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We have yet to see anything official come from Google, however it looks like they have recently begun making some changes in terms of the new account sign-up process. And by changes, we mean that it now appears as if anyone looking to get set up with Google will be [...]

Google has been simplifying and streamlining its core services, and many of these efforts are being done toward the aim of making the user experience more social. With this, Google has announced that its Google+ social networking service has passed the 90 million user mark.

The U.S. military is known to use video games and simulators in training soldiers for combat and other missions. In a new effort to involve the public, the organization plans to crowdsource software testing initiatives through games.

Popular file locker and online download site Megaupload has been shut down, amid complaints by copyright groups for violation of their intellectual property. U.S. authorities have also requested the arrest of top-ranking officials living abroad as part of efforts to shutter content piracy online.

Google wants to clean up the web, at least in terms of websites that have too many ads that tend to overpower content. In its latest update, Google’s “page layout” algorithm will reduce the ranking of sites that have too many above-the-fold advertisements.

We’ve been following the various things that Siri’s got going on since the little virtual assistant first cropped up back last year with the iPhone 4S launch. And already, we’ve seen it do some pretty amazing things, but what it’s got in mind for the future is actually even more [...]

It looks like Android users have gotten another app, an official Wikipedia app. The app has recently been released into the Android Market by the Wikimedia Foundation and as one would have guessed, the Wikpedia app is available for free.

Facebook held a special media event today to unveil a new addition to its Timeline feature, the Open Graph, which will bring app integration to your Facebook Timeline. The company is very interested in applications, as we already know. and its partners are probably equally interested in tapping that 800+ [...]

BitTorrent is among the more popular means of sharing files and media online. But aside from just file-sharing, the developers of the file-transfer platform are currently experimenting with video streaming.

A short while back we saw a site launch called My Permissions. That site was a simple site, a launching point of sorts that allowed you to easily click over to see which services you had authorized for use with online services. And well, it looks like we now have [...]