24th Jan Google outage that downed Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents for users around the world was caused by a software bug, according to a statement released by Google Friday evening. The culprit, said Google, was an internal software bug that ultimately caused users' data requests to be ignored, which then caused errors within Gmail and other Google services.
Version 2.0 beta of App Insights is now ready for developers, Facebook announced Thursday. All Facebook app developers can opt into this new version of App Insights starting today. It provides developers with a better dashboard to manage apps, as well as more actionable data, a clearer interface and improved warnings when outages occur.
In a move that echoes Twitter, Facebook added trending topics to its website to let users know what other users are posting about at the moment, whether it's the death of a world leader or the Golden Globe awards.
Twitter is launching a redesigned website which mimics elements of its iOS and Android mobile apps. Twitter announced that it was launching a refreshed version of its website which "reflects the look and feel" of its mobile apps for iOS and Android. The main change is a white navigation bar at the top of the site where users can flick from their home page to mentions, d
At a special event in the garage where Google was born, the company announced a new “Hummingbird” search algorithm is live and especially designed to handle complex queries. This update is complete different one as compared to Panda and Penguin. The earlier updates were the continuation of Caffine update. But this was will be a whole paradigm shift and experts are calling this one as conversational update.