Facebook Expresses Willingness To Reveal Details Of Stored Data

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Friday, February 10th, 2012

Facebook has shown willingness to reveal enough details pertaining to the kind of user information it stores. This follows a push by a student privacy group based in Australia. The group has consistently insisted that Facebook should disclose the details and be in perfect conformity to the privacy laws of Europe. Seemingly under pressure, Facebook [...]

Twitter adds right to left language support

Posted by Entertainment, Telecommunications Thursday, January 26th, 2012

The Twitter Translation Center is working on a language support for those languages that are written and read from right to left. This was revealed in a blog post by Twitter which indicates that Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi will be the first four languages to be worked on. The micro-bloging giant is already available [...]

Novell’s lawsuit against Microsoft dismissed

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Monday, December 19th, 2011

A US $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has been dismissed by a Salt Lake court following failure by the jury to arrive at a verdict. In the lawsuit, the multinational software and services firm Novell had accused Microsoft of leading it (Novell) into creating WordPerfect, the once famous writing software for Windows 95, only [...]

Student from New York admits hacking into Facebook

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Thursday, December 15th, 2011

A student from New York has accepted he did a Facebook hack that prosecutors have described as ‘most effective and egregious example of hacking..’, the Telegraph reported on Thursday. The student, Glenn Steven Mangham, age 26, pleaded guilty to interfering with the security of Facebook between April and May 2011. The case was heard in [...]

Microchip co-inventor Robert Noyce honored with Google Doodle

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Google commemorated what would have been the late Robert “Bob” Noyce’s 84th birthday with an appropriate version of its doodles – the Google logo on a microprocessor- on its homepage. Noyce, affectionately referred to as “mayor of Silicon Valley,” was credited with the co-invention of the integrated circuit, which led to the development of microprocessors [...]

Twitter effects updates on BlackBerry App

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Friday, December 9th, 2011

Twitter has made updates on its official BlackBerry App platform, adding more support features for multiple accounts among others. The app, which has been in beta for a long period, is freely available as an update from the BlackBerry App World. It contains new features including the ability for users to share tweets with BBM™ [...]

Mozilla recruiting mobile engineers

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Mozilla, the not for profit organization that manages Firefox, is reportedly hiring engineers to specifically focus on the mobile platform that is quickly growing and largely dominated by commercial corporations such as Google and Microsoft. Before Mozilla was founded back in 1998, the browsing market was ruled by Internet Explorer which controlled over 90% of [...]

Chrome could be catching on Firefox

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Chrome, the Google powered browser, is apparently catching on Firefox as the second most used browser in the global browsing market. Some industry analysts and firms focused on monitoring the browsing trends across the world have indicated that Chrome is increasingly gaining prominence among internet users, and is now projected to be at the verge [...]

Windows Phone Turned Xbox Remote Controller

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Monday, December 5th, 2011

You can now use your sleek Windows Phone as a remote controller for your Xbox 360 thanks to a new app update on the dashboard. The application which is dubbed, “Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone” will not just act as a remote controller via your Windows smartphone, but will also enable users to filter through [...]

AT&T Breakup With T-Mobile Costs $4 Billion

Posted by Featured, Telecommunications Friday, November 25th, 2011

When AT&T filed for a merger with T-Mobile via the FCC, they probably didn’t anticipate a change of heart, and an expensive one at that. Following the AT&T application for a merger through the Federal Communications Commission in what would be a major deal worth $39 billion, AT&T later sought to withdraw the application and [...]

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