MySpace continues to struggle against Facebook
Facebook opened up their network to anyone online a few years ago and they have been dominating ever since.
They overtook MySpace to become the most popular social networking service on the web.
And this has turned into a disaster for MySpace which could now lose as much as USD [...]
AOL working on something new that could be huge
AOL has hinted that they have been working on something new and they plan to showcase it in the coming months.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong was speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit. He said: “We have been working on something for the last three months that [...]
Yahoo India has a full page advertisement on Times of India!
If you are a Times of India reader, you might have noticed the full page ad on the newspaper’s front page today.
Yahoo must have spent quite a lot for this full page advertisement on perhaps the most read newspaper in the Indian market. [...]
AT&T: Google is against Network Neutrality
AT&T has fired back against Google claiming that the search engine giant behaves like a hypocrite when it comes to network neutrality principals.
The mobile industry giant said that Google blocks some phone calls made to their Google Voice numbers.
AT&T representative Robert Quinn had this to say on this [...]
Net Neutrality: FCC launches OpenInternet.gov
US based web users and entrepreneurs have some good news from the Federal Communications Commission.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered a speech which could very well become historic in nature.
He announced the establishment of OpenInternet.gov website with the concept of network neutrality.
He said that the aim of [...]
Google not sure about News Corporate new policy with online news
News Corporation has announced that they are going to start charging for all of their news services.
This would include access to their services through mobile applications offered on the Blackberry and Apple iPhone platforms.
The company is going to make these services paid from [...]
802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved by IEEE
IEEE has finally given its approval to the 802.11n wireless LAN standard.
An official announcement is to arrive in the coming days.
Industry reports say that the body has given its approval to both 802.11n and 802.11w.
Bruce Kraemer, chairman of the 802.11n Task Group has been quoted as [...]
PayPal goes down for almost an hour!
Wall Street Journal has reported that eBay owned online payment service PayPal went down for around an hour on Monday.
The report said that the problems started at around 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Most customers had regained access to the services in around four hours.
PayPal is one of [...]
AT&T blocked access to 4chan
US based internet service provider AT&T had recently announced that they were blocking access to the popular online destination 4chan.org.
The company said that this blockage is not a form of censorship as it has been claimed in the media.
Instead, they had to block access to the service because of the [...]
PayPal opens up to third party developers
eBay owned financial service PayPal has announced their Adaptive Payments System which enables third party developers to use their APIs to create new tools and services.
PayPal announced this at the Platform Preview Event in San Jose, California.
The company said: “PayPal will be the first and only global payment service [...]
