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Costa Coffee Chain Links Up with O2 For Free Wi-Fi During the London Olympics
05/04/2012, Telco Provider O2 has struck up an agreement with the Costa Coffee chain that will ensure a large number of laptops and tablets will be around the local cafes around the Olympics area. Through the deal, O2 has agreed that [...]
LinkedIn to Acquire SlideShare for $119 Million
05/04/2012, SlideShare, the content sharing community application for professionals has become the target for acquisition of the corporate social network, LinkedIn. The transaction has been valued at approximately $118.75 million and is said to be completed with 45% of it in [...]
Angry Birds on Facebook gains Share & Play feature, allows embedding in websites and Facebook Timelines
05/04/2012, If you love Rovio’s Angry Birds and you simply can’t get enough of it, it has been announced by Rovio that Angry Birds on Facebook has recently gained a new “Share & Play” feature. As the name itself has probably [...]
AT&T launches “Smart Controls” website that teaches how to protect your mobile device
05/04/2012, A while back it was announced by the FCC that they would be working hand in hand with carriers to create a database of stolen phones. These phones will be locked and prevented from being used by the thief and [...]
Google News U.S. Edition gets new updates, adds a social perspective
05/04/2012, If you love Google News, you will be happy to know that new updates to Google News U.S. Edition will be coming. The said update will include larger images on the main page, a real-time coverage page that will show [...]
Be a polyglot with Google’s Language Immersion for Chrome
05/03/2012, Learning Spanish, French, and German is now easier thanks to Google’s latest experiment. Now you can speak like a polyglot with the Language Immersion for Chrome. What is it? It’s Google’s takeoff on automatic translation technology. Google already had that [...]
Facebook IPO: Price Range Set Between $28 and $35 Per Share
05/03/2012, According to an article by Evelyn M. Rusli on the Dealbook / New York Times, Facebook sets the share price for its IPO at between $28 and $35 per share, a pricing that could value the company at around $86 [...]
Verizon’s LTE-Powered HomeFusion Broadband Goes National
05/03/2012, After Verizon recently launched its LTE-enabled home broadband service it calls HomeFusion recently, it only rolled out to a few locations. Apparently, Verizon thinks that it have proven itself enough and has now decided to launch in nationally to all [...]
Windows Phone Marketplace Arrives in 22 New Countries and App Search to be Refined
05/03/2012, Microsoft has announced that it has launched its Windows Phone Marketplace in 22 new countries and hence made it easier for users globally to make purchases or complete downloads from it. The countries from which users will now be able [...]
First Drive-By Malware Sites Discovered for Android
05/03/2012, Now that browsing the internet via a mobile device has become a norm, malware has also followed in that path. Lookout Mobile Security discovered some websites that have been designed in such a way that they only attack and infect [...]
NYC’s new education guidelines to restrict teacher and student contact via social media websites
05/03/2012, We’re sure that some of you guys have pretty good relationships with your teachers and might even have them on Facebook. Unfortunately if that’s one of ways that you and your teacher keep in contact socially or academically, that could [...]
The Pirate Bay encourages its UK users to fight the ban
05/03/2012, A couple of days ago, the UK courts had ordered local internet service providers to block off access to the infamous torrent website, The Pirate Bay. Safe to say the folks at The Pirate Bay weren’t too thrilled by this [...]
Twitter reportedly considered purchasing Camera+
05/03/2012, When Facebook bought Instagram, many were curious as to how Facebook’s social media rival, Twitter would respond. The company made a statement saying that they had no interest in purchasing a service or a tool similar to Instagram, going as [...]
