Bendable smartphones coming soon

Imagine a cellphone that bends to block a snooping bystander from reading your private messages!

Researchers, including an Indian origin scientist, have developed prototypes for gen-next shape-shifting smartphones and mobile devices that can change form on-demand.

The research introduces the term 'shape resolution' and its ten features, to describe the resolution of an interactive device, in addition to display and touch resolution.

Facebook Home app gets worst rating from users

A majority of users have given Facebook's Home mobile a one star rating on the Google Play store.

Out of 14,100 reviews of the free Android app, 52% rated it just one out of five stars.

Nearly 16% of reviewers, however, gave it top marks, leaving the app with an overall 'below average' rating of 2.2 stars, reports news.com.au.

HTC Chairwoman will donate tablets to young women in Southeast Asia

HTC Chairwoman Cher Wang announced at a forum that she will be donating 100,000 tablets to young women in Southeast Asia. The tablets will be used to further the education of women throughout the region in hopes of promoting gender equality there. Wang made the announcement at a World Bank open forum held in Washington. The forum was called, “Equal Futures Partnership: From Promise to Progress”.

The tablet will be the HTC Flyer, and it will be distributed throughout schools in Southeast Asia. This isn’t Wang’s first time distributing the HTC Flyer tablets to schools. Back in August of 2012, Wang donated 6,000 HTC Flyers to 60 schools in Taipei in an effort to increase education in those schools through the power of technology. Wang encourages more women to use and familiarize themselves with technology as it will help them achieve equality.

Google rolls out Chrome Office Viewer Beta, enables in browser file viewing

There are some universally annoying things the average Web surfer will encounter from time-to-time, and while the list is mostly made up of pop-up advertisements that bypass your ad-blocker, one of them is direct-file links to things like PowerPoint and Word files. Clicking one of these files results in it being downloaded and opened by the application, a potentially slow and usually unwanted action. Google aims to solve this problem with the launch of Chrome Office Viewer (Beta).

Intex Aqua Wonder review, Battery woes sink this boat

Indian manufacturer Intex, known for affordable computer peripherals, is trying to make a mark in the smartphone market with its Aqua range. One of the new phones in this line-up is Aqua Wonder, which costs Rs 9,990 in the market. This device is placed in the price band of the popular Micromax Canvas 2 as well as Karbonn S1 Titanium, the cheapest quad-core phone in the country. But don't expect this phone to be capable of handling these strong rivals and give a top of the line user experience in its category. Read on to know why...