Facebook buys Sofa, a software design team

Facebook has announced to buy Sofa, a software design team to make Facebook more beautiful. Sofa, Amsterdam based company was founded in 2006 and is known for it's Mac applications. They will join Facebook design team to work with. Facebook’s Director of Design Kate Aronowitz said," We were just blown away by the Sofa team’s work, from their Mac and web software to the interfaces and brand identities they c ...

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Twitter is now available in Brazilian Portuguese

Twitter website was translated into Brazilian Portuguese in just 3 days. I think it's enough to think about the popularity of twitter in Brazil. This is the fastest translation project of twitter. Company wrote in its official blog, "Starting today, Twitter will be available in Brazilian Portuguese. After adding the language to our translation center, it was fully translated in only three days, making this ...

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Google Maps Adds Real Time Public Transport Departure Times

Google Maps gets another feature which is really when you are on the go. You can see what public transport options you have to get in that city and schedule of buses and trains. And Google also take care of this that  public transit isn't the most reliable form of transport in many cities, so it is expanding the feature to support real-time arrival and departure data, enabling users to know exactly when the ...

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Google.kz shuts down, refused to comply with new internet policies in kazakhstan

In Kazasthan, a new requirement is created for all the website using .kz domain name, they must have servers physically located in Kazakhstan. But Google has refused to accept this new rule in its service because it will create a lots of problems and overheads to company. Google will have to setup complete server section in the country where it has not enough users and revenue. So Google accepted to close G ...

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Twitter announced automatic link shortening feature

Since last few months twitter is trying to add more and more features in its microblogging paltform. After introducing follow button and a photo sharing tool, now twitter released a new feature that will short URL automatically. On company's support page, this feature has been announced. according to this post, "With Twitter’s new link-shortening feature, you can now paste a link of any length into the Twee ...

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Top web companies test internet readiness for future

Top web companies including, Google, facebook, and many more are joining on wednesday to test the internet readniess for a future in which billions of new people and devies will be conneted to existing network. The main aim of this joining is to create a fast and stable internet connectivity for the future. Now the new addressing IPv6 has been adopted which has increased the internet address to billions tim ...

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Skype goes down again for some users

Skype, top VoIP service was down again and many of its users who were facing problem in signing in into their skype account. This was also accepted by company on microblogging website, twitter via a post. "Some of you may be having problems signing in to Skype or buying credits – we’re sorry, and we’re working hard to get things back to normal", company said. People from all over the world registered their ...

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