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Google Search to include Twitter updates


Google Search to include Twitter updates

Just hours after Microsoft announced that Bing will be able to search through Twitter’s real time updates, Google, too, has announced that Twitter updates will now be available with Google Search too. Here is what Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google wrote in the Google Blog:

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By Ricky
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Getting Ready For Karmic Koala – Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu …. Which one should you use?


The final release of Karmic Koala comes out in a week. Of all the variants of Karmic Koala coming out, Ubuntu is undoubtably the most well know with the largest userbase. While most of the long time users will have no doubts regarding which variant they want to use, new users tend to not know…

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By Ricky

Re-live all previous Ubuntu distros in The Ubuntu Museum


Re-live all previous Ubuntu distros in The Ubuntu Museum

The Ubuntu Museum houses screenshots, screencasts and virtual images of each of the Ubuntu releases which are no longer supported or used. All these discontinued releases form an important part of the Ubuntu history.

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By Debjit

5 More Interesting Facts About Facebook


Earlier we did an article on “9 Interesting facts about Facebook and its users”. This article can be considered as a sequel to that article. Here we present to you five more interesting facts about Facebook. So here goes five interesting facts about Facebook:

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By Ricky
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Banshee 1.5.1 Released


Banshee 1.5.1 Released

Banshee 1.5.1 is finally here! Banshee is an open source media player which is built using Gtk toolkit. It is a good alternative to media playesrs like Rythmbox and Amarok. Banshee is available for both Linux and OS X. The new release of Banshee, Banshee 1.5.1, just been announced and it has brought with it…

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By Ricky

1Mbps Internet Connection Now A Legal Right In Finland


1Mbps Internet Connection Now A Legal Right In Finland

The Ministry of Transport and Communication in Finland has made 1Mbps broadband internet connection a legal right in the country reported YLE. According to the report, everyone in Finland is legally entitled to get 1Mbps broadband internet connection starting from July 2010. Although Finland is not the first country to make internet access a legal…

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By Ricky

The Future Of Telepathy and Empathy – From The Boston GNOME Summit


With Empathy replacing the ever so popular IM client, Pidgin, from two of the most popular Linux distros, Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12, as the default IM client, it certainly is a big deal right now. Along with Empathy, the much hyped Telepathy is also making a lot of noise in the build up to…

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By Ricky

Former Boyzone Star Stephen Gately’s Death Being Exploited To Spread Virus


Former Boyzone Star Stephen Gately’s Death Being Exploited To Spread Virus

The news of the death of Stephen Gately, the star from the Irish pop band – Boyzone, is being used to spread virus (otherwise known as scareware). Using black hat SEO techniques, criminals have been successful in putting up fake websites which supposedly has informatio regarding the incident. This follows a recent trend of the…

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By Ricky

KDE Plasma Widget in Nokia N900


KDE Plasma Widget in Nokia N900

KDE Developer, Marijn Kruisselbrink, posted in his blog that he got KDE’s plasma widget running with transparency and all, in Maemo5, which is the operating system used in Nokia’s yet-to-be-released N900. Now, what else is there to write about other the fact that it looks absolutely awesome. Here is the screenshot:

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By Ricky

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