Google Health and Google PowerMeter are both officially dead, the company confirmed. Google said that the two products were born out of a desire to help put more information at the fingertips of users, but neither saw the level of adoption that made them worth maintaining over the long term. As a result, the company is giving users an opportunity to download their information before shutting the services down for good.
Read MoreVideos of the first Nokia handset to use Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system have hit the Internet after Nokia CEO demonstrated the phone to staff earlier this week. Codenamed "Sea Ray," the device is a Windows Phone-powered version of the Maemo/MeeGo-driven N9 that was announced earlier this week.
Read MoreThe pace of browser development is quickening, with Firefox now being on a quarterly schedule. Software companies are now also much willing to release beta projects on an eager public, and we have become used to seeing endless Firefox updates pushed out. Opera is just as keen to give its users a preview of what to expect in future versions of the software and this is something that is highlighted by Opera 'Next' v11.50, also known as project Featherweight.
Read MoreApple picked up a patent that could come in very handy in this thicket of smartphone-related intellectual property litigation. The patent gets to the heart of what it means to be a smartphone these days: a user interface with a multitouch display. Patent No. 7,966,578 bears the title "Portable multifunction device, method, and graphical user interface for translating displayed content."
Google released an open-source tool called DOM Snitch that tries to flag Web site software that would be dangerous to run in a browser. The software is an experimental Chrome extension that examines how Web site code executes to see if commands could lead to cross-site scripting or other attacks used to deliver malware to computers via a Web browser.
Read MoreMozilla released a new version of Mozilla Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. The new version of Firefox comes on the heels of the wildly successful release of Firefox 4, which had more than 200 million downloads on Windows, Mac and Linux and millions of downloads in the Android Market.
Read MoreIn case you're not aware, before Apple even thought of its iCloud service, Microsoft has been offering a similar service called SkyDrive. Although this is probably one of the most underrated Microsoft service, still there are significant SkyDrive users which accumulated through the years. And if you're one of these SkyDrive users, you'll be glad to know that Microsoft is finally giving the said service some much needed update.
Read MoreNokia unveiled its new N9 smartphone that runs the MeeGo operating system, and is being marketed as a "pure touch screen" device without buttons. The N9 will launch later this year, and the company will release later the device's pricing and availability in various markets, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said at a company event in Singapore.
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