Super Mario Bros., Nintendo’s highly successful game franchise reached a milestone, as it celebrated its 25th year in the electronic gaming industry. Super Mario Bros. became well known in the 80’s and was a staple on Nintendo’s biggest selling console that time, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Characters like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, and [...]

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Facebook’s location-based service was recently integrated in Japan, making them the first Asian country with the geo-location feature. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, first announced the release of Facebook Places last August. It is a service that lets users disclose information about their current location, share location with friends and tag them in [...]

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Security software manufacturer ArcSight is scheduled to be part of Hewlett Packard to the tune of $1.5 billion. ArcSight is a company that creates and develops software that supervises on corporate network systems, tracing and detecting infiltration of hackers that pose threats in the network’s security. Hewlett Packard knows the importance of this factor and [...]

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Microblogging and social networking website Twitter has reached a milestone by having 145 million registered users and 300,000 applications. Often regarded as the “SMS of the Internet,” this website was created by Jack Dorsey in 2006, together with his co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. After a span of four years, this social networking site [...]

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IT Corporation Hewlett-Packard closed the deal with Information Storage Company 3Par to the tune of $2.35 billion, or $33 per share. The company, founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, was able to keep long-time rival company Dell off, in the pursuit of acquiring the hardware and software storage corporation. The agreement has been finalized [...]

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Google Chrome celebrates its second year on the web, and it is now being regarded as second to Mozilla’s Firefox for best web browser. The search engine giant’s web browser launched its beta version on September 2, 2008, which was followed with a stable version on December 11, 2009. It has gone through six versions [...]

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Search engine companies Google and AOL renewed their agreement and added five years to their deal. Search engine leader Google will still power searches on AOL, its content network and its properties. The addition of mobile search and YouTube to the deal was also executed in relation to the agreement. According to Tim Armstrong, AOL’s [...]

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Booyah founder Keith Lee announced the release of their application InCrowd, in the Facebook Places launch event in August. InCrowd is a social networking application that allows individuals to interact with others in other parts of the globe. This application is said to be interconnected with Facebook Places’ interface. It is also said to have [...]

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AOL bought mobile application company Rally Up to participate in the growing mobile market industry. AOL’s move is a sign that the company will include new apps and products that was previously released on mobile devices. Rally Up will be the helping hand for AOL’s intentions of increasing the internet service company’s mobile market participation. [...]

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Virtualization software providers VMware purchased two companies, Integrien and TriCipher, announced at VMworld on Tuesday. VMware acquired these companies to strengthen their company. Details about the agreements were not disclosed. The deals will be expected to close by the third quarter of this year. TriCipher’s technology will be used by VMware to be integrated into [...]

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