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Apple Kindly Asks Developers to Play Ball

After pulling a number of fraudulent applications from iTunes, Apple is reminding iOS developers that if they want to do business in the App Store, they’ll have to play by the rules.Particularly, the Cupertino giant has issued a reminder to all those enrolled with the company’s developer program that they...

7 February 2012
02:39 GMT

Samsung Snatches Seventh Place on Worldwide Laptop Market

Looks like Samsung might have a reason to brag and boast, having secured the seventh spot on the worldwide laptop market. According to Yonhap News, Samsung's share of the global laptop market has increased from 1.4% in 2007 to 6.5% in the third quarter of 2011. This puts it ahead of Sony and Apple, as well as ...

21 December 2011
08:35 GMT

Google Demotes Online Merchants with Poor Reviews

Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a very interesting story about an eyeglasses store that used bad publicity, gotten by abusing its customers, to rank well in Google Search. While it wasn't entirely accurate that the mentions the site got by abusing customers lead to better ranking, Google is no less tak...

2 December 2010
04:37 GMT

Google Delists Even Its Own Employees' Websites

Google has been under a lot of pressure and scrutiny as it dominance in search and other fields has grown. While the company ensures everyone its practices are legit, with so much power, many, including government regulators, are wondering if Google doesn't abuse its position. The story of one Google employee s...

27 February 2010
12:01 GMT

Apple Grabs #1 Spot in Greenpeace Ranking

Greenpeace has posted a new chart showing which of the 18 companies indexed by the organization have eliminated the most harmful chemicals from their product ranges. Scoring four gold stars, Apple takes first place in the ranking, getting praised by the non-governmental organization for removing many toxic chemicals ...

8 January 2010
06:53 GMT

PHP Will Be the Top Freelance Skill for 2009

Following our usual monthly report, we present the conclusions of the recent Elance Work Index, a top provided by Elance, which ranks the most desired skills in today's online freelance work. Even if the latest report is only for the month of October, PHP skills seem to have won the competition for the number on...

17 November 2009
11:01 GMT

Page Speed to Be a Google Ranking Factor in 2010

Google's ranking system is a closely guarded secret. Sure, the company lays out general guidelines and reveals the factors that go into determining a site's relevance, but knowing the exact algorithm would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people. That's not going to happen anytime soon, but somethin...

14 November 2009
04:52 GMT

MacBook, iPod touch Make ‘The Best Travel Gadgets of 2009’

Time (in partnership with CNN) has compiled a list of gadgets that are most suitable for traveling, going by the magazine's standards. Although, for one reason or another, the Slingbox Pro-HD tops the list of ‘Best Travel Gadgets of 2009,’ Softpedia was happy to find Apple’s MacBook and iPod to...

4 November 2009
05:06 GMT

Online Freelance Work Demand Rises

Apparently, all the firings in the IT departments around the Globe spurred by the recent “soon to be departed” economical crisis have forced all of those professionals to start seeking online work. Since a year ago, the monthly online work index from Elance has seen a major rise (50% more) in job opportun...

22 October 2009
09:37 GMT

Nokia Siemens Networks Seen as Leader in Infrastructure Market

Nokia Siemens Networks has been recently placed on the first position in a mobile infrastructure vendors top, a recently published survey from Infonetics Research showed. According to the report, the telecommunications vendor has been ranked first by a series of service providers that were asked to name the companies...

22 October 2009
05:53 GMT

Apple's App Store to See a Facelift

While announcing the financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2009, some of Apple's officials stated, during the conference call that followed the initial announcement, that the App Store could use some improvements. Apple COO Tim Cook has reportedly stated that the company is considering new w...

22 July 2009
09:42 GMT

RIM’s BlackBerry OS Leads the US Market

Smartphones have been reported to gain more and more market share in the mobile phone segment during the past years, and they are also expected to gain even more traction from users in the future, even if the market is greatly influenced by the financial recession. And while we already reported that the first place i...

6 May 2009
12:08 GMT

Google Ranking Says No to Manual Adjusting

Google's principle of sharing its developments with the users in a non-technical, easy to understand language, is displayed once again. The Google team decided to reveal the philosophies that stand behind their search ranking system, that probably are what singles them out from amongst the competition. For start...

10 July 2008
08:50 GMT

Google Reportedly AFK, Dancing In the Next Room

What was supposed to represent just another Google dance, a new update in Google's ranking algorithms, causes serious headaches for lots of users who are still waiting for the Googlebot to come visit their website. The trouble started almost one month or so when webmasters spotted a new Google update and experts...

5 May 2008
14:58 GMT

Google Jumps from Fifth to First Top-Ranked Brand

Not surprisingly, the massive slew of Google services have brought it popularity and rocketed it to the first position in the United Kingdom's top-ranked brands. That's nothing to take lightly, considering that one year ago the same study showed that it was only the fifth, behind leader BBC, Microsoft, Brit...

26 February 2008
13:46 GMT

Google Videos - a Twist in Its Approach of Video

To be honest, I thought that with buying YouTube, Google would put an end to its Video section and service, because they were basically two similar services battling over what is arguably the same market share. With this latest update, I'm thinking about something more in the terms of Google Video complementing ...

17 December 2007
05:52 GMT

Football Manager 2008 Kicks FIFA 08 off the Charts!

Well, at least that's what happened in the UK official charts, where Sega's Football Manager 2008 kicked FIFA 08 and stole the leading position. FIFA 08 is now on second place and this goes to show that British gamers are keener on gameplay and traditional gaming experience rather than eye candy and brand...

23 October 2007
03:54 GMT


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