…succeed in the game. It is claimed to be among the first games developed for Facebook Platform by a publisher that leverages users’ Facebook friends in a meaningful way. The UbiFriends portal runs on Google App Engine, which makes web applications easy to build, scale and maintain, claims the company….
Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, Google Earth now gives us Google Moon. Google has updated its Google Earth 5.0 with a map of the moon that allows users to explore craters, historic sites, and human artifacts. You can even view the moon in…
…they’ll be loading it with Windows 7., which is due out at the same time. Then again, Google recently announced that it will be developing an operating system for netbooks. Although it will not be available until 2010, maybe a trial run is in order? Not likely, we reckon it’ll…
Google has plans for an open-source OS for netbooks – something Microsoft will not be able to ignore Google has announced that it intends to develop a Chrome-based operating system for the fastest growing section of the PC market, netbooks. The OS will be available in the second half of…
Mozilla’s Firefox is making a noticeable dent into IE’s market Since its release in 2004, Firefox has slowly but surely started to erode at Internet Explorer’s (IE) clear dominance of the browser arena over the past year. While Google’s Chrome was lauded as the next best thing during its launch…
…to 16.28 percent over Yahoo’s 10.22 percent in its first weeks before settling down to 9 percent, and Yahoo, 10.76 percent. Both companies were dwarfed by Google’s masive 77.94 percent share of the search engine market. Globally, the company’s stats show that Bing has a slight lead (5.62 percent) over…
…found there is an innate weakness with the digital age form of communications – information overload. Google showed its sensitivity to so many people looking for information on the King of Pop, it thought it was under attack by malware/spyware hackers so shut down for 30 minutes leaving grieving fans…
Samsung joins the Android revolution with its Galaxy offering Getting on the Google bandwagon, Samsung’s new Galaxy smartphone will be the first Samsung mobile that utilises the Android operating system, which provides a Google experience with a range of application downloads. It is one of four phones released by Samsung…
Google co-founder decides to take Bing head on News out of the US has Google co-founder Sergey Brin urgently getting a team of software engineers together to offer upgrades on the Google search engine due to Microsoft’s newest search engine offering, Bing, making a splash. This must be great news…
On the day that Microsoft’s Bing search engine is launched, Google lets us know about a new app Last Friday Microsoft held a press conference to let us know about its new search engine, Bing. With the unenviable task of trying to take on the behemoth that is Google, Microsoft…
Microsoft releases new rendition of its search engine Yet another attempt to knock Google off its almost monopolistic share of the search engine market is being attempted, this time by Microsoft with the release of its Bing search engine. Calling the new tool a “decision engine”, it offers a range…
…firmware-over-the-air firmware update, Geotagging to photos, and a Picasa and YouTube function. It will come pre-loaded with Google’s suite of services such a Gmail, Google Maps and Google Search and a 24-month warranty. With FOTA, users will have the latest Android software on their mobile as firmware upgrades are automatically…