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Bing Rolls Out Fall Updates
Microsoft’s senior VP of online services Satya Nadella today announced in a blog post today that the company will be rolling out some updates for Bing throughout the next few weeks. The post highlights 4 main bulletins, as these provide the latest of updates the search engine and its users had seen lately. “Our focus ...
Rackspace Acquires Cloud Management, Monitoring Company Cloudkick
Rackspace has acquired the San Francisco-based Cloudkick, a cloud management and monitoring company. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but the acquisition of the 1500-client and 1 million supported servers worth company is an attempt by Rackspace to delve further into cloud management. “Today, Rackspace is a hosting company that offers cloud services. ...
Clicker Adds FB Integrated Recommendation Feature
Online video portal Clicker just launched a new, Facebook-integrated recommendation service for Google TV, accompanied by a new addition to its homepage. In addition to listing videos, the site now automatically retrieves data from logged-in Facebook users, processes it and recommends videos the system determined to be relevant to the user. “This makes Clicker more ...
Facebook, Evernote and OoVoo Release Updates for Android
Three of the most popular names in the Android Market recently released some notable updates for their mobile apps. Facebook, rolled out an update , as Android users will now be able to utilize the newly added mobile chat function. “…you can’t see your complete Wall activity, it’s not easy to change your profile information, ...
Visa Launching the Visa Mobile App, Offers Deals
Visa is now following the road Groupon has taken a long time ago with the launch of its new discounts app, dubbed Visa Mobile. The app primarily aimed for the iPhone holders but also available for Android offers users discounts from big-name retailers including JC Penney and Hertz, to name a few. “Users enter their ...
Apple Adding Playlists Sharing Feature to iTunes Ping
Apple has again updated its music-centric social network, Ping, as the company released yet another feature over the weekend. The new ‘Publish Playlist’ button in the iTunes sidebar enables users to share their playlists with their Ping friends, along with some other options. “You can give your published playlist a unique name and description, then ...
Anti-Google-ITA Acquisition: Microsoft Joins the Travel Coalition
As reported here, Microsoft has now officially joined the online travel-related coalition against Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, a travel data company vital for, among others, the Bing flight search tool. We discuss the coalition here, as its participants include Expedia Inc., Kayak.com, Sabre Holdings and Farelogix Inc. “FairSearch.org made the announcement today, ...
Twitter and YouTube 2010 Trends
Today, both the micro-blogging and video network giants released their top 10 trends for 2010, and the one kicking off this coverage is Twitter. After 25 billion tweets submitted this year by users, Twitter has released its fairly predictable if not somewhat obvious ‘top 10’ trends list. “Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010 1. Gulf Oil ...
Nexus Joining the Vblock Partner Ecosystem
Network solutions provider Nexus today announced it’s joining the Vblock partners circulation. The company now qualifies to augment, resell, and deliver VCE’s Vblock™ platform, whose creation involved Cisco, EMC, VMware and Intel. “The integrated nature of the Vblock platform reduces the time-consuming and costly planning, architecting and testing phases of deployment. In their NexSteps Innovation ...
FB Hate and Harassment Team: Privacy
The Facebook ‘hate and harassment team’ led by Dave Willner is a key aspect to Facebook’s on-going battle with illegal or terms-of-service-violating content. Nonetheless, while the team’s aim is to remove offensive, illegal and incompatible content, it also raises privacy concerns for some, adding up to the bulky list of concerns the social-network has already ...