With Microsoft’s share in the smartphone market falling from 13.9% in 2008 to a disappointing 8.8% last year, there have been intense rumours about the company potentially buying one of the main players in the smartphone market such as Nokia or RIM. There were reports Microsoft might even bid for Palm Inc but the smartphone [...]
YouTube has been one of the internet’s most visited sites the past couple of years and continues to grow at a steady pace. Besides online videos the Google owned website also has a a large number of music and songs with 2009 being the year Pitbull’s “I know you want me” getting in excess of [...]
Google’s decision to launch an ultra fast internet service in a project which will only be accessible to anywhere between 50,000 and up to 500,000 people has peaked the interest of many communities around the United States. The latest addition to the list of interested towns and cities is actually the state of Maryland’s Montgomery [...]
Last year was the biggest year yet for online videos as YouTube continued to grow at a remarkable rate. In 2009 the most viewed YouTube video globally was Susan Boyle- Britain’s Got Talent while the New Moon Move trailer ranked fourth on the same list. Following up on the recent Tiger Woods TV conference which was streamed live [...]
The official channel of the British Monarchy on YouTube is quite popular with close to 30,ooo subscribers. The Royal Channel’s most popular and viewed video is the 1957 Christmas broadcast of the Queen. The Queen is actually the most popular Royal figure ahead of her two grandsons Princes William and Harry. Last month alone the [...]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has given its permission to Google to start selling and buying energy at market rates. Google created a subsidiary Google Energy and placed a request with the FERC to allow it to deal with energy in the market a month ago. With this approval Google can now buy clean [...]
Motorola Inc. filed a complaint with the USITC (United States International Trade Commission) to block the entry of RIM’s BlackBerry devices into the United States on the basis of violating a number of Motorola’s patents. Motorola claims RIM’s smartphone devices are infringing on five of its patents dealing with power management, user interface and Wi-Fi [...]
Companies which have employees using BlackBerry devices can track them through a program called Executrac but this service will not work on Blackberry phones provided by Verizon Wireless. This is due to the fact Verizon does not let the user access the GPS inside the user’s phone. The software costs $29.95 while the service has a [...]