Google Inc. announced Friday that it has bought technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. as the Web-search giant stocks up on intellectual property to protect itself against lawsuits. The acquisition was informed earlier by the blog SEO by the Sea, which said Google in mid-July recorded the acquisition of more than 1,000 patents with [...]
Apple on Thursday issued the second beta set up of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developers with no known problems. Both the Combo Upgrade and the Delta Upgrade for Mac OS X 10.6.8 build 10K524 are a 1GB download. Focus areas for the establishment consist of QuickTime, Airport, Graphics Drivers, Mac App Store, Networking, and [...]
Google has just introduced the beta sign-up page for its Groupon daily deals rivals, Offers, which will release first in Portland, followed by New York City and San Francisco. Google was going to establish its own daily deals-giving service at the beginning of this year following an unsuccessful bid to purchase one of the market [...]
On March 2, it is informed that it has purchased eight-month-old Beluga. However, the price of the contract has not been revealed. The change provides Facebook both the Beluga service and the engineering team behind it. Beluga has a small staff of three, particularly are former Google employees. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company [...]
According to Bloomberg News, some users of Apple Inc. iPhones complained of malfunctioning alarms on the initial working day of 2011, after the company had confirmed that the devices’ built-in clocks would work starting Monday. Bloggers, Facebook and Twitter users, announced on Monday that they had missed flights or were late to arrive at work [...]
CNNMoney.com reported that Business software maker SAP announced on Tuesday that it has to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle for being judged of copyright infringement due to its now-defunct software maintenance unit. The Oracle-SAP suit happening in U.S. district court in Oakland, Calif., was a famous struggle between two big techs. The copyright which rolled [...]
According to the San Bruno, Calif., company said on Friday, Chad Hurley, one of the three original founders of YouTube, the groundbreaking website that radically changed the media landscape, is resigning as its chief executive. Hurley, 33, allows the news slip Thursday night during a technology conference at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. When he [...]
