- Google pilots One Today, a new app that makes charitable donations simple Google has begun to pilot a new mobile app called One Today. The app highlights a new charity each day and facilitates the donation of $1 to a particular nonprofit should the user choose to contribute.
- Facebook finishes 2012 as number one smartphone app Despite trailing Google Maps for most of 2012, Facebook catapulted in popularity through the final quarter to become the number one mobile app in terms of monthly unique users.
- Visualising the flow of public transport in major cities It's amazing what can be done with raw data. YouTube user STLTransit has created over 40 visualisations of public transport activity across major cities and regions in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Megaupload will be reborn next January as Mega Megaupload, a file sharing website that was famously shut-down at the start of this year, will be reborn in January 2013 as Mega.
- Internet usage spikes during superstorm Sandy Internet usage on the East coast of the United States spiked 114% on Monday as many workers and school-goers were confined to their homes during superstorm Sandy.
- Google Crisis Response map provides updates on Hurricane Sandy As Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall on the East Coast of the United States tomorrow, Monday, the Google Crisis Response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to track its progress and provide updated emergency information.
- Google unveils new MacBook Air-esque Chromebook Google has unveiled a new MacBook Air-esque Chromebook "for folks living entirely in the cloud" that will be available to purchase later this week for $249.
- Second screen app TV Buzz launches in Ireland, zeebox expands to the US Second screen TV companion apps are alive and well. Today two separate services, TV Buzz and zeebox, announced the introduction of, and expansion of, their respective companion apps.
- Android and Samsung rule the smartphone market, but Apple's the fastest riser In a month filled with important announcements from respective smartphone manufacturers, including Apple, Nokia, Motorola Mobility and HTC, comScore has published its Mobile Subscriber Market Share report that places Samsung ahead of all other device makers and Android miles ahead of all other mobile platforms.
- Bing Maps completes most ambitious mapping project ever in the US, Western Europe next Bing Maps has completed what it calls its "most ambitious mapping endeavor ever", collecting 30cm resolution imagery of every square inch of Continental United States - in just two years.