Earlier this month, Google confirmed its plans for a cloud-storage service called Drive. The new site will challenge similar cloud-based storage websites like Dropbox and Box. Google plans to launch Drive with an initial free offering of 1GB for users who already have a Google account (and really, who doesn’t?). Users would be able to [...]

Google autocomplete has been a helpful—if not amusing—feature of Google search. But Google might be forced to lessen the efficiency of its autocomplete feature. Japan’s Tokyo District Court has petitioned to suspend specific terms Google provides in responses to search queries. The court claims that those terms are defamatory and violates users’ privacy. A Google [...]

Recently after getting sued for patent infringement by Yahoo, Facebook announced its purchase of 750 patents from IBM. The company did not disclose the details of the sale, but it confirmed that the purchase will gain it some ammo in the expected upcoming patent battles. The patents cover a range of media and networking technologies. [...]

Twitter has been making a lot of additions to its family lately. On Tuesday, the company announced its purchase of a micro-blogging platform company called Posterous to improve Twitter’s own platform. Posterous was most known for its blogging site, Posterous Spaces, which allowed users to post brief blogs with photos and videos. The site currently [...]

Dropbox isn’t the only cloud-storage site, and hasn’t been for a while, but the latest competition comes from search engine giant, Google. Google’s new Drive cloud-storage service has been rumored to launch for some time now, but the company has confirmed that the service will launch in the next coming weeks or months. Drive, otherwise [...]

Earlier this year, Verizon was rumored to be searching for a partnership to add online streaming to their list of services. On Monday, the company confirmed that they have teamed up with Redbox, and the new joint venture is aimed directly at online streaming service Netflix. Coinstar, the parent company that owns DVD-rental service Redbox, [...]

If you’re not a big fan of the new Facebook Timeline, you’re in for some bad news. The social network says soon the feature will be applied to every profile, whether users want it or not. At the end of last year, Timeline was only a new visual feature that users could adopt on a [...]

Twitter has been making several purchases lately to boost its security. Last month, the social networking website bought Whisper Systems, a mobile security company, to boost its mobile security. This month, Twitter is adding Dasient to its family, and adding more security to its services. The purchase was confirmed on Monday. Dasient is a company [...]

Android has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. Mobile firms have been playing do-they-don’t-they as they try to discern whether or not the platform has been infected by malware. Looks like Google is trying to alleviate some of the anxiety by announcing their +AndroidDeveloper page on their social network. The Google+ [...]

On Thursday, social networking site Twitter announced that it has developed a way to filter tweets that violated certain countries’ restrictions on speech. Though the issue of speech is protected in the United States under the First Amendment, other countries such as Germany and France ban certain types of content. Until recently, the only way [...]