Skype to Add Ads to Conversations. (Image via Engadget)

Even though we hope this thing will not happen ever, Skype has just announced that it will integrate ads into the audio chat windows. Basically, as in the example below, if you use Skype for a free conversation with an aunt outside of the country and she happens to not own a webcam, on the right you will see advertisements that will change according to Skype’s tastes and needs.
Currently the situation only affects those Skype users …

E3 2012: Top 5 Games Presented At E3 2012. (Image via E3)

Last week marked the 2012 edition of the most important event dedicated to video games – Electronic Entertainment Expo. As expected, E3 2012 came with the usual press conferences of the leading players in the industry – Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sony and Nintendo, but also with many surprises, which materialized under new games that you definitely cannot wait to put your hand on.
Thus, we have created a list of five …

Online Shopping Customer Experience Study – a report recently released by comScore and UPS, which presents analysis on the behavior of consumers who shop online and their preferences with regards to services after the purchase of products, states that even though around 86 percent of the online shoppers are reportedly satisfied with their general online shopping experience, retailers still have a lot of room for improvement as to giving their customers the right level of satisfaction and …

Apple WWDC 2012 Debuts Today in San Francisco. (Image via Developer.Apple.com)

The annual event Worldwide Developers Conference will begin today at San Francisco, with a presentation by the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook.
During the Apple WWDC 2012, Apple will provide the first details of iOS 6 and a possible launch of the new MacBook Pro range of devices.
During the weekend, some images have appeared on the Internet. These photos were of the interior of the building Moscone Center where there is an …

Intl has laid claim that efforts by system-on-chip (SoC) sellers to optimize Google’s Android mobile operating system for multicore processors are insufficient.
The American chip maker and world’s largest semiconductor provider offers its single-core Medfield Atom processor at a period when nearly all major ARM SoC vendors are riveting campaigns on dual-core and quad-core processors. However, Intel claims that chip makers must exert more on Android optimization for multicore processors to …

Angry Birds Space has passed the 100 million downloads mark following its release in March, the game’s developer Rovio said on its official Twitter account.
In April – approximately one month after the release, Angry Birds Space had arrived at 50 million downloads to bag the title of “fastest selling mobile game ever”. Now – less than three months after freely available for download – the previous milestone doubled to 100 million downloads, which means not all people are …

Facebook has started to roll out a mobile payments service in an attempt to offer a faster and easier method for online payments.
The world’s largest social networking site/company introduced the system – a “low friction” mobile payments system brings in a two-step payments system to replace the previous seven-step process – at the Mobile World Congress in February this year. It offers a simpler way for users to purchase Facebook Credits online, a perfect method to buy a new shed in …

LinkedIn has collaborated with law enforcement agencies to hound the culprits responsible for its monolithic password leakage.
The social networking site for professionals called for help from US government authorities to look for the offenders, at least according to a Reuters report.
The news site said that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has started taking notes and names linked to the breach in security – information that LinkedIn did not even bother to confirm.
“We are …

A High Court in the UK has obligated Facebook to turn in the IP addresses belonging to more detestable users of the world’s largest social networking site.
The odious users apparently had a hard time constricting their fingers from turning Facebook into a cistern of vulgarity, misdemeanor and terrors, all of which directed at one woman who had ill luck to drop a comment in support of a certain Frankie Cocozza.
Nicola Brookes had enough abuse from keyboard aggressors to compel her in taking …

Intel has freshened up its x86 chip architecture compatibility figures for Android applications.
Last week, the world’s largest chip maker said that Android devices with Intel Atom chips are only compatible with 70 percent of applications on Google Play Store. Now, Intel brushed up its statement to claim that 95 percent of Android app on Android smartphones running on x86 chips.
The company explained further that apps using the Android SDK and running on the Dalvik Java virtual machine will …