A San Francisco judge ruled that Google may have violated some federal laws regarding wire taping. Google lawyers are trying to have the class action lawsuit thrown out, stating that anyone can access the wireless signals. Google had admitted previously to taking data by mistake while their Street View vehicles where gathering images for Google [...]
Posted on July 01st, 2011 in Business, Technology
Yesterday Skype updated their Android App that will now allow Skype Video Calls. Skype users can now video chat on their Android device with millions of other Skype users both nationally and internationally. Skype will also allow users to make calls using both Wi-Fi and 3G, a feature not available on Apple’s FaceTime. Users can [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2011 in Headlines, Social Networking
The upgrading of Google Social Search was soon forgotten as Microsoft Bing released an updated version of their Bing Bar with Facebook integrations. The integrations allows Bing users to receive news feeds notifications, alerts, and other messages in a tool bar powered by Bing. Google launched the Social Search with the objectives to help raise [...]
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Facebook and Google are in talks with Twitter both looking to purchase the micro-blogging site who’s estimate value is around 8-10 billion dollars. The report also said that the estimate may be a little generous because in 2010 Twitter saw revenue totaling to 45 [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2011 in Mobile Internet
One of the big announcements from the CES 2011 convention is that Android and the new Xoom are looking strong to rival the iPad in the next year. As they expect over 100 tablets to be launched, the immediate buzz has still centred around the Xoom. Manufactured by Motorola, the Xoom is a gorgeous, 10 [...]