A few weeks ago, DC featured a story on how Apple and Samsung have officially ‘gone to war’ after Samsung lost the billion-dollar lawsuit. The events surrounding the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S3 and the more recent iPhone 5, only go to reinstate that fact.

One of the mandatory requirements of being qualified to be one’s best friend, is to possess the information or proof, such as photos or videos, that can embarrass your friend. And we aren’t talking about information that’s forgivable if shared, but information that is good enough for extortion and blackmail. That kind of stuff hardly ever comes out, unless of course, as a massive trend on Twitter, a million other people are willing to share embarrassing photos and videos of their best friends.

Campaigning for elections is serious business, and with evolving times, the methods employed by politicians and their parties have evolved as well, especially in the way they exploited the social media. And the response is instant and exciting.

Its all over the news. South Korean electronic giant Samsung lost a one billion dollar patent infringement lawsuit to US giant Apple Inc. Ironically, there’s a very good chance that the medium through which people are reading or hearing about it, could either be an iPhone, iPad, Galaxy tab or a Samsung-created smartphone. That is extent of the wide-spread presence both these companies have made.

Over the past week, photos on the Internet that painted an exaggerated picture about the recent communal violence in Assam and spread communal tension to other parts of the country, forced the government to call for stringent action on the Web, social networking websites in particular.

The Internet has made the world a smaller place, its facets are multidimensional and its existence nothing short of a boon. The biggest advantage of the Internet, by far, is its nature of being ‘live’ — whatever happens around the world is updated and shared the minute it happens and all events, big or small, are tracked with a lot of interest from across the globe.

Come Sunday and the biggest sporting event of all time, the Olympics, will come to an end — bringing to close three weeks full of action-packed competition, a roller coaster ride of emotions and a healthy inter-mingling of superstars from across the globe who have given their best and stretched the limits of physical human boundaries.

Come Sunday and the biggest sporting event of all time, the Olympics, will come to an end — bringing to close three weeks full of action-packed competition, a roller coaster ride of emotions and a hea

Last week, Facebook announced a set of interesting statistics, which piqued the interest of users as well as those with business interest in the company. The most important number of course, was that the user count is crawling steadily towards one billion.

Imagine something as useful as a toothbrush missing, or stolen or destroyed! That’s how it was when GTalk was down for over three hours and it wasn’t an ordinary incident.