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Google Spruces Up Gmail With Custom Themes, Background Images
2012

Google Spruces Up Gmail With Custom Themes, Background Images

June 22, 2012 0
Mountain View, California –– Are you fed up of all the built-in themes that Google offers to beautify your Gmail? Well, if you like your webmail to give personalize effect, then you are on the right track as Google on Tuesday announced that it is introducing a new custom themes feature that lets you customize […]
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Microsoft Unveiled Windows Phone 8: Modernizes Its Mobile System
2012

Microsoft Unveiled Windows Phone 8: Modernizes Its Mobile System

June 21, 2012 0
San Francisco — In what appears to be a huge week for Microsoft, when it announced its Surface tablet platform at a hush-hush event in Los Angeles, and now software giant Microsoft Corp. previewed the next generation of its Windows Phone 8 Apollo at its Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, as it continued an […]
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Yahoo Makes Alliance With Getty Images, Enhances Image And Video Search Features
2012

Yahoo Makes Alliance With Getty Images, Enhances Image And Video Search Features

June 21, 2012 0
Sunnyvale, California — Relentlessly striving to regain its lost glory, prominent internet portal Yahoo on Wednesday made substantial visual improvements to its image and video search functions, that will receive a boost through an alliance with Getty Images that will see up to 20,000 new photos added to web searches daily.
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Facebook Introduces Timeline-Themed Business Cards, Profile Pictures When Hovering Over Users Name
2012

Facebook Introduces Timeline-Themed Business Cards, Profile Pictures When Hovering Over Users Name

June 21, 2012 0
Los Angeles — In a fresh move to attract its users with new attributes, social networking giant Facebook introduced a new feature Wednesday that displays a friend’s Timeline information, including a smaller version of their cover photo, when a friend hovers over their profile picture in the News Feed.
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Facebook Pays $10 Million To Charity To Settle Sponsored Stories Lawsuit
2012

Facebook Pays $10 Million To Charity To Settle Sponsored Stories Lawsuit

June 20, 2012 0
Los Angeles — In a shocking turn of events, social networking humongous Facebook Inc has agreed to cough up $10 million to charity to settle a “Sponsored Stories” lawsuit that accused the site of violating users’ rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over […]
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Twitter Introduces Simplified Tweet Streams: See ‘All’ And ‘No Replies’
2012

Twitter Introduces Simplified Tweet Streams: See ‘All’ And ‘No Replies’

June 20, 2012 0
  Los Angeles — Popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter is admired by its dedicated users for the focused messaging power inherent in the short bursts of text and tags they can fire off faster than is possible on other social media platforms. Now, in attempt to make its service more accommodating less seasoned users, Twitter made […]
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Google Offers Delivers Its Daily Deals To The iPhone
2012

Google Offers Delivers Its Daily Deals To The iPhone

June 20, 2012 0
Mountain View, California — In an attempt to further its daily deals program, search engine giant Google has launched a new indigenous iPhone app for its Offers daily deals service, the company announced today in a blog post.
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Facebook Finally Snaffles Face.com And Its Facial Recognition Technology
2012

Facebook Finally Snaffles Face.com And Its Facial Recognition Technology

June 19, 2012 0
New York — The swirling rumor has finally come to fruition as social media giant Facebook has acquired Face.com, a facial recognition start-up, in a likely attempt to make photo-tagging easier on the social network.
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Microsoft Counters iPad With Its Own Surface Tablets Running Windows 8
2012

Microsoft Counters iPad With Its Own Surface Tablets Running Windows 8

June 19, 2012 0
Los Angeles — In its most strategically significant nudge so far into the hardware industry, software maker Microsoft Corp on Monday unfurled its own line of tablet computers called “Surface” at a much-hyped press event in Los Angeles, that is intended to challenge Apple’s iPad, finally craving a major strategic shift for the software giant […]
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Facebook Launches Explore London 2012 Olympics Hub To Connect Fans, Athletes
2012

Facebook Launches Explore London 2012 Olympics Hub To Connect Fans, Athletes

June 19, 2012 0
San Francisco — As the preparation for the forthcoming globally popular Summer Olympics to be held in London is around the corner, social networking giant Facebook has taken a novel initiative to bring the game to the arm-chair viewer, on Monday launched an official Explore London 2012, a page dedicated for fans to connect with […]
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