Google may be direct competitor to Apple on some fronts, but this doesn’t mean the search giant is reluctant to capitalize on an opportunity when it presents itself. Fresh on news that Apple is to release the iPhone 5 shortly, Google has done nothing less than introduce a standalone YouTube app for the iPhone. According to Google, the new app will be a major improvement on the one previously removed from iOS 6 and will include an improved channel guide; updated instant searches and recommendations as well as advanced options for social media sharing and interaction.

Yahoo Japan may only be a subsidiary of Yahoo’s main business but news that it has acquired mobile content provider, Community Factory for a whopping $12.8 million may sound a positive bell stateside. The deal is considered quite rare in that part of the world because big-company acquisitions don’t happen often. Yahoo Japan will reportedly get its hands on Decopic, an Asian version of Instagram which has around 7 million iOS and Android users.

With Facebook being so popular, you’d think that online retailers would flock to use the various integration tools that Facebook offers. A new study into adoption by retailers, however, shows a different picture. Social Labs took a look into how online retailers have used the Facebook Login Button to control how users create accounts, register on sites and manage their login activities

Augmented Reality (AR) is not a mainstream term, and even developers are not so sure yet how things will play out. But one thing is certain, it is the future of gadgets and how we interact with them

YouTube is still king of the hill where online video is concerned, but there are niche activities that YouTube doesn’t handle very well—like social broadcasting. Enter Spreecast, a company which is aiming to make online video collaboration a mainstream thing

Apple is a well known company by many with their amazing technological devices of this age. From the iPod, iPad, and ever famous and customer favorite iPhone, not to mention their computers, they are a successful company and the top of their kind. Apple provides people with the latest innovations in technology with products that their users can be proud of

If you listen keenly to a few experts, you’ll hear mutterings of either the demise, or impending demise of email. The truth of the matter however, is that email is far from dead; in fact, email is so alive, it is taking the likes of Facebook to the cleaners.

Someone once described 4Chan.org as the “cesspool of the internet”; but thanks to the loyalty of many of its users, the site has now grown into a bona fide web presence. According to the sites founder, Christopher Poole (aka Moot), 4Chan is now getting 22 million unique visitors monthly. The majority of these people visit the site which is really an image board to look at and share some of the more outrageous and obscene elements of the net.