summit, said policy would be guided by the desire to create ‘an investor friendly envir   Read More...

PESHAWAR: At least 10 people have been killed and more than 30 others injured after a suicide attacker blew himself up in a local live stock market located in the Matani area of Peshawar, DawnNews reported.



According to the DCO Peshawar Sahibzada Anees, Union Council Nazim Adazai Abdul Malik was amongst the dead. Malik had been responsible for rai   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: Twenty Taliban insurgents have been killed as Pakistan's military tries to consolidate gains in its offensive against the militants in the northwest tribal district, the army said Sunday.

Pakistan launched a punishing air and ground offensive into the region bordering Afghanistan on October 17, with 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopt   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly dismissed 'The New Yorker' magazine's article over the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets.

The foreign office termed the assertions made in the article utterly misleading and totally baseless.

Expressing strong disapproval, the spokesman Abdul Basit alleged that the author of the article was biased against Pakistan.   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Government has decided to double the sugar supply across the province and now the sugar quota has been uplifted from eighteen hundred to thirty-six hundred metric tones.

The directive has been issued by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif during his meeting with Sugar mills association representatives in Murree.

It has also bee   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan booked a place in the final round of the next year’s hockey World Cup with a convincing 3-1 win over Japan in the final match of the qualifiers at Lille (France) on Sunday.



Penalty corner specialist Sohail Abbas scored twice off the short corner set-pieces on either side of the half time whistle to steer Pakistan team to victory   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: Police have shot dead a suspected suicide bomber after a failed attack in Islamabad on Sunday night, DawnNews reported.

Officials said that the bomber attempted to target a police check post when he was killed. Reports say that the targeted checkpost was between Sectors E-11 AND F-11 of Islamabad.

There were six police officials present at   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army is investigating mobile phone messages warning the recipients that their SIMs could be hacked by terrorists if they followed instructions given in some messages.

One such message says: ‘Attention: If you receive a call on your cellphone informing you that they are from quality control department of a GSM company and checking your   Read More...

PESHAWAR: At least 20 militants and four soldiers died in fierce overnight fighting between the militants and security forces pressing a major offensive for a fourth day Tuesday, officials said.

Pakistan faces its toughest military test against the militants to date in waging its ground assault in South Waziristan.

The latest death toll — which is im   Read More...

ISLAMABAD: A double suicide bombing at Islamabad’s International Islamic University on Tuesday killed up to seven people, including the two bombers, an administration official said.

‘Seven people, including two suicide bombers are dead, and 29 injured in the two attacks. Among the dead is one female,’ a senior administration official, Rana Akbar Hayat told AF   Read More...

WASHINGTON: Pentagon chief Robert Gates says President Barack Obama may not be able to wait until the disputed Afghanistan elections are resolved to decide on a new war strategy.

The defense secretary said Monday that working out claims of fraudulent ballots would be an evolving process.

Gates did not say whether he believes a runoff between Afghanis   Read More...

DHAKA: Bangladesh has rushed more troops and stepped up diplomatic moves as tension continues to mount along its 300 km border with Myanmar over a fence being erected by Yangon.

Bangladesh also alleges that Myanmarese job-seekers mix with its work force and try to sneak into various Southeast Asian countries, spoiling its job market abroad, which was a major   Read More...

WASHINGTON: US authorities arrested a leading American scientist who had worked for the White House and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel.

Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

He is charged with   Read More...