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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apple has issued a confirmation that an unspecified number of their massively successful iPad 2 tablets have been recalled. This occurred due to certain issues regarding the connectivity of the devices. The issue is said to be related to their mobile equipment identifier codes. Reports of the issue started surfacing last year and Apple has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The upcoming Galaxy Tab 8.9 from Samsung has faced a delay in release. According to a report issued on the matter, the delay is a result of a shortage of components. Some experts believe that Samsung is in a big rush to catch up with Apple’s super slim and powerful iPad 2. The Galaxy Tab [...]
Kevin Lynch, the chief technology officer of Adobe has made a statement about his vision on the future of smartphones. According to his belief, the next step in to the future of smartphones involves location-based applications. Lynch voiced his opinions at the Open Mobile Summit and made a demonstration of the technology on a Samsung [...]
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 [...]
