News and Updates

The phenomenon known as social television—that is, exchanging comments with other viewers on the programming you’re watching by using a hashtag on Twitter—has taken a giant leap forward. The microbloggin social network will add a button to watch series and programs from the tweeters of the official TV channels.

Amazon has presented the new payment method you can use to make purchases in stores that offer it as an option.

Yahoo launches its new email service with a new design both in the web and in the iOS and Android app. It also offer new and improved functions such as 1TB in storage space.

Microsoft will recycle accounts that have been inactive for more than 270 days. This way the email address will be available to whoever wishes to register with the same address again. This move has fired up an enormous debate on user privacy, whose personal information may be linked to these email addresses.

Twitter has just presented a document with all the details related to the IPO. They are hoping to raise at least $1 billion with the Wall Street IPO, although the actual value of the company is not yet known. Its hugely important secret weapon: It’s the king of the mobile market

the new Chrome update modifies the browser’s opening tab when you start a session with your Google account.

Gmail will show ads on its mobile apps. This will come as part of its 4.6 update that was launched few days ago. Although it will give you the chance to choose which ads you do or don’t wish to see, we won't be able to hide them.

Due to a technical failure Hangouts and Gtalk are sending private chat conversations to the wrong recipients. Google is working to resolve this bug which is happening worldwide.

Pressure from the culture industry pushed Google into setting up a search filter to try to reduce Internet piracy. BitTorrent and uTorrent has now been removed from Google's blacklist and now they appear as suggested results in the Google search engine autocomplete and Google Instant.

After the announcement of their own operating system, Vale has also announced that they are developing their own hardware to beat the new generation of videoconsoles: Steam Machines.