IBM, AT&T Face Antitrust Investigations
IBM and AT&T, two of the biggest tech firms across several industries, are both facing serious antitrust allegations. And Big Blue is taking the heat in the European market. The EU launched an investigation…
Google Hangouts get API, Days before Facebook f8
By Saroj Kar
Google Plus released an API for developers last week, and now comes the launch of the Hangouts API for developers. Starting today, the API will be available for testing purposes, only for developers on…
Bitcoinica Growing Pains Result in Data Errors
By Kyt Dotson
Last week, I reported on an emerging trading platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoinica, that presented itself as a Forex service and did so without trading any bitcoins with customers. The Bitcoin service runs in the…
Cloud Storage Trickle-down Hits Family Tree Buffs
By Maria Pila
The popular family network MyHeritage is acquiring storage and backup service BackupMyTree LLC, a free and automatic backup service for family tree data. The buy marks MyHeritage’s sixth acquisition, further expanding its technology and the…
HP: Fire Tablet Sales to Fired webOS Workers
This is a confusing time for Hewlett-Packard employees. First the upside: After the enormous success of their first tablet fire sale, where the HP TouchPads literally flew off shelves as consumers clamored to get…
Klip Facilitates Social, Mobile Video Sharing
Faithful to the idea that mobile video is going to boom in high levels over the coming years, Klip, an upcoming mobile video service, builds around the concept and allow people to connect through…
Podio for iPhone Adds Support for Custom Apps
By Klint Finley
Podio is a Danish company that provides an enterprise social networking and collaboration tool that also includes a platform for building simple custom apps through a point and click interface. Today the company will…
Cloud Storage Costs 74% Less Than Running In-House
Cloud storage costs 74% less than running it in-house. That’s the conclusion of Forrester analyst Andrew Reichman who says that storing 100 terabytes of cloud storage costs $251,000 per year, compared to the $1 million…
The Larrys Failed to Settle In Court: Oracle vs. Google Lives On
Google CEO Larry Page and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both appeared in court yesterday as U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal called upon them, aiming to reach a settlement regarding the case against Google’s Android…
Will Open Source Reduce Android Dependance for Samsung and HTC?
Since Google announced their Motorola Mobility acquisition, there have been questions as to what this could mean to other mobile device manufacturers with regards to the Android platform. And with evidence of Google favoring…