Twitter’s New ‘Activity Tab’ for a Comprehensive Home Page Experience
Twitter’s new Activity and @USERNAME streams have replaced the @Mentions and Retweets streams. Your new followers, along with your tweets that tweeple have marked as their Favorites are also mentioned as stories, aong with follows, favorites, and retweets by people you are following. The interface change means that this information, which you received in emails or by clicking on a tweet...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Adobe Ends Flash Mobile Player
Adobe will soon end developing Flash for mobile devices. The ubiquitous Flash Player plug-in found on most smartphones (apart from the iPhone) and tablets will soon be phased out by Adobe. The company will instead work with developers to encourage the Adobe Air platform, and what was once a key rival— HTML5. HTML5′s universality made Adobe decide upon it as a HTML5 as “the best solution...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Samsung Note: A New Kind of Mobile Device
The Galaxy Note is a new kind of mobile device – the kind that marries tablet sensibilities with the convenience of a mobile phone. It’s the first of many things – the Note has the world’s first (and largest) 5.3” HD Super AMOLED display that offers that best viewing experience at it’s size. And true to it’s name, you can take notes on the Note, via Smart Pen,...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Worldwide Photography Prize for Google +
Google + is no stranger to photography – over 3.4 billion photos were uploaded in just it’s first 100 days. The Google Photography Prize was launched to inspire and identify photographers from universities the world over. As posted on the company blog: “We challenge you to come up with photographs that will make us laugh, cry, listen, hop on a plane, start a conversation, or start...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Apple Recalls iPod Nanos
Apple has recalled the iPod Nano. This includes all models of the firm’s iconic music player, due to battery issues in some models. These include complaints of overheating – sometimes even resulting in exploded iPods. According to Apple, : “While the possibility of an incident is rare, the likelihood increases as the battery ages.” The company has asked users to order a replacement...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Bangalore Panics as Two Lakh Facebook Accounts are Hacked
As we sit down to write this piece, the people in the cyber city Bangalore are panicking. Over two lakh people in the city woke up to a rude shock yesterday morning. Their Facebook accounts had been hacked with links to their morphed pornographic pictures being shown in the news feed of their friends. According to a news report in the Mid Day newspaper, over two lakh Facebook users in Bangalore...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Socialblood: Using Facebook and the Internet for Blood Donations
Karthik Naralasetty has set up a Facebook app to enable quick access to Indian blood donors. The Socialblood app connects to eight Facebook groups – corresponding to the eight blood types. The 23 year old got the idea when he saw how a call for B+ blood on a Facebook post for a man undergoing heart surgery was responded with offers for blood donation. The site, which was launched in June,...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Video Chat with Facebook Friends
While Skype already powers an in-browser video calling feature on Facebook, now you don’t even to log into Facebook to call your Facebook friends, directly from your desktop. The feature, which is now live for both Windows and Mac, allows users to make Facebook-to-Facebook call from inside your Skype client. For this, you’ll need to sync your Skype and Facebook accounts (login toSkype,...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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You Don’t Need a Gmail App for Blackberry
Gmail, one of the world’s best email providers, is pulling the plug on it’s app for the Blackberry platform. While this may have come as a surprise to avid Blackberry users. Gmail can also be accessed natively on Blackberry, as OS 5.0 and above offer integrated native support for Gmail. The enhanced Gmail™ Plug-in, you can even access multiple Gmail email accounts, use calendar and...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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Angry Birds Fraud: Avoid the Android App Scam
A whole bunch of fake apps, copies of original gaming apps from app maker Rovio hit the Android Market recently. Rovio, best known for their ‘Angry Birds‘ app has other gaming apps on the Market, which are actually fake. In fact, Rovio has not created the following apps: Alive 4 Ever Call of Duty Zombies Angry Birds 3D Zombieville Zombie Highway Tiny Wings Catch the Candy Cut...
December 3rd, 2011 by Anwar
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