Tag Archives : CNN

The patent office of the United States approved a request made by Facebook to get the rights to the word “face”. To get the trademark, the company responsible for the most popular social network in the world to pay a fee to the entity and a statement that will use the term commercially. The authorization of the patent office gives the exclusive [...]

The U.S. magazine Seventeen, geared for female adolescents, conducted a study on the impact of social networks in the modern “crush”. The conclusion is that not only young people are incredibly social, but also that Facebook has a very important role in their love lives. The poll of 10 000 boys and girls between 16 and 21 years and found [...]

Just this week Yahoo will launch a new newsmedia service and web content with journalism called Yahoo Contributor Network. Yahoo has always been a powerful news aggregator of the net. With the YCN the company gives the biggest jump ever in its history given in the crowded segment and creates its own content agency. The launch takes place from a quiet [...]

One of the foremost social networking and micro blogging services in the world, Twitter has now launched its very own ‘Tweet’ button for web pages, that would enable the users as well as web publishers to share the web link a more simplified manner. With the help of the Tweet button, the website owners will be able to provide the users with a unique [...]

Apple iPhone users who have an insatiable appetite to keep themselves well informed of the current happenings across the world, are now in for a treat! One of the biggest news media outlets in the world, the Cable News Network or CNN has now announced the introduction of an all new application for the device called, CNN International app. This all new [...]

It’s hard to think of something that the pop singer Lady Gaga and President of the United States may have in common – apart from nationality, but it exists. The two “fight” to see who will be the first to reach the milestone of 10 million fans at Facebook. On the morning of Friday, the U.S. president was ahead with 9,058,881 [...]

Large companies in the world of cinema, like NBC Universal and Time Warner, told Apple that they will not reformulate their video galleries that use Flash technology, to be compatible to the IPAD, reported the New York Post. Even with the great success of the device, which arrived yesterday at stores in eight other countries, the companies argue that [...]

What on earth has a balance board to do with airport screening? A lot, as a latest development shows. The Nintendo Wii balance board has come into use, to identify fidgety, nervous passengers who may actually be carrying explosives or illegal items on their bodies. An astronomous $20 million Homeland Security-funded project called Future Attribute Screening [...]

Not so long ago, many bloggers used to subscribe to RSS feeds and be content with the limited facilities they would get from it. However, with the social networking sites becoming more popular by the minute, many have left subscribing to RSS feeds. When you have Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon, etc “why follow the RSS feeds?” is what most people [...]