Kate Hudson and her partner Matthew Bellamy have announced they have nicknamed their newborn baby boy "Bing", which is short for Bingham Hawn Bellamy. While we have no plans to turn Redmond Pie into a pop culture and gossip blog, isn't it great that the son of two famous actors is now named after Microsoft's search engine?
E-Mail account hijacking is a big problem in our digital age. The convenience of sending instantaneous information electronically has seen handwritten letters nearing extinction. Many people rely greatly on their e-mail accounts for work as well as to keep up with those closest to them. Microsoft’s Hotmail service has long been soft a target for hacks and attacks, and is now upping the ante in order to protect its customers.
Following an announcement last week, Swedish-owned online music streamer Spotify is today making its long-awaited debut in the US market. The service, which has well established itself as a game changer in legitimate music services, currently stands second only to iTunes in the digital music revenue for the major European record labels. With over ten million users in Europe and boasting an impressive 15 million song catalogue, it is looking to make a lasting impression stateside, predicting 50 million users in its first year.
Social networking site Twitter has today rolled out a major update to its Android app, according to the Twitter blog, which finally adds push notifications as well as multi-account support.
Hacking group Anonymous has broken into Booz Allen Hamilton, a US-based consulting firm that does a significant amount of business with the Pentagon. This has led to roughly 90,000 email logins and passwords belonging to military personnel to be leaked out onto the internet.
Regular readers of this site know how much we've talked about Google+, Google's new endeavor in the social networking world, in the last few weeks. If you're wondering how well it stacks up against Facebook, this infographic will help.
Twitter's meteoric rise to fame and once they get their business model together, fortune, has been a sight to behold. Since its inception a few short years ago, Twitter has grown to be one of the most powerful and most used social networks on the planet.
When Facebook announced it would be launching 'something awesome' this past Wednesday, many in the industry thought that the mystery new product could be a music service. With Spotify reportedly in cahoots with Facebook, a new music streaming service wouldn't have been a huge surprise, but alas it was not to be.
Those of you in Europe just lost one of the few things you can brag about having that your US-based friends didn’t, after Spotify announced that it it finally crossing the ocean to the United States.
Facebook has greatly enhanced it's Chat functionality, with three major new features: group chats, video calls and a new look and feel for the feature, making the contacts list more prominent than ever before.
