2010

New York -- Popular internet telephony service Skype has not had a very good week, which has been dealing with some serious downtime issues, but it looks like there is good news on the horizon. Skype is all set to knock FaceTime off its high chair, Skype is finally going to enter the market of mobile video calls, at the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2011, the VoIP telephony giant announced its video calling abilities is that the company is taking part in a panel called "Video Calling Gets Ready for Primetime". (more…)

San Francisco -- Popular retailer site Amazon over the weekend said that sales of Microsoft's three-license Windows 7 Family Pack will end next week, according to Amazon, or once they have run out of stock or on December 31st, whichever occurs soonest. (more…)

Los Angeles -- It was only a matter of time, social networking website Facebook glanced at Yahoo's traffic, laughed and sped past topping off a fine year for the company and the website, as Santa bestowed the company the title of "third largest website ever". (more…)

Los Angeles -- Flash video on an iPad browser? You kidding? Skyfire, the alternative browser that uses some server-based trickery for iPhone and iPad that play back Flash video on the notoriously Flash-blocking devices, was added to the App Store Wednesday night for $4.99.

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New York -- Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, on Wednesday disclosed that it has finally concluded the biggest real estate purchase of New York's 111 Eighth Avenue building as the company expands its presence in Manhattan, which will house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city, for a reported $1.9 billion. (more…)

New York -- Micro blogging site Twitter may have geared up to become a major player in the thriving social Q&A space on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Fluther, a small California-based startup, which describes itself as a “free Q&A collective that specializes in getting fast answers from the right people,” for its engineering talent. (more…)

Redmond, Washington -- Software monopolists Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is the most standards-compliant browser to date. Although, it still dawdles behind the rest of the pack when it comes to supporting the latest and greatest elements of HTML5 and CSS 3. To address that shortcoming, Microsoft has introduced a new HTML5 Labs site to give interested web developers a way to “preview” HTML5 features that would not be supported in Internet Explorer 9, but could make it into future updates.

The HTML5 Labs web-site will function as a virtual space for developers testing unstable web standards from various standards bodies such as W3C. The company mentions that coders can utilize the site in as a foundation-level resource in the knowledge that their sites will continue to work with build updates. (more…)

San Francisco -- Internet telephony giant Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours with millions of users around the globe have been hit by an outage Wednesday when the prominent internet telephony system was disrupted by a massive glitch.

The company which prides itself on delivering relatively reliable service last suffered a major outage in 2007. Millions of Skype users globally could not make calls -- or were dropped in mid-conversation -- because of a network connection failure that began about 9 a.m. Wednesday PST. Users as far afield as Japan, Europe and the US have all reported problems.

This outage marks the second time this year that the popular, low-priced calling service has suffered with a major outage, and this one was more widespread than the two-day disruption in 2007.

Skype issued an apology for the outage, which incapacitated millions of people who were unable to log on to the service or connect to any of their contacts and that the program is crashing across all platforms, whether on their mobile device or PC. (more…)

Mountain View, California -- In an ironic twist it seems that another Googler has ditched Google for Facebook, but this one may hurt a little more than the others. Paul Adams, one of search engine giant's experienced researcher who, over the summer excoriated aspects of social networks in a popular slide deck, said today he will be heading to Facebook in the new year.

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Bangalore, India -- India is one of the emerging country and so is the technology of the nation. It has established a substantial niche for itself on the global map for its advancement in information technology sector but that did not help it ward off Google's closure of its voice search experiment in India, which puts a question mark on the viability of search through automated voice responses. (more…)