Los Angeles — It was only a matter of time, social networking website Facebook glanced at Yahoo’s traffic, laughed and sped past topping off a fine year for the company and the website, as Santa bestowed the company the title of “third largest website ever”.

Los Angeles — Flash video on an iPad browser? You kidding? Skyfire, the alternative browser that uses some server-based trickery for iPhone and iPad that play back Flash video on the notoriously Flash-blocking devices, was added to the App Store Wednesday night for $4.99.

New York — Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, on Wednesday disclosed that it has finally concluded the biggest real estate purchase of New York’s 111 Eighth Avenue building as the company expands its presence in Manhattan, which will house its more than 2,000-strong workforce in the city, for a reported […]

New York — Micro blogging site Twitter may have geared up to become a major player in the thriving social Q&A space on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Fluther, a small California-based startup, which describes itself as a “free Q&A collective that specializes in getting fast answers from the right people,” for its engineering […]

Redmond, Washington — Software monopolists Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is the most standards-compliant browser to date. Although, it still dawdles behind the rest of the pack when it comes to supporting the latest and greatest elements of HTML5 and CSS 3. To address that shortcoming, Microsoft has introduced a new HTML5 Labs site to give […]

San Francisco — Internet telephony giant Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours with millions of users around the globe have been hit by an outage Wednesday when the prominent internet telephony system was disrupted by a massive glitch. The company which prides itself on delivering relatively reliable service last suffered a major outage in […]

Mountain View, California — In an ironic twist it seems that another Googler has ditched Google for Facebook, but this one may hurt a little more than the others. Paul Adams, one of search engine giant’s experienced researcher who, over the summer excoriated aspects of social networks in a popular slide deck, said today he […]

Bangalore, India — India is one of the emerging country and so is the technology of the nation. It has established a substantial niche for itself on the global map for its advancement in information technology sector but that did not help it ward off Google’s closure of its voice search experiment in India, which […]

Redmond, Washington — Software monopolist Microsoft without fanfare over the weekend has sneaked out the latest version of its Microsoft Security Essentials 2 (MSE) antivirus software.

Mountain View, California — Inspired by the holiday spirit, and just when the year 2010 was coming to end, Google has decided to play Santa by extending its current phone calling offer for Gmail users in the US, permitting them to call landlines and mobiles in Canada and the US for free throughout 2011.