Institutions will be given five subjects that only charged a fee at the time of withdrawing the final certificate. The University of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced recently the launch of edX, an NGO that offers free online courses to students around the world. (more...)
Rapidshare points the finger at Warner Bros.: the accusation is that of having improperly removed files from different films protected by copyright. Hotfile, famous online service for uploading large files, points the finger at Warner Bros: according to the service managers, in fact, the film company was abusing its rights to exploit
The European Commission could also enact legislation on online gambling valid in all EU member states. The European Commission would introduce common rules for online betting valid in all EU countries. The decision is a result of numerous complaints received by the industry, due to inability to comply with different laws in individual
Facebook is testing a new system of friend list called Smart Lists and consisting of the addition of automatic features that divided friends according to various criteria: thus, co-workers will be automatically grouped into a group, school friends in another and so on. The similarity with the Circles of Google+ is more than evident, but compared
Google Ventures has decided to fund the startup with $ 750,000 for EchoEcho, author of a handy application that lets users share their location via mobile devices and has the total control of what they publish. "EchoEcho is located in a growing segment where consumers use their mobile devices for everything there is to share in their daily
Eighteen and a half million dollars, this is what is put on the plate by HTC to ensure the services, technologies and patents owned by DashWire. A dish that, apparently, was rich enough to be enticed to the top of the startups in Seattle, which has succumbed to the lure of the giant Taiwanese and announced the sale of the property to
Available so far as webapp accessible from browser, Google Docs winks to Android with a special application to manage documents through the service in Mountain View. The announcement by the company's official blog, so that to provide its users a new mobile solution for the office on the move. Android offers Google Docs for many of the
Cloud Computing offers the availability of powerful IT capabilities at a lower cost per user or application, as this would be possible with traditional approaches. This can reduce the risks to companies regarding their capital requirements, implementation, operation and maintenance. This also applies to risks associated with dependence on specific
Chrome OS could be ready for launch. Some clues point to the possibility of a debut in May and now a new step appears to have been accomplished: Google would open the channel for the release of stable, a sort of fixed point from which to offer the market of the new solution that Google intends to oppose the philosophy and the canons more of the
American Express seems increasingly willing to bet on payments online and through mobile devices. After announcing the birth of the platform is used for the management of monetary transactions through checking accounts and credit cards, debit or charge, the U.S. financial services company announced today that it will appear among the sponsors of
Google Social Search is a concept launched by the team at Mountain View in 2009, but now on the courage with which Google embraces this type of option will be much sharper. If the first known "social" were confined in a special box at the bottom, in fact, now instead become true partners in the composition of the engine SERP. Google follows
