SOFTWARE

Five reasons research in motion, maker of the Blackberry smartphone will die, losing to Apple and Google once and for all.

Android is blooming in Apple's productless summer. Various studies point to the inevitable prospect of Google Android OS-based marching ahead of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Andy Rubin, Google's vice-president of engineering, said over 500,000 Android devices are activated every day, adding that the rate of activation of Android devices is growing 4.4 percent every week.

In a bid to challenge Google's collection of online office productivity and communications programs called 'Google Apps', Microsoft starts selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications.

Microsoft Corp made its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing on Tuesday, taking the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite.

Apple's first thousand-dollar app, I am Rich, only lasted a day in 2008

Consumer confidence fell in June to the lowest point since November 2010 on concerns about the slack labor market and sputtering recovery, according to a Conference Board report released on Tuesday.

Microsoft introduced its Office 365, a cloud-based service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products. CEO Ballmer called it Microsoft Office meets the cloud.

A high acceleration in Android’s growth with 500,000 devices being activated everyday, Android could rule the smartphone market after a couple of quarters.

Microsoft is announcing its Office 365 this morning. It's a cloud-based enterprise service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products.

Facebook users spend 700 billion minutes per month accounting for a quarter of the World’s total web traffic.In spite of that, most of them have not explored beyond the communicating and sharing features.

The new browser boasts password synchronization, a new sleeker look and extra goodies for the developers.

After a series of recent hacks against corporate and federal websites, the US government has spun out a plan to protect internet sites from online attacks.

Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating program to manufacturers in April 2012, an industry expert says.

Investment fund GVS Capital Corp has taken a small stake in Facebook that values the world's No. 1 social networking site at about $70 billion.

Kuwait will put on trial two citizens for criticizing Gulf Arab ruling families on social media site Twitter, a security official said on Monday.

Apple has been the big dog on the tablet block, practically defining the industry with the release of its iPad, and while Android is fast on its tale, a third player, HP is hoping to make a dent with a drastically different approach.

Frostbite 2.0 will be used in Battlefield 3 and later in Need For Speed: The Run and Mirror's Edge 2.

A pair of documents among a cache of files that the hacking group LulzSec stole from the computers of the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Thursday, revealed how smartphones are used for activities like recording interactions with police and escaping speed traps.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who beat out Steve Jobs for the honor of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” and Forbes magazine’s list of wealthiest American’s in 2010, has modeled his management style after Steve Jobs.

The location-based social networking website, Foursquare Labs Inc., based on software for mobile devices has raised $50 million in new venture capital. Now, the New York-based company is valued at approximately $600 million according to TechCrunch report.

Skype will soon release an app for the iPad 2. Skype has been testing the product extensively for months.