Dropbox competitor Box.com keeps coming with aggressive approaches to get more users, and one of the ways it does is by giving away free cloud storage left and right. Now, new users can sign up for an account and receive 50GB of space for free. Looks like Dell is simply sponsoring the promotion, but given that it’s an “Exclusive Offer,” we can’t see where the exclusivity lies. if you’re [...]

Microsoft today announced that its cloud storage service SkyDrive now stores over 1 billion Office documents.”Recently we reached a big milestone; our customers are now storing over a billion Office documents on SkyDrive!.” wrote Omar Shahine on Windows Blog. Sarah Filman, Lead Program Manager for SkyDrive.com, also announced a new feature which is said to have been based on customer feedback [...]

Apple has today announced that 25 billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from iTunes, the 25 billionth song was “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch, and the person who downloaded it will receive an iTunes gift card worth €10,000. Apple’s full press release is below: iTunes Store Sets New Record with 25 Billion Songs Sold CUPERTINO, California―February 6, 2013―Apple® [...]

Google has purchased Channel Intelligence which according to its blog, “tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to consumer packaged goods”. The deal is worth U.S. $125 million in cash. In an announcement on the Channel Intelligence website, the company noted it has “worked with Google for years” as a featured Google Shopping launch partner with [...]

Nokia’s preference and love for Microsoft’s Mobile OSes is evident with most of its flagship phones running on the OS,  it’s not surprising when the Finland based company hinted that Windows 8 running tablets might be announced in the future according to Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop. Speaking to reporters in Sydney, Mr Elop said the company was not yet announcing anything, [...]

Apple iPhone is not doing as bad as the reports suggests, Apple sold 17.7 million iPhones in US during the fourth quarter of 2012 according to a from report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Device Strategy Samsung,came second at 16.8 million mobile phones in the same quarter. 52 million phones were sold in the U.S. between October and December. Of the 52 million phones sold, two out of every three [...]

Facebook  introduced the Facebook Card on Thursday , a resusable gift card that can be loaded with balances for different retailers when a user’s friends buy them gifts through Facebook. Facebook has added a number of options to its Gifts platform, including Target, Jamba Juice, Olive Garden and Sephora, who will offer gift cards to be purchased on Facebook. But instead of sending individual gift [...]

Apple has sent a notification to it’s European Distributors and Retailers that it will stop selling the current version of the Mac Pro in Europe due to the fact that it doesn’t meet current legislation according to  9to5Mac. Resellers can continue to sell off any remaining stock of the Mac Pro and that Apple will cease taking orders for the Mac Pro after February 18. Apple sent the following [...]

Facebook today reported Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results, it  reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 17 cents and revenue of $1.59 billion, which was slightly ahead of what the Analysts have expected. Mobile revenue was 23 percent of all ad revenue, a huge increase over the 14 percent it contributed in Q3. “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile [...]

Dropbox today unveiled two new products. The first is Quick Start, which shows an instant preview of the file on Dropbox which saves the trouble of downloading the file it to know what it is. Also launched was a photos tab for the web to make it easy to view and share photos you’ve uploaded. “Both are related to a shift that we’re seeing thats underway at Dropbox from thinking about things as [...]