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Is Arvixe Hosting for You?

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We focused our review on Arvixe’s PersonalClass package available through the company’s shared hosting plan. While there are additional features available in more expensive web hosting packages, this starter plan has everything you need to run a site, whether you’re a small business owner hosting a webpage for the first time or an experienced site […]

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Facebook Applications Leaking User Info To 3rd Parties, Says Wall Street Journal

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In the next episode of Facebook’s privacy and user security woes, it’s the already notorious Facebook Applications that are under fire for leaking users’ IDs to third parties, specifically internet research and advertising companies. The news was broken by the Wall Street Journal and thus is being taken seriously. The magazine reports that all of […]

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TweetDeck For Android Launched Officially

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TweetDeck is one of the most popular third party apps for Twitter and a bunch of other social networks and it first arrived for iOS almost 2 years ago. Android users got the beta version of TweetDeck a few months ago and now the app has finally been officially released. TweetDeck 1.0 is now available […]

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US Users Can Now Update On WordPress Via SMS

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If you’re an American user of WordPress.com, you can manage your blog via text messages now. The feature has just been added by WordPress which will also alert users with text messages about things like new users joining or leaving their blog, a change in theme and updated privacy settings. This is not all though. […]

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Facebook Introduces Disposable Passwords For Public Computers

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Accessing your personal email/social media accounts on a public computer can sometimes be dangerous if you’re not careful or forget to log out completely. Sometimes your greasy fingers also leave fingerprints on keyboards which can be used to crack your passwords, not to mention security camera which are now present everywhere and can be used […]

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New Yahoo Messenger iPhone App With Free Video Calls Is Here

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Yahoo announced it’s bringing free video calls to iPhone users with its updated messenger app last week and now the app is up and running in the App Store and you can start making free video calls over 3G or Wi-Fi right now. Users can make video calls, stream live video one-to-one and the best […]

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Free Video Calls Via Yahoo’s New iPhone & Android App

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After free text messages and calls for iPhone and iPod Touch from Pinger, it’s time for free video calls from Yahoo. The announcement was made by Yahoo’s VP of Mobile David Katz yesterday while talking to Reuters. Yahoo is preparing to release the new app for both iOS and Android which would bring free video […]

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Facebook Introduces New Features, More Coming Up

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Facebook held a press event yesterday to introduce some new features and also announce that the network will continue to roll out updates and designs in the coming weeks and months. The Facebook redesign wasn’t rolled out yesterday but it’s coming up soon. There were 3 major new features that were unveiled at the event […]

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Facebook Is Changing Again, You’ve Been Warned

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Facebook is holding a press event today (Wed, 6th Oct) at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and judging from reports in the media, it’s a big event with the company offering a shuttle service to bring guests to the venue. Inside sources have revealed that Facebook employees and engineers have been working 24/7 for […]

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Internet Explorer Falls Below 50% In The Browser Market Share

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Looks like Microsoft’s woes regarding their web browser are far from improving or showing any signs thereof. It was reported recently that Google’s Chrome browser is slowly but consistently eating up IE’s market share and is showing the most growth. Now latest figures from StatCounter have revealed that the situation is much worse than imagined. […]

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Facebook & Skype Teaming Up

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Sources from All Things Digital who claim to be familiar with the situation have reported that Facebook is entering in a deal with Skype very soon and that the teaming-up is already come through. Skype 5.0 beta is coming out in the next few weeks and it will be bringing Facebook integration with it. This […]

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WordPress 2.6 Brings Video Support For iOS

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The iTunes app store is now offering the new version of WordPress for iPhone and iPad which has some much awaited and cool new features. The new 2.6 version also fixes some previous bugs and enhances performance. Now any web or mobile activity, whether it’s blogging or social media, is incomplete without video support in […]

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New Twitter Fixes Security Flaw & Debuts 2 New Features

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Twitter is currently going through the process of rolling out its new version to users through individual invitations and the site experienced a serious security threat today when both new and old versions of Twitter faced a potentially dangerous hack of its web interface. The bug started redirecting users to third party websites and even […]

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Do You Know About Facebook’s Secret Follow Feature?

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Facebook has not released an official announcement or explanation about it, but the network has quietly changed their adding friends procedure. People who send you friend requests, receive your public (“Everyone”) content in their news feed till you hit the ‘Ignore’ button but now Facebook has removed the ‘Ignore’ option altogether and replaced it with […]

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Is Facebook Building A Smartphone?

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The biggest and hottest rumour doing rounds on the net and social media today is about the world’s biggest social media network secretly working on a smartphone. The story was broken by Tech Crunch who claim an inside source within Facebook “who has knowledge of the project.” The report claims that Facebook is building the […]

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New Interactive Trailer For ‘The Social Network’

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Apart from the regular TV interviews that the cast is giving on all major talk shows, the promoters are obviously using all possible online tools available to promote the movie. A movie about the biggest social network in the world will be nothing if not promoted through all possible social media networks available. Film promoters […]

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Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 9 With HTML 5 Support

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Microsoft released the new version of the Internet Explorer at a special press event yesterday and it’s being praised by developers, designers and early users as the biggest and best overhauling the browser has ever received. IE9 is faster than all its previous versions and now supports HTML 5 and CSS3. MS says that it’s […]

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All New Twitter Begins To Roll Out

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Twitter has begun to roll out a new revamped version of its website to US users and will continue to make it available to international users over the next few days. The new site is bringing some massive changes in the user interface, tools and multimedia support for the first time. This is the biggest […]

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YouTube Starts Testing Live Streaming

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YouTube has just started testing its new live streaming platform with a few chosen partners including Next New Networks, Howcast, Young Hollywood, and Rocketboom. The testing period began Monday morning and will go on for two days. YouTube released the list of events that will be streaming live through these partners and also announced a […]

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