According to developers and tests carried out by The Register, there is a very serious performance difference when web apps are launched from the iPhone home screen and when they are launched from the mobile Safari browser.

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Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s page being hacked. As if that is not enough for the day, something very weird is happening again in Facebook. It seems like a lot of people are seeing a status update from a complete stranger named Roy Castillo. UPDATE: Well, this is suspected to an…

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Yesterday, Mozilla released the ninth beta of Firefox 4. It has a lot of improvements both in the UI and performance. One major new features added in this release is hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration uses the GPU whenever it is possible instead of relying solely on the CPU. This can give a performance boost for…

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While Google is busy squashing bugs on Chrome, they have also introduced some in Google Apps! Recently there has been a lot of updates by Google Apps team. In the most recent update on Google Apps, they have integrated nearly all the Google services with Google Apps.

However, this one is about a bug in the Google Apps services that actually lets you make free voice calls to the US from some other country. (India in our case)

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A bug in Android’s text messaging app has been found which sometime sends texts to the wrong person. It seems like the bug has been present since June 2010 and has not been fixed yet. This is a pretty embarrassing bug for Android. It is not immediately known how widespread the problem is. I have…

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An update from AVG on Wednesday night forced all 64 bit Windows 7 systems into a continuous reboot loop. The bug has affected both the server and desktop versions of the 64bit Windows 7.

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I normally use Kubuntu rather Ubuntu, so although I have been using Lucid since the day it was released, I have never noticed a rather annoying bug with Gwibber in Ubuntu. In my Ubuntu installation, Gwibber updates only the replies to me on Twitter and not the timeline. At first I thought it must be…

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For those of you who are anxiously waiting for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS a.k.a Lucid Lynx to release today, might have to wait for some more time. Why? Because a bug in GRUB2 has managed to creep through into the final release of Lucid Lynx. There has been a series of events in last couple of…

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In some new builds of Google Chrome a bug has been reported which makes it the browser hang when it is used in KDE but it works fine in GNOME. In Google Chrome, the bugs results in the tab hanging after a page has been loaded. After sometime a pop-up usually comes saying some thing…

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