Authors and publishers of United Kingdom have a possibility from now on to obtain a 70 % royalty from their ebooks sold with assistance of Kindle Digital Text Platform of Amazon.co.uk.

Facebook teamed with Bing to add sociability to search online. Users of Facebook will have their friends pop up when they use Bing search being simultaneously logged on the social network resource. It is available already for some citizens of the USA.

In an effort to boost its presence in storage virtualization industry, Hitachi Data System has brought forth a powerful virtual storage platform.

World Wide Web Consortium has failed to fit the HTLM5 standard to sales requirements. There has been pretty much fuss about this new standard since it was drawn up. Its alleged cross-browser video playing capability became yet another portion of fuel to the raging fire of controversy.

Cisco is launching a USD 600 video conferencing system featuring a video camera and HD TV connection. This is expected to become a major step toward making telepresence tools available to public.

Avaya offers a new ground-breaking video conferencing facility. Avaya Flare Experience is a set of tools and services that includes new-generation capabilities in delivering video, audio and written information.

Apple will make every effort for release of revamped and smaller iPad by Q1 2011, in accordance with the industry analyst statement. After talk with Apple suppliers, the expert of the company Rodman & Renshaw Ashok Kumar asserts that Apple will show most probably a 7 inch iPad in order to be competitive on the market and leave the Samsung Galaxy Tab behind as far as video call features is concerned.

About 50% of Apple iPhone users living in the USA are "very interested" in changing the service provider for Verizon Wireless instead of AT&T Inc in accordance with the research conducted by professional company.

The agreement was reached between such companies of Silicon Valley as Adobe Systems, Google, Pixar, Intuit, Intel and Apple. All of them agreed not to invite the employees of rival companies mentioned above to work.

Microsoft has held the Open Source India Conference and officially announced its plans to promote a bundle of new software developer tools for PHP developers and give them more access to the Windows Azure Services Platform.

Those who dreamt of the celebrities following them on Twitter received such opportunity this year as during the ten days of September the auction took place on this short-messaging resource. Are you dreaming of being closer in this or that way to the actress Demi Moore? Is Tony Hawk, your idol?