Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic partnership. With such cooperation, PayPal will become a key service in the field of advertising and Facebook development system. As part of the relationship, advertisers from around the world will be able to use PayPal to pay through Facebook Ads Facebook’s advertising tools. For entrepreneurs in the region [...]

Facebook Inc. is expanding a service called Facebook Credits that gives it a 30 percent cut of sales from tractors, fish food and guns in online games, according to four people who have held discussions with the company.Facebook is already testing the payment option in at least 17 games, including “Happy Aquarium” and “Restaurant City.” [...]

WASHINGTON Microsoft will soon launch a new generation of Internet Explorer (IE), IE9 next month. According to schedule, will be introduced at the IE9 annual conference Micorosoft MIX 10, which will dihelat at 15 to March 17, 2010 in Las Vegas. At the conference, which became the focus of Microsoft’s mobile platforms IE9 and the [...]

The first notebooks with switchable graphics had a physical switch to toggle between the integrated and discrete GPU, and required you to reboot the system to switch from one to the other. More recently, you could change between the integrated and discrete GPU with software – using a small tool-tray icon or changing the power [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing service became generally available on Monday with very little flourish. And that might be because this first wave of Azure offerings is frankly a bit odd. I am sure Microsoft will eventually figure out how to give its users options that are more obviously appealing (perhaps using Amazon Web Services [...]

MUNICH, Germany  The leader of the Mozilla Project, whose Firefox Web browser now has 350 million users, said Sunday that she is concerned that legal restrictions could limit Internet expansion.Mitchell Baker said she worried about “the increase in laws that make it difficult to run an open network,” especially rules about content.”You suddenly become liable [...]

SEATTLE  Microsoft Corp said it will issue a patch to fix the old version of its Internet Explorer browser that allowed recent attacks on Google Inc’s network in China.The patch, due out on Thursday, “addresses the vulnerability related to recent attacks against Google and a small subset of corporations,” said Jerry Bryant, senior security program [...]

Microsoft will patch a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that may have allowed Chinese hackers access to human rights activists’ e-mail accounts.
The firm normally issues patches at a set time each month but said that the attention the problem had received forced it to move more quickly. It follows the French and German governments [...]

NEW YORK  Facebook is trying to beef up security with some outside help.Computer security company McAfee will now scan and repair the computers of Facebook users whose accounts have been compromised.The scanning process will be added to the steps Facebook already makes users of such accounts take if they want to reclaim their pages.Facebook’s more [...]

SEATTLE Microsoft Corp. will sell four versions of the forthcoming Office 2010 software, due out in June, for prices ranging from $99 to $499.The company said Tuesday it will sell Office Home and Student edition, which comes with four core programs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, for $149 as boxed software that can be used [...]