In the recent Arab revolts that brought down dictator regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter received brownie points for the positive role that they played. On the contrary, in the current London riots, micro-blogging site Twitter and video sharing site YouTube are being questioned on their roles and utility.

Post the slanging matches with Microsoft executives over the Android patents issue, search engine giant Google seems to be on the path to develop a strategy, in conjunction with its partners, to protect the value of Android and keep away patent lawsuits.

All the world and his brother is on Twitter telling everybody what they have been doing and what they think, oblivious to the interest of the readers. If you are one of those who is irked by the tweets which are floating around you now have an option of venting your ire in a very […]

Patents are occupying the center stage with various companies playing the peripheral roles in the world of technology. With the filing of a suit by Florida-based Operating Systems Solution (OSS) against Apple, it now dons the role of a defendant vis-a-vis the role of a plaintiff which it has been playing for the last few […]

Google has had many troubles in the French territory and the problems were severe enough to get Google terms such as ‘cultural imperialist’ by the French politicians. Publishers there have even called Google a ‘copyright cheat’. But still surprisingly, France is the sole country where Google manages to strike a longstanding business goal.

An AdWords Performance Grader has been released by WordStream which has been specifically designed for campaigns of Google AdWords. WordStream is based in Boston and is a provider of search marketing softwares, who has planned to release this grader for free. This tool has been released at the right time when AdWords campaigns are being […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo, relentlessly trying to outwit its rivals, now plans to expand on its partnerships, announced an agreement with TV company Belo Corp., to deliver ads across Yahoo sites in Belo’s 15 local TV markets in the U.S.

New York — Popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter, lately seems to have been bulging up its arsenal with a small startup called Bagcheck, an online service where people create lists of items that interest them, the company announced in a blog post on Monday.

Mountain View, California — Hot on the heels of last month’s introduction of an indigenous Google+ app for iPhone users, Mountain View, Calif.-based search behemoth Google on Monday cranked out another update to the same application, adding support to work on Apple’s popular iPad tablet and iPod Touch devices, as well as more Huddle group […]

Reports say that the software giant Microsoft has plans to create support JavaScript and HTML5 as a platform to develop Office 15. in earlier reports, Microsoft had stated that the focus of Windows 8 would ne on JanaScript and HTML5. This was touted to be an important development strategy for its new UI. This strategy […]