You may now, be unable to hide any kind of formerly hidden information on your Facebook, as the social network hunk has suggested such features are essential for connecting with your friends and family.
You may have been one of the millions of users who have been contacted by Facebook, about the surcease of "Who can look up your Timeline by name" search setting on your home page. Facebook, has even sent an email regarding this info to many of the users, which goes on to elaborate, and explicate for what purposes, this setting change has been made.
An inner inquiry about this change will show you several plausible points , how Facebook could be letting your private information fall into the hands of innumerable app developers; leading to misuse of information that used to be privy to one of your self-controlled coterie.
Facebook Help Center shows this info about the latest setting Credit: Anirudh Palakurthi
Thinking to buy a 7 inch tablet? You are sure to get confused at the
present situation of the tablet market with two tablets priced at the same
$199..!!!
The $199 tagged Original Kindle Fire when launched in 2011, it
became an astonishing and smashing sizzler that prevailed as one of
the top budget tablet options for many days. But the monopoly of the
Kindle Fire had came to an end with the launch of the Nexus 7,
Google's flagship Android 4.1 tablet.
However, interestingly, Amazon just raised the stake with aKindle Fire HD, with many important improvements in it hardware, modernized software,
and that same $199 price tag(In other words Amazon entered the tablet war with overhauled
warfare).The Kindle Fire HD does offer an interesting alternative to
the pure Android experience of the Nexus 7. Read More to know more!!!
Innumerable bruits have become too common these days on the Internet, about Apple, by chance, to release its new iPad Mini.
*This iPad will have a 7-8 inch screen, which is 3 inches less than the iPad 3. (Source: CNET)*The planned release for the iPad Mini is this October of 2012. Elite websites such as JailbreakNation and CNET have been all over the iPad Mini. Again, these are only rumors however.
A few years back after the release of the iPad Original, and right before the release of the iPad 2, there were lots of questions reagarding a iPad Nano or a smaller iPad. Apple had said that there was no need for a iPad Nano or anything of the kind because of 2 reasons. The iPod Touch and simple because of no need for one with today’s market.
A dyad of Microsoft-trademarked "Surface"
tablets running Windows 8 and Windows RT make their debut at the long anticipated
product unveiling in Los Angeles.
The Modern Epoch: Microsoft – that typically, conventionally
and usually relied solely and entirely on its PC collaborators to supply the
hardware catered by its Windows OS -- started assaying out a novel business
model (Tablet) with the following latest Windows release. With this, I’ll assuredly announce that the company has balled over
many of its c0-tablet producing companies, marking a new era in the company’s
history!!! J
The Microsoft's Tablet Trailer:
The Truth: Microsoft isn't, in reality, manufacturing
these Nuevo tablets -- exactly as it doesn't "make" the Xbox or
the oblivious Zune media player. However, it will be placing the
Microsoft label on these devices. Many have hypothecated, that this situation
at this juncture, will establish Microsoft as a nip and tuck rival with its own
PC maker partners.
Press Talk: Ascertainments about the price or any
info about the availability, accessibility are not available as yet. The words
of every functionary @ Microsoft, through the today's press release, is that
"Suggested retail pricing will be
announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a
comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and
feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT."
The Prediction: Both Windows RT and Windows 8 probably
are anticipated to be brought out to the making up, perhaps as early as the end
of July and they are expected to be typically available around August.
Still Unknown: Other than the pricing and availability,
the info that is still obscure is the manufacturer who is working up for the
development of this device for Microsoft. (Samsung Electronics built the
Surface 2.0 device, which is the latest version of Microsoft's Surface tabletop
computer.) There is no info, if Microsoft is going to have other
Surface-branded devices in the family -- including the existing Surface 2.0.
Picture Pile:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shows off the new Windows Tablet at the most awaited product unveiling on Monday in LA.
Microsoft Surface
The Surface
Picture Pile: The following picture give you a purview of the specs of the tablets, and the two surface models that Microsoft came out with, one of which runs on a ARM processor for Windows RT, on the other hand, Windows 8 Pro has an Intel core processing chip.
With the desire of taking back gazillions of users, the software
hulk Microsoft has renovated and vamped its email assisting service
Hotmail, which possesses a very intriguing similarity to the Google’s Gmail in
its blueprint.
Credit: Screenshot by liveside.net
Newmail, the younger
version of Hotmail is realized to own a 'Clean Appearance', and considering
the font that has been used for the labels in the Inbox, it has a great deal of
equivalence to its Google antagonist.
According to the Daily Mail, Microsoft has asserted and affirmed that it has a 'fluid and interactive design', which is
intentionally designed to work well on mobile devices such as phones or tablets.
Nevertheless, Hotmail is the largest email provider in the virtual world of
Internet with almost 360 million members, while on the contrary Gmail has hit
350 million, striking up spectacularly from just 260 million users in October
2011.
An Internet site LiveSide, has obtained the screen shots of Newmail, which show
a substantially more attractive home screen, with no chaotic helter-skelter
which had long fuddled and flummoxed Hotmail.
Liveside stated that Newmail will ab initio be accessible on a “choose into”
basis to present Hotmail customers, however, Microsoft has not precluded making
it compulsory in the time to come.
The Nuevo email service would as well be connected to Facebook, Twitter and
will provide the customers to place their contacts automatically in sync and observe
whatever their mates’ are doing on those social networks in the Newmail screen
itself.
The new advert Newmail, however, comes out to be just the title intended for
the service and members can nonetheless have ‘@hotmail’ email addresses.
So what do you think about Hotmail’s new look? Let us know
in the comments below!!
Facebook
starts training its members to defend their accounts!!
The rise of the imprudently incurring jeopardy of password
leaks, has heightened the need for the social network tycoon Facebook to enlighten
its users in the matter concerning about how to make their Facebook accounts free
from the risk of getting hacked and is requesting for users' cell phone numbers
as part of this secure campaign!
The company has started placing a notification at the acme
of every person's news feed that advises they "Stay in control of your
account by following these simple security tips.in" The message includes a
link to Facebook's security
page(whose screenshot may be seen below), where in the members are taught/tutored/instructed(whatever you may
think :D) on the topic of the ways of identification of a online scam and choose a
unique password, and are asked to provide a cell phone number where replacement
passwords can be sent.
The message was first reportedly viewed byTechCrunch's Josh Constine.
The ownership of the users' cell phone numbers will allow
for the Facebook to immediately erase passwords and send the users, the
modified passwords through a text message, thereby the time lag underlying in
the ‘waiting for users’ to follow e-mailed warnings to reset their passwords
could be done with.
Vexed up with Ads between your favourite show?? Here is another reason for you to get annoyed!! Mirrors in public rest rooms are ready to show Video Ads..!!
Ads on radio, Ads on TV, these are all old school...Mirrors in public restrooms are going to turn into showing Ads. A company called NovoAd has come up with a new technology that'll provide the mirrors with this technology!! The Los Angeles Times informs that a company called Novo Ad has created the technological means to turn mirrors into electronic displays for ads.
Read more to know about the New Advertising Technology -->
The company has constituted a new group that offers security monitoring services and the ability to remotely control your house using your phone.
AT&T Inc is making a big investment in a nationwide wireless home monitoring service that could potentially add $1 billion to its annual revenue as part of the No. 2 U.S. mobile operator's ongoing effort to expand beyond cell phones. It is planning a service called "Digital Life" to monitor homes for everything from water damage to burglaries and to let customers remotely do things like adjust temperature or unlock doors, using an Internet connection. The company will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.'s ADT.The service, of which AT&T will start trials this year, involves sensors and cameras linked to a central home system that connects wirelessly( IP based) to AT&T monitoring centers, were the words of a company official. Read more to know about AT&T's DIGITAL LIFE...
Customizable links give users a third way to involve with Open Graph content that appears in news feeds, timelines, or tickers in Facebook.
Developers on Facebook..Go...Have a Big Time..!! :)
Facebook introduced a new feature intended to help developers engage users more deeply with their app content.
In addition to "liking" and "sharing," the social network's customizable "action links" give users a third way to interact with content when users' Open Graph stories appear in news feeds, timelines, or tickers.
Facebook demonstrated how the new links could be used by using the geo-location app Foursquare as an example. When users check in at a location using the app on their Timeline, their friends can already like or comment on the post. But the new feature allows developers to add customizable links, such as a link that says "Save this Place," allowing friends to save the place to their Foursquare to-do list.
Credit: Facebook developer blog
In another example, Facebook showed how design site Fab.com adds a "Fave this Product" that adds the product to users' favorites lists.
Credit: Facebook Developer blog
"Action links tie one action to another, and can be part of any Open Graph story," Facebook's Alex Wyler wrote in a company blog announcing the new feature. "Developers can designate an action link for any action they define, which will then appear throughout Facebook."
Developers interested in creating their own action links can get more information at Facebook's documentation page about the "Action-Links".
In a smatter of real homes, Microsoft is trialing a prototype of a home-automation operating system on which its researchers have been forging for several years.
Credit: Microsoft
More than a decade ago, Microsoft execs, led by Chairman Bill Gates, were touting a future where .Net coffee pots, bulletin boards, and refrigerator magnets would be part of homes where smart devices would communicate and interoperate. Microsoft hasn't given up on that dream.
In 2010, Microsoft researchers published a white paper about their work on a HomeOS and a HomeStore -- early concepts around a Microsoft Research-developed home-automation system. Those concepts have morphed into prototypes since then, based on a white paper, "An Operating System for the Home," published this month on the Microsoft Research site.
Facebook could no longer rely on Microsoft to keep Google Chrome at bay. It needs to fight back with its own browser. Sometime in the next 12 months, Google Chrome will become the world's most popular browser, knocking Microsoft's Internet Explorer off the mountain it has ruled for more than a decade.
Statcounter Stats
This fact should scare the pants off of Facebook.
In July 2008, IE controlled 68.5 percent of the market, according to Statcounter, while Chrome wasn't even on the market. Now Microsoft's browser is down to 34.8 percent market share while Chrome controls 30.9 percent of total browser usage. Chrome has grown by a percentage point the last few months, while IE has dropped by around the same amount.
It's only a matter of time until Google dominates the browser market.
Now the question arises: why should Facebook care about the fate of the browser market? Facebook's a social network, not a desktop software company -- why do the browser wars matter?
Intel showed off the latest hybrid ultrabook concept at company confab this week. But it's been preaching this best-of-both-worlds religion for a while now.
Here's the pitch:
In productivity mode
In "Consumption" mode, it's a tablet and
In "Productivity" mode it's a standard laptop.
And throw in the fact that hybrids use the latest high-performance Intel Ivy Bridge processors and run the Windows 8 Metro interface.
In consumption mode
The linchpin is Windows 8. The hybrid experience won't work on Windows 7. Like for example, the Dell Inspiron Duo hybrid was not a success, mostly because it was burdened with Windows 7 (and ran that demanding operating system on top of a underpowered Intel Atom processor).
When showing off the Lenovo Yoga hybrid running on that processor, Kirk Skaugen, the Intel's new business chief said: "[It has] the Windows 8 experience and all of the responsiveness of that." Translation: it's a much better touch interface than Windows 7.
Read More for the features of the ultrabooks according to Mr. Erik Reid, the General Manager of the mobile platforms division at the Intel PC Clients' Group>>>
Reporters Without Borders issues its annual compilation of bad actors--of which there are many--but also notes the positive impact of the Arab Spring.
If you're reading this, odds are that you're not living in one of the dozen countries that Reporters Without Borders has included in its annual list of "Enemies of the Internet."
An image displayed on the Reporters Without Borders Web site.
Each year, the media watchdog group issues a report calling out nations that restrict its citizens' freedom of information as well as for curtailing their access to the Internet. As in previous reports, RWB chronicles the challenges faced by regular people trying to read and share information living under regimes determined to restrict the free flow of communication.
The report paints a grim picture, recounting new instances of content removal, as well as the usual pressure on Internet service providers as governments reach into what's now become a familiar grab bag of tactics to stifle domestic challenges. On the plus side, however, RWB points hopefully to the impact of the Arab Spring as a new force to be reckoned with.
"The Internet and social networks have been conclusively established as tools for protest, campaigning and circulating information, and as vehicles for freedom," the group said. "More than ever before, online freedom of expression is now a major foreign and domestic policy issue."
