Just hours after the much awaited re-launch of the PlayStation Network, it suffered a crash. The crash resulted in the turning off of the online service once again. The re-launch has been eagerly awaited by the PSN gaming community as the service went offline after a series of much publicized hacker attacks. After a month [...]
According to an American news site, Facebook has admitted that they had hired a PR company to host a smear campaign against Google. The campaign was created to bring certain negative tales and speculation about its biggest and strongest rival to public attention. Burson-Marsteller, the PR company responsible for the campaign to dig up negative [...]
Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft's search engine Bing, has stated that traditional search engines have failed to address to the ever changing needs of Internet users. Bing’s main competitor, Google, is on the receiving end of this criticism. According to Weitz, Google’s search algorithm which measures the strength of back links is not effective to [...]
The beta version of Firefox 5 was released a few days ago. Firefox 5 beta comes with plenty of new features for the benefit of users as well as web developers. The first beta version of Firefox 5 is currently available for download. The release of Firefox 5 beta will only be the first step [...]
According to a CNN report, Twitter has made arrangements to acquire TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a desktop client in use by most of Twitters’ active users. The deal is said to be worth about $40 million. As per the report, a purchase agreement was signed. Twitter has not yet released news of the deal officially. On [...]
SEGA is the latest victim of the wave of internet attacks on gaming companies. The company falls in line with Sony, Codemasters, and Nintendo, who have all suffered online security breaches recently. SEGA stated that credit card details were not compromised. The hacking group LulzSec has come forward in a public tweet to offer their [...]
SEGA is the latest victim of the wave of internet attacks on gaming companies. The company falls in line with Sony, Codemasters, and Nintendo, who have all suffered online security breaches recently. SEGA stated that credit card details were not compromised. The hacking group LulzSec has come forward in a public tweet to offer their aid [...]
According to the latest reports from Forbes, the new music deal will deepen the Facebook and Spotify integration. It is said that Facebook and Spotify are close to an all new music streaming service. The specialty of this service is the fact that it will allow its users to simultaneously listen to tracks with their [...]
The Ministry of Defense of UK has released a set of videos for YouTube. The videos highlight the dangers associated with seemingly harmless social networking. They are created to advice and encourage service personnel to not share any personal or sensitive information on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. The videos are [...]
Significant changes have been made to Google’s image search this week.The new added features are said to make users’ image searching experience smoother and to deliver more relevant results. A recently released report by Google’s Software Engineer, Grant Dasher, highlighted the latest additions made to the world’s most popular search engine. According to him, the [...]
Latest news state that hackers had broken in to the online account site of Citibank and credit card details, account numbers, and email addresses have been compromised. According to a statement issued by Citigroup, about one percent of the credit card information of their customers has been viewed by the intruders. Citibank boasts an impressive [...]
Since December last year, Facebook users have had access to Facebook’s facial recognition technology. The latest information released from Facebook has made it public that the facility has now been made available to users from all over the world. The feature has been added to Facebook’s long list of default features. Whenever a new photo [...]
