Google Plus is a very impressive product and this time it is big unlike Google wave, Orkut, and other Google products that failed to create the difference, but in order to test it and not over-hype it, the company offered very few invites to the service when it launched yesterday. Press and a few others [...]How to get a Google Plus account invitation?

All the other reviews you’ve seen are from journalists who received Verizon iPhones from either Verizon or Apple and didn’t have to pay for them. I had no such loaner, so had to do the honorable thing: I bought one and used it for a week now. It cost me about $250 because I already [...]A Week With My Verizon iPhone

As widely expected, Apple launched the second generation iPad – dubbed iPad 2 – at an invite-only event that concluded a few hours ago in San Francisco. You can head over to apple.com to read more about the new iPad or watch the following video from Apple that details the enhancements and other new features [...]iPad 2 – Should you Upgrade?

The rise and rise of Facebook continues unabated, and it has moved well beyond just being a social network, it’s also a vital marketing channel for businesses of all sizes. While most businesses have taken the first step of setting up a standard Facebook page which includes a feed of comments, photos and helps them [...]How to Make Your Facebook Page Stand Out – A Better Small Business Facebook Page

WhereMyFriends is an interesting mashup that will show the geographic location of your Facebook friends on a Google Map. You simply connect your Facebook Account with WhereMyFriends and the app, within a minute or two, will fetch the location of all your Facebook friends and puts them on a map. You can hover or click [...]See your Facebook Friends on a Google Map

Search engines have become one of the primary ways that people find products and services right in their hometown. This growing reality significantly increases the need for small local business owners to master this thing called local search. There are many ways to make your website pages much more localized. This is one of the [...]How to Make Your Site More Local-Friendly

WordPress 3.1 has been released. It came with many useful features. In this article we go through them step by step and learn how to use them. Here is the list of features in WordPress 3.1. Being a developer I gave priority to features that interest me the most. Post Formats Advanced Taxonomy Queries Advanced Custom Field Queries Archive Pages [...]New Features in WordPress 3.1 and How to Use Them !

YouTube announced that the winner of its Ad Blitz contest is Chrysler, for its Super Bowl commercial, which featured Eminem driving around Detroit. The contest was based on viewer votes. “It’s been about two weeks since the Super Bowl aired, but our ears are still ringing from the noise of advertisers jockeying for position in [...]Eminem Chrysler Ad Wins YouTube Blitz

Most web hosting companies charge you a fixed monthly fee and in return, they offer you a finite amount of storage space for hosting your web pages, images and other files. It doesn’t really matter if you are hosting a simple website with 10 pages or a comprehensive product catalogue with thousands of pages – [...]How to Host Your Website on Amazon S3

Would you use a web browser that didn’t have an address bar? A report from ConceivablyTech.com points out that Google is working on new user interface layouts for Chrome, and one of these would eliminate the address bar. The publication’s Wolfgang Gruener quotes Google’s Jeff Chang as telling developers, “There are a number of UI [...]Chrome Address Bar Could Be Eliminated in Future Release

As you may have previously noticed, the embedded version of YouTube Player now offers a handy ‘Watch Later’ feature that lets you add the current video to a queue with a click. You can then conveniently watch all these ‘queued’ videos later when you have the time. There’s one minor problem though. YouTube is ‘the’ [...]A Better Way to Bookmark Web Videos

The other day, Engadget editor Paul Miller announced his resignation from the AOL-owned publication, specifically blaming “The AOL Way”. “I’d love to be able to keep doing this forever, but unfortunately Engadget is owned by AOL, and AOL has proved an unwilling partner in this site’s evolution,” he wrote on his personal blog. “It doesn’t [...]Another Engadget Editor Leaves, Cites "AOL Way" as Catalyst

More WebProNews Videos Late last month, augmented reality developers Layar announced that it was making its platform available to all developers of iOS apps, opening the door for a lot more innovation and practical use-cases for AR technology. “All apps and services that have a location aspect can now easily and without license costs be [...]Augmented Reality To Become Our Sixth Sense?

Pretty much everyone knows by now that Watson, the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer that was able to cream two human champions, was created by researchers at IBM.  And IBM’s made clear that Watson doesn’t work its magic by searching the Internet.  But apparently Yahoo tech did play a role in the creation of the machine. A post [...]Yahoo Highlights Role In Creation Of Watson

Zynga said today its newest game “CityVille” is now available in Indonesian and Turkish bringing the number of offered languages for the game to eight. Indonesian and Turkish are more language ‘firsts’ for Zynga and are important markets for the company as it expands internationally. Building from the  success of CityVille, an increased number of [...]Zynga Launches CityVille In More Languages