http://www.skuggen.com The Missing Link... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.skuggen.com http://www.skuggen.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon.ico http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:32 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21367 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 with the largest social network [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/angry-birds-coming-to-facebook-on-february-14/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:23:32 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21352 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 (IW10). The amount of [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/google-lets-make-the-web-faster/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:23:40 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21321 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, the so-called State of [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/obama-to-host-live-video-chat-on-google-hangout/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/ http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:36:25 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21313 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 is uploaded to the service, [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2012/01/youtube-has-reached-4-billion-daily-video-views/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/the-future-of-firefox-is-safe-for-now/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/the-future-of-firefox-is-safe-for-now/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:40:00 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21212 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 for Google to continue [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/the-future-of-firefox-is-safe-for-now/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/google-currents-the-new-flipboard-challenger/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/google-currents-the-new-flipboard-challenger/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:05:18 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21165 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 Android tablet Currents are [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/google-currents-the-new-flipboard-challenger/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/ainovo-tablet-running-android-4-0-for-just-99/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/ainovo-tablet-running-android-4-0-for-just-99/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:20:12 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21135 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 tablets is bound to [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/ainovo-tablet-running-android-4-0-for-just-99/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/android-market-celebrating-10-billion-downloads/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/android-market-celebrating-10-billion-downloads/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:13:59 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21120 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 apps is now set to [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/12/android-market-celebrating-10-billion-downloads/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/test-windows-phone-7-5-on-your-android-phone-or-iphone/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/test-windows-phone-7-5-on-your-android-phone-or-iphone/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:46:14 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21100 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. Follow the instructions to [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/test-windows-phone-7-5-on-your-android-phone-or-iphone/feed/ 0 http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/whats-next-for-spotify-global-press-conference-next-week/ http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/whats-next-for-spotify-global-press-conference-next-week/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:57:49 +0000 Shadowon http://www.skuggen.com/?p=21066 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 to innovate and deliver [...]]]> http://www.skuggen.com/2011/11/whats-next-for-spotify-global-press-conference-next-week/feed/ 0