The patent war between HTC and Apple is about to get a lot interesting. Earlier this month, HTC announced that they are acquiring S3 Graphics Co. for $300 million. By acquiring S3 Graphics, HTC will come in possession of S3 Graphics' patent portfolio. HTC is now threatening to use these newly acquired patents to take the fight back to Apple.
Microsoft is testing Metro UI like Live information Tiles (built using HTML 5) on Bing's homepage and Text Ads In between organic search results in Bing's search results pages.
Many websites have started offering Google +1 in exchange for money. A website plussem.com is offering +1s at the rate of $20 for 50, $70 for 250 and $350 for 2000. Apparently, all of these +1 will not come from bots.
Tagging a person in one of your photos in Picasa Web Albums or Google+ will share the album with the person tagged - even if the album was private. The person who was tagged can also share your private album to others.
It looks like Oracle has decided to remove all the blog posts written by former Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. When Google announced Android back in 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems at the time, wrote a blog post congratulating Google.
Security researcher Charlie Miller is quite well known for his works on Apple products. Today he has come up with a very interesting way to hack the MacBook using the battery.