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Microsoft has brought an Xbox Live app to iOS devices. The app allows players to communicate on the Xbox Live network and manage their profiles. “The iPad and iPhone platform is significantly larger than the Windows [Phone] platform, and this is really about going after the largest installed base to reach more users,” said Collins [...]
The new OOptOut extension for Chrome adds toggles to the top of the Facebook permissions window for locking down apps of dubious origin. Still in rough development, a new extension for Google Chrome puts in your hands a useful power tool for separating your data from Facebook apps of dubious origin. Called OOptOut (download), the [...]
Google has launched an audacious attack on Microsoft, announced laptop computers called Chromebooks. This is immensely significant for two reasons. First, Google is stepping into the business of creating fully functional operating systems. Second, it is signalling a new era of cloud computing. Like all things Google, this may simply be the stepping stone to [...]
Skype already went down around the globe once in the last month, and now many users from many countries around the world are currently unable to log in to Skype, and when they finally get logged in, they will notice that none of their friends appear to be online. Although the company says that the [...]
In Google IO Conference Google has officially announced the latest Android firmware version Android 3.1. Google will roll out the update to Verizon Xoom 3G users today, and to other Honeycomb devices in the coming days. User Interface Improvements: The Android 3.1 update adds a variety of refinements to make the user interface more intuitive [...]
Microsoft has officially announced its intention to Buy Skype. Microsoft is Paying for Skype will indeed be $8.5 Billion in Cash, as previously revealed on Monday night by the AllThingsDigital website. Before the announcement of the purchase of Skype by Microsoft that Google and Facebook were also interested in the platform. But, how serious were [...]
In an attempt to bring a unified Twitter experience across its official mobile client and mobile website, Twitter has updated the mobile website for touchscreen devices. Now it seems that the default application for Twitter, which provides a toolbar along the top of the tweets, direct messages, search and profile control. This version of HTML5 [...]
The winners of the 15th Annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. Webby awards and People’s Voice awards were handed out to honor the best of the Internet in dozens of categories. Funny or Die received the most awards with nine total wins including best humor website and multiple awards for its comedy videos — [...]
