Archive for June, 2010
Google Launches Google Voice then gets Sued
Frontier Communications Corporation is claiming that Google Voice infringes on one of its patented products. On Tuesday 22 June Google opened to the public Google Voice, its new communications service that links one phone number to multiple devices owned by the account holder – such as home phones, work, mobile – all contactable through one […]
Read More | ShareWindows 7 sales very strong, 150 million so far, 7 every second
Microsoft has spent considerable time developing their new operating System Windows 7 and it looks like they are reaping the rewards already. Windows 7 was launched in October 2009 and has sold 150 million copies so far – that is 7 every second. A lot of these sales are going to enterprises whom did not […]
Read More | ShareRussian President Medvedev goes to Twitter HQ, Apple HQ
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has recently gone on a tour of Silicon Valley in California in an effort to create a similar tech central in Moscow, Russia. Medvedev went to Twitter HQ where he met co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone and even created a Twitter account and sent out his first tweets – learning […]
Read More | Share[HUGE] Facebook and Twitter Integrate
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Twitter has announced that it is bringing major updates to their connections with Facebook and LinkedIn. A new Facebook app has been created – the Twitter app for Facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ This allows you to post your Tweets onto your Facebook profile, lets you see which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter – and even […]
Read More | ShareFacebook ready to launch Location Based Services
There has been alot of competition lately location-based services (LBS) market (applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite) and that has now sparked interested from Facebook Twitter has just launched their own Twitter location features showing they too want to capitalise on this rapidly expanding segment. That moves the whole Twitter service one step close to […]
Read More | ShareGoogle voice now open to the public
Google has announced that its popular internet-based phone service Google Voice is now open to the general public. The announcement was made by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, Google Voice Product Managers. Google has clarified that Google Voice is still currently limited to the U.S – not Australia just yet. Here is a preview from […]
Read More | ShareHow does the world spend its time online? [statistics]
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As Global internet users how are we spending our time online? Here are some interesting statistics for you to think about: – 22% of our time is spent on social networking sites – 42% of our time is spent viewing websites – 36% is other activities such as email, web searches, commerce, shopping. On a […]
Read More | ShareApple iOS 4 reviewed
So what is the iOS 4? iOS 4 is the latest update of Apple’s mobile operating system, which is the software used by all models of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The main new features of iOS4 are: multitasking, iBooks app, unified emails, Spotlight Search (allowing support for Wikipedia and regular internet searches), a […]
Read More | ShareBing donating money to BP oil spill via Twitter
Bing is setting aside $100,000 USD to donate to help clean up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This effort is being lead through Twitter. Bing has said if you Re-Tweet (RT) the following: Retweet this & @Bing will donate $10 to @CNN’s Gulf Telethon up to $100K. More at http://bit.ly/howtodonate. #BingforGulf […]
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