Posted by A Ocean on August 30, 2010 ·
YouTube
According to report Google’s YouTube is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood movie studios to launch a streaming pay-per-view online movie rental site before the end of this year. The Rental site would be either be connected to YouTube or could be a standalone new service which Google would promote directly to its massive search and video empires users.
This new service will [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 30, 2010 ·
Facebook
A study result conducted by a psychologist about Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on Facebook. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 26, 2010 ·
Apple TV
Apple has earlier used a September event to release new iPods and announce upgrades to the iTunes service. Keeping with the tradition – Apple will be holding a media event on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we think that it is for new Apple TV everyone is talking about.
Apart from a Apple TV release, which is expected to be relaunched with a naming change to Apple [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 26, 2010 ·
Calls on Gmail
Now you can make phone calls from Gmail without visitng your Google Voice page. Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail, the goods news doesn’t stop here – the calls are free to US and Canadian landlines only.
The initial testing with Skype showed that the new Google’s service has [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 25, 2010 ·
Firefox
Mozilla has released a new beta version of its browser Firefox. Firefox 4 includes two very interesting features namely Firefox Sync and Panorama Tabs. The new features allow users to sync their settings and create tab sets.
Firefox Sync, allows users to access the bookmarks, history, awesome bar settings, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs across multiple computers and mobile devices [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 25, 2010 ·
Asus
ASUS, the Taiwan based notebook and motherboards vendor announced two laptops in its N Series range — the 15.6” N53JN and and the 17.3” N73JN. The new N Series from ASUS is the first ever range of laptops to address the problem of sub-standard audio on portable PCs. Both models features the latest NVIDIA® GeForce 400M 3D chipset with Optimus™ technology for outstanding power source-optimised [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 24, 2010 ·
Facebook
Facebook will implement a long delayed tab width reduction on Pages. The official reductions begins today. The change has been announced by Facebook back in October 2009, but was delayed.
After the reduction, the maximum width for any Page tab is 520 pixels, down from 760 pixels. Applications and canvas pages will need to be reformatted or else they will appear broken. The change [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 23, 2010 ·
Source : Facebook
If you have one of those jailbroken iPhones which are unable to access Facebook – we bring great news for you. Facebook has released a new version for iPhone – 3.2.2 – and this edition fixes login issues for users of jailbroken iPhones. The new version of the app is available via the Updates tab in iPhone’s App Store application.
Facebook’s Engineers have initially [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 23, 2010 ·
Steve Jobs
Since the U.S. government has legally authorized jailbreaking we were wondering about Apple’s steps to counter this move. Apparently, Apple is trying hard to get its monopolistic hold on the iDevices, it has applied for a patent covering various methods for identifying and disabling unauthorized use (which includes jailbreaking) of its popular iPhone and iPad products.
Apple’s [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 21, 2010 ·
Facebook has published a promotional video for Facebook Places online, it’s a glimpse into how the company hopes users will utilize its new location service. The video shows Facebook employees talking about the value of Places for enhancing everyday life. They cite examples of where Places can help connect friends or tell stories about what others did at places like the Golden Gate Bridge [...]