The Spanish telecom provider Telefonica has released an app that will allow users to call and send messages for free. Other than Spain, the app can also be used in other European countries such as the Netherlands. This may be the first time a European telecommunication company has introduced such an app.
The app works like [...]
Virgin Atlantic airlines will soon allow passengers to use their own cellular telephones to make phone calls and texts on their planes during a flight. On some flights the company has made it possible to use internet via WiFi connection and now they decided to take it a step further.
The British airline is to offer [...]
Microsoft is carrying out major changes in the front end of its Bing search engine. Among other things, social networks are better integrated and users can perform more tasks directly from the search.
Last week, Microsoft announced a new version of Bing where social networks are more involved in the search results. As an example, Bing [...]
Facebook has recently acquired Glancee for an undisclosed sum. The mobile location service enables users to locate people in their proximity and contact them based on common interests.
Glancee announced the acquisition on its own site. The Glancee employees will move into Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California immediately. Glancee was founded in 2010 with the [...]
TomTom HD Traffic service will be offering its services on BlackBerry smartphones. The live traffic is added to the existing maps and location services that RIM has already developed for its mobile operating system.
Both companies have announced that developers have access to the features and capabilities of TomTom HD Traffic service. This makes it possible [...]
The creators of the VLC media player, an open source and cross-platform media player, has stated that the software has passed 1 billion downloads. This is quite an amazing feat because downloads via Linux are not counted in this list.
The statistics of VLC media player, developed by the VideoLAN organization were tracked since February 2005 [...]
Facebook recently announced its own App portal called the App Center. With the new App Center, users can now access existing apps for Android, IOS and browsers plus paid HTML5 apps. Facebook hopes to boost its platform log plus increase their income with this new App Center.
The Facebook App Center will be available in the [...]
Samsung has recently acquired mSpot an entertainment start-up that streams movies on computers and mobile devices. Another feature of mSpot is the ability to upload and stream music to play on any Samsung supported device.
According to rumors, the acquisition price is around $ 8.8 million, but both companies did not give any news or comments [...]
People are still marveling at the scenic ice caves in northern China.
Recently pictures have emerged of these ice caves where the ice is said to be over three million years old. The caves are located near Ningwu County of Xinzhou City at the north end of the Shanxi Province.
The caverns are spectacular and contain icicles [...]
Be careful as scientists who monitor the sun have spotted a sunspot so big that it’s 60,000 miles across and if it erupts into solar flares could totally disrupt the electromagnetic field of Earth.
Actually it would mess up many electronic devices that we have come to rely on. This effect called AR 1476 is huge [...]
