Mohamed Mansour, the developer behind the Facebook Friend Exporter, has created an experimental Google Chrome extension called Hangout Pad for Google+, which adds document collaboration capabilities to Hangouts, the multi-person video chat feature available on Google’s social networking platform. READ MORE
Yesterday, in a post on Google’s main blog, Google’s SVP and chief legal counsel David Drummond accused Apple and Microsoft of waging an anti-competitive campaign against Android to keep Google from getting access to key patents. READ MORE
A widely-circulated study on the IQ of certain browser users caused a hubbub last week, as it showed Internet Explorer users on average had a much lower IQ than users of competing browsers. However, further investigation concludes that the study, and the company behind it, are both fake. READ MORE
About a month ago I posted a story about two tech writers who decided upon opposite ways to deal with e-mail overload. IT World’s Dan Tynan vowed to deal with every message delivered to his inbox for a week, which he said worked pretty well. TechCrunch’s MG Siegler ditched e-mail altogether, pronouncing that if you wanted to reach him you’d have to get to him a different way. Siegler’s month is up and after ignoring the roughly 15,000 messages he received during that time, it’s no wonder he says never has he missed anything less than e-mail. READ MORE
Docusign, the cloud-based electronic signature platform that has processed more than a half billion pages of legally-binding documents, just released a free version of its eSignature solution in which people can receive five “sends” (documents sent and signed) per month, with no credit card required. DocuSign also now offers its 8 million users integration with social networks, allowing them to sign in with Facebook, LinkedIn, Paypal, and Salesforce. READ MORE
Facebook couldn’t outfox the dedicated technophiles over at TechCrunch. A blogger there claims to have discovered the code of the long-anticipated Facebook iPad application within the code of the social networking site’s iPhone app. The blogger readily admitted that he has no evidence whatsoever that the version he discovered is that which will be released by Facebook, but he had plenty of good things to say nonetheless about the app’s layout and design. READ MORE
Nearly a year after its original announcement, Cisco is finally ready to release its enterprise tablet, the Cisco Cius, into the world on July 31, according to TechCrunch. The tablet will be sell for about $750 at Verizon and AT&T retailers. READ MORE
The first time I met Brian Wong I was attending a session at the annual South by Southwest Interactive on Being Young and Rocking It and I completely overlooked him. Not because he is someone that is easily overlooked but due to his unassuming nature. Wong, 20, is the founder of kiip (pronounced “keep”), a start-up focused on mobile in-game advertising, backed by True Ventures. READ MORE
For years enterprise software vendors have been selling to CIOs expensive and complex systems that employees don’t like, can’t figure out, and underuse, which is ultimately a waste of money, writes Box.net CEO Aaron Levie for TechCrunch. That’s changing, he says, due to web-delivered, freemium or open-sourced solutions that employees start using on their own, resulting in viral, bottom-up adoption of technology across organizations of all sizes. READ MORE
If news of Dropbox‘s latest funding round is true, the cloud storage service has achieved the same overall valuation as Twitter. According to TechCrunch, DropBox is raising between $200 million and $300 million in its latest round of funding, which would place the company’s valuation in the $5 billion to $10 billion range. READ MORE
