Google Apps’ Growing Cloud Influence
The pull of Google Apps is getting stronger, with a string of related news items this week. First up is Cloud Sherpas, which has announced that it has secured $1.6M in series A-1 financing. …
Facebook Updates Android Apps, Disses iPad as Non-Mobile
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the rumors that predicted the release of a phone at the press event today. Instead, Facebook announced major improvements regarding updates for iPhone and Android apps. the updates are…
Google’s Ad Growth Efforts Face New FB Location-based Search
Google is seriously expanding in and towards the mobile search arena, but after an announcement today by Mark Zuckerberg, the Android architect may be looking at a true game changer. Zuckerberg announced a stable…
Cisco SocialMiner Software Scaling the Social Media Fields
Cisco SocialMiner was announced today as a smart software for scaling the public social media’s interests. The users of Facebook and Twitter and many other public forums and blogs will be likely to be…
Facebook Combos Places and Deals. What of Groupon and Foursquare Now?
By Cherr Aira
Facebook has launched another first in social networking industry—Places and Deals. The fusion of Facebook’s two outstanding segments will allow users to see deals from their favorite store located near their place. This will…
Zynga Poker Hits Android, by way of Facebook
Today, during the Facebook mobile event, Zynga – the notorious game developer – announced their new Android game entitled “Zynga Poker”. The Android app game supports Facebook’s new mobile single sign-in, which means that…
HyperBees sales up, Thanks to OpenFeint’s Cross Platform Launch
By Isha Suri
A few days back we heard about the growing figures of Openfeint on Android platform. It had started with fewer games in the first batch and then launched a bigger second batch. Now, the…
Facebook Becomes a Potent Forecasting Platform for Elections
By Cherr Aira
It seems that social network’s favorite child has gone through different heights as Facebook proves itself to be a good bellwether for elections. Twenty four hours after the US midterm elections, Facebook has demonstrated…
Google’s Laboratory Cooks Up Nitro for the Web, New Tools for Apache
By Kyt Dotson
Google has brought themselves to the forefront of web technology through sheer weight of contribution by being part of the search revolution, but also through their continual development for the open source community. This…
LG Set To Introduce New Android Tablets in 2011
By Cherr Aira
It seems that competition will be stiffer in the Android tablet market and will continue until 2011, as electronics giant LG plans to release a new and updated version of its tablets. The company…