Google+ Hangouts just received a small but potentially quite useful upgrade today — as of now, Hangouts include a remote desktop feature. This lets you remotely control the computer of someone you're having a Hangout with for troubleshooting purposes, and the Hangout lets you keep chatting and...
Tech support gets a little bit easier
Misspelling domain names is easy enough that the government doesn't let companies take advantage of it — and Facebook has just been awarded nearly $2.8 million in a case against several people and groups that tried to profit off of its...
Contrary to the emerging conventional wisdom, younger users aren't abandoning Facebook, the company's chief financial officer said today — they're just using rival social services more than ever before. Answering a question on Facebook's Q1 2013 earnings call, David Ebersman dismissed the suggestions that users aged 15 to 25 are spending less time on the service.
"I'd start by saying we...
Google is continuing work to grow Chrome OS into a fully-functional replacement for desktop operating systems. Today the company has begun promoting the selection of "packaged apps" — web applications that primarily live offline and look and feel like traditional native programs — in the Chrome Web Store. The new section, aptly called "Apps," is only available for users on the developer channel of Chrome for now, but it will filter down eventually to the stable channel. With the update, these packaged apps are available for users to browse through for the first time (before you had to have the URL if you wanted to download them from the Web Store), and older apps that aren't quite packaged apps have been moved into a "Websites" category in the store.
Packaged apps are one of the primary ways Google plans to make Chrome OS more...
We expect to see more 'packaged apps' at Google I/O
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Facebook's Q1 2013 earnings are in, with total revenues of $1.46 billion and mobile ad revenue constituting 30 percent of overall ad revenue. As expected, Facebook calls 2013 "an investment year," so its operating margin fell from 36 percent in Q1 2012 to 26 percent this quarter. Facebook is...
A huge number of journalists already use Twitter, both for news-gathering and as a way to report on breaking events, but a new job posting indicates that the company is looking to further formalize its relationships with the journalistic...
Search for "sex" on Google, and you'd expect the top result to be some sort of porn. Not so: funny content farm Funny Or Die has managed to place first with one of its automatically generated topic pages, which collates videos and articles including "Eva Mendes Sex Tape," "Bar...
