Valli Meenakshi Ramanathan

Android 4.1, code-named Jelly Bean, is considered the strongest Android mobile operating system ever by security experts owing to its ASLR and DEP attributes.

YouTube announced the launch of a new face-blurring tool on July 18 that helps in protecting identity of citizens in sensitive reports and helps in addressing human rights issues.

Chip-maker Intel is betting big on 20 Windows 8 tablets powered by the Clover Trail Atom SoC and 140 Ivy Bridge ultrabook designs to turn the tide in its favour in the next quarter.

Ever since news of Jennifer Lopez quitting the reality singing competition American Idol started doing the rounds, there seemed to be more to the issue than actually met the eye.

YouTube is the favourite news spot for 71 percent of American adults up from 66 percent (in 2010), who visit the site to stay tuned, says a survey conducted by Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. The study adds that 28 percent of American adults visit YouTube daily.

As news of Twitter overhauling its mobile channel mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers made the rounds from July 11, a close look at the new development shows how the mobile channel contributes a significant chunk of revenue for the microblogging site.

Celebrated author and well-known motivational speaker Stephen Covey died Monday owing to complications stemming from a bicycle accident that occurred in April.

Following Sage Stallone's death reported July 13, several theories were circulated on the Web as possible reasons for his demise including drug overdose. To fully understand the reasons for his death, an autopsy was carried out in Los Angeles on Sunday. But officials confirmed that it will take about 10 weeks before results will be made available.

This July 16, you will be treated to a new version of Microsoft's productivity suite, Microsoft Office 15. The suite which is being unveiled in San Francisco has been available to select group of users since January.

After Digg got soldout to Betaworks for a paltry $500K despite being valued at $164 million previously, news of Social Network competitors killing Digg is doing the rounds even as messiahs urge competitors to refrain from going the Digg way.

Even as the embers of the fire engulfing her parent's divorce gradually die down, Suri Cruise has begun to take the first steps towards resuming normal life with Katie Holmes, away from the over-protective glare of Tom Cruise.

Facebook has begun monitoring chat room messages to alert cops against suspicious behavior.

As news about Amazon testing its smartphone trickles down, the industry is agog with excitement of finding a smartphone that can usher in the goodies without much fuss.

Within days of reaching an amicable divorce settlement with Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise again seems to be hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Cloud Computing just got a shot in the arm as online storage service provider Dropbox decided to double the capacity of its offerings to consumers without hike in prices owing to intense competition and also offers a new 500GB service plan at $499 a year.

As action heats up in the tablet market with news of Apple gearing up to launch iPad mini in response to competition, it appears that Google's Nexus may well take home some neat profits as there is a good difference between cost of manufacture and sale.

Jessica Biel is having the time of her life as she comes under the arc lights for Total Recall and also features on the cover of August issue of InStyle magazine. As she is busy promoting the flick, a remake of the 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, she unwinds with the magazine on her life and career turning points.

Ever since Twitter and LinkedIn parted ways June 29, the social mediascape has been witnessing several changes that seemed to have caught users unawares.

Two science papers published July 8, 2012, disprove a major claim made by NASA-funded scientists that a new form of bacterial life that thrives on arsenic was discovered.

Even as Apple's Siri was touted as the most able competitor to Google Search, the search giant launched Google Now at the recently-held I/O Conference which seems to have taken over its competitor very quietly but firmly.

Ravishing Salma Hayek, who is known for speaking her mind, has decided to blur the big screen from her life if it comes in the way of her family.

As tablets become the rage in the mobile computing market, manufacturers are sprucing up their plans to gain a toehold in this segment. With turf wars hotting up, the IBTimes Tech Desk identifies three reasons as to why market leader Apple must release a small version of iPad, or Mini iPad as it is popularly known, to retain its hold over the mobile ecosystem.

Researchers at the University of Arizona claim to have invented a pair of robotic legs that mimic the human gait better than any other artificial leg.

When its partnership with Google for news search expired July 1, social networking site Twitter did not have any counter plan to pull out the latest tweets for real-time news it is hugely popular for. To revive its search results and improve its search functionality for latest tweets on breaking news, Twitter announced enhancements to the search function on its interface July 6.

The smartphone phenomenon has found its latest suitor in Amazon. Following the footsteps of Apple, mobile handset manufacturers, including giants such as Nokia, Samsung and HTC, forayed into the high technology market and witnessed significant change of fortunes. Now, the segment has attracted a new contender with Amazon's reported entry into the market.

July 9, 2012, may be a Black Monday for Tens of Thousands of Internet surfers when the FBI disconnects domains affected by DNSChanger Malware, according to Wired.

Even before the excitement over the discovery of the Boson-like particle could die down, scientists seem to be clamoring for their pound of flesh in staking their claim for the particle discovery, and thereby the Nobel Prize.

Americans rejoicing the 4th of July celebrations had a rare date with history when researchers in Germany unearthed a rare 16th century map produced by master cartographer Martin Waldseemueller.

Scientists at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) Wednesday presented the preliminary results of their search for the Higgs particle, often referred to as the God particle.