Facebook today made some much-needed updates to its commenting platform for third-party sites. Among other things, the commenting plugin now features permalinks to specific comments, a dark colorscheme and support for signing in with Hotmail accounts. Facebook also announced that about 50,000 sites are currently using its Comments Box
Microsoft just launched a platform preview of Internet Explorer 10. As it is typical for Microsoft, this platform preview is meant to give developers a chance to test their software on the new rendering engine as it develops. The preview does not include any hint at what the user interface
Bing
Bing, Microsoft’s upstart search engine, hasn’t quite been able to replicate its success in the U.S. in the European market. The latest data from Hitwise includes some good news for Microsoft, however. While every other search engine in the UK lost market share in the last year,
Bing
Bing, Microsoft’s increasingly popular search engine, just launched a new product for business owners today that not only allows them to claim and edit their profiles on Bing’s local search feature, but also introduces a new self-serve platform for offering deals and other offers to their users. These
doj
Last year, the Department of the Interior decided to replace the 13 aging email system it provides to its 88,000 employees with Microsoft’s cloud-based offering. Google, which was also in the competition for this contract (which is worth an estimated $59 million over five years) filed a lawsuit
crossword
Google and the New York Times just launched a new trivia game, A Google a Day, that will make its print debut tomorrow morning. The new puzzle will appear right above the New York Times’ legendary crossword puzzle, but with the added twist that unlike in regular trivia games, A
adobe
Adobe just introduced version 5.5 of its Creative Suite – a bundle of software for creative professionals that, depending on the specific bundle, includes graphics and development-oriented tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and video-focused programs like Premiere Pro, Audition and After Effects. This is the first time Adobe has
PushLife, a Toronto-based startup that allows users to sync their iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries with Android and BlackBerry smartphones, has been acquired by Google. The company, which was founded in 2008, describes its mission as helping users to “play, organize, share and purchase digital content across multiple devices”
Google just announced that it has received permission from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to proceed with its acquisition of ITA Software, the Cambridge, MA-based company that specializes in providing ticketing and logistics services to airlines like United Airlines, Air Canada American Airlines and provides this data to
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Google just announced the launch of its live video streaming platform for YouTube. Until now, live events on YouTube were generally one-offs and focused on concerts, major sporting events and special interviews. Now, however, YouTube will allow a select group of its partners to stream their content live. Currently playing
A few weeks ago, just in time for SXSW, Google launched check-in offers for Latitude, its location-based service and social network. At the time, these offers were only available at a limited set of places in Austin – the home of SXSW – but starting today, users of Google’s Latitude Android
Facebook today announced that it will share the design specs for the servers and datacenters that power its service with anybody who is interested. As the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted at today’s presentation, Facebook’s products and infrastructure are intimately linked. Without enough capacity in