A company called SurfCast that claims to design operating systems is suing Microsoft for the use of Live Tiles.

Twitter is now showing pictures posted on SkyDrive inline, much like other photo services such as Twitpic, YFrog, etc.

RapidShare has been responsible in its dealing with copyright owners. It will be interesting to see what alternative measures it implements to curb piracy, after lifting off the download-speed cap.

A quick search revealed that the problem was not with Windows 8, but with Avast Antivirus. Now, many people have had the same problem, and they have removed Avast Antivirus altogether to fix this issue but this is not a good solution.

To upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, you will require Windows XP with SP3, Vista or any version of Windows 7 running on your system. Microsoft has provided an easy way to download and install Windows 8, which is done by the Windows Upgrade Assistant. Before we get started with the step-by-step Windows 8 install tutorial, you will need to download the Windows Upgrade Assistant.

Jailbreaking of phones was already legal according to the DMCA. However, according to this revised law, phones cannot be jailbroken anymore without the permission of the carrier.

Microsoft has started a new promotional campaign where it is allowing existing Windows XP, Vista or 7 users to upgrade to Windows 8 for only $19.99 or Rs 1,999 INR.

See what you can do with the Book of Do, the IdeaPad® U Series Ultrabook™.

Yahoo has acquired Stamped, a new mobile recommendations app, which lets users save and share their favorite books, movies, music and restaurants etc with their friends.

Pocket launched a native Mac OS X app, which joins its line of smartphone apps for almost all platforms and its web interface. Highly recommended.

The US congressional reports talked more about possibilities than factual evidences of Huawei spying, and the best way out of this fiasco for Huawei, was to let experts take a look at its internals.

Yelp has acquired Qype, its biggest competitor in Europe, for around $50 million in a cash and stock deal.

Kim Dotcom has revealed that he is working on Mega, which will be a cyber-locker like Megaupload, but will work around the legal pitfalls that burnt the latter.

Today Microsoft has begun gearing up for the holidays as they’ve announced a $50 price cut for all their current system bundles.

Facebook has announced that it will be making its new mobile app install ad units available to all developers.