Interact Computers Official Blog

Bogus reviews have landed Chinese iPhone app developer Molinker in deep trouble, resulting in all 1000-plus of its apps being removed and banned from the App Store. This is great news for consumers who are tired of downloading subpar apps based on inflated reviews, and bad news for companies looking to shill their products with internal misdeeds.

Google on Monday unveiled its real-time search capability, the latest salvo in its ongoing feature war with Bing. Microsoft’s search engine already integrates real-time Twitter and Facebook results. Now, both search engines have released their initial real-time products, and there’s a lot to like from the two major search brands. Let’s take a look at how Bing’s Twitter search matches up against Google’s real-time search.

Ericsson plans to cut up to about 1,000 employees, and will in the process close its site in the Swedish town of Gävle, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

Open source file system vendor Gluster released its Storage Platform, integrating a file system, an operating system and a management UI to create a cluster that can store petabytes of information and provide failover for virtual machines.