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Google Move over Facebook’s complex privacy control and user-data sharing issues, Google has gone one-up on Facebook by scooping up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service. French National Commission on Computing and Liberty CNIL, has begun looking into the exact data that Google’s Street View cars captured, and have  found that the “sensitive [...]

Facebook Facebook has been proactive with its mobile apps particularly with iPhone app since iPhone launch three years ago. It has released an updated version of their mobile app for the iPhone . The latest version 3.1.3 contains several major updates and important bug fixes, including the ability to watch Facebook videos and upload larger pictures on the iPhone. The app will have the Facebook [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife One of the liked and used feature of Facebook is the ‘like’ button , since its launch the feature became central to the way people communicate on Facebook.  it is one of the most heavily used features on the site and have proven to be a simple way to discuss posts and show appreciation for the content friends share on Facebook. Facebook has [...]

Windows Live Microsoft has announced Updates to the free Windows Live Essentials suite of software and services make it easier to communicate and share from your Windows PC. Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 suite includes features like Windows Live Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, Messenger, Sync, Movie Maker, Bing Bar and Family Safety among others. We bring you in detail some of the features. Windows [...]

Twitter has added a new feature called  “You both follow’, this feature lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. This was revealed in a  Tweet posted by Twitter engineer Nick Kallen. “We’re testing the “You both follow” feature (in the profile sidebar). Only 10% of people have it for now.”,he tweeted. This [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air’s Twitter and other SNS (Social Networking Sites) management tool continues to add features at a steady pace that too while its still in Beta  . TweetDeck has released version 0.34.2 which brings the location-based exploration and gaming platform Foursquare  into its fold along Google’s social-networking platform [...]

Image via Wikipedia Social-networking site Facebook joins the list of companies realizing the potential of Google’s Android mobile OS and embracing it. Facebook which already has a SDK (Software Development Kit) for iPhone has launched the official Facebook Software Development Kit for Android, the SDK was demoed at Google’s conference in San Francisco last week.(http://code.google.com/p/fbconnect-android/). ” [...]

Image by deneyterrio via Flickr Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had earlier this week promised simplifying privacy controls over the building resentment over its privacy policies, true to his words Facebook introduced a new set of privacy controls yesterday in an attempt to quell criticism that it was negligent about protecting users information. “We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people [...]

Image via Wikipedia Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare [...]

Stephen Fry via last.fm The immense potential and benefit of mobile apps is now well understood by one and all, thanks to the popularity of Apple iPhone apps, the success story of Apple mobile apps is now carried forward by Apple’s 10 inch tablet iPad which runs all the iPhone apps by default and have seen developers coming out with apps specifically to take advantage of its large screen and [...]