By Maximum PC |
Skype is virtually everywhere. There are native Skype clients for almost all major platforms, from the PC to mobile devices to connected TVs. But what about the Web? After all, it too is an apps platform, and a powerful one at that. Even though a…
By Sean P. Aune |
Are you a Gmail fanatic? Think you live in your inbox? Well, now there’s a way to know for sure just how much of your life it consumes. Saurabh Gupta, a Developer Programs Engineer on the Gmail team, has come up with a script that will…
By Todd Haselton |
Gmail is down for thousands, if not millions, of users and many are expressing their frustrations on Twitter. We’ve confirmed that the service is indeed down for several members of our staff, although several of us are still working along with nary an issue. It’s…
By Brandon Russell |
The previous rumor suggesting Google Drive is launching with 5GB of free storage has been proven true, according to a new corroborating report. A draft release acquired by The Next Web points to a release next week “likely on Tuesday,” but there’s also evidence that…
By Brandon Russell |
Google announced on Wednesday that its magazine-style mobile news application, Google Currents, has gone international. With the introduction of verizon 1.1 — which supports both Android and iOS — Google Currents now supports 38 different languages, offline reading, instant online sync and a promised 7x…
By Adriana Lee |
According to the official YouTube blog, the site is so fired up about its popular 3D beta experiment that it’s now letting everyone with short 2D 1080p videos convert them automatically: Today we’re expanding the beta to all of you by adding automatic 3D conversion for…
By Brandon Russell |
Google is capable of some truly amazing things. Just a few days ago the company shared a really impressive video demonstrating its self-driving car, and now it’s giving us virtual access to the most famous home in the world. You can now walk the same…
By Sean P. Aune |
Mozilla has announced that it hopes to have a Metro-themed version of the Firefox browser ready for testing by the second quarter.…
By Adriana Lee |
You’d think that, when it comes to finding local information, nothing can replace recommendations from friends and contacts, right? And yet, according to The Pew Internet & American Life Project, most people don’t turn to Twitter or Facebook for referrals to businesses. They do tap…
By Killian Bell |
Staying true to a promise the company made back in July, Skype has now introduced Facebook video calling to its beta applications for both Mac and PC. Skype 5.4 beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 beta for Windows now provide users with a new way…
By Emily Price |
Flickr is currently home to over a million new photos a day taken from everything from high-end SLRs to built-in cameras in phones . So what does a million photos look like? Photographer Erik Kessels’ current installation at the Foam gallery in Amsterdam attempts to…
By Emily Price |
Kindle Cloud Reader is now available for Firefox. The HTML5-based web app allows customers to read Kindle books in their web browsers. The service was already available for Chrome, Safari, and Safari on iPad, and can be downloaded here. Customer response to Kindle Cloud Reader…
By Sage Lane |
There are a lot of good things about living in Seoul. A lot of great things, actually, and many of them having to do with technology. According to the International Telecommunication Union, South Korea is the world’s most advanced information society, in terms of internet…
By Mike Perlman |
I’ve never been formerly acquainted with Tatum Cardoza, Hedvig Anghie, or Fi Fi Vestibule, nor have I ever possessed the unwavering desire to join the Big Beautiful Singles network. At 28, I am quite concupiscent enough to abolish the need for Viagra, Cialis, Levitra or…
By Killian Bell |
Google has launched an update to its Google Goggles searching application for Android devices that introduces an awesome new feature for photo searching. When you take a snap on your Android device, the latest version of Google Goggles will automatically search your image for things…
By Sean P. Aune |
The numbers for July of which Web browsers are winning the current browser wars shows a dark horse coming up on the outside that no one seems to be watching very closely. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how…
By Adriana Lee |
Still using Internet Explorer? Well, I’ve got to hand it to you: It takes guts in today’s tech climate. Looking around the webs, it seems the Microsoft browser doesn’t get a whole lot of love or respect. As if to punctuate the sentiment, results from…
By Emily Price |
Yelp is now home to 20 million user reviews. In celebration of the accomplishment the company released this infographic with a heat map showing the location of those reviews, as well as some statistics about reviews on the site in general. The site would currently…
By Sean P. Aune |
After what seems like an eternity, Spotify, the music service that took Europe by storm, has finally launched in the United States. There were rumors, false starts and dashed hopes aplenty when it came to if this music service would ever come to the United…
By Sean P. Aune |
The numbers are in for June of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and once again Google Chrome cracked through another barrier. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks up against the previous.…
By Noah Kravitz |
Facebook today launched a trio of new chat products including browser-based video chat powered by Skype. Last week Google launched their Google+ initiative, which includes Google Hangouts, a chat service that supports audio, video, and text chatting between up to ten people at a time.…
By Emily Price |
Rumor has it Facebook’s “something awesome” its launching next week will be Skype-powered video chat. The service is set to be officially announced at a press event next Wednesday; however, details about the service have started to surface on the web from a few inside…
By Mike Perlman |
Load up the giant wooden slingshot and catapult yourself into the nearest Barnes and Noble if you’re an Angry Birds freak and happen to own a NOOK Color. America’s favorite literature chain has teamed up with Rovio and will now be implementing Angry Birds “Magic…
By Sean P. Aune |
The numbers are in for May of which Web browsers were leading the way for the month, and there was a surprising shift in which browser showed the most growth. Lets take a look at the chart for this month and see how it stacks…
