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Facebook article on Wikipedia has become the most viewed English article of the year, according to statistics from Wikimedia’s Toolserver. The next highest viewed page, Wiki, is a surprising one with 29.6 million views – it’s this page that explains how sites such as Wikipedia function – while the third place is taken by the list of deaths in 2012 (25.4 million views). Here’s [...]

Apple has agreed to drop it’s patent claims against Samsung Galaxy S III Mini after Samsung said it was not planning to sell the product in the U.S. market.

328 million apps were downloaded on Christmas Day, along with  17.4 million new iOS and Android device activation according to Flurry Analytics. “More iOS and Android devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. This year was no exception. On this Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxy’s, Kindle Fires, and more, were activated than on any other day [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s earned total compensation of $4.17 million in 2012, down from $378 million in 2011, Apple said in an SEC filing today. Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs successor’s  annual payment included $1.36 million in base salary and $2.8 million in incentive plan compensation. The total compensation for the four senior Apple executive offices, other than CEO Tim Cook, in 2012 thus [...]

Google has released its selection  for the best Android apps of 2012. Google merchandising manager Tavares Ford provided more details on the top 12 picks of 2012 ” These are some of the best apps available in Google Play. Some launched in 2012 while others issued updates that achieved a great combination of utility, beauty and accessibility. Almost all of them are available globally and offer [...]

Amazon.co.uk  and amazon.com led ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index Customer Satisfaction Scores for the Top 40 Retail Websites in the UK. Amazon.uk  garnered 86 points, to stay ahead of  Amazon.com, which recorded 84 points. John Lewis (80) stayed at in third this year, rounding out the list of three companies that surpass the excellence threshold of 80. Play.com (79), Apple [...]

Customer satisfaction with Apple’s online store slipped to 80 from the 83 points it garnered in 2011 according to ForeSee’s annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index. The results are  compiled from 24,000 U.S.  customer surveys gathered between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This year, we’re seeing that even some of the largest companies in the country are at risk if they lose sight of customer [...]

Instagram’s changed terms of service which were announced few days ago caused a great deal of furore among the users, with many suspecting that the company was going to begin selling user photos without compensation. Instagram is now served with it’s  first civil lawsuit . Reuters reported about the lawsuit “In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court [...]

Instagram has released a new update for its Android and iOS apps.This update adds support for 25 different languages to the app on both OSes. The languages getting support with today’s update are Afrikaans, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, and Turkish.

Dropbox has released a new open beta to preview and test upcoming software. The latest version of the beta is 2.2.2.8 and is available as a direct download from the Dropbox forums. Dropbox forum has more details ” What’s new: – Effortlessly share several of your beautiful photos at once – Organize your favorite photos into albums. You can share them too! – Delete multiple [...]