Los Angeles — Mapping lies at the heart of the smartphone experience Nokia delivered last week with its Lumia devices, and the company’s deployment of its Navteq acquisition has been one of its rare illustration of genius in the alien mobile web world. Aiming to take its operating system iOS to the next stage, Apple […]

  San Francisco — The tablet reader battle is going to get a whole lot more intense shortly, as both Google’s ‘Propeller’ and Yahoo’s Livestand are expected to unfurl their new digital newsstand apps as early as next week, according to reports from AllThingsD.

Android and Apple may have a number of differences, in terms of functionality, usability and apps. In a few cases, Apple holds supremacy, while in some cases, its Android. But it seems, Google tends to mutualize one benefit it has been holding from the start. Gmail has been a core part of the Android experience, […]

Facebook has killed yet another service, after acquiring it for enhancing the presence of its social networking site. “Save the Whales.” Beluga, the group messaging service acquired by Facebook on March 1, will finally shut down on December 15. The announcement came from the Beluga co-founders, Chief Executive Officer Ben Davenport, President Lucy Zhang, and […]

Google is marching on with inclusions to popularize its social networking baby. The latest addition counts for the integration of Google+ with Google Apps. This would make is sensibly useful for the businesses as Circles would now be an option in the business setting. This integration has been long awaited, making Google+ only better.

Facebook has more than 800 million active users on a daily basis and keeping the impostors out of the social networking site seems to be impossible. Facebook noted that it is blocking almost 600,000 impostors on a daily basis , who attempt to access users’ messages, photos and other personal information. Facebook is the world’s […]

Alliance in the tech world have had a number of problems and the Microsoft-Nokia alliance is no exception to the case. The companies involved here had collaborated their efforts on the dropping sections of their assets. Microsoft South Africa MD, Mteto Nyati confirmed the same, as he said, “Nokia required an updated operating system. Microsoft […]

Facebook seems to be playing around with the privacy issues of its users, time and again. Following the Google+ Circles, Facebook had improved its privacy settings, by allowing the users to share what they want to and with whom. But maybe Facebook intends to change its thinking yet again. Like every rose has a thorn, […]

New York — AOL venturing into capture new audiences has announced a new version of their creatively named AOL HD app, which is now available for instant download on Samsung Smart TV and Google TV platforms.

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to rule the online world, search engine colossus Google Inc. over the weekend unveiled revolutionary changes to its budding Google Offers daily-deals site into an umbrella offering of sorts, partnering with 14 separate deals providers, as rival Groupon Inc pitches its IPO to potential investors.