Google has joined the protest movement against the U.S. bill seeking to combat piracy in the network (known as SOPA and PIPA) because they serve to censor the Internet and that will not stop illegal downloads.  As an anti-SOPA protest, Google has put a censored version of its logo for U.S. users. A growing movement ...

Computer security firm Symantec today announced $115 million acquisition of cloud data archiving and storage vendor LiveOffice. LiveOffice is located in Torrance, California, and provide a variety of targeted e-mail, instant messaging, social media, file sharing and storage and other applications of electronic search services. Symantec said the acquisition will strengthen its information management products, ...

Millennial Media, the mobile ad network, unveiled a few new tools for developers to manage and monetize their mobile inventory.  The update will provide in-app advertising solutions for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry and other major mobile platforms. The new mobile web tool is a one-stop solution for developers to easily incorporate mobile display ...

If 2011 was the year of smartphones, driven by iPhone and new Android devices, and tablets, which have revolutionized the market, 2012 will be the “years of the Ultrabooks.” In addition to the smartphone market, which is still going to grow rapidly, a gadget that is believed will be the trend in 2012 is a ...

For many of us, watching TV is a social act, whether it is talking with the person next to you, tweeting and calling friends to tell them what just went down.  But television is going to become a social experience in a much broader sense, especially as you look at the upcoming devices debuting this ...

CES 2012 may have been a dire point for Microsoft, but some of its upcoming products are boosting AT&T’s lineup. One of the most anticipated presentations of the event is the Nokia Lumia 900, and their collaboration with AT&T.  The Nokia Lumia 900 is the latest smartphone from the Finnish camp, and will be released in ...

The integration of Xbox LIVE and the Xbox features for Windows Phone has become an increasingly important selling point for Microsoft.  However, in a recently released Software Development Engineer Job information by Microsoft for the field of mobile entertainment, the software giant may be readying to broaden its approach beyond its own mobile OS. Microsoft ...

Apple has been in fight with almost every mobile maker in the market (HTC, Motorola and Samsung) over copyright infringement, inciting suits in several countries.  But the iPhone maker made a rare settlement with the Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics Corp. for a long standing patents dispute this week. Elan Microelectronics and Apple have settled a legal dispute over ...

There’s been a slew of Siri clones hitting the Android Market ever since the launch of the iPhone 4S.  One of the more popular apps to gain instant recognition was Iris (Siri spelled backwards).  Dexetra, the speech recognition provider behind Iris’s Android app, sees its database expanded under a new partnership with ChaCha, a database ...

IBM has recently patented a system of reward in hard cash for those who consume healthy foods. The patent, entitled “providing consumers with incentives for healthy eating habits,” aims to reduce the indirect costs that companies have when employees are off for health reasons (in many cases due to inadequate nutrition) and encourage people to ...