The ubiquitous and ever-popular social media has gained one more fan – the New York Police Department. On Wednesday, NYPD declared that it would be setting up a Social Media Unit to track boastful criminals who rave about their activities on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, reported NY Daily News. The Unit will, […]

Microsoft is looking to take its next-generation offerings to a new level by making them capable of recognizing and understanding speech via its consolidated speech technology unit Tellme, reports Zdnet.

Google has a new rival in the field of mobile payment solutions. Pago Mobile is newly launched and comes from Google’s hometown. This new entrant would add to the crowd of competitors in this field. Pago mobile would enable its customers to make payments with the help of an application on their phone. The payments […]

Microsoft has managed to give its consumers yet another reason to be amused with a 3D effect. The software giant has its team working hard to give the consumers a real-like effect. This development would give effect for lip syncing and realistic facial expressions, but it would be a bit expensive and time consuming to […]

  Huntsville, Alabama — Relentlessly aiming to expand its services to more and more city and countries, Google has added Huntsville Transit System to its transportation mapping service called Google Transit – a move that should make it easier for local riders to find and map bus routes.

The first round of the Apple-Samsung battle was won by Apple with a German Court ordering a preliminary injunction, on the grounds of an alleged infringement of Apple’s iPad-related Community design no. 000181607-0001, against the distribution of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the European Union, except the Netherlands. While this preliminary injunction takes immediate effect […]

Los Angeles — Striving to outshine its rivals in the messaging world, social networking humongous Facebook adopted a novel strategy Tuesday on its mobile efforts debuted Facebook Messenger, a new mobile app for smartphones that lets you send and receive real-time messages with individual friends as well as small groups of friends, send photos, and […]

Social media network Facebook has been threatened by Anonymous who has launched ‘Operation Facebook’ and announced that they would destroy the network on November 5, 2011 – Guy Fawkes Day. To be more precise, somebody has set up a Twitter account and YouTube Channel to announce the Operation Facebook. The reason? ‘Privacy.’

On Sunday there was a lightning which struck in Dublin. This lightning knocked out two data centres which were of Microsoft and Amazon. The backup systems were even disabled. It resulted in downtime for twelve hours approximately. Amazon reported that a transformer was struck by the lightning resulting in a series of problems for the […]

Yahoo! Inc was in a fix when its shareholders claimed that the U.S. Web Portal had misled them about the restructured business of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which is based in China. The complaint which was filed yesterday, by the investors in San Francisco’s federal court. They claimed that Yahoo had not informed them before […]