If you are a regular user of Facebook Credit, soon you may not have to spend as much as you are normally do, thanks to e-tailers(online retailers) , who could offer the credits as shopping incentives. Ifeelgoods, an e-commerce promotions provider for online retailers, has integrated Facebook Credits into the online shopping experience, by which its e-tailer  clients can use the credits to incentivize [...]

At the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco yesterday , Research In Motion’s CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company’s new tablet named PlayBook. The Tablet PC will hit US stores early next year and  with rollouts after April  in the rest of the world. The PlayBook will run on  an OS created by the recently acquired QNX, it will be called BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK, the mobile [...]

Intel has updated its processor pricing list for mobile i5, i7 and Celeron processors.  Intel had released Core 1.33GHz i5-560UM (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads, 32-nanometer), priced at US $250,  “UM” indicates ultralow power, and these chips typically go in ultrathin laptops and even tablets. The 2.66Hz i5-580M (3M L2 cache, two cores, four threads) is priced at US $266, [...]

Apple released an update to its iTunes software with Apple iTunes 10.0.1 launching on Friday last week. The new releases mostly adds bug fixes and changes the way users share music  on Ping , it adds the ability to use Ping from within  iTunes library, instead of having to manually search out music tracks you already owned in the database of the iTunes Store. Apple lists the following change [...]

Facebook has officially launched a new feature for helping users discover Facebook Pages, the tool is called “Page Browser,”and  was briefly available to users earlier this month. Page Browser suggestions are tailored based on pages users previously ‘Liked’, and following a new Page simply entails clicking on its icon. Users can search for the pages based on “Country” or famous tags [...]

Facebook is down and Twitter users went into frenzy with people tweeting and re-tweeting, with “RETWEET IF YOUR FACEBOOK ISNT WORKING” leading the pack. There were the usual sarcastic, funny, insulting, philosophical, thought-provoking, angry tweets doing the rounds for ‘Facebook Isnt Working’. We bring you some of the gems! KourtneyJessica Facebook isnt working. What would [...]

Facebook is currently inaccessible, this makes it second time in two days that the social networking site went down, after issues at a third-party networking provider Facebook was down for some users yesterday. Here is what Facebook has to say “We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved [...]

If reports from Wall Street Journal are to be believed,Research in Motion (RIM)  could showcase the world its tablet as early as next week, at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. According to earlier rumors the Tablet PC is to be christened BlackPad, the rumors got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The touch screen tablet will measure 9.7 inches, akin to the iPad, and [...]

Google has updated the Gmail app for Android 2.2 Froyo, it now gets the ability to reveal more quoted text in the  email threads and introducing limited support for Priority Inbox. The Gmail app now has a “show quoted text” button,too view older parts of a conversation as needed.  Actions like reply, star, and archive now have a permanent place at the top of the screen, too.

Yesterday, thousands of Twitter users found themselves redirected to other websites, and that they were automatically sending tweets to  to others due to  a security hole on Twitter’s website. The attack was caused by malicious users using cross-site scripting (XSS) and it was particularly worrying because it could be exploited simply by hovering over a link on a page. In some cases, merely [...]