Facebook tonight unveiled its mobile App Center as it amps up its efforts to improve its mobile business. The new app center, the company’s first big announcement since its IPO, went live tonight with more than 600 apps, including Nike+ GPS, Ubisoft Ghost Recon Commander, Stitcher Radio, Draw Something, and Pinterest. The App Center is… Read More: Facebook Unveils mobile App Center »
Last year December Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt assured the company will be rolling out a tablet in six months. The project is a collaboration between Google and Asus.The 7-inch tablet dubbed the Nexus 7 is rumored to be out in the market in June. Based on the specifications the tablet will come with Android 4.1… Read More: Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet uncovered »
31-year-old Alexander Aan faces up to fives years in prison after he declared himself an atheist on Facebook. The Indonesian man is in protective police custody because he fears physical assault. 31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for posting “God does not exist” on Facebook. The civil servant was attacked… Read More: Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook… »
A new Computerworld survey indicates the nine IT skills that will be in demand in 2012. Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009… Read More: IT Skills in demand for 2012 »
The battle between Oracle and Google over Java appears to have come to an end.A jury on Wednesday cleared Google of violating any of Oracle’s patents with its Android mobile software. Oracle had claimed that Google’s Android infringes two patents that Oracle holds on its Java software, a ubiquitous programming language powering everything from phones… Read More: Android doesn’t infringe Oracle’s patents:jury »
May 21, 2012: Microsoft’s experimental research project so.cl — a social network meant to merge search and research — has opened up to the public. (Microsoft) Microsoft has quietly launched its own social network — but the company swears it isn’t a Facebook competitor. You can even use your Facebook account to log in to it.… Read More: Microsoft unveils so.cl social network. Is this the next facebook… »
A US jury has found that internet giant Google breached copyright in a case brought by Oracle over its Java programming language. But the jurors were unable to agree on whether Google’s actions constituted “fair use” under copyright law.Oracle was asking for $1bn (£630m) in compensation in one of the biggest such technology lawsuits to… Read More: Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyright, US jury finds »
A report titled “Facebook & Your Privacy,” shows that about one out of every four Facebook users lies on their profile.The focuses on the ways people interact with the social-networking site to share information, and what happens to that information after they do. In a survey of 2,000 households, 25% of users said they falsified… Read More: Facebook user profiles and false identities:study »
At this years’s Webbys, BBC News website walked away with the people’s Voice award for news. Webby Award is an international award presented annually by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for excellence on the internet with categories in websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile. Included in the list of… Read More: Award winners:Webbys Awards 2012 »
Time to migrate? Unlimited Data Bundles Ends.. Mobile operator, Safaricom, has announced plans to stop selling unlimited data packages saying it is losing money on the pricing model. The company blamed some data user of misusing the bundles by downloading too much, which also slows down lower consumption users. Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore said there… Read More: Safaricom Announces Plans to Stop Unlimited Data Bundles »