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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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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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Google Instant Comes to Chrome Labs In Chromium For Windows

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Google Instant is the new craze in web searching and has led to the creation of YouTube and iTunes Instant recently. It’s still not rolled out to users worldwide and certainly not to browsers. Google promised to bring it to Chrome in the next few months but they’ve delivered somewhat on the promise in just […]

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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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‘Google Instant’ Is Here To Change Internet Search Forever

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As predicted, Google launched their whole new real time search technology at the company’s San Francisco press event yesterday. Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, conducted the event and introduced the new way to search on the internet with ‘Google Instant’. The new feature is all about speeding up the […]

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Facebook Testing Twitter Like Feature Called ‘Subscribe’

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It looks like Twitter’s ‘Follow’ feature is all the rage these days. After Apple introduced it in their new musical social network ‘Ping’, Facebook has also jumped on to the bandwagon. AllFacebook reports that Facebook is testing a new subscription feature that will let users closely follow someone they are already friends with (or fan […]

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Gmail Phone Feature Goes International & Crosses 1 Million Calls

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According to official figures from ComScore in December 2009, Gmail has 176 million users worldwide and counting. Google very smartly decided to make use of the huge dedicated customer base and launched Google Call Phone service 2 days ago which integrates the Google Voice calling technology with Gmail and turns users’ inboxes in to a […]

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Apple’s 12-Core Mac Pro Arrives In Stores

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Apple unveiled its new Mac line at the end of July and its 12-Core Mac Pro gained a lot of attention due to its upgraded power features. It took a few days to actually become available for eager consumers but it finally has. Apple took down its online store for a couple of hours on […]

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World’s First 3D Video Camcorder Arrives – Check Out the Features

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This might change the world of home videos and family photos forever. It looks like a 3D revolution is about to hit the world as world’s first 3D camcorder, DXG-5D7V from Panasonic for ordinary consumers is now available for pre-order. It’s no longer just the super rich Hollywood film companies that own the technology, now […]

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Twitter Now Suggesting People To Follow

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The latest new feature from Twitter, which just began to roll out a few hours ago, is similar to Facebook’s ‘friends suggestions’ appearing on users’ homepages. Twitter is now offering personalized suggestion for users to introduce them to other users who follow your followers or who follow the same people that you do. It’s named […]

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Facebook’s People Tagging Feature Reported Broken

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Are you having difficulty tagging friends in your status updates using the ‘@’ sign? If yes, chances are you enabled the new publisher rolled out by Facebook for its ‘Facebook Questions’ product released on Wednesday. Facebook officials announced that they’re fixing the problem since the feature is still in the process of rolling out to […]

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iPhone 5 Wish List

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It’s just been a month since the iPhone 4 launch and amidst the entire media furore over its connectivity issues and Apple’s clarifications, iPhone fanatics have already started the countdown to the release of the iPhone 5 or whatever Apple decides to call it. Among them are a huge number of iPhone 3G and 3GS […]

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Android 3.0 Releasing In October 2010

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Google’s next update to its Android OS, Android 3.0 or ‘Gingerbread’ as it’s called, is reported to be coming in the fall this year. The news was disclosed through a Russian podcast by Eldar Murtazin and has the fans buzzing. The leaked details suggest that Gingerbread will be essentially a separate branch of the Android […]

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Apple Releases 4 New iPhone Ads About The Video Calling Feature

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Apple and iPhone critics can slam the company and their most famous product all they want; it’s not going to deter the fans who swear by the new iPhone’s smart features. One of the most talked about feature of the iPhone 4 is FaceTime or the Video Calling facility. Aiming to change the way we […]

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Yahoo Mail & Messenger Apps for Android Launched

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Yahoo and Google may be rivals when it comes to email and internet search but Yahoo is making a smart move by recognising the massive size and potential of the smartphone app industry and has launched today Yahoo Mail and Messenger apps for Android users as well as a Yahoo Search Widget for Android. Not […]

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Facebook Introduces A Simpler Application Permission System

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Facebook’s privacy settings woes seem far from over as the company continues to roll out simpler versions of several of its functions. The latest is a much simpler application permission system where third party apps specify exactly what data they need to access and gives users the option to opt out later if they wish. […]

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All Microsoft Word Attachments Now Open in Google Docs

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The new feature was rolled out yesterday allowing all Microsoft Word documents to be opened and viewed with all features in Google Docs. The “view as HTML” button at the end of a message containing an attachment is now replaced only by “View” which opens all your files using Google Docs; which then offers multiple […]

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Droid X Unveiled, Starts Shipping on July 15th

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After weeks of speculation about the release date and some killer features, Motorola and Verizon have finally unveiled the Droid X at their official press conference in New York. While the world awaits the iPhone 4 to appear on shelves tomorrow, today belongs to the Droid which is boasting features that are enough to give […]

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iOS 4 Launched

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iPhone enthusiasts can get a taste of its massively updated Operating System 2 days in advance as Apple has just launched the iOS 4 today. Available as a free upgrade, the OS is compatible with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS models, as well as second and third generation iPod touches. Multitasking will only work with […]

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