Facebook celebrates its tenth birthday today, marking a major milestone for the social network which boasts more than 1.2 billion monthly users. In its first decade Facebook has garnered users from all over the globe keen to communicate with friends, post updates and share photographs. The social network - which was established by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard University - has grown to become a multi-bil ...

Feb 2: For the first time, Google, Facebook and other leading Internet companies issued reports Monday about previously secret U.S. government demands for their users' data, while renewing their call for reform of surveillance programs that have become a major source of friction between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The companies said the government's demands under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillanc ...

Google has celebrated Chinese New Year with an animated Doodle on its search page. This year is the Year of the Horse, which is said to bring prosperity and wealth. Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the Chinese calendar, and this year it will fall on 31 January. The doodle features an image of a girl on a rocking horse and a boy holding fire crackers and Chinese lanterns. Celebrations usual ...

Jan 24: Rarely do you find a company that puts itself in the crosshairs of hackers, especially when you know there are some *very* talented ones out there (remember Anonymous?). In a time where companies try to stay out of the limelight, Google is doing the exact opposite - and for the fourth time, in fact. Google is offering $2.71828 million for hackers who manage to hack into Chrome OS, in their annual se ...

Nov 13:  Google is to expand the features for its futuristic Google Glass to include music. When Glass loads it will now display “listen to” among its standard voice commands, so that users can search for songs, scan through saved playlists, as well as stream music through Google Play. Users will be able to link their Play accounts to give them access to song recommendations and playlists based on what they ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 12: Twitter said Tuesday it would offer its users the ability to create custom "timelines" for fresh perspectives on the Twittersphere. In addition to a standard timeline, users can craft new ones designed to follow new topics on the messaging platform. "Today we?re introducing custom timelines to give you more control over how tweets are organized and delivered on the Twitter platform," ...

Nov 8: AirAsia now has its first dedicated mobile app for Windows Phone 8 which successfully uses the platform’s modern UI featuring seat maps and voice search. The AirAsia app for Windows Phone 8 has a modern, bold and elegant look and aims to enhance the travel experience of its customers by giving them the leisure to book tickets, check flight status, manage their booking and also take advantage of their ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 1:  Google on Thursday unveiled the newest version of its Android smartphone software, aiming to allow more smartphone users access to its evolving menu of online services such as driving directions voice-activated search. The new KitKat version of Android (Android 4.4) will be able to run on inexpensive, low-end smartphones as well as the most advanced devices, Sundar Pichai, Google Seni ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28: Maxis Bhd, the first telecommunications firm in the country has teamed up with Spotify, the world's largest music streaming service to bring the world of music through the internet at anytime and anywhere on mobile devices at an irresistible price. Maxis' Head of Digital Services T. Kugan said with music streaming already gaining rapid popularity and a big part of today's lifestyle, bo ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28: Are you man or machine? Vicarious is betting you won't be able to distinguish the latter from the former with its new technology. The San Francisco-based startup is claiming to have created an algorithm that "reliably" solves CAPTCHAs -- meaning that it can program machines to act and think just like humans, according to a company press release. If the company is to be believed, this ...