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Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service which has recently opened the doors wider to the free service has updated its app for Android Mobile OS, the latest version 0.4.04 went functional yesterday afternoon. Spotify’s iPhone app also was updated recently. Andres Sehr, Marketing and Communications Manager, Spotify, wrote on its website. “This update brings a [...]

Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare users who visit [...]

After facing severe negative reactions and criticism from all quarters about the privacy policy  which has gone to the extent of people making their mind to quit Facebook altogether and events like quitfacebook.com gaining momentum Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a damage control exercise. He admitted that his popular social networking tool had moved “too fast” and “missed [...]

Google TV  which was being talked about for some time and which was officially announced during the Google Developers conference held last week at California saw Logitech mentioned as a prominent partner for hardware which was further acknowledged by the peripheral maker through its website. ” To help bring Google TV to life, Logitech will offer the first retail companion box to work with [...]

If you are planning to stop using Facebook after numerous atrocious security and privacy bloopers one bigger than the other, the recent been the sharing of user data with advertisers, but, have been procrastinating to do it have some help with deciding on the D-Day. A website called Quit Facebook Day has set the last day of May as the day everyone keen to leave the social network should finally [...]

One of the significant and useful feature of mobile Operating system Android 2.2 Froyo showcased at the Google’s Developer Conference last week which go dwarfed by the announcement of  Google TV and Android Froyo  was  the ability of  Chrome-to-Device messaging service which allows you to automatically send links from your computer to your Google Android device. Google Chrome to Phone [...]

If you were angry with Facebook’s self serving and financially motivated user policies this would outrage you. WSJ ( Wall Street Journal) reported that  Facebook along with MySpace, Digg, and a few other  social-networking sites sent advertisers information (user names, ages, hometowns and occupations) about  which specific users were clicking on ads, based on a report at AT&T Labs [...]

Folks, its official. Google has formally announced Android 2.2 update named Froyo ( following Google’s alphabetized dessert naming convention, is the next one called Gateau?)  on the second day of Google Conference at the Moscone West, San Francisco. Most of the features which Sporkings.com have written about earlier does find a place,   Android Froyo will run Flash and HTML5 platforms [...]

Google UK (www.google.co.uk) pays homage to Pac-man, one of the most favored game of all times on its 30th anniversary with a fully playable version of Pac-man replacing the search engine’s logo that too all the 255 levels of the arcade classic have been recreated  along with the game’s distinctive sounds. Google’s  tribute to Pac-man does not stop here, Google has replaced the familiar [...]

Google’s  annual developer conference which started on Wednesday at Moscone West, San Francisco bought news of  an all new web apps store for its Chrome web browser.  The Chrome Web Store is slated to debut later this year. Chrome’s online apps store will offer different apps for the web browser. Currently, there are no apps on the official website but just a brief FAQ on what’s [...]