Technology

Google Chrome has become a widely used web browser over the globe. Many people are using it because of its incredible features like good surfing speed, restore facility and moreover, its nice look. Google chrome has a large extension gallery.

Google this week released an update for its Google Mobile app for iPhone, which introduces push notifications for Google’s calendar and a barely functional push feature for Gmail. Is the Gmail push useless?

The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology is directly connected to the Iranian Government. Aside from evaluating and advising policy makers on science and technology issues, the largest research outfit in the country also provides a warez server where Photoshop, MS Office and many other applications can be downloaded for free.

You don’t need to take out a second mortgage for a DSLR to take great photos. Here are our favorite cameras that will do it for under $300.

Facebook Places will make it pretty hard to keep secrets in the future, and could lead to some embarrassing situations.

US federal agents found over $150,000 in cash -- stored in shoeboxes -- when searching the house of Apple supply manager Paul Shin Devine.

The EFF weighed in on Apple patent spyware, calling it traitorware and warning that Steve Jobs is watching you.

The world is espionage is not divorced from the world, which is why spies living among us need everyday objects to carry out their secret duties. And because spies live and work among us, they need every day objects to conceal their secret files and transmissions.

Purdue University has developed software that can slow server activity as temperature rises, and has used this technique to keep the school's supercomputing data center continually operating throughout several cooling failures this past summer.

WebOS has been lauded by critics as the mobile OS to beat. So good, in fact, that HP paid 1.2 billion for the dying Palm, and its most viable product was that operating system. Rarely has an OS been so highly reviewed by so many in the industry. And pairing such an excellent OS with tablet hardware would seem to be a solid fit.

Everyone has their preference, here's a look at how the two businesses stack up.

Up until a few months ago, I was using Facebook the same way I was using Twitter. That is, I was allowing anyone to follow me. But it was different. With Twitter, anyone can follow me without my approval. On Facebook, everyone needs my approval. Though perhaps ill-advised, I was simply blindly approving anyone. Then I stopped.

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"Credibly" impersonating someone else on Twitter, Facebook, or through e-mail could get dicier in California, where the legislature has passed a bill making "e-personation" a misdemeanor. The EFF warns about unintended consequences.

Tweaks, speedups, shortcuts and extra features for your BlackBerry - and they're all free

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How do you make an iMac desktop that doubles as a multitouch tablet? If you're Apple: just like this. Why can't the future be now already?

We put all four phones from Samsung’s Galaxy S series side-by-side to see which comes out on top when they’re compared spec by spec.

Theories abound for why Intel bought McAfee, but the reality is more prosaic than most imagine. The Aurora attacks on Google and others were a wakeup call for Intel, and the company got serious about developing vPro's security potential. But to do that, they had to be able to offer products and services directly to the consumer.

The Android Market isn't always an easy place to get around. Our first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Android rounds up essential Android apps and our personal favorites for productivity, multimedia, internet life, and just plain usefulness.