Google Celebrates PAC-MAN’s 30th Birthday

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Google is honoring PAC-MAN on its 30th birthday by hosting the game on its search site as a Google doodle. One can play the game by going to google.com. To get started, just wait for a few seconds or press the button “Insert Coin”, which was originally “I Am Feeling Lucky”. In its blog Google [...]

Google Throws Punches at Apple @ Google IO

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Google IO’s second day’s conference started with a keynote address from Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra.  The keynote was all about the cool new Android 2.2 (Froyo) and the digs at Apple. Google threw punches at Apple at every opportunity and did not leave anything to our imagination. Here is a look at [...]

Android’s Success in Numbers

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Google unveiled a new version of Android, Froyo (code named for frozen yogurt), Android 2.2 at Google IO conference. Google also revealed impressive stats of Android, since it was unveiled in October 2008 . Here is the Android’s success in numbers 1: The first in web and app usage among all the smartphones (according to [...]

How To Protect Your Facebook Account From Hackers?

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Amidst the Facebook privacy bashing and a hacker trying to sell thousands of Facebook user’s account information, Facebook unveiled a new feature aimed at protecting Facebook users. The new feature can detect an unusual activity in your Facebook account and warn you immediately. Using the new feature you can pre-approve a list of devices from [...]

Apple Leak From Vietnam Again: iPod Touch With Camera

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Yet another leak from Vietnam about an unreleased Apple product. A video and photos of 64GB iPod Touch prototype with 2MB camera at the rear have surfaced from a Vietnam based website. It is the same website that leaked a iPhone 3G prototype. It is not clear whether it is a future product or an earlier [...]

Apple Updates MacBooks

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Apple released new MacBooks, the lower end 13.3-inch laptops from Apple.  Apple has not changed the price of MacBook, it still costs $999. The new MacBook features 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB DDR3 memory 250GB hard drive 8x double-layer SuperDrive NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics Built-in 10-hour battery Polycarbonate unibody enclosure New MacBook is Faster [...]

MySpace Tries To Make Use of Facebook Bashing

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MySpace is trying to make use of the Facebook privacy bashing by making its privacy setting simpler. MySpace, the other social network pushed to the background since Facebook started its ascendancy, is trying to hard woo users. In today’s press release MySpace announced the new and simpler privacy settings. By default, MySpace visibility settings will [...]

Google: Ooops, We Mistakenly Collected Your Personal Wi-Fi Data

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Google dropped its own privacy bombshell, as if Facebook’s privacy imbroglio is not enough for us to deal with. Google in its blog today admitted that it mistakenly collected personal data during its Street View project from unencrypted wireless networks. As part of the Google Street View project, Google cars collects, photos, local Wi-Fi data, [...]

Google to Stop Selling Nexus One From Google Web Store

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Google announced that it is going to stop selling the Google Phone: Nexus One from its web store and it will make the phone available through the retail stores soon.  Earlier in January, Google unveiled the much anticipated Google Phone and started selling the phone only through its website. The idea of selling the phone [...]

Facebook Privacy Muddle Through Wordle

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Facebook has been hit by privacy tsunami, since they announced open graph and a lot of new features. Numerous posts have explained how difficult to keep your privacy in Facebook account. New York Times article nailed how difficult to understand and change the privacy settings in Facebook. If you want to manage privacy settings on [...]