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  • Play with Google Play

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    Google has recently announced the release of their new product, the Google Play. This is believed to be Google’s response into the growing popularity and need for multimedia, education and entertainment applications.

  • The Power of a Like

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    Several years ago, the word “like” referred to an emotion that expressed attraction towards a person, object, or activity. Today, with a feature introduced by Facebook, “like” is becoming an action, a verb, a publicly expressed fondness with the power to influence.

  • The Future of E-Commerce

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    With the rise of social media and mobile usage, more and more people are going online to purchase goods and services than ever before.

  • Facebook and Twitter Enabling News Discovery

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    As members of the Social Media's Big 3 (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube), it seems that media companies are still not sure whether Facebook and Twitter are friends or foe relative to their legacy advertising-centric business models.

  • How Google and Microsoft Search Beyond the Boundaries

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    The internet has grown into a massive network with billions of people are connected on their daily basis. The numbers kept increasing as the network itself grow, and the use of handheld devices, as well as more cheaper connection are available.

  • Windows Live and Windows 8

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    Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft, first announced on November 1st, 2005, as a part of Microsoft's software plus services platform.

  • Instagram Meets Facebook

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    Facebook announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices on April 9th, 2012.

  • The Growing App Universe

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    Over the last few years there has been an increasing level of popularity for mobile applications, more commonly known as "apps". Initially launched by Apple to be used with the iPhone, apps have been produced for a continuously expanding variety of platforms and operating systems.

  • Go with Google

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    Google has released version 1 of its experimental open source Go computer programing language, or Go 1 for short, on March 28, 2012. The initial design of Go was started in September 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. And was officially announced in November 2009

  • The New iPad in the iFamily

    The new iPad

    On March 7, 2012, Apple introduced the new iPad, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, featuring a new Retina display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video.