Mark Zuckerberg, number one in MediaGuardian’s top 100

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, took the first place in the Guardian’s annual listing of the 100 most influential people in UK media. Following Mark is Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, reflecting the growing power of social networking sites. As the two leads both coming from a social networking industry, traditional tech … Continue reading

Internet Explorer 9 web browser goes live

Leading tech company Microsoft makes its Internet Explorer 9 web browser available for downloads. IE, which has been leading the browser wars among its competitors like Google and Firefox has its version 9 available for public testing. Microsoft, has been losing its lead and was dethroned in EU last year at number … Continue reading

Microsoft vs Apple over ‘app store’

Microsoft asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to reject the application of Apple to trademark the words “App Store”. The software giant points out that the ‘app store’ is generally use by other software companies for Apple to use the term. Russell Pangborn, Microsoft’s associate general counsel said: “An … Continue reading

Acer, yet another iPad challenger

Undeniably, iPad already established reputation when it comes to tablet computing having about 95% market share under the gadget category. However, StrategyAnalytics warned that  “Apple’s huge lead will be shortlived, as a wave of Android models is set to flood the market in the fourth quarter.” After Samsung’s Galaxy Tab … Continue reading

Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie resigned

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announces the resignation of their Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie, proponent of  the “cloud computing” through internal email to employees. Ray Ozzie, chief software architect who have taken the role of Bill Gates since 2005 when Microsoft bought out Ozzie’s company. After a year of his … Continue reading