Yahoo Sues Facebook

Yahoo Sues Facebook

Yahoo, one of the biggest internet search engine and Internet pioneer which has pined away faster and much more innovative competitors like Google and Facebook, appears to have come to a conclusion that “if you can’t beat them, sue them”.

Really a high risk step that makes clear that Yahoo’s name as a company which could no more be competitive on the merits in the technology world. Furthermore, it risks the company’s so far a big and successful relationship with the Facebook as the social networking leader.

“We’re disappointed that Yahoo, a longtime . . . → Read More: Yahoo Sues Facebook

Google Still Dominates Search Engine Market

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Google still dominates search engine market while new privacy policy complains rising up.

The internet search engine giant, Google, is still the reigning champ and top most utilized search engine in the world.

Based on the newest survey from Pew Internet and American Life Project, 83% of Online users from America says they choose and prefer Google to browse frequently whilst only 6% say they prefer Yahoo. 6% of internet users in America accounts for the other internet search engines while only 5% says they did not use one internet search engine more . . . → Read More: Google Still Dominates Search Engine Market

Frenchman Sues Google (Street View Vehicle) for Capturing Him Urinating

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In some cases legal cases are so ridiculous that you can just sit back, relax and have a good laugh. A lawsuit filed by a Frenchman towards Google after the search engine’s Street-View-vehicle captured the guy peeing in his front yard definitely falls in the stupid category. Even though the guy’s face had been blurred, he claims that fellow inhabitants of his community of around 3000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region of France identified him anyway.

Who knows if the people from the village identify the person due to his obvious penchant for public peeing . . . → Read More: Frenchman Sues Google (Street View Vehicle) for Capturing Him Urinating

Adobe Flash Failures; Who’s to Blame?

Adobe Flash Failures

Adobe – argues Michael Mace, Cera Technology CEO, was chiefly to blame for mobile Flash’s failure, having built itself into a corner from which they couldn’t escape once the mobile market began to take off.

“If you look for root causes of the Flash failure, I think they go back many years to a fundamental misreading of the mobile market, and to short-term revenue goals that were more important than long-term strategy at both Macromedia and Adobe,” Mace wrote.

In other words, Macromedia initially built the Flash market by giving away the player completely free. As that . . . → Read More: Adobe Flash Failures; Who’s to Blame?

Google Makes its Own Music Store Challenging Amazon and Apple

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Google Inc. is making a web-based music store to contest with Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., although the company may open up the service with no legal rights to market songs from most of the greatest record labels, reported by people knowledgeable about the matter.

As outlined by these folks, all of the major music firms have held discussions to permit their catalogues to Google for the new online store. But just the smallest, Citigroup Inc.’s EMI Group, is in close proximity to an agreement, according to them. EMI’s artists includes Pink Floyd, Gorillaz, and Katy Perry.

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Zynga Inc. Looking for Opportunities Apart from Facebook

Zynga Inc.

Zynga Inc., Online gaming company, has introduced a number of products aimed towards diversifying its company beyond Facebook and encouraging possible shareholders of their growth prospects in the flourishing social online games industry.

In their initial statement since submitting a preliminary public offering in July, the creator of Mafia Wars  and FarmVille stated Tuesday that it intends to kick off a website apart from Facebook by which gamers can gather together and have fun with its games. Zynga Inc. also introduced four new game titles with flamboyant graphics and much more advanced features, most of which could . . . → Read More: Zynga Inc. Looking for Opportunities Apart from Facebook

Flash 11 and Air 3.0 now Available for Download

Flash 11 and Air 3.0

Adobe’s new update its Flash and Air – Flash version 11 and Air version 3.0 – are now available to download. With this new updates of the software, Adobe tied up the hardware acceleration into the programming which allows more robust applications. In these versions, Adobe now supports 3D gaming and Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound. Adobe confirmed that the latest version of Flash is capable of doing a thousand times faster rendering than the older version and that the developers should be able to make use of this power to develop more games that will . . . → Read More: Flash 11 and Air 3.0 now Available for Download

Google Improves Google+ iPhone App

Google+ iPhone App

Google has enhanced the iPhone application its own social network, Google+. The Google+ iPhone App now has features that are recently revealed on the social network website.

The improved Google+ app now allows you or let you join a “Hangout”, it is a new videoconferencing service in which people can chat with others within their circles. Though it’s possible to join an existing Hangout through the iPhone application, you still need to open your Google+ account in your personal computer to start a new Hangout videoconference.

Huddle, a former group IM feature has . . . → Read More: Google Improves Google+ iPhone App

Facebook Changes Triggers Complains

Facebook Changes

Facebook unveils another update again but as expected, users around the world is again complaining about the new features. These changes are intended to make it easier to see updates from connections in the world’s most popular social network.

Various complaints are swarming around the internet today, this includes a “Petition against the new Facebook homepage” and we can see some of it in Twitter, which is also a very popular social network but doesn’t have complicated features that users usually complain about.

Some said that these changes of Facebook were moves to be . . . → Read More: Facebook Changes Triggers Complains

Google Helps Developers for the Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Android Honeycomb developers are starting to plan for their new update, the Ice Cream Sandwich. Google helped them by showing how to update applications to work on phones.

As the new Ice Cream Sandwich update draws nearer, it’s not yet too late for Google to help the developers to start preparing for the big day. Today, Google updated the official Android developer’s blog giving the Honeycomb developers instructions how to update the applications for the changeover to Ice Cream Sandwich. Unfortunately, the blog post from Google did not give any hints for the exact release . . . → Read More: Google Helps Developers for the Ice Cream Sandwich Update