Winrumours reported on Friday, “Marketplace trackers windowsphoneapplist.com is currently tracking 25,015 apps in the U.S. market place alone. WP7applist is tracking 24,784 applications worldwide and explains 4,025 of them are inactive, 51% are available for free and the average price is $1.48 per paid application. Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace has been growing at an impressive […]

Come July 11 and Xbox.com is going to be the new home of Games for Windows Marketplace. On this development PC Mag posted on Sunday, “Microsoft’s just merging the Games for Windows marketplace into the one place that naturally comes to mind when you think about downloading PC titles: Xbox.com.” The post continues, “The general […]

Redmond, Washington — Striving to save some energy for itself, software monopolists Microsoft over the weekend announced that it is pulling the plug on its free online “Hohm” consumer energy management application because of poor uptake.

Los Angeles — The tech industry is buzzing with what “awesome” new product the popular social media giant Facebook plans to unveil on Wednesday, but there is a good guesswork floating around that it will reportedly be unveiling a Skype-powered video chat platform.

New York — Hot on the heels of its much-anticipated iPad-optimized app announced last month, Skype, the popular VoIP service provider, makes another splash over the weekend by releasing out its second version of Skype for Android, a video calling application that positions the chat service as a de facto standard across mobile platforms.

Social Media Giant Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerburg’s announcement on Wednesday that his company would ‘launch something awesome’ sometime next week has fueled a lot of speculations in the tech world. “The 27-year old billionaire didn’t reveal any further details other than that the project was developed on Facebook’s 40-person Seattle campus, its only other engineering […]

On Saturday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Bankers for Hulu LLC, the video-streaming service, have met with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft as the company explores a sale, people familiar with the process said.” Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners have reached out to 10 to 12 potential bidders, including AT&T Inc., said two people who weren’t […]

Microsoft and Onkyo Corporation have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for certain Onkyo tablets running the Android Platform,” reported the Microsoft News Center on Thursday. Although the contents of the agreement have not been disclosed, the parties indicate that Microsoft will receive royalties from Onkyo under the agreement.

Mountain View, California — Global search engine titan Google is on a rampage this week, first it unfurled social networking extravaganza Google+, then redesigns Google Homepage, and now it is fiddling around with Gmail. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company confirmed that it is changing the inbox design for its wildly popular Gmail service, and letting […]

San Francisco — These days the tech industry is buzzing with social media-focused hype, and amazingly, search engine behemoth Google is getting more social, and starting today, Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools has been bundled with more features that webmasters may find essential for measuring a site’s popularity and effectiveness to show you exactly what […]