• Rovio Entertainment Quietly Launches Beta Version of Angry Birds Star Wars for Facebook

    By: Jeff Stewart  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Android, Games, iOS, News, Smartphones, Social Media, Tablets

    After releasing their famous game Angry Birds Star Wars for Android, iOS, Mac, Amazon Kindle Fire, PC, Windows 8 and Windows Phone on November 8th of this year, Rovio Entertainment has now quietly launched a beta version of this highly amusing game for famed social networking website, Facebook, where it already has more than 22.6 million fans.   ...

  • DIY Presentation Software PowToon Gains $600K in Outside Funding

    By: Jeff Stewart  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Business, News

    The UK/Israel-based presentation software startup PowToon announced that it has secured $600K in outside funding. On this occasion, the serial entrepreneur, Ilya Spitalnik, who is the CEO of PowToon said that the company will deploy a major part of this fresh investment to add new features and iterations to its plat...

  • Google Launches 24 New Features for Google+

    By: Jeff Stewart  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Android, Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media, Tablets

    Christmas holidays are just around the corner and usually at this time of the year companies let everything go, but Google has more important plans.It turns out the Google+ team was working really hard to give its Android and iOS users a great surprise just before the holidays.   Google+’s team managed to released 24 new...

  • Low Expectations May Help Research In Motion Before Third Quarter Report

    By: Talha Bhatti  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones

    Research In Motion used to be a high flying stock before rivals like Apple and Samsung took over the smartphone maker's market share. The Canadian firm has been in a free fall for the past year and only recently has seen a comeback in share pri...

  • WhatsApp Says It Will Not Be Releasing An App For BlackBerry 10

    By: Talha Bhatti  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada

    BlackBerry 10 has been making waves as its launch date approaches. As expected, one of the more frequently asked question about the platform is the apps that will be available for download. Research In Motion (RIM) has tried very hard to bring developers to the platform and has succeeded in most cases by offering surprising revenue totals. However,...

  • Google Has the Tools To Unseat Amazon’s Cloud Services Dominance

    By: Talha Bhatti  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Business, Google, News

    Google’s Cloud Platform products have gotten a lot of updates recently which all seem to point at the search giant's ambitions to take on Amazon Web Services. The current moves by Google will also pit it against some other heavy weights in the infrastructure-as-a-service sector including Wi...

  • Google Search Results Show Microsoft’s Next Generation Game Console Will Beat Sony

    By: Talha Bhatti  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Games, Google, News

    Google’s search volume is a great way to figure out what is currently popular and what is in demand. A recent study has shown that Google searches for gaming consoles shows that Microsoft’s next video game console Xbox 720 will be more popular that Japanese electronics maker Sony’s PS...

  • Google To Stop Support of Exchange ActiveSync Protocol At End Of January 2013

    By: Talha Bhatti  |   December 17th, 2012   |   Google, Mobile Apps, News

    Google announced on December 14 that it will stop support for Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol for upcoming devices starting January 30th, 2013. Windows Mobile users that use Google Apps business accounts will not be affected by the move. Furthermore, current users that are syncing ...