The increasing profile of Google continued with a major advertising spot in the most sought after the ads breaks in global television, with the search giant paying for a slot during the American Superbowl. Traditionally speaking, the Superbowl is one of the most sought after lots of advertising events of the year, and Google was [...]
According to the Chinese local media on Saturday, the Chinese police have shut down the country’s biggest hacker training Web site and it said that it arrested three people who are supposed to be linked to the site. The newspapers such as the People’s Daily, the official paper of the Communist Party, said that the [...]
Later this month, Microsoft is likely to launch its Windows Phone 7 at the Mobile World Congress. There are lots of rumors about Microsoft’s mobile platform which is no more multitasking; the application distribution is limited to official channels, and more. It’s clear that Windows Mobile is in a rather dark place right now. It [...]
Just one week after Amazon.com stopped the direct sale of the books published by Macmillan in a pricing dispute; both of these two companies have settled their dispute and the books by Macmillan authors went back on sale on Amazon’s Web site over the weekend. This settlement aims at setting the stage for what will [...]
There has been an idea to incorporate the Merb framework into the popular Web framework to increase the speed and performance. Ruby on Rails 3.0 is an upgrade to the popular Web development framework which features a merger with the Merb framework. And according to the information posted in a blog on the Ruby on [...]
Microsoft has newly made a decision to cut-off Live support for its original Xbox, which makes the old-school gamers no longer able to play any other old-school games over the old-school gaming system of the company. Considering the Xbox 360 has been around for five years now and Microsoft stopped producing the games for the [...]
On Friday, Microsoft said that Bing is about to power the Internet searches for more than 400 million members of Facebook in an arrangement that returns the control of display advertising to the social-networking service. In the past time, Bing had powered the online searches on US Facebook pages. Bing general manager Jon Tinter said [...]
