SOFTWARE

A Chinese software company is alleged to have placed security holes in its products sold to chemical defense and energy companies in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Beijing-based Sunway ForceControl makes SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) software which is used in computer systems that control and monitor manufacturing plants and equipment used by different industries.

The Federal Trade Commission on Friday gave a green light to Microsoft's decision to buy Skype for $8.5 billion.

There has been news going around that popular digital decentralized currency Bitcoin is being targeted by a Trojan that steals funds from your Bitcoin wallet. Security firm Symantec warned the Bitcoin users on Friday about a Trojan, following an alleged hack on a Bitcoin user Wallet that cost him bitcoins, or about $500,000. What Symantec says is that the 'Infostealer.Coinbit' Trojan tries to find your wallet file and then mail it to the attacker.

Facebook plans to debut its iPad and iPad 2 app within this month despite some bumpy history and speculations of the two companies being at odds.

Many regulators are fighting back against Facebook’s facial recognition feature.

iPad 2 owners who are desperately waiting to jailbreak their iPad have good news as iPad 2 is soon going to be revealed in Indian Market.

Speculations have been made that Facebook's initial public offering, which is likely to hit capital market by the first quarter of 2012, could value the popular social networking site at worth of $100 billion.

Swedish DRM-based music streaming service Spotify is set to launch in the US in a few weeks.

In the midst of cyber security issues over preserving personal data and confidential information, Google has launched ‘Me on the Web’ to monitor sensitive details.

The story of a mother who gets entangled in a Facebook game so much so that she causes the inadvertent death of her child had shocking novelty value. Yes it ‘used to have’ the shock value, but not anymore, with more and more such incidents being reported. The highly addictive Facebook games can emerge as a leading killer of children, it seems.

With the announcement of the Chromebook from Google, tech analysts, investors and consumers are watching closely to see if Google is more than a two trick pony. Google isn’t the only company betting big on the cloud either - Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have all made big moves into the cloud.

Security firm Symantec warned people that they might end up like Bitcoin users ‘Allinvain’ whose digital wallet were targeted by a new Trojan to steal funds.

With an iPhone 5 around, friend-finding is going to be a lot easier. At least it's going to be a lot less hard than arduously adding friends on Facebook and getting disillusioned over lack of compatibility. According to the rumor mill, the iPhone 5 is going to become your portable social network. The phone analyses your habits, tastes, lifestyle, aptitudes, travels and the like and finds people who share the same bandwidth. And then it tells you if a potential friend is in the vicinity. Conve...

Microsoft has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy the Internet phone service Skype, the Federal Trade Commission said in a website posting on Friday.

New data are showing strong growth in eCommerce, with Amazon.com having particularly healthy same-store sales gains.

Facebook is finalizing its new app that will work on Apple's iPad according to New York Times.

Shares of Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) plunged more than 20 percent after the BlackBerry maker reported weaker-than-expected first quarter results and slashed full-year forecast.

Research In Motion saw a challenging first quarter and the same troubles - hardware gap, BB7 delays, competitive headwinds, average selling price pressure - are weighing on its second quarter too.

Finnish game developing giant Rovio has launched a new Angry Birds level called Mine and Dine

MeebleMail.com, enables consumers to turn drab everyday email into stylish personalized stationery. It features a library of over 500 designs that appeal to a wide variety of tastes – from contemporary and sophisticated to whimsical.

Social networking giant Facebook is readying an iPad app and will release it in the coming weeks, according to the rumor mill.