A few hours ago, Skype announced in a Twitter message that a small number of users may struggle to connect to the service. But if you look at the amount of other messages about Skype during the last hour, it's probably a lot more than just "a small number of ... Continue Reading

The popular "Like" button has been one of the many fun features with Facebook for a while. With a simple click, you can follow a favorite group or band, and tell your friends what you like. You can also like articles and websites in the same way and tell the ... Continue Reading

Opera has launched Opera Mini 6 for iPhone and iPad. This version was first revealed in February, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and now it is finally available from Apple's App Store. Opera Mini 6 compresses all webpages with up to 90 percent, as we are used to from ... Continue Reading

TweeDeck today confirmed that they have been acquired by Twitter for $40 million, after a long spring with negotiations. TweetDeck is one of the most popular Twitter clients, and Twitter is working hard to increase support for more client platforms and operating systems. The easiest way to get there is by ... Continue Reading

To keep up with hundreds of different Linux distributions, each distro needs something to seperate them from the rest. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions at the moment, and they will try to increase their popularity further by mimicking the gaming platform Steam. This has been confirmed from ... Continue Reading

The news of Osama bin Laden's death was spread across multiple social websites, including Facebook and Twitter. A large number of Internet users first heard about the news through Twitter. And the number of tweets per second actually exploded when the news about bin Laden became known to the public. During ... Continue Reading

Five years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, creator and co-founder of Twitter, sent the first Tweet ever on the popular microblogging service. Since then, Twitter has been growing rapidly, and now more than 140 million Tweets are being sent every single day. Twitter has now released some statistics on their ... Continue Reading

Internet telephony service Skype plans to start rolling out ads to consumer users this week in a bid to develop a new revenue stream ahead of the company's anticipated public offering. Skype's IPO could be one of the biggest in the technology sector since Google Inc. raised $1.67 billion in 2004, ... Continue Reading

Google has just announced that an updated web version of the Android Market has been launched. The new version makes it possible for logged in users to search, purchase and download applications directly to their Android devices. Previously, the web version of Android Market has only been used to introduce ... Continue Reading

Head of Marketing in the Middle East & North Africa at Google, Wael Ghonim, is missing in Egypt, according to a statement from Google. The world's largest Internet company says they have not heard anything from Wael Ghonim since Thursday last week. He was then present in Cairo as the ... Continue Reading

Yesterday, Google announced that the company has released a new special service that connects voice mailboxes with Twitter. According to the Google Public Policy Blog, the new service will enable users in Egypt to call a phone number and then the spoken message will be converted to text a message ... Continue Reading