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Google’s  GTalk is currently down. Users are not able to see contacts or send messages, in some cases contacts are visible, the messages won’t get sent. As is the norm now various users on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites have reported this first. Google released a statement “We’re aware of a problem with Google Talk affecting a majority of users. The affected users [...]

During its earnings report on Tuesday,  Apple officially has announced that Mountain Lion  otherwise known as OS X 10.8, the latest edition of its operating system for Mac desktops and laptops will be released on Wednesday, July 25th. Users will be able to download it from the Mac App Store. Mac users all the way back to Snow Leopard can download the latest Apple software. At Apple’s recent Worldwide [...]

Amazon is opening a new Development centre in London with tens of developers, engineers, UX designers and graphic designers  who will be developing services and APIs for phones, computers, televisions and gaming consoles The offices will be located in an eight floor, 4,366 square metre area in Glasshouse Yard. The design and development teams from Amazon companies Pushbutton and Lovefilm will also [...]

Sparrow, the popular thrid-party email app for MAC OS and iOS plus  a great Gmail solution for iPhone users has been acquired by Google. According to some reports, the price is said to be around US $25 million. “The Sparrow team has always put their users first by focusing on building a seamlessly simple and intuitive interface for their email client. We look forward to bringing them aboard [...]

October 26th, 2012 is the date for Windows 8 launch according to a post on the official Windows Team Blog.Microsoft had previously announced that an upgrade from Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 will cost US $40 for a download. Windows 8 is one of the most anticipated and ambitious overhauls of Windows Operating System in years, most of the previous version of the OS variant including the Mobile [...]

Microsoft released the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office,  Office 2013 and Office 365. The next release features an intuitive design that works with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. You could get  your hands on the customer preview at office.com/preview , the newest version gives more prominence to cloud computing and is designed for use with [...]

If you are a regular Skype user, this will come as a shocker as your private messaging with someone on your contact list could be sent to another random person on your contacts list. Reported in the Skype support forums, “shocked” users had said private instant messages had been re-sent to to a random person on their contacts list. Microsoft owned Skype has acknowledged the bug. “We [...]

It’s about time Facebook – more than four months since it introduced the Timeline design for desktop, Facebook has started rolling out the Timeline design for pages to its mobile versions this week. Earlier the mobile version of Facebook Pages would display only the profile picture for the Page, along with  the category and amount of likes the page had along with a Like button. Timeline [...]

More than 450,000 Yahoo Voice usernames and unencrypted passwords were stolen from Yahoo.  Hacker outfit D33ds Company claimed credit for the attack , which was carried out through  a union-based SQL injection and exposed 453,492 plain text login credentials. Formspring was also in the news  this week for a reported hack in to their system, Formspring users are being encouraged to change their [...]

Twitter has launched today new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates including a video feature, now you can click on a tweet with a video link on your iPhone or Android device,  and have the video play directly in the tweet. Below are the new features as described by Sung Hu Kim,  Twitter’s Product Manager “Expand Tweets Since we [...]