After a long standing legal battle between the online auction giant, eBay and the internet telephony company, Skype has finally led to the salvation of Skype, as eBay has sold out a major share of telephony company, but still retains 30% stake in Skype. It is one of the most biggest and most successful web [...]

For a long time now, there has been a rugged protocol in effect in offices around the globe, where the office management has constantly been warning its employees that, their private e-mails are under scrutiny of the company’s IT department.
However, recently some cases in the courts have shed light on a surprisingly new trend, where [...]

One of the most reputed news aggregations on the internet, Techmeme has announced the expansion of its staff with the addition of three new editors to its roll call. The new team of editors, Lidija Davis from ReadWriteWeb, Mahendra Palsule, a former IT Project Manger and Rich DeMuro of Cnet have all joined the Techmeme [...]

The long standing dispute been AT&T and Verizon Wireless, that flared up because of the advertising tactics employed by the latter, is set to come to a closure, as a Federal Court is expected to pass a verdict on the case soon. In the recent weeks, Verizon had started an advertising campaign, wherein, the wireless [...]

Google released earlier this week changes and improvements in the Google translator, which helps users to understand texts in other languages.
Besides the new look, the service has implemented tools that help in the understanding of non-Latin languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Persian. For these languages, will be offered the option “show romanization, which [...]

It was released for testing the use of Google’s image search Swirl, a tool that allows you to search for images with words, and from a given selection in the results, opens a tree-like figures, helping in the search.
The search for images has never been an easy task. The known Google Images service has its [...]

The largest and most popular online video resource, YouTube has announced the launch of an all new service called, YouTube Direct. This new service will enable the users to become reporters and journalists on YouTube channels, as the media outlets will be able to rebroadcast the raw videos uploaded by the users.
The all new YouTube [...]

Yahoo! Inc. has announced that in the beginning of the year 2010, it will discontinue its mobile service, called Yahoo! Go. This service was developed on the Java platform for smart phones and has been operational for the last four years. The decision comes in the wake of Yahoo’s decision to focus all its resources [...]

The United States Senate committee of commerce expressed its outrage and disappointment towards reputed online commodities firms that have been accused of duping their customers by enrolling them in one or the other “special offers” that puts a monthly fee for services or membership clubs that these consumers have never even opted for.
The scam has [...]

At the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie spoke to a group of professional tech bloggers where he has stated that the current boom in mobile phone applications is overrated and that such applications are not going to be a differentiating factor when it comes to smart phones.
According to Mr. Ozzie, the mobile phone applications [...]