Studies show that 41.6 percent of Americans have a Facebook account-- which makes the site undoubtedly massive. However, Facebook has a dynamic privacy and security policies that’s making it difficult to set your personal Facebook settings properly. Here’s a great infographic detailing an overview of what to consider in setting your privacy settings.

With the disaster that has devastated a fraction of Japan, there has been a lot of relief efforts made from industries across the globe to support the victims. Technology, particularly mobile, has demonstrated an incredible potency in raising funds and awareness-- connecting people from virtually anywhere and making it easier for them to find a ...

Samsung announced Tuesday that the upcoming Galaxy 8.9 tablet running on Android 3.0, Honeycomb, will be given the ability to connect with Nordic LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile networks. Smartphones and tablets with LTE connections are currently compatible with US networks only. Overseas networks offering LTE services have different frequency bands and US products are not ...

With Google launching an instantaneous search product in the previous quarter, here Yahoo launching its own version and is a bit more specific and perhaps, innovative called Search Direct. Unlike Google, Search Direct is giving searchers "answers, not links". It gives direct access to websites even before a query is completed. Yahoo may not overthrow ...

Data science has been around for sometime now but only recently has it become so popular that it gave rise to a breed of new professionals called data scientists. By the name data scientist, they specialize on analyzing and interpreting data, then formulate products out of these data to keep a certain consumer-base interested. "The ...

Hadoop, a Google's MapReduce and Google File System-inspired software framework for data-intensive distributed applications with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data, is making a lot of buzz by finally launching Hadapt, a company which started out as HadoopDB project, a computer science project at Yale University. With an angel funding and three superstars namely: ...

AT&T talks about boosting services upon acquiring T-Mobile-- but competitors and many other companies just don't see it that way. The second largest mobile company received numerous complains because of its inability to suffice as a mobile broadband infrastructure, and acquiring the 4th largest mobile network in the US seems to be the easiest way ...

Facebook was reported to be considering the addition of check-in feature beyond Places, and onto Events as well. It is still tentative whether the roll out will be on a massive scale or just for a few people to try the service but this is sure a good way to promote the check-in feature further, ...

An ingenious trend to complement the explosion of the data and the worldwide web, hyperlocal trends is arousing the interest of retailers and buyers alike. It brings a kind of convenience like no other, dramatically reducing time, space and effort that might as well be utilized for something else. However, like any other trend, hyperlocal ...

Mark Phillip had a problem. He enjoyed the thrill of watching sports, but he didn’t live on his couch.  In response to this problem, he created “Are You Watching This,” a service to alert users when the most exciting parts of their favorite sporting events are about to occur. It essentially tackles a  problem we ...