Following the success of the Apple App Store, GetJar has reported a 70% increase in Flirtomatic, the flirting social network that can be accessed via phone or PC. Up to now, one million downloads have been reached by Flirtomatic on GetJar, emphasizing the market fragmentation and the importance of mobile phones on personalizing individuals’ interests. ...

After years of uncertain moves from both sides – Verizon on side of powerful technologies and innovations in terms of network capabilities and Apple on the other side of the most used smart phone in U.S. with its’ sales of 22 million – both companies seem to come along for a mighty market share. Verizon’s ...

After Oprah’s giveaway of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 Kinect kit, a video game platform, to each member of her audience at the beginning of October, Amazon reported a 42% increase in pre-orders for this product. This again demonstrated the impact media has on people and the brand image of Oprah that can manipulate large numbers ...

Available starting with December 2010, the new Android Mirror is a multifunctional display, design for in house use, office or even public spaces such as hospitals, hotels etc. The Cybertecture Mirror will incorporate WiFi connection, 2 built-in speakers and will report with optimal accuracy the environmental atmospheric features, grace to its peripheral sensor pad, which ...

Compete released the Top 50 websites ranking for September 2010. The report comprises good news for Bing, which gained a 108% raising in new visitors, in comparison to the last year. In the same positive benchmark there is also Ask.com, which shows increasing visits up to 75.3%. On the other hand, the statistics were not ...

The popularity of Apple’s iPhone brings maximum profits for NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Softbank Corp., the two largest Japanese mobile phone operator and telecommunications corporation. DoCoMo has increased its net income by 22%, thereby gathering $2.1 billion, whereas Softbank experienced an income increase of  32% income. Regarding the place on the Tokyo stock exchange, both ...

Facebook has added the Friendship Pages, these being intended to display public posts between an user and his/her friend. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that his first intention was to publish individual stories when launching news feeds a few years ago.  This is clearly a next step towards that dream of auto-scrapbooking the details of ...

Endgame Systems, the anti-malware and botnets in cloud computing software provider, launches ipTrust, the first product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments, as well as to speed up response times after detection of threats. A great advantage of this premier product if the fact that ...

After a four-year litigation, LimeWire was found guilty for the infringement of a umpteen quantity of copyright products.  As reported by Gawker, the file sharing service managed by LimeWire was shut down after Judge Kimba Wood restricted the company from downloading and uploading media files. Whether some might be concerned about the fact that LimeWire’s ...

To the growing tendency towards the personal cloud is now being added the launch of the new photo-sharing device Eye-Fi View. Consumers wanting to email, share in full-resolution or stock images are having the opportunity to test the new system designed by Eye-Fi. What are the novelties that Eye-Fi is bringing are the portability and ...