In an attempt to improve the unbalanced juncture for Yahoo in the past years, the company decided to team up with Microsoft’s Bing hoping this move would help Yahoo regain its top position. Yet, according to the latest reports,  no one can compete with Google, although the latter is also facing a bad image due ...

“I know, most people think Macs can’t be infected, but look, you ARE Infected!” The Apple Mac OSX operating system is not what used to be in terms of security. An unknown author has created a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for the OSX platform that goes by the name of ‘BlackHole RAT.’  Sophos has discovered ...

Mobile gaming is becoming more and more popular in our daily activities as a recent study indicates. Figures suggest that 84 percent of all mobile gamers in the US and UK play mobile games at least once a week. Among these, 68 percent of respondents play mobile games less than one hour per week. In ...

Baidu, China’s massive online search engine, and Taobao, one of the most popular Chinese e-commerce platforms, qualify for top ‘black markets’ status, according to the US government.  The department in charge with investigating the commerce of pirated and fake goods, the U.S. Trade Representative, has drawn up a list of 33 websites or public markets ...

It is commonly agreed that Apple holds the key to the e-publishing industry puzzle, less Random House, the only player in this tight game that has not aligned with Apple’s pricing systems. Yet, according to a Wall Street Journal article, the publishing house revised its position and soon will begin offering its digital books in ...

During the Enterprise Connect 2011 trade show this week, Cisco announced its Jabber team-up product, a unified communications app that centralizes several communication tools, such as instant messages, voice and video messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing, into one application. The new app will initially be running on Mac the application will run on all other platforms, ...

In the past few months we covered numerous articles related to privacy issues, from Facebook’s worm that had been downloaded around 28,000 times to Facebook’s apps third party data leakage to third parties, infringing on users’ rights by using their profile data.  Google’s not immune to privacy concerns, facing a series of lawsuits throughout the ...

A new joint venture on the horizon: US-based group-buying service Groupon announced it would extend into China and serve the largest internet market, opening the way for other prospective US companies to throw their chips into the Chinese ‘game’ pool. Groupon will team up with Tencent Collaboration Fund, China’s biggest Internet company and Yunfeng Capital, ...

Books live on at AT&T, too. Starting March 6th, Amazon’s Kindle will be available from  AT&T store chains. Until now, the Kindle device could be purchased only via virtual stores (with the exception of the Best Buy).  This new team-up marks a new era for AT&T and Amazon, revealing strategies for both companies as physical and ...

The Oscars Award ceremony has a very long tradition, but it must also change with current times. Making its way into today’s viewer preferences is just one step in that direction.  This year the presenting duo featured the youngest female presenter in the history of the awards ceremony, Anne Hathaway, probably as a means if ...