Over the time, since Google+ made its debut, both search and social giant have been found themselves stealing ideas of one another. The latest to add in their fight, Google employee Chris Chabot posted a photo of a Google-branded vending machine, which appears to stock a very similar set of accessories to the machine installed at Facebook’s campus. Here are the...
The Google Contacts team has announced that address book information from now onwards will start being displayed on your friends Google+ profiles, but only if you have them stored. For this you need not to add or remove any information on your end, since the details are completely populated from the Google Contact account visitors. This is what Google Contacts team...
Microsoft a few months ago plans on releasing a second Community Technology Preview (CTP) build on its Hadoop on Azure product. Today the software giant has announced the general availability (GA) of SQL Server 2012 for purchase and download. SQL Server 2012 has already been deployed for production use by hundreds of global, industry-leading customers. Microsoft...
The networking giant Cisco has announced its plans to invest US$574 million (R$1 billion) in Brazil. The company will be opening a Cisco center of innovation in Rio de Janeiro, a venture capital fund for Brazil-focused ICT and digital startups, the expansion of the local manufacturing program it started in 2011, and partnerships with local companies. Cisco wishes to continue benefiting from Brazil’s growth. The company also wishes to contribute to this ongoing transformation and foster it. Cisco Brazil’s president Rodrigo Abreu explains:...
According to AAWP, more than 80,000 apps have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace and new content is currently being added at the rate of 340 apps per day. At the time of writing, 82,234 apps have been published. Of these, 29,135 were added in the first quarter of 2012 and 10,228 were added in the last month. These apps come from 20,327 different publishers. Earlier,...
The business social networking giant LinkedIn has announced a new feature that will enhance to Group search feature. According to LinkedIn, every day, millions of professionals like you are talking on LinkedIn’s Groups to find opportunities, share knowledge, and learn from each other and so far there are over 1.2 million groups on LinkedIn about topics ranging...
According to TOI, the social networking giant Facebook has announced that the site from now onwards will be available in eight Indian languages from mobile phones in the country in a move to boost its appeal with new demographics in the country’s 1.2 billion population. This will be rolled out in phases over the next few weeks time. With this, Facebook users can access the site by using ‘Facebook for Every Phone mobile application’ in three national languages – Hindi, Malay and Vietnamese and seven local Indian languages...
According to ABI Research report, Wireless equipment vendors performed well in the fourth quarter of 2011 with Huawei exceeded expectations and overcame Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to grab second place in the market. Ericsson as usual was the market leader, with approximately US$3.5 billion in wireless network equipment sales during 4Q2011. “Huawei had an exceptionally...
The BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) has launched the next-generation in enterprise mobile device management (MDM) – BlackBerry Mobile Fusion. The tool acts as a central platform giving IT managers the ability to manage the following effectively and efficiently: BlackBerry 7 (and previous) smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook tablets (and BlackBerry 10...
According to comScore latest score, Android jumped 3.2% to 50.1% of mobile market share in the US in February. The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.6 percent market share. Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, crossing the 50-percent threshold...
