Google remains constant in upgrading how it searches websites, recently launching its Knowledge Graph that intends analyze the way users search, thus delivering more accurate information. To provide better search results, Google (and even other search engines) need to improve its site-reading capabilities. However, stuffs like JavaScript and AJAX put a damper on Google bots as they crawl through a webpage. Google,...

Since American authorities took a hardline stance against torrent and file sharing sites, as exemplified with the recent arrest of Megaupload.com’s CEO, many similar websites and online services started to look for ways to escape arrest and prosecution. Some of these sites found solace in the Philippines, most notably KissAssTorrents that has moved to a kat.ph domain last April 2011. Another popular torrent ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved Google’s patents for the technology behind its augmented-reality glasses, which has been dubbed “Project Glass.” Google has received three patents for a “wearable display device” that appears like the futuristic glasses, which have been rumored around since February. The patents refer to functions like displaying data in front...

Seems like Facebook is getting aggressive in dominating the photo sharing niche. After acquiring Instagram for a cool $1 billion, the co-founders of Android app Lightbox have announced they and their team will be joining Facebook. In their blog post, Thai Tran and Nilesh Patel have reiterated that the move is not an acquisition, adding they are entirely closing down the service on June 15. “Today, we’re ...

Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook, has renounced his US citizen last year reportedly to avoid paying the hefty tax he will have to pay once the social networking site opens its initial public offering this week. Saverin, 30 and currently living in Singapore, holds a 2% stake in the company, which would put his net worth at around $2 billion after the IPO. Saverin’s “unfriending” of United...

It’s no fun purchasing a computer that runs on a last-gen OS, which is why Microsoft allegedly plans to offer a $14.99 upgrade to Windows 8 Pro when buying a Windows 7-powered PC beginning June 2. This offer is meant to keep Windows 7 PC sales stable even when its succeeding OS comes around. The push to Pro instead of the vanilla edition of Windows 8 remains a mystery. And in case you are wondering: no, th...

Yahoo has confirmed that its CEO, Scott Thompson, has “left the company” after it was found he padded his resume with a computer science degree that he never received. Thompson served in the struggling Internet pioneer for just four months. Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo’s media chief, will be named interim CEO. The scandal began almost two weeks ago, when it was revealed that Thompson lied about his ed...

Bing is set to roll out its major redesign yet, which separates search results into three sections. There is the algorithmic, text-based results in the center; context such as maps and reviews on the right; and social assistance from friends and experts located on the far right. This latest design update would be Bing’s answer to “Search Overload,” that exhausted feeling you get from search resul...

If you have been on Facebook for a while, you know that not everybody in your friend list sees your status updates, up to 12% of your friends according to some studies. Of course, you want all your friends what sandwich you ate 30 minutes ago and Facebook has the solution for that; but it comes with a price. Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight,” which makes your posts appear to more friends...

A hacker group claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous provided about 55,000 Twitter usernames and passwords in a text storage site. The hackers claim to have accessed into the servers of the popular microblogging service and stole the data. The details were published on Pastebin, which were grouped in five pages. There were reports that claimed that some celebrity accounts were included in the list, but that ha...