Facebook has included new apps to its Timeline service that will have millions of users to tell their stories easily.
The world’s largest social network added a slew of apps to Timeline such as Foodspotting, Foodily, Gogobot, Kobo, Pinterest, Pose, Rotten Tomatoes, Ticketmaster and TripAdvisor, among other app services that revolve around gigs, movies and cuisine.
“You can now enhance your timeline with apps that help you tell your story, whether you love to cook, eat, travel, run, or …

Nielsen has published its latest report on the US smartphone platform market distribution for Q4 2011 and figures are consistent with previous surveys.
According to the analyst powerhouse, Apple iOS closed its gap between market leader Android OS, thanks to the iPhone 4S launch.
Based on the report, the two leading smartphone platforms were head-to-head in December of last year due to the holiday rush and increased demands for smartphones and tablets for week between Christmas and New …

A hacker has brought out login information from thousands of alleged Arab Facebook accounts in support of the Israeli government.
Hannibal, the name used by the hacker, posted login emails and their corresponding passwords for Facebook and posted the content on Pastebin, threatening to publish over 30 million Arab Facebook login information on a regular basis.
“State of Israel, not to worry, you’re in the hands of the world’s best hacker that I am. I will continue to support …

Samsung Electronics is reportedly looking at buying troubled BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) but the company thwarted the allegations, while RIM does not want to spread the hearsay.
According to Bloomberg, RIM’s shares jumped eight percent after gadget site BGR reported that the South Korean tech giant found interest in buying the struggling company but has yet to agree with the price.
“Media reports of Samsung Electronics’ buyout of Research in Motion are not true. …

Yahoo co-founder and ex-CEO Jerry Yang has decided to resign from his post, as a member of the struggling Internet search company’s board of directors.
Yang resolved to leave the Web portal company he established, which also has fallen from its former glory, to find other interests outside of its vicinity.
He leaves behind all his roles as a member of the board of directors in Japan and the U.S. and Alibaba Group Holding.
“My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has …

The HP TouchPad tablet will apparently stay for quite a lot longer than the company who created it would have ever expected, especially when an Android community called CyanogenMod will continue to exist.
After the $99 HP TouchPad fire sale rocked North America, the CyanogenMod team immediately started developing an Android 2.3 Gingerbread custom ROM from the original webOS 3.0 operating system.
Now the popular developer team unveils the latest CyanogenMod update that will have those who failed …

Microsoft has shared information on its upcoming next-generation file system for Windows: Resilient File System (ReFS).
According to an MSDN blog post, Microsoft is building a new file system for all Windows operating systems to replace the outdated NTFS file system, but will first be available to Windows 8 Server.
Surendra Verma, Development Manager of the Storage and File System team at Microsoft, said ReFS will ultimately maintain “a high degree of compatibility with a subset of NTFS …

The White House finally broke its silence to oppose the two legislations that struck the online universe with a big bang – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), inspiring a flare-up of tweets from Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp and a well-known SOPA supporter.
The Obama administration answered petitions regarding both bills that put forward a strong following of oppositions to the critical authority it would exert on the Internet.
In the response, Victoria Espinel, …

Google has started an online-offline awareness campaign to guide users away from unsafe and unmapped regions of the Internet.
‘Good to Know’, the ‘biggest-ever consumer education campaign’ from Google, will be followed by real ads that will appear on non-virtual materials such as the good old street newspapers.
Without the right knowledge on Internet technology, users will be in the dark of what really happens to the data when they log into their accounts using a username and a password …

Google and Facebook will appear before the High Court of India to talk about both company’s policies on the removal of offensive online content.
The Internet giants will appeal against the threats and summons from an Indian lower court that pushed both companies to take the stand amid questions on their procedures of taking down content upon request.
According to India Today, the Delhi High Court threatened Google and Facebook and is taking a firm stand on imposing its local rules, saying, …