Google decided to combine Gmail, Drive and Google+ storage into one unified cloud space. Instead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. "With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want." posted Clay Bavor, Director of Product Management. These changes to Google Drive storage will roll out over the next couple of weeks.

Microsoft has completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com. This has pushed Microsoft to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts, including 125 million that are accessing email, calendar and contacts on a mobile device using Exchange ActiveSync.  

LG Electronics, which launched its own LG Cloud service in the United States, South Korea and Russia last year, will roll-out the TV-centric service in more than 40 countries including Europe, Asia, Central Asia and Latin America regions by the end of next month. LG Cloud enables users to stream content directly to LG CINEMA 3D Smart TVs as well as providing a convenient location to store entertainment content that automatically synchronizes between PCs, smartphones and TVs.

Twitter announced late Friday that it had been breached and that data for 250,000 Twitter users was vulnerable. The company said in a blog post that it detected unusual access patterns earlier this week and found that user information — usernames, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords — for 250,000 users may have been accessed in what it described as a “sophisticated attack.” “This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” Bob Lord, Twitter’s director of information security, said in a blog post. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.”

Twitter has introduced Vine, a mobile service that lets you capture and share short looping videos (6 seconds or less). "Posts on Vine are about abbreviation — the shortened form of something larger. They're little windows into the people, settings, ideas and objects that make up your life. They're quirky, and we think that's part of what makes them so special," Dom Hofmann, co-founder and Vine GM said it official blog. "Like Twitter, we want to make it easier for people to come together to share and discover what's happening in the world. We also believe constraint inspires creativity, whether it's through a 140-character Tweet or a six-second video." Vine is currently available for free on the iPhone and iPod touch, and it should soon be available on other platforms as well.

Kim Dotcom has apologised to users of his new Mega website, after it crashed numerous times since it's launch on Sunday, ONE News reported. With over 250,000 new users signing up in the first few hours of launching, the website servers have failed to keep up with demand. Dotcom addressed this as a possible issue at his launch party over the weekend.

Facebook introduced new search tool on Tuesday called Graph Search, "a new way to navigate Facebook connections and make them more useful." Graph Search will appear as a bigger search bar at the top of each page. When you search for something, that search not only determines the set of results you get, but also serves as a title for the page, Facebook said. You can edit the title – and in doing so create your own custom view of the content you and your friends have shared on Facebook. "This is one of the coolest things we've done in awhile," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. "It's the kind of product we love to build at Facebook: It's for a big technology problem and big social problem." Go to www.facebook.com/graphsearch to get on the waitlist if you like this new search tool.

Kaspersky Lab published a new research report which identified an elusive cyber-espionage campaign targeting diplomatic, governmental and scientific research organisations in several countries for at least five years. The primary focus of this campaign targets countries in Eastern Europe, former USSR Republics and countries in Central Asia, although victims can be found everywhere, including Western Europe and North America. The main objective of the attackers was to gather sensitive documents from the compromised organisations, which included geopolitical intelligence, credentials to access classified computer systems, and data from personal mobile devices and network equipment.

Facebook, being the largest social network in terms of registered members, is also the most popular social network in 127 countries, says the latest research from Italian social media expert Vincenzo Cosenza. According to Cosenza, only Russia and parts of former Soviet Union, China and Iran remains Facebook "resistant". Russia has V Kontakte and Odnoklassniki, China has QZone, and Iran has Cloob as their social network favorites.

China passed rules requiring people to identify themselves when signing up for Internet and phone services, Bloomberg reports. The law, ratified by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, will enhance protection of personal information online and “safeguard public interests,” the official Xinhua News Agency said. China, home to 550 million web users, censors the Internet by blocking access to websites with pornography, gambling and content critical of Communist Party rule.

“Anti-corruption campaigns online have deeply tarnished the party and the government’s image,and social media discussions have increased instability in certain regions,” said Zhang Zhi’an, an adjunct professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. “Enforcing real name registration will make web users more cautious when posting comments online.”