The software giant has made a few Windows 8 UI concessions, but it would not go further ahead as to allow users to circumvent the tiled Metro screen altogether. Microsoft had a couple of posts made to detail its Windows 8 Start Menu plans, but its third post on the same topic noted that the […]

IBM has pushed in its platform-as-a-service strategy today, which has been accompanied by a series of SmartCloud software and services being launched. The latter has been specifically designed to court enterprise customers. IBM, even known as Big Blue, notified that it has ported SAP, enterprise resource planning applications and all databases to its private cloud […]

Nearly nine million Facebook fans of the retailer will now be able to follow what’s happening at their neighborhood stores on the My Local Walmart page. Around 3500 Wal-Mart outlets, under this effort, will send alerts to their fans about new products, discounts and events.

Game maker Zynga is setting the ground for being independent and building its own platform whereby players can have a direct relationship with Zynga whether on the Web or the mobile. This was declared by Zynga’s founder and CEO, Mark Pincus, at the ‘Zynga Unleashed’ event at San Francisco on Tuesday. Titled ‘Project Z’, this […]

Apple, after the demise of its mastermind, Steve Jobs, seems to be going wayward. On October 4th, the company had plans to announce its iCloud and iOS 5 features on Wednesday, October 12th, that is today. But before one could get further detailing on the same, the tech giant has pushed in another update which […]

App stores have created magic on many popular mobile sites, but till now they have been restricted to consumers in the non-business world. This seems to change now as app stores might enter the enterprises soon. With these app stores coming in, finally it would help IT gain control over the software that is consumed […]

San Francisco — After slipping to a two-year low in August, global search engine behemoth Google’s U.S. market search share climbs back to 65.3% in September, up from 64.8 percent in August, while Yahoo! Inc. plunged to its lowest search share ever at 15.5 percent, according to comScore Inc.

Los Angeles — Barely a day before Apple is expected to release its iOS 5 update with Twitter integration, the micro-blogging outfit along with a number of apps released an update in preparation for the upcoming iOS 5 launch with new features, including photo sharing.

New York — Global search engine titan Google relentlessly striving to boost its Google+ analytics tracking abilities, earlier this week announced the acquisition of a small social analytics startup called SocialGrapple, whose founder will likely apply their social graph analyzing expertise to the Google+ social network.

Facebook yet again is opting to extend its partnership with Apple. Earlier during the day there was news from the social networking giant that it had announced an official iPad app, which was one of the ‘most awaited’ apps on iPad. Now, it has come up with its Facebook Platform in the mobile world and […]