New York — With the mobile software marketplace growing by leaps and bounds, IBM, the world’s biggest computer-services provider, on Tuesday announced that is it is acquiring Worklight Inc., a closely held Israeli company that makes software for smartphones and tablets, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application technologies to […]

Sunnyvale, California — Earlier this month internet pioneer Yahoo appointed Scott Thompson as new CEO, who now seems to radically change its business structure. And one of the first changes the company appears to be counterintuitively, decommissioning 10 of its mobile applications, most optimized for Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android and BlackBerry platforms to make […]

Los Angeles — The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been quick to reap the powers of social media network Facebook and micro-blogging outfit Twitter as the US space agency on Monday unveiled its first online space trivia game called “Space Race Blastoff,” a Facebook app that allows multiple players to compete for […]

London — Just in time to cater the massive number of travelers to the London Olympics, search engine behemoth Google on Monday said that it has significantly enhanced its Maps capability for the United Kingdom, in addition to endorsing a deal with the ticketing site TheTrainline, to provide public transport information on Google Maps so […]

The social networking giant, Facebook, will finally have a love affair with the Angry Birds. Coming this Valentine’s Day, on the 14th February, Angry Birds will be finally flying on over to Facebook. It has conquered almost every platform, and on this year’s day of love, it will rule and dominate the scene with Facebook.

San Francisco — In an attempt to prevent their email services from scammers, tech titans such as Google, PayPal, Facebook, Microsoft, and eleven other outfits announced that they had formed a new alliance to combat phishing–a way of fooling email and web users into providing sensitive information, including credit card numbers, which attempt to trick […]

Redmond, Washington — The latest battle-of-the devices between Apple’s personal assistant Siri and Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller that has now become extremely popular among Xbox 360 owners could soon reshape as a future competition boils up, and now the software giant is finally delivering on its promise to bring Kinect technology into laptops, but most […]

Mountain View, California — In a novel move to notify the public of some unforeseen dangers like an earthquake warning has already been issued for the area you are visiting later or you desperately need up-to-date information about the hurricane headed your way, Google Maps should be able to help. Search engine titan Google, over […]

Google is on an educating spree, with its back-to-back educational campaigns. Firstly, it is the “Google in Education” campaign, which is an integration of a number of education-related tools. The other campaign had Google Scoring Contract to bring 27,000 Chromebooks to Schools. So this session is a sheer dedication to those who want to feel […]

Google’s social networking site, Google+, has dropped the age requirement from 18 to 13. This will allow teenagers to join Google+, which are now on lines with Facebook’s age policy. The announcement came from Bradley Horowitz, Google VP, product management, noting the new features for teen users.