Various Yahoo! services will be discontinued this month

A month ago I commented that Google had released a list of services that would be killed in the coming months, among which is included the popular Google Reader. It seems that the search engine company is not the only one who is dedicated to making this type of "cleaning" for Yahoo! follow their steps. By the end of this month of March, it was announced that several Yahoo! services would be discontinued and released under. These...

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Flickr also adds filters to photos

This seems to add effects and filters to photos is becoming increasingly popular. Instagram implemented it long ago, Twitter announced it recently and now Flickr who joins the party. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, is giving users something they have requested for a long time: the ability to use filters on the photos you upload, and there are a total of 16 different filters available. Up here we have an example of the filter Narwhal. Note...

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Bing will be the default browser of Kindle Fire HD

What a surprise! Both Microsoft and Amazon itself has confirmed that the new Kindle Fire tablet HD use the search engine Bing as the default search engine. Apparently, this agreement is very recent and the latest details of it were agreed yesterday.Besides appearing in the default HD Fire, Bing also will welcome in the new models of Kindle Fire (original) to be sold from now on. If you, like me, do not...

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Nvidia confirms the theft of user data on your forums

  Nvidia has confirmed that forums for users of its website have suffered a stroke that has resulted in the theft of user information. The company has confirmed that names, passwords and email addresses have been removed, but has not determined the number affected. For now the forums are closed and the company is working to locate faults in the system and power back on. Large companies continue to be the target for cyber criminals,...

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Facebook and Yahoo closed its patent battle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Yahoo reached an agreement Friday to form a society of Internet advertising and licensing, ending their demands for ownership of patents. The settlement resolves allegations of technology patent violation that began under the administration of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, who was later fired after a scandal over inaccuracies in his resume. Sources told Reuters that the chief executive (CEO, for its acronym...

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