Angry Birds Coming to Facebook on February 14
Published By Shadowon On Tuesday, January 31st 2012. Under Gaming, Social Networks, Videos Tags: Angry Birds, Facebook, FarmVille, Google, Mafia Wars, Rovio, Valentines Day, YoVille
Rovio, the company behind the very popular game Angry Birds, writes in a blog post that the game is now coming to Facebook. The launch date is set to Valentines Day, on February 14. This means that one of the most popular mobile game developers in the world now teams up ... Continue Reading
Google: Let’s Make The Web Faster
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, January 26th 2012. Under Google, Truthseeker Tags: Google, Internet, Latency (engineering), TCP, Transmission Control Protocol, Web
Google are experimenting with several improvements to the Transmisson Control Protocol (TCP) to make a faster Internet. The people working with this goes by the name of "Make The Web Faster Team" and they are currently looking into four potential improvements to the existing protocol.
1. Increase TCP initial congestion window to 10 ... Continue Reading
Obama to Host Live Video Chat on Google+ Hangout
Published By Shadowon On Tuesday, January 24th 2012. Under Google, Social Networks, Truthseeker Tags: Barack Obama, Facebook, Google, Hangouts, Social Media, State of the Union address, Video Chat, White House
The White House plans an intensive week of social media in connection with the president's annual State of the Union address. Among other things, Barack Obama will be hosting a video chat in Google+ Hangouts.
Every year, the U.S. President holds a speech to Congress on the state of the country, ... Continue Reading
YouTube Has Reached 4 Billion Daily Video Views
Published By Shadowon On Monday, January 23rd 2012. Under Google, Mobile, Social Networks Tags: Google, Reuters, Streaming media, Television, Video, Video hosting service, YouTube
YouTube has experienced an incredible growth over the past year, according to the news agency Reuters. Every day a staggering 4 billion videos is streamed by users of the service, which is a growth of 25 percent compared to eight months ago. Every minute an average of 60 hours of video ... Continue Reading
The Future of Firefox is Safe, For Now
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, December 21st 2011. Under Browsers, Google Tags: Alan Eustace, Firefox, Gary Kovacs, Google, Google Chrome, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The Foundation is mainly funded through an agreement with Google, where Google pays Firefox to use Google's search engine as preselected.
However, now that Google's own browser, Google Chrome, recently won the spot as the world's most popular browser, it is not as natural ... Continue Reading
Google Currents: The New Flipboard Challenger
Published By Shadowon On Friday, December 9th 2011. Under Google, Mac/Apple, Mobile, Videos Tags: Android, Currents, Flipboard, Google, Google Currents, IOS (Apple), iPad, iPhone, Magazine
Google has released Google Currents, a personalized magazine with content from sites and services picked by the user, much like the popular Flipboard app. Google Currents gathers content such as images, photos and text from Facebook, Twitter and news sites and displays them in an easily navigated manner.
Skuggen.com on an ... Continue Reading
Ainovo Tablet Running Android 4.0 For Just $99
Published By Shadowon On Thursday, December 8th 2011. Under Google, Mobile, Technology Tags: Ainovo, Android 4.0, Andy Rubin, Google, Ice Cream Sandwich, Novo7, Tablet
Ainovo has announced a tablet that runs Google's latest Android 4.0 to the price of just $99. The 7-inch tablet is called Novo7 and is already available in China. A release outside of China is coming "within the next several months".
A tablet that can bring more people to use Android ... Continue Reading
Android Market Celebrating 10 Billion Downloads
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, December 7th 2011. Under Downloads, Google, Mobile Tags: 10 Billion, Android, Android Market, App Store, Apps, BBC News, CCS Insight, Google
The Android Market has now reached more than 10 billion downloads since the app store opened its doors three years ago. To celebrate the milestone, Google has announced that they will offer discounts on several of the most popular apps in the next ten days. The price for these popular ... Continue Reading
Test Windows Phone 7.5 on Your Android Phone or iPhone
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, November 30th 2011. Under Browsers, Microsoft, Mobile Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Windows Phone 7.5
Microsoft has created an interactive web page in HTML5 which allows anyone with an iPhone or an Android phone to test the interface in Windows Phone 7.5.
All you have to do is visit http://aka.ms/wpdemo from your mobile and you will get an interface that looks just like Windows Phone 7.5. ... Continue Reading
What’s Next For Spotify? Global Press Conference Next Week
Published By Shadowon On Tuesday, November 22nd 2011. Under Entertainment, Social Networks Tags: Android, Daniel Ek, Facebook, Google, Google Music, iCloud, Mark Zuckerberg, Movies, Spotify, Video
Rumors of a new movie or video service started already when Spotify began with advertisements in video format more than two years ago. Now the rumors are back, following an invitation to a press conference where Spotify hints about the company going in a "new direction".
"At Spotify, we continually strive ... Continue Reading
Disney Movies Coming To YouTube
Published By Shadowon On Monday, November 7th 2011. Under Browsers Tags: Disney, Google, Movies, New York Times, Walt Disney Company, YouTube
According to an article today in The New York Times, the Walt Disney Company and YouTube, a division of Google, will be announcing a new partnership very soon. The cooperation aims at creating a new channel on YouTube who publishes unique content from Disney. The videos will also be available ... Continue Reading
Dropbox-like Service From Google Revealed
Published By Shadowon On Wednesday, November 2nd 2011. Under Google, Mobile Tags: Dropbox, Felipe Zorzo, Google, Google Docs, Google Drive
That Google has not yet released their own file-sharing service is something that has puzzled many. But if we are to believe the latest rumors such a service is not too far away. Rumors of the famous Google Drive have been circulating since 2006, but now it seems something is ... Continue Reading
























