Archive : Web

Google got a rap on its knuckle again for it’s Streetview violation, it was fined 145,000 euros  by The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information a German regulator for collecting wireless network data by its Street View cars. The Hamburg Commissioner called the company’s acts “one of the most serious cases of violation of data protection” in German history. Google’s [...]

Google is testing waters to adding Google Now functionality to the Google home page according to Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog. Google Now is currently available for Android users and Google Glass users, “Google Now uses your location to show relevant information like weather, traffic conditions, and nearby places. Google can know your location based on your browser settings and [...]

Twitter introduced a new music discovery app called Twitter #music on Thursday. Twitter provided more information in a Blog Post.   “Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also [...]

Google Apps and many of the products within it, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and so forth are down for many for the past 30 minutes or so. The Google Apps Status Dashboard is denying the outage.   This is not the first time some portion of Google Apps has gone offline, and Gmail has had its share of troubles. Still, both services are up and active far more than these occasional glitches.  

Facebook’s much talked and written about “Home on Android,” event saw Facebook taking the wraps off Home, a suite of apps and a home screen replacement for Android phones. Facebook Home replaces the lock screen with Cover Feed and prioritizes updates from people on your Friends list instead of apps. Facebook users swipe between pictures, status updates and other important events. It also [...]

Microsoft’s tablets currently have a  minimum 10 inch display, smaller devices running Microsoft OS were on the cards with  Microsoft making changes to the resolution requirements which would have enabled hardware manufacturers to put Windows 8 mobile OS on smaller 7-inch tablets. Details of the first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet have leaked, after Amazon.com by mistake published a listing for [...]

Amazon has announced on Thursday that they are acquiring Goodreads,which bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.” Goodreads.com was founded in 2007 and since then has built a reported  user base of 16 million members, who have added 525 million books and 23 million reviews. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with [...]

Google today released a ‘patent pledge’ which promises that Google won’t sue developers that uses their patents. The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge  will initially see 10 MapReduce patents receive protection. MapReduce is a computing model for processing large data sets developed at Google, whose open-source versions  are now widely used. At Google we believe that open systems [...]

Apple had released a 2-step verification for Apple accounts last week on the lines of Google’s 2-step verification,and it has created an epic embarrassment for Apple, not unlike Apple Maps fiasco. The issue was reported by The Verge, who observed that a series of lock screen exploits makes it possible to reset a user’s password using only their email address and birthdate, the only protection [...]

Twitter turns  seven year old today, seven years ago  Twitter creator Jack Dorsey first tweeted. over the years, the social network has gathered over 200 million users who generate over 400 million tweets each day. ‘There’s an old English saying, “Keep a thing seven years, and you’ll always find a use for it.” Today is Twitter’s 7th birthday, which we observe on the day @jack first [...]