As stated by Mail.Ru Group is one of the most popular instant messengers ICQ lost for the year more than 30% of the audience. In my opinion this is due to the development of social networks and mobile phones. Social networks are now spending time with friends or colleagues has live chat. Which was not previously.

In San Francisco, died of cancer of the British industrial designer Bill Moggridge at the age of 69 years. Bill Moggridge designed the laptop computer Grid Compass, which is considered one of the originals of the modern laptop. The device had a flat screen and was made in the form factor "book" - when folded closed a screen keyboard. Grid Compass was released in 1982 and cost $ 8150 dollars.

Windows 7 has finally surpassed by his past popularity XP, which has a dominant position on the market for eleven years. While the advantage of Windows 7 is minimal, is only half of one percent, but the turning point in such a short time gives good prospects for the release of the new Windows 8.

Apple reduces the purchasing RAM chips from Samsung. Supposedly now supplying the memory chips for gadgets will be American, Japanese Toshiba and Elpida Memory, as well as Korean Hynix. Data from other sources indicate that Samsung still remain in the list of suppliers, but its role would be less important.

According to the report comScore, in July 2012, the proportion of "guglofonov" was 52.2 percent, and the iPhone - 33,4 percent. Thus, the two leading operating systems - Apple iOS and Google Android - captured 85 percent of the smartphone market in the U.S..

Hong Kong company Goophone, shortly before the premiere of the iPhone 5, Apple released a cheap clone, based on the latest rumors about the new product, Apple has threatened to file for a court. Goophone company promised to do so in the event that the American manufacturer will release a true iPhone 5 in China.

For the new school year, the largest Russian search engine Yandex has launched a new online service that aims to work on grammatical errors users.

The most popular social networking site Facebook has declared war on the "wrap likes." Of course everyone knows that there is a long cheat software allows huskies. Thereby unwinding the business pages that introduce the purchase of goods and services.

In China, went on sale smartphone Goophone I5. New product is designed to meet all the rumors about the new iPhone 5. Filling Goophone I5 is not impressive.

In Firefox 15, the developers have tried to make more rapid. Thus did the cleaning memory when closing some tabs. Work on code optimization was carried out for almost a year. In addition, the new version of Mozilla eliminated 31 vulnerabilities.