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Tuesday 26 June 2012

Has Facebook changed your email address


Has Facebook changed your email address?



Facebook is reported to have changed the email addresses of the users. There is a vast change in the way the user’s contact information is displayed. Facebook has replaced the email address that the users have chosen while signing up for the account. It is changed to a facebook.com address.
The users can communicate with the outside email addresses fro the Facebook email accounts through the social network. This change was first brought to light by the bloggers during the weekend. This was later confirmed on Monday by most of the users across the world.
As per the statement made by Jillian Stefanki, a spokeswoman of Facebook, the site is rolling out a setting on the profile page. The users are asked to decide the email addresses that they want to display on their profile.
She added that, since the launch of the Timeline, users were able to control what posts they want to display to their friends and what to hide. Today, the same feature is extended to the other details that they post starting the Facebook address.
Were you prompted by Facebook to select a username for the facebook.com email address? Tell us in the comments section below.

Monday 25 June 2012


Facebook makes it easier to find friends


Facebook has silently released a new feature that allows mobile users to find friends who are geographically nearby. Dubbed as “Friendshake”, the new Facebook feature is available through a URL - http://fb.com/ffn – an abbreviation of Find Friends Nearby. FFN lets users locate friends and potential friends in vicinity without having to search for them by name. Users, however, need to log into Facebook to use the FFN platform.
According to TechCrunch, the new feature, yet to be announced officially, is available on Facebook's iOS and Android apps, besides being accessible via Facebook's mobile site. TechCrunch quotes Facebook engineer Ryan Patterson as saying that he had developed the feature along with fellow engineer for a hackathon project.
“I built Find Friends Nearby with another engineer for a hackathon project. While it was originally called ‘Friendshake’, we settled on ‘Find Friends Nearby’ for launch (the URL was a little bit of a homage to the previous iteration),” he said.
Facebook's new FFN feature has once again triggered debate over privacy issues. VentureBeat in its report says the new feature may speed up process of finding friends in vicinity, but then it also “poses privacy risk”.
“If you simply leave the mobile app open on that page or open your web browser, you can see anyone else nearby who accesses the page. Just sitting here at my computer, I’ve already stumbled across a few guys who apparently live very close to my address, and chances are they saw me too,”
Reports on the web suggest the new FFN feature has something to do with Facebook's recent acquisition of Glancee app, a location-based, "social discovery" app designed to connect users with friends. TechCrunch in its report had also pointed out the popularity of Highlight, another social-discovery application.
Facebook has of late shifted its attention towards mobile users in a bid to up its revenue and woo new investors. The social networking giant is reportedly working on real-time mobile ads based on users' location.


Google experimenting with new search interface


Google experimenting with new search interface

Google has put on its lab coat and turned on the Bunsen burner for an experiment in refined searches, according to a video captured by a Spanish tech site.
The search giant is currently "testing new ways to refine searches," perhaps including a sidebar-free interface, going by the video that appears on the Spanish language Tecno-Net site (see the video below).
The video showcases a new, more vertically oriented Google search page with the section titles placed at the top of the page, as opposed to their typical left-side position. The video displays search filters like "all results" and "any time" as a dropdown menu at the top of the screen.
Google hasn't confirmed the validity of the video, which is labeled as a "New Google Interface Test" posted to YouTube on Wednesday, but a Google spokeswoman did say that new elements are currently being tested on the site. The company is "constantly experimenting with new features," she said.
Google occasionally runs live tests of new features on its flagship search engine in an effort to keep adapting the interface to users' needs.
"There's no good substitute for understanding how real people, in real-world situations, actually operate," Google's Ambar Pansari and Marissa Mayer note in an official blog post from 2006 that explains the company's live testing practices and "beta"-driven culture. 







iBall launches two new dual-SIM Android phones


iBall launches two new dual-SIM Android phones, starting Rs. 6,990



iBall has launched two new dual-SIM Android phones, in its Andi range of devices, called the Andi 3e and Andi 4d, priced at Rs. 6,990 and Rs. 9,490 respectively.
The iBall Andi 3e runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, with a 650MHz processor powering it. It features a multi-hued notification light below the display, apart from a dual-SIM standby option.
Other features include a 3.2-inch display, a 3.2MP camera, a front-facing camera, G-sensor, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, storage expandability up to 16GB (via microSD card), as well as 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS connectivity.
The iBall Andi 4d also runs on Gingerbread, powered by a 1GHz processor. It has a 4-inch display, along with a 5MP camera, front-facing camera, storage expandability up to 16GB (via microSD card), and the same set of connectivity and sensor features.
There’ve been a lot dual-SIM Android phones (across price ranges) hitting the Indian market recently, with HTC the latest major manufacturer to join the bandwagon – the Desire V is available online since last week for Rs. 21,999.


Dual SIM Android ICS phones


Top 5 Dual SIM Android ICS phones



The dual SIM phones are getting highly popular these days as they reduce the strain of having two different phones. People might prefer two numbers in order to separate their personal and professional lives. Nowadays, this technology has started being implemented in the smartphones as well. This article offers a list of top 5 dual SIM Android ICS smartphones.



HTC Desire V:
·         Android ICS operating systems
·         4.0 inches capacitive and Multi-touch enabled display
·         5 megapixels rear end camera 
·         512 MB RAM, Up to 32 GB of external storage
·         single core Cortex-A5 processor
·         1650 mAh battery  



Sony Xperia Tipo:
·         Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system
·         3.5 inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display
·         5 MP camera
·         Powered with 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor
·         2.9 GB internal memory and up to 32 GB expandable memory
·         Available in black, white, red and blue color
·         1,500 mAh battery  




ViewSonic 5e:
·         Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich  
·         5 inch WVGA Capacitive, Multi-touchscreen
·         5 Mpcamera
·         External memory expandable to 32 GB
·         Bluetooth version 2.0 for data connectivity 



LG Optimus L5: 
·         Android 4.0 ICS operating system
·         4 inches HVGA display screen
·         5 mega pixel rear camera
·         internal storage capacity of 4 GB
·         expanded upto 32 GB MicroSD support
·         800 MHz Cortex A5 processor
·         powered by 1,500 mAh battery



Spice Stellar Horizon Mi-500:
·         Android ICS 4.0 operating system
·         5 inch capacitive touchscreen
·         5 megapixel autofocus rear camera
·         VGA front camera.
·         512 MB RAM 4 GB of internal memory, expandable up to 32 GB
·         1 Ghz Snapdragon processor
·         2150 mAh battery

Price: Rs 11,999/-.