Google Inc made an announcement, quite a sad announcement actually. The news is that Kai-Fu Lee, president of Google China has resigned from Google. Director of Google’s Shanghai engineering office Boon-Lock Yeo, and Google China’s sales team leader John Liu will be succeeding Lee. Boon-Lock Yeo will take care of engineering tasks whereas John Liu [&hellip
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Facebook goes through a few minor design changes
The Facebook team has made a few minor tweaks. These changes are more oriented towards the design aspect of Facebook. These changes which happen to be of minor nature do not affect the core and major functionality of facebook. The changes that have been made are: Rounded rectangles have been replaced with square corner roots. [&hellip
Windows XP outsmarts Windows 7 when it comes to consuming battery life on Netbooks
This might come out as a surprise but it is true. The news is that Windows 7 may be a better player than Vista but it lags behind Windows XP when it comes to battery life consumption on Netbooks. Laptopmag conducted a test by running Windows 7 on a Toshiba Netbook NB205 and the results [&hellip
Discovery Channel app hits the app store
Discovery communication has released a Discovery Channel app that is now available on the iTunes App Store. This app brings a huge amount of video content of the non fiction quality, quizzes, photo galleries, programming schedules and updates from Discovery News. Just when you think that this is all, it gets more interesting. It also [&hellip
Tr.im to be handed over to the open source
Tr.im who has been in the headlines lately. Latest in this regard is that the Nimbu owned URL shortening service will be handed over to the open source community by September 15. The primary reason as far as I see is because it could not simply accept the bit.ly partnership with Twitter. Tr.im realizing the [&hellip
Gmail for mobile gets the outbox feature
Google in the month of April, launched a browser version of Gmail for mobile. One thing which was missing since then was the Outbox. Well that is no more. Google has added the outbox feature to the mobile version of Gmail. With this weapon in your armor, you can determine whether a recently sent message [&hellip
Apple releases Safari 4.0.3
Apple recently announced a new version for Safari, Safari 4.0.3. This latest releases brings improvements that are related to stability, compatibility and security. A few of them are: Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML 5 video tag Stability improvements for 3rd-party plug-ins Stability improvements for Top Sites Fixes an issue that prevented some [&hellip
Microsoft’s Zune HD coming on 15th September
It seems that Microsoft’s multimedia player Zune HD will be officially announced and released on 15TH September. I say this because packaging images have leaked onto the web that suggest and strengthen this fact. Have a look at it yourself. Seems like 6GB and 32GB models of Zune HD will be available on 8th september [&hellip
WordPress releases WordPress 2.8.4
WordPress team has announced WordPress 2.8.4. This release happens to be a security release. This release among other issues addresses a vulnerability discovered a couple of days back. What that vulnerability did was that it allowed an attacker to perform an unsolicited password reset. According to WordPress: Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted [&hellip
Its official! Apple MacBook Pro hard drive freezes temporarily for a short time period
Recent reports suggested the fact that Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops are freezing for a certain period of time. Apple has bravely come out and accepted the fact. Apple representative Bill Evans admitted the existence of this harddisk issue and assured that Apple is working towards releasing a software update. This issue seems to affect only [&hellip