News and Updates

A few months ago, Google’s email service integrated new quick action buttons that allow users to interact with their emails without having to open them, such as an option to confirm your attendance for an event. Now they’ve added new features that let you leave restaurant reviews, watch videos or open Google Docs or Dropbox files from your inbox.

The Mountain View company has changed the YouTube comments service to integrate it with its social platform Google+, with user accounts on the famous videosharing platform disappearing to make way for links to Google profiles. This migration will make every comment published on YouTube appear alongside the name and photo of Google+ users. Read: goodbye, anonymity.

Facebook launched the “Like” button in 2010 and since then has maintained the same look for the button; now the social network has announced a design change in its popular “Like” and “Share” buttons, which have already begun to be automatically updated on our user accounts.

At the beginning of this year, after the shutdown of Megaupload, its creator Kim Dotcom presented MEGA as the new substitute. Eleven months after the new service’s birth, the company has announced that MEGA has completed its beta phase and has launched an improved version that incorporates many new features.

Microsoft has advised in an official statement that it has discovered a vulnerability in some older version of Windows and Office that has allowed a series of coordinated attacks from malware sent by email on hundreds of users of the affected programs.

Google has presented the characteristics of the new Android 4.4 Kit Kat, At first, it will be exclusively for Nexus 5, while the rest of devices will receive it over the next few weeks.

iGoogle closed its services last November 1st. The users of this customizable homepage have to look for an alternative among the ones offered by Google, like some widgets or Google+, or other providers.

BBM—the instant messaging service that till then could be used exclusively on BlackBerry devices—has been launched for iOS and Android with a great success. It has also been revealed that BlackBerry is negotiating with Facebook.

Last week, Google hosted an event that many people thought was the presentation of the new Nexus 5. In our article we explain the possible reasons for this misunderstanding and why this happens often on social networks.

In the last years, Java and its plugin have been the port of entry for attacks on many browsers. Now, Mozilla and Google have decided to classify it as non-secure and to start using other alternatives such as HTML5.