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Facebook Crowd Sources “Facebook Places” – Asks Users To Edit or Update Information


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Facebook Places was launched last year (2010) in August and since then it has become the default check-in utility for many although many users still continue to use Foursquare as their preferred check-in utility. These kind of applications which depend on user input for their day-to-day functioning can never be totally relied upon due to…

 Facebook   News  

By Debjit
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Google + 1 Being Sold At $20 For 50


Many websites have started offering Google +1 in exchange for money. A website plussem.com is offering +1s at the rate of $20 for 50, $70 for 250 and $350 for 2000. Apparently, all of these +1 will not come from bots.

 Google   News  

By Debjit

Boot to Gecko – Mozilla’s Project To Build A Web Based Operating System For Smartphones


Boot to Gecko – Mozilla’s Project To Build A Web Based Operating System For Smartphones

Mozilla has launched a new project called “Boot to Gecko”. The aim of this project is to develop a complete operating system for the open web. Unlike Google’s version of a web-based OS – the Chrome OS – Mozilla’s version is not aimed at netbooks. With Boot to Gecko, Mozilla is aiming for smartphones – and Android forms a part of their plan.

 Linux   News  

By Ricky

GNOME And KDE Fight Over The Name “System Settings”


GNOME And KDE Fight Over The Name “System Settings”

KDE SC has been using the name “System Settings” to refer to its application used to configure the system – such as time, font, theme etc. Now, a conflict has arisen because GNOME, too. has started using the same name – System Settings – for its application which was earlier known as the GNOME Control Center.

 Linux   News  

By Ricky
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Google+ Has A Huge Privacy Problem With Its Photo Tagging System


Google+ Has A Huge Privacy Problem With Its Photo Tagging System

Tagging a person in one of your photos in Picasa Web Albums or Google+ will share the album with the person tagged – even if the album was private. The person who was tagged can also share your private album to others.

 Google   News  

By Ricky

Oracle Removes Former Sun CEO’s Blog Post Congratulating Google On Announcing Android


Oracle Removes Former Sun CEO’s Blog Post Congratulating Google On Announcing Android

It looks like Oracle has decided to remove all the blog posts written by former Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz. When Google announced Android back in 2007, Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems at the time, wrote a blog post congratulating Google.

 Blogging   Google   News  

By Ricky

Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery


Apple MacBooks Can Be Hacked Through The Battery

Security researcher Charlie Miller is quite well known for his works on Apple products. Today he has come up with a very interesting way to hack the MacBook using the battery.

 Apple   News   Security  

By Debjit

Oracle Acquires Ksplice – Drops Support For Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS


Oracle Acquires Ksplice – Drops Support For Fedora, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS

Oracle has acquired Ksplice. With the acquisition, Oracle will no longer provide Ksplice Uptrack as a separate product. It will be included as a part of Oracle Linux Premier Support.

 Linux   News  

By Ricky

Google Is Closing Google Labs


Google Is Closing Google Labs

Google has announced that they are closing down Google Labs. They say that this will help them prioritize their product effort.

 Google   News  

By Ricky

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