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Social media is becoming a very influential tool/platform, take for instance twitter (a micro blogging website) which only started its operations in 2007 is now a household name across the world. Facebook’s operations are becoming increasingly threatening to the web pioneer. Google, the international corporation recently had taken action against Facebook, in removing Facebook’s operability and freedom to utilise data ...

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Apple Inc. may have sold as many as 500,000 iPad 2 computers after retail outlets ran out of the tablet-style device on its debut weekend, said Piper Jaffray Cos. analyst Gene Munster. Stores run by Apple, Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. contacted by Munster’s team had sold out of the device, he said in a research note yesterday. Online ...

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Tokyo Electric Power Co., Toshiba Corp., East Japan Railway Co. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. are among companies that may be most hurt by the strongest earthquake on record to hit Japan, analysts and investors said. Tokyo Electric, battling to avoid a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant, faces “severe” rebuilding costs and Toshiba’s nuclear business may see increased scrutiny, said ...

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Bloomberg Game Changers, a series about entrepreneurs and companies that have changed the the world, debuted its latest episode Thursday night, focusing on the meteoric rise of the micromessaging service Twitter.

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Obvious loved or hated pencil and paper is on NoteSlate in completely new context. Our unique interactive handwritten interface gives you amazing new user experience. Write, draw, note, make hints, do whatever you want, how you know it. Now edit anything, communicate and share your notes, smiles or ideas across. Through the simplest “computer” interface, do anything with human touch. ...

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Google deploys People Finder to help Japanese quake victims. The tool is an easy registry creator to help victims and loved ones communicate during emergencies.

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On April 29, the eyes of the world will focus on London for the royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, and the U.K. will deliver a royal celebration that will capture the imagination of a global audience. We’re doing our part too: following last week’s announcement of new aerial imagery for London, we’re expanding our 3D imagery of ...

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Even though its Flash technology is used as a punching bag by web standards fans, Adobe has been working hard to embrace HTML5. The company released its own HTML5 video player, and Adobe Illustrator and Dreamweaver CS5 contain a number of new HTML5 export tools. Now Adobe is turning its HTML5 attentions to Flash with the release of Wallaby, a ...

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National Geographic Channel have created a real-life version of the animated film Up — launching a house thousands of metres into the air using balloons. A team of scientists, engineers, and two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16′ X 16′ house 18′ tall with 8′ coloured weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles, and set a ...

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Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is considering the introduction of a service that would let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones, according to two people with knowledge of the project. The company’s Amazon Payments unit is exploring whether to start a service based on so-called near-field-communication technology, said the people, who asked not to be named because ...

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“Congratulations, nerds.” That might have been the upbeat theme of last night’s Oscars, where a co-host live-tweeted from backstage, ABC hosted an online party at Oscars.com concurrently with the televised ceremony, and a presenter made a scripted “app” joke. But instead, those two words from James Franco were a deadpan reaction to the winners of this year’s scientific & technical ...

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Ji Lee has spent a fair amount of time drawing silhouettes of objects to create this website with Daniele Codega and Cory Forsyth. The aim of the game is to guess which movie the object is from, the only clue is that it’s a classic!

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