According to SF Gate, Google is facing a lawsuit over Buzz. A complaint filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Google broke the law when its Google Buzz service shared personal information without user consent.
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Apple will sell the newly unveiled tablet-style iPad starting at $499 at a lower price that it was rumored before. The device has a 9.7-inch touch screen, weighs 1.5 pounds and comes with 16, to 64 gigabytes of flash memory storage. The basic iPad models will cost $499, $599 and $699, depending on the storage [...]
TechCrunch reported that the company has walked away from Google’s $550 million offer.
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Computer virus, Koobface, has been targeting the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. According to Sky News, Facebook is the most vulnerable to the Koobface virus.
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Playstation Home from Sony will allow a micro transaction supported game, Sodium, to position itself as a leading platform for social networking system. Sodium is the first game to be offered free through the Playstation Home since it was introduced to the public.
Sodium, developed by Nottingham, UK-based Outso for SCEA, which Sony describe [...]
Mozzila and Google are strong supporters of mobile web are pushing their products, Fennec and Crome, to support apps which could be coded with HMTL and JavaScript rather than apps that should be for multiple smartphone platforms, such as iPhone OS, Google Android or Windows Mobile.
“In the interim period, apps will be very successful,” said [...]
Earlier in December, Sermo a social network for physicians, laid off staff and according to CEO Daniel Palestrant will shift its business strategy, The Journal of New England Technology reports.
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According to TechCrunch, Google is negotiating to buy Yelp, a local business review platform for $500 million or more. Google has started its own directory of local services, but with over 20 billion in cash why not acquire a highly successful one. Yelp is growing 80 percent a year, while its closest competitor, Citysearch, remains [...]
Here is my list of Top 5 Tech Trends for 2010.
Mobile Services and Apps
Real time products and services
Location Based Apps
Cloud Computing
Tablet computers
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Google and Facebook launch short-URL services – Goo.gl and Fb.me which could potentially challenge bit.ly as the most popular online web address shortener. Meanwhile, Bit.ly has released Bit.ly Pro, a service that lets publishers create their own custom short URLs that use the Bit.ly platform.
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