After targeting Google last week, the Federal Trade Commission has now begun investigating real-time short messaging service Twitter’s business practices, Business Insider reported on Thursday. At this point in time, the details of the investigations are sketchy but it seems that a case is being made for the way Twitter deals with the companies building […]

Yahoo! has upgraded its Clues feature which they first introduced in November, 2010. This free service gives you a ‘behind the scenes’ look into popular search trends. Top Trends, a key new feature, allows you to endlessly explore the most popular search terms on Yahoo! Search. Using filter selections, you can choose a combination of […]

“Microsoft on Wednesday released the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 which combines improvements, new features and previously released updates in a single update pack, say a ghacks post. Microsoft Office 2010 is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows and is the successor to Microsoft 2007.   Microsoft notes that Office 2010 SP1 contains all “public […]

Microsoft’s attempt to seek a patent for a technology called Legal Intercept, which would allow the company to secretly intercept , monitor and record Skype calls is stoking privacy concerns, reports Computer World Though Microsoft applied for the patent for Legal Intercept in 2009, well before it acquired Skype, it was made public only last […]

Los Angeles — Little green pigs across the nation are shivering in fear now that after a long wait, the wildly popular ‘Angry Birds’ bird slinging game finally makes its way to the Windows Phone 7 platform today. It has certainly been a long journey, as Angry Birds has been widely admired on both Apple’s […]

San Francisco — Phishing–a nagging issue that has caused undesirable harm to the internet at large and global search engine leader Google in general. The company yesterday announced that it has added several visual features aimed at helping its Gmail users in an effort to reduce the effectiveness of phishing emails. With the nuisance becoming […]

Mountain View, California — Spreading the power of its recently popularized ‘plus-one’, and now Google has begun incorporating +1 button to AdWords, the search engine giant’s main advertising product, so users can recommend adverts to their friends and contacts, the company informed its AdWords customers this week. As marketeers know, word of mouth is a […]

Barely a day after Search Engine Giant Google launched its +1 service globally, albeit in a limited manner, China has blocked the new feature reports Ren Media.

Oh, How the Might Have Fallen! Myspace which ruled the social media in the early phase of the 20th century now finds itself in the doldrums. Purchased by NewsCorp in 2005 for an astronomical $ 580 million, Myspace has been shelved off at a drastically reduced price of $ 35 million, made up of a […]

The man who claims that he owns half of Social Media Network Facebook, Paul Ceglia, has been deserted by his lawyers. DLA Piper, the reputed law firm, which has expertise in technology and intellectual property law has dropped Ceglia’s case, says a Geek post