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Microsoft TechNet/MSDN keys will expire at end of subscription period

Microsoft, in an attempt to fight piracy, has tightened the terms for MSDN and TechNet subscribers once again. Back in March we reported that Microsoft reduced the number of keys that TechNet […]

Twitter Transparency Report, US Tops the list

Twitter yesterday has released the company's first transparency report which offers information about user information, removal and takedown notice requests Twitter received in the first half of 2012. The idea for the […]

How To Purchase Digital Games at Amazon from outside the US

Amazon for some time now has been offering digital game downloads at its US shop. Here it is possible to buy games online, download them directly to the computer, to install and […]

Microsoft launches Metro-inspired website preview

Microsoft today has unveiled a new homepage preview that's been inspired by the company's all-or-nothing Metro-design approach. The old homepage gets still opened when you load the Microsoft website in a web […]

Google Glass, Nexus Q, Nexus Tablet Overview

If you did not have time to watch the Google I/O keynote, nor the time to read through the myriads of news that every tech site and many others posted about the […]

We'll all be using Metro in 2020? Gartner analysts think so

According to Gartner analysts, the release of the Windows 8 operating system by Microsoft will mark the beginning of the end for the NT platform, and the beginning of the WinRT (Windows […]

You now have a Facebook email that you do not know about, really

So everyone's favorite social networking site rolled out a change today that is affecting every single user of the service. When you look under contact information on your profile on the site, […]

Why I'm looking forward to Microsoft's Surface Device

I pondered for some time if I should write about Microsoft's recently announced Surface device or not. You have probably read all about it on other sites, and maybe even watched the […]

YouTube testing new video page design, try it now

Google appears to be working constantly on some of the company's most popular properties. An example where new designs are tested regularly is the Internet's most popular video hosting and watching destination […]

Bing improves image search part of website

The Bing Team just announced that it is rolling out a new version of Bing Image Search. It seems that the changes will be available to a worldwide audience, which may be […]

Google to charge for Product Listings in Google Shopping switch

Back in May, Google announced that it would soon switch from the free to list-in Google Product Search to the paid only Google Shopping service. Webmaster are currently notified via email about […]

Microsoft Surface Tablet running Windows 8 announced

Microsoft's mystery event took place yesterday at a time that may have been ideal for journalists and interested users from the U.S., but less than ideal for people from other parts of […]

Another YouTube redesign? Enable it right now

I stopped counting the redesigns and design changes that Google made on its properties in the second half of 2011 when they started to be launched in a much faster interval. It […]

How to disable Email Notifications on Google+

I have recently been receiving quite a few email notifications from Google+ that informed me of new posts and comments on the social networking site. While I did not mind that in […]

Skype introduces Conversation Ads

Microsoft paid $8.5 Billion U.S. Dollar for the Skype brand and technology which even for Microsoft was a hefty investment that Microsoft did not only make in what Skype offered to the […]

Facebook Chat Notifications for Chrome

If you are regularly making use of Facebook chat, you have probably noticed that you can only keep up with messages if you have the Facebook site open and pay attention to […]

Flickr: List all Photo Sizes directly

If you want to view a photo on the popular photo hosting site Flickr in its original size, you need to click your way through a number of pages before you finally […]

Hotmail's Redesign, Microsoft Goes all in on Metro

I'm not a huge fan of Hotmail's current layout and design, as I feel it is rather messy, and that this is keeping me from working effectively with the web mail client. […]

Bing integrates New Britannica Encyclopedia information in search

Search engines are moving away from being a catalog of weighted websites to a service that goes beyond just that big time. Google for instance launched Knowledge Graph which is displaying information […]

Facebook Launches App Center in the US

Up until now Facebook users who wanted to install a particular app or game on the social networking site had to either search for it on Facebook, or be notified about it […]

How to add your Website to Bing Webmaster Tools

As a webmaster it is becoming more and more important to stay in the loop. With all the Pandas, Penguins and other updates happening at a much faster pace, webmasters have to […]

Facebook Promote for non-English Admins

Facebook is currently rolling out its new promote feature that page admins can make use of to show the selected post to people who have liked the page. It is basically a […]

Google buys Meebo for $100M

The past months have been filled with acquisitions and rumors about them, from Facebook buying Instagram for $1 Billion Dollars and the rumor that the company is interested in Opera Software, to […]

More Indicators that Opera may be for Sale emerge

As far as I'm concerned, it is all just a rumor at this point in time. I'm talking about Opera Software currently in talks with Facebook, and maybe other potential buyers. Two […]

Facebook finally releases Admin Roles for Pages

Up until now Facebook Page admins could authorize other users as admins, who then had more or less the same rights as the page creator. This approach was problematic for a number […]

SkyDrive Desktop Apps Update, Exclusive Windows 8 Feature

Microsoft is currently rolling out a SkyDrive desktop apps update that supposedly will land on all systems running the application in the next week or so. These apps let you synchronize your […]

Twitter Changes Incoming: Faster Speeds, No More Hashbang URLs

Twitter yesterday announced several major infrastructure changes that it would roll out to its site in the coming weeks on the Twitter Engineering blog. The changes are all aimed at optimizing speeds […]

Office 15 with PDF Support

Microsoft is not only working on a new version of its Windows operating system, but also on Office 15, the next installment of the popular Office suite of programs. Back in January […]

Rumor: Facebook To Buy Opera Software To Join Browser Wars

Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one. According to web magazine Pocket-Lint, Facebook […]

How To Access Removed Results On Google Search

If you search on Google regularly, you may have noticed omitted entries on some search results pages.  For those of you who have never encountered that, try searching for windows 7 torrent […]

Google Removal Requests By Organization, Copyright Owner and Domains

Depending on what you search for on Google, you sometimes may find information at the bottom of the search page that inform you that results have been removed from the page in […]

Yahoo Axis Launched, Changes how you Search on the Internet

The basic search concept has not really evolved in the past decade or so. People visit a search engine like Google, Bing or DuckDuckGo, enter  a search term there, and wait for […]

Visual Studio 11: Only For Windows 7 or higher

Windows 8 is not the only product that Microsoft is currently working on.  The company is also working on a refresh of their popular Visual Studio product lineup, and boy, there will […]

Add DuckDuckGo's Zero-Click Information To Google Search

One of the great features of the search engine DuckDuckGo are its zero-click information boxes that are automatically displayed at the top of the search results for select queries. The information may […]

Microsoft So.cl (Social) Silently Launched

Oh no, not another networking site, please, for god's sake. That was my first thought when I read about Microsoft So.cl when it was first announced. With Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and […]

How To Opt-Out of Twitters' Weekly Email Digest

If you have a Twitter account, and who does not, you may have heard about the weekly email digest that Twitter has been working on for a while. The digest is a […]

SkyDrive Get a link feature Now With Bitly Support

I was not really a fan of Microsoft's online storage and management service SkyDrive a few years ago, as it could not really compete with services like Dropbox that I used at […]

Google Knowledge Graph Launches In the U.S.

Remember Bing's recent announcement that they would redesign search? Part of that is a redesign of Bing's search result page, and the new snapshot bar that is attached to the main search […]

Bing Redesign Part 2, Boosts Social, Relevancy

If you have been to Bing recently you may have noticed the new minimal design of the search engine when compared to before. This move was apparently only the first step in […]

Facebook Breaks Ties With Grooveshark Permanently

If you have been one of the five hundred thousand or so Grooveshark app user over at Facebook, you may have noticed that the app is not working anymore. Or, maybe you […]