A new pilot program to rate articles has started for Wikipedia. The crowd-sourced encyclopedia is incorporating new rating system, which takes into account multiple factors. As reported: The tool allows users to rate articles on sourcing, completeness, neutrality and readability, on a five-point system. A test run of the tool began yesterday and will run ...

There is a new service in town to empower consumers. Zillow and Mint have teamed up to offer a tool to calculate your home’s value.  This will help in getting an accurate picture of your financial position, and will assist you in making decisions accordingly. The home valuation results can be accessed via a Mint.com ...

RightScale, a cloud computing company, has secured another $25 million in funding. This investment round was led by Tenaya Capital ( specializing in high-growth technology investments as software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, electronics, and cleantech). Other investors included DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures. The funds will primarily be used for the ...

Google is very serious about innovation as well as ease of use on all platforms for their users, as we can see by the latest update for the Gmail android application. Now, Gmail on Android mobile devices looks more similar to how we see it on the desktop version. The main benefits include: independence from ...

Seems like RIM ain’t getting off the hook that easy. RIM has been in a lot of trouble regarding their secure and encrypted email and messaging service. Many countries seem to believe that this secure system can be used by terrorists and other malicious entities. Therefore, they have demanded some form of mechanism to monitor ...

If the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 didn’t have enough fireworks for you yet, here are two world records for the event to hype up the party. The first world record pertains to being environment friendly. Oracle OpenWorld 2010, with 41,000 attendees is the biggest green event happening. As reported, The conference should make green aficionados happy, ...

Who says reading a book has become an outdated, leisure pursuit from the past?   Seems like this hobby has kept pace with upcoming technologies. In the UK the iBook app has gained more popularity than the all in rage Facebook and Twitter applications. As reported: According to research and consulting organisation YouGov’s TabletTracker report, ...

Facebook Places is now available to the UK user base. This service allows users to check-in at locations such as restaurants, cafe’s, bars, etc. This check-in then displays in the recent activities feed on the user’s Facebook profile. The Facebook team is quite about this development as reported in the telegraph: Michael Sharon, the product ...

FarmVille.  Either you love it or you hate it.  You may be among the many who have found a new past time in the form of raising a virtual farm, or you are among the others who are irritated by the countless FarmVille updates in their Facebook news feed. Why has this game captured so ...

Justin.tv, a popular video broadcasting service, has now extended its offerings to the iPhone. Now users can upload live broadcasts using the new Justin.tv iPhone application. You can access this updated free application here. As exciting as release is, Justin.tv is still a little late to the game.  The biggest concerns for the company included ...