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 delivery relevant results to users’ search queries.

Weitz has stated in an interview that Google launched with the intention of organizing the world’s information. He praises Google’s algorithm as a brilliant model but considers it to be ineffective for today.

However, Bing also offers a similar set of search features. Bing’s features include images and maps, ability to calculate sums, news, weather and the ability to define words. Google’s dominant position on the search engine market, of which it claims 65 percent, has attracted scrutiny from all sorts of parties including government regulators. Bing’s claim adds up to the long list of anti-trust claims and anti-competitive speculations Google has received. Weitz further stated that the reason for the government to investigate Google’s activities due to Google’s incredible power over the market.

Amid allegations and accusations, Google continues to dominate the search and mobile operating systems market. Recently, the giant has purchased £3 million worth of patents from anIsraeli company, Modu. Google has not yet announced its plans with the acquired intellectual property. It is expected that Modu’s ideas will be used to create innovative smart phones in the future. Experts believe that the move is yet another step towards smart phone supremacy.

As for Weitz, he is convinced that Google’s massive impact on the search engine market has to be observed for foul play. He added that Bing’s social results are a much better way to obtain relevant information on a search. Bing, which currently claims 14 percent of the search engine market still has a long way to go to catch up with Google.

Roivo, the developer of the popular game Angry Birds, has made an impressive announcement.  According to the developer, the application sensation has managed to surpass the 200 million download milestone. The recently released Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Seasons combined with the original Angry Birds downloads has added up to make the application a world dominating franchise.

Angry Birds has risen to popularity within a short time after the game was originally released as an iPhone app. With the massive response from users, the game made a quick leap on to Google’s Android operating system. Making the addictive game available on Android as a first step for its venture in to all major mobile operating systems ensured the game’s rapid rise in to massive success.  As of now, Angry Birds is available on Apple’s AppStore, Android Marketplace, and Google’s new Chrome Store.

The attention of most Angry Birds fans is turned towards the Windows Phone 7 where Angry Birds is set out to be released next. Peter Vesterbacka, the CEO of Rovio, has revealed the latest information on the game’s anticipated venture in to Windows Phone 7. According to Vesterbacka, the game is currently held up sue to Microsoft’s complicated legal procedures.  Experts believe that the delay is unexplainable as the Angry Birds franchise has performed up to high standards on all other standards.

At the moment, the exact release date of Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 is unknown.  Although speculation about the game appearing on 3D is circulating throughout the Internet, most of the actual information is still kept under wraps. However, it is confirmed that Angry Birds will be released on Nintendo 3Ds.

Roivo has stated that Angry Birds has a long way to go towards new areas of the entertainment industry and that fans could expect plenty of growth throughout 2011.

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 of a rapid development plan from the company. Firefox 5 beta was released right after Firefox 4.0 as a move to stick to this all new rapid development scheme. It is expected that newly released beta version will soon be followed by Firefox 6 and Firefox 7. A representative from Mozilla has confirmed the fact.

According to a statement made by the representative, the next version of Firefox will be released within five weeks of testing. Since a major Firefox version will be released every 6 weeks, users were advised not to expect a drastic change between the versions. As for the current release, it includes a Firefox channel switcher.

The channel switcher allows users to move between Aurora and Beta versions of Firefox. The objective of this feature is to test the different development stages as well as quality. Mozilla has taken a different approach by delivering fewer enhancements and features per version at a faster rate.

Apart from the ability to switch Firefox development channels, the many features of Firefox 5 beta include support for CSS animations, networking performance, memory, JavaScript andimproved canvas along with improved desktop environment integration for Linux users. In addition to that, the beta version will also offer improved standards support for HTML5, SMIL, MathML, and XHR.

As per the statement made by the representative from Mozilla, the new features, namely stability, performance enhancements, and CSS Animation support, will allow web developers to create more exciting web experiences. The Firefox 5 Final is expected to be released on 21^st June 2011.

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 to catch the culprits responsible for the attacks. Some experts believe that the tweet appears to be saying that the group has nothing to do with the attacks. However, the public statement highlighted that the members of the group are huge fans of Dreamcast.

The attack was made known via email to the SEGA Pass users. The emails stated that they have identified unauthorized entry to the SEGA Pass database and that the breach had been isolated. The email added that they have launched an investigation to determine the amount of damage done. Users were advised to immediately change passwords. The request seemed to imply something serious as the password details on SEGA were stored encrypted.

Experts see SEGA’s immediate response and the request to provide additional security by changing passwords is admirable.The compromised information from the security breach includes email addresses and dates of birth stored within the SEGA database. According to a statement issued by the company, credit card details were stored elsewhere and were thus protected from the attackers.

SEGA is the latest victim of a long line of cyber attacks on multiplayer gaming communities that have been taking place for the past couple of months. Although LulzSec was involved in the hacking of several, much publicized high profile cyber attacks; they have made it clear that they are not involved in the attacks on SEGA in anyway.

Gamers, gaming companies, and experts are all highly concerned about the high frequency of recent hacking attacks.

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 to catch the culprits responsible for the attacks. Some experts believe that the tweet appears to be saying that the group has nothing to do with the attacks. However, the public statement highlighted that the members of the group are huge fans of Dreamcast.

The attack was made known via email to the SEGA Pass users. The emails stated that they have identified unauthorized entry to theSEGA Pass database and that the breach had been isolated. The email added that they have launched an investigation to determine the amount of damage done. Users were advised to immediately change passwords. The request seemed to imply something serious as the password details on SEGA were stored encrypted.

Experts see SEGA’s immediate response and the request to provide additional security by changing passwords is admirable.The compromised information from the security breach includes email addresses and dates of birth stored within the SEGA database. According to a statement issued by the company, credit card details were stored elsewhere and were thus protected from the attackers.

SEGA is the latest victim of a long line of cyber attacks on multiplayer gaming communities that have been taking place for the past couple of months. Although LulzSec was involved in the hacking of several, much publicized high profile cyber attacks; they have made it clear that they are not involved in the attacks on SEGA in anyway.

Gamers, gaming companies, and experts are all highly concerned about the high frequency of recent hacking attacks.

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 a part of a campaign hosted by the Ministry of Defense. The campaign is aimed at drawing the attention of service personnel towards the many unseen risks of using Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and other social media platforms.

The first two videos display the mother of a soldier having a cup of tea with a terrorist. The tea party takes place right after the soldier shares information about a mission on Facebook. In the video, the terrorist is depicted wearing a black balaclava and machine gun rounds.

The second video showed tow Navy sailor getting prepared for a night out. They share their location on Foursquare which exposes them for potentially dangerous consequences.

Major General Lorimer, spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense stated that the campaign is designed to create awareness on the potential dangers that are lurking beneath social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even Linked in. According to the statement issued by the spokesperson, the videos are not an attempt to scare personnel away from social networking platforms.

Major General Lorimer stated that although it is perfectly fine to use these networking platforms sharing too much information is highly inappropriate and dangerous. He stressed on the point that users of these platforms are not always aware of the fact that they are probably being watched on cyberspace.

The campaign will run on the Ministry of Defense Facebook page, YouTube and Twitter. Two more videos are to be expected by the end of July.

Sony has launched a music application for Android handsets. The service, named Music Unlimited is expected to steal some of the spotlight of the much hyped about iCloud from rival Apple. However, Sony’s application is also a cloud based one.

Music Unlimited is similar to Apple’s iCloud in many ways. The much speculated upon service allows music streaming facilities with access to 7 million songs. In addition, Music Unlimited will also allow access to a user’s existing music collection through the data connection of their Android powered device.

The Music Unlimited application is said to be a combination of the best features of well received applications such as Spotify, Google Music and iCloud. Music Unlimited offers subscriptions to music that users are still not in possession of as well as the ability to stream music room their own music libraries.

The application is subscription based and will offer two tiers of service to its users. For a monthly fee of $4.99, users can gain access to an advertisement free radio application along with the chance to access their own libraries. This means that users will have the ability to play any song of their choice and to create their own playlists.

Apart from the services, the interface of the application was also well received. The interface was said to be a colourful and smooth one which offers easy access to the massive library from all the major record labels. Most experts preferred Music Unlimited to Google’s app.

Sony has pleased a lot of users by making the application available for all Android users instead of focusing on those who own Xperia handsets. As of now, Sony is offering a 30 day trial for the premium service. According to many experts, Music Unlimited has successfully pushed iCloud in to the shadows.

According to a new research made public by ComScore, Google Maps has managed to become the number one most popular connected application in the UK. According to the research, over 6.4 million people in the UK have used the Google Maps mobile application. The application comes in handy for navigating purposes. Yahoo Weather has secured the second place while Facebook had fallen to the third spot with 3.5 million users.

As of now, the term ‘connected apps’ refers to applications that transfers data over the network of an operator. This definition rules out widely successful gaming applications such as Angry Birds.

It came as a surprise to many tech enthusiasts and experts that a Yahoo application has managed to top social networking giant Facebook in a popularity contest. Yahoo supplies the weather details for the embedded application on the iPhone platform. As for the Google application, it comes preloaded on Android handsets as well as iPhones.

On the other hand, most experts believe that Facebook’s performance is indeed admirable given the fact that the applications don’t come preloaded with most handsets. Google Maps however, performed exceptionally with 6.4 million users in the month of April this year. But most experts believe that the fact that the application comes preloaded with all iPhone and Android devices was a major leverage to beat Yahoo’s application as well as Facebook.

Yahoo Stocks, YouTube, eBay and Google Mobile has also managed to make appearances at the top 10 of the list while Sky has also shown significant success. Sky+, Sky Live Football Centre and Sky Sports have also made appearances at the top 20 while the novelty application Talking Tomcat secured the no. 15 spot with over 400,000 users. To the surprise of many, Twitter did not make an appearance anywhere on the list.

The latest leaked information about Apple has made a revelation about the MacBook Air laptops. According to the information, the latest addition to the ultra thin range of laptops will hit the shelves this Wednesday. The information leak was announced by Chronic who is a leak-artist popular for his early revelations of undisclosed information about Apple.

The latest tip about the MacBook Air has made it certain that the device will definitely be released this Wednesday. The available information at the moment suggests that the MacBook Air will retain the same minimalist futuristic design. The updates made to the 11.6- and 13.3-inchultra thin laptops willmake sure that the storage space of the machines will be increased. In addition, the processors are expected to be faster.

According to Ming Chi-Kou, an analyst for Concord Securities, the production of all new 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch models of the MacBook Air are currently in progress. The revelation was made earlier when reports stated that Apple had placed an order for the production of 400,000 units of MacBook Air in June.

Ming Chi-Kou believes that the top ranking technology company has already made orders for the final production run of 80,000 existing dual core MacBook Air machines. However, he has stated that according to the available information, the release of the MacBook Air updates may not take place as soon as Chronic suggested.

The MacBook Air is one of the most popular device ranges from Apple. Just like every other Apple device, the MacBook Air is also subject to a great deal of hype from users and gadget enthusiasts. Experts believe that it is wise for users and fans of the ultra thin, ultra portable laptop range to keep an open mind and not to be driven by unconfirmed leaked information.

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 improvements have granted the ability for Google to try and guess whether a user is trying to search for images even before they have clicked on the ‘images’ tab. This recent update is said to be a follow up for last year’s major change to Google Images. Last year, the image search for the top search engine saw a massive change in its layout.

The recent changes to Google’s image search is said to have been inspired by last year’s update. The latest changes will feature larger thumbnails and additional information about each picture. If a particular search keyword is defined to have ‘high image intent’ will automatically result in more images.Instead of two or three pictures, if a certain search term implies that the user is attempting to access images, most of the result page will be filled with relevant images due to the recent changes.

A top tip for users from Dasher is to include ‘photos’ or ‘pictures’ at the end of their main search terms to obtain faster results from the all new features. Experts believe that Google is trying to optimize their services to make up for the next big step to discontinue their services for older browsers. The decision to drop their support for older browsers is set to be put in to action from 1^st August.

As of now, the improved image search will make searching for pictures much easier for users.

Twitter has confirmed today that they are all set to launch their own photo service soon. The official service from Twitter.com will allow Tweeters to upload videos and pictures. In addition to that, it will also allow users to make use of the unproved search engine to be updated about what is happening via a hashtag.

According to a statement made by Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s official blog, the picture service will be released within the next several weeks. According to him, the feature will allow them the chance to attach users’ pictures on to their Tweets right from Twitter.com. As for mobile users, Dorsey has offered assurance that they won’t be left out and will also be offered the facility from all of their official mobile applications very soon.

According to Dorsey, the decision to offer a photo service was taken to make photo sharing easier for the millions of Twitter users. Experts believe that it is a good idea. The service, operating along the same principle as Flipboard, is offered in partnership with Photobucket. However, some believe that it is not comparable for services such as Twitpic or Yfrog. On the other hand, Photobucket has plenty of experience in the area of handling photos.

Some experts believe that the move will isolate Twitter and scare away third party developers. Twitter’s signing of a deal with Photobucket was received by many with surprise since sharing photos on the micro blogging site is not often associated with the company.

On a positive note towards users of Twitter on their mobile phones, Twitter is currently attempting to create a partnership with mobile carriers toallow users to send pictures to Twitter via text message. Twitter has also announced that their all new and improved version of Twitter search will deliver better search results.

It is expected that Apple will be releasing an internal upgrade for the massively successful MacBook Air. According to information released by sources with knowledge on the matter, the supplies for the “size zero’ laptop are overwhelmed with the massive demand. Most tech experts believe that Apple is attempting to clear shelves in time for the new version of the laptop.

In addition, both of Apple’s retailers are offering the machines at incredibly low prices. The11.6inch version is considered to be Apple’s best attempt at something resembling a netbook. Reviewers and user have both expressed that the Air is indeed a marvel. With its unibody design and futuristic super thin design it was also considered to be a visual treat.

However, the memory and battery life was considered by most users not to regard this impressive machine as a primary laptop. Nevertheless, the 11.6 inch MacBook Air comes complete with a generously sized keyboard and a multi-touch track pad.

Originally priced at £850, the MacBook Air was considered to be a luxury product. At the moment, Best Buy has marked the device down to $938 which has resulted in quite a bit of purchases from many users who found the original price to be too high. The Mac Refurb store has taken the price down another $100 and is offering the 11.6 version at $829.

The all new versions of the MacBook Air will come equipped with Thunderbolt technology as well as the Sandy Bridge processors from Intel. The information that is available at the moment suggests that the appearance of the upcoming upgraded versions will be the same as the current versions which are flying off the shelves due to the price cuts. The MacBook Air was redesigned last year, therefore a new look will not be offered with the impressive package.