The rumor surrounding Google Drive goes back a long time. After the initial rumors, nothing sort of happened and  just recently the rumor started again. Today, Google has finally launched the service.

As expected, Google Drive allows users to store documents, photos etc. on the cloud and share them with anyone. However, unlike other services like Dropbox, Google Drive has a few other features. Google Docs is built into Google Drive. It means that you can edit, create and collaborate with others just like in Google Docs. Another key feature of Google Drive is search. Google Drive can not only search through your text documents, it can even recognize texts on scanned documents.

Initially Google Drive provides 5GB of free storage. Users can pay $2.49/month for 25GB, $4.99/month for 100GB or $49.99/month for 1TB.

Google has already started rolling out Google Drive to users. You can activate Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/start. The Android app is also available. It is basically just an update to the Google Docs app. If you already have the Google Docs app, you can just upgrade it, or you can install it from the Google Play Store.

Google has also launched an SDK for developers to integrate their apps with Google Drive.

Other players like Dropbox and Box have already established a very strong foothold in the cloud storage. Undoubtedly, Google Docs and the OCR search are key features that the competitors do not have. However, the main selling point of Google Drive will be its integration with other Google Services.

Do you think Google Drive will thrive against the already established competition?

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You were reading Google Drive Finally Unveiled - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 25, 2012 - 2:46 am (Indian Standard Time)

Looks like, the much awaited Google Drive is finally available for users. The entire tech community is buzz with this news that Google Drive - an online storage service much like Dropbox, will most probably be launched by Google next week.

Google Drive - 5GB space with Support for Android, Windows, iOS & Mac

From all that is known to the community about Google Drive, the service would function just like Dropbox does. You can install the Google Drive client on multiple computers and mobile devices and then put one file into the Google Drive Sync folder of one of the computers and watch that file getting synced across all the devices that are hooked onto your Google Drive account.

Some of the features that Google Drive is expected to support in-app document editing and upto 5 GB of free storage space. As of today, neither of them are currently available on Dropbox which can be considered as a threat (for Dropbox). Apart from that, all your documents on Google Docs will also be automatically synced to Google Drive on all computers which is again a very useful feature, currently absent on Dropbox.

However, Google Drive also has its downside. As of now the only systems supported by Google Drive are Windows, Mac OS X, iOS & Android. There is no linux support currently available for Google Drive, whereas Dropbox seamlessly supports all flavours of Linux.

Going by Google's strategy of not launching desktop apps for Linux OSes (for eg. Google Talk), it looks very bleak to us about the possibility of Google supporting Linux platforms on Google Drive. Whatever, it is we are eagerly waiting for the Google Drive service to launch, most probably on drive.google.com.

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You were reading Google Drive Launching Next Week – 5GB Space; Support For Mac, Windows, iOS & Android - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 17, 2012 - 3:34 am (Indian Standard Time)

In this article we will tell you how to prevent the overlapping of two sliders in jQueryUI when you are using the multiple sliders functionality of jQueryUI. Although, there is no such directive which can help you prevent the overlap between two sliders. Instead, you can prevent this slider overlap by using a simple check.

jQueryUI

Here is how you do it:

While declaring your slider in the javascripts, you have to include a piece of code that detects if the two sliders are overlapping. This can be done by simply checking and comparing the current values of the two slider handles. Please check this code snippet given below:

 

        $( "#range" ).slider({
            range: true,
            min: 0,
            max: 100,
            values: [ 50, 60 ],
            step: 10,
            slide: function( event, ui ) {
                if (ui.values[0] == ui.values[1]) { /*checks for the values and compares*/
                    return false;
                }
            }

 

You can also check a demo for the "prevention of jQueryUI Slider Overlap" on this page: click here. You can also check the source code of that page in order to get a better understanding of how this thing functions.

You were reading How To Prevent jQuery UI Slider Overlap In jQueryUI - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 16, 2012 - 3:15 am (Indian Standard Time)

When Facebook was launched, you could only deactivate your profile on Facebook but not delete anything, even if you would want to. Deactivating your account would mean that all the data on your Facebook profile would still stay in Facebook's custody.

However, Facebook has now introduced a new option that lets you totally delete your Facebook account and not just deactivate your Facebook account. So, if you have finally made up your mind to get rid of your Facebook account, then all you need to do is this:

Step 1: Visit one of the following links, which leads to the Page from where you can initiate the Deletion of your Facebook Profile -

https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

OR

https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

The page looks like something this, shown in the screenshot below:

Delete (NOT Deactivate) your Facebook Account

Step 2: You will now be asked to enter your Facebook account password and a couple more information, after which you will get a notification saying that your account has been de-activated and will be deleted after 14 days.

De-activation confirm and Deletion grace period

Step 3: However, Facebook provides you a grace period. Within these 14 days if you want to get back to Facebook again, then you simply have to cancel your Facebook account deletion request and you will be back.

Cancel Deletion and get back on Facebook

You were reading How To Permanently Delete A Facebook Account (Not Deactivate) - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 11, 2012 - 11:54 pm (Indian Standard Time)

If you have been using Facebook for the last few days then you must have noticed the Facebook Social Reader which is a new Timeline app from Facebook that lets publishers like Washington Post and Yahoo! to automatically publish information on Facebook about the new stories you read on their websites.

Washington Post Social Reader

Although good in social terms as it lets your friends also go through whatever you are reading but some may see it as a privacy breach. Since Facebook does not provide a way to disable or bypass the Social Reader, we will tell you about Two Google Chrome extensions that let you disable or bypass the Facebook Social Reader.

Facebook Social Reader Bypass

This is a Google Chrome extension that basically alters the article links in the Social reader and changes them to the direct URL of the articles. So, using this app you do not have to forcibly install the social reader apps in order to read articles on Facebook.

Download Facebook Social Reader Bypass

Facebook Unsocial Reader

This is another Google Chrome extension that basically rewrites Facebook's Social Reader links that take you to the Google "I'm feeling lucky" searches for the article's title. So, this way you do not have to install the social reader apps and also you get related articles for the article you want to read, from other sources.

Download Facebook Unsocial Reader

You were reading How To Disable Or Bypass The Facebook Social Reader - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 8, 2012 - 10:55 am (Indian Standard Time)

IFrames, although out dated in web design, still play a very important role in today's websites. All the advertisements which are served today by leading Ad networks use the IFrame technology to deliver advertisements and without ads, the internet economy will come to a standstill.

Coming to the point of this article, we will now tell you how to reload an IFrame document from inside the Same or another IFrame document on the page. You can also use this method to reload any IFrame window that is present on a page.

Step 1: Give a name to the IFrame document. Simply add a name tag and an id tag. Both should have the same identifiers, for eg:

<iframe name="testframe" id="testframe" src="testframe.php" />

Step 2: The iframe statement is located inside another page say frames.php. Now inside the IFRame page, (testframe.php) we can put the following code, which will just refresh the IFRame document corresponding to that name / identifier and not the entire page:

function reloadIframe() {
target=window.parent.frames["testframe"]; /*Get the name of the iframe to reload*/
target.location=target.location; /*reload the iframe*/
}

You were reading How To Reload An IFrame Document From Inside An IFrame? - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 8, 2012 - 3:03 am (Indian Standard Time)

Looking to tap the huge opportunities cloud computing presents in the Indian market, which is the next big thing for cloud services, Amazon is all set to launch Amazon Web Services in partnership with Tata Communications.

AWS - Amaxon Web services Logo

Cloud services are already widely used by Indian companies already, but the larger potential in the market to reach out to more people remains strong. Amazon also needs to start building on expansion in the Indian market before Netmagic or other such services do, and according to sources has already started leasing infrastructure from Tata.

A source within Tata said, “We know some of Amazon because they keep buying co-location and networking from us. There is only one answer to what they will use it for.”

John Hayduk (CTO, Tata) did say that Amazon was “not there yet” when it comes to completely launching cloud services, but it's doing well till now with whatever it has started on.

Tata has previously partnered with Cloud.com to bring public cloud computing to India in the form of InstaCompute. For AWS, Amazon has already started looking to hire a few positions in India and plans on launching it sometime this year. Local infrastructure being given through Tata will benefit Amazon as it will help in adhering to local rules and regulations regarding data privacy in India.

Amazon faces competition in the Indian market primarily from Netmagic which plans on selling a 74% stake to NTT Com, such that the latter can provide one-stop ICT solutions in the Indian market as well as expand its base as a provider of seamless cloud services through ICT infrastructure throughout Asia.

More recently, Eucalyptus Systems announced that the Eucalyptus IaaS will be utilised in a big way in the e-governance cloud project of the National Informatics Centre to bring IT and cloud computing to every part of the country.

Source: http://www.pluggd.in/amazon-aws-in-india-297/

You were reading Amazon to launch Web Services in India in collaboration with Tata Communications - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 3, 2012 - 11:56 pm (Indian Standard Time)

Participants in Apple's iAd program will now be getting 70% of the revenue from ads displayed with an app to the developer of the app, according to a notice sent out by Apple to these participants. This is a 10% increase in the revenue being shared with the developers, since it was 60% earlier.

Apple iAd

The increase in revenue share might be another attempt by the software giant to get more and more developers to use the service. It already lowered buy-ins for advertisers to $100k and also an increase in payouts. This is after the company made some changes in the offerings to potential advertisers, in the form of clicks-per-thousand offering.

The late CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs had mentioned in a previous interview how the goal of of the ad business was to help developers make money, but clearly the program was doing well, but not enough. Since, its introduction back in 2010, the iAd platform hasn't been quite has successful as visualised by Apple. The VP of Apple's Mobile Advertising was headed for a brief period by Eddy Cue was Apple's VP Internet Software and Services after Andy Miller left, but was recently replaced by ex-Adobe Todd Teresi on a full time basis.

Developers could be motivated by the increase in revenue share given by Apple in the iAd service, instead of relying on third party services, however the entire platform can only get some good progress if sold and adopted by Apple and developers at a better pace.

Source: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/04/01/apple-activates-increase-in-share-of-iad-revenue-to-developers-from-60-to-70/

You were reading Developers to now get 70% share of iAd revenue - originally published on Digitizor.com on April 3, 2012 - 11:55 pm (Indian Standard Time)

If reports are to be believed, Microsoft is almost done working on Windows 8 which is currently running in Consumer Preview and is set to launch it sometime in October this year. Along with the launch of the touch-centric OS, Microsoft is also looking to launch tablets and PCs powered by Windows 8, and this will be six months after the launch of the 3rd generation iPad from Apple.

Modified Windows 8 Logo that looks more like Metro UI

Not just from Microsoft, in fact new tablets from powered by Intel are also debuting at the same time. And according to Bloomberg, the first batch of devices which shall go on sale in October will include those with ARM-based processors, and those powered by Intel x86 chipsets. With Windows 8, Microsoft will be supporting ARM-based chipsets for the first time, something usually found in tablets and smartphones from Apple because of low energy requirements.

Even with this, Microsoft has put heavy restrictions on ARM, which means Intel powered devices will inevitably outnumber ARM based devices. The Bloomberg publication says that there will be only five ARM devices, three of which will be tables.

The October launch would give Microsoft a good opportunity to enter the market for tablets which has been so far dominated by Apple, Amazon and Android devices, since the holiday season sees a boom in the tablet space. And this would in wake of developer conferences being held by Google and Apple, perhaps to launch newer versions of their respective operating systems, making it even more competitive for Windows 8.

Microsoft may also launch Windows Phone 8, a newer version of its mobile OS, but whether Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are going to be launched together is not clear.

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You were reading Windows 8 to be launched in October, tablets powered by OS to follow - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 21, 2012 - 12:36 pm (Indian Standard Time)

Firefox 13 is now debuting the Aurora channel, after the entry of Firefox 12 in beta channel, and the release of Firefox 11 last week. Users who've already started using Firefox 11 will be in for some major changes once Firefox 13 is out.

Download Firefox 13 Aurora

The Aurora channel will witness the most significant changes that will be taking place in the browser, and the channel has in fact been known as the site where latest features in web services make a debut to a wide audience. True to it's reputation, the latest Aurora build for Firefox 13 comes with five features everyone will love.

Download Firefox 13 Aurora

• Linux - 32 Bit | 64 Bit
• Windows - 32 Bit
• Mac OS X - 32 Bit | 64 Bit

Other versions and languages - Here

New Tab Page

After months of experimenting with this feature, normally associated with Chrome, Mozilla now believes it's ready to release its New Tab page which will be enabled by default on the browser. It will feature 9 tiles of most visited pages, with the option of pinning tiles so they don't get removed even if not used often. There is of course the option to remove any tile you don't want, or hide it.

New Homepage

An all new customized homepage has been created, which is a newer version of the Google search page which also serves as the default start page for Firefox. It's quite like the other homepages previously featured in Firefox, keeping everything minimal, with necessary buttons for accessing bookmarks, downloads, add-ons or even tips.

The buttons should come in handy for most users who usually use the homepage to navigate around the browser.

SPDY

SPDY is enabled by default in Firefox 13, under the hood. This makes Firefox the second browser to add support for Google's HTTP protocol, apart from the Silk protocol on Kindle Fire.

Mobile user agent

There is a new user agent for mobile devices such as phones and tablets, a separate one for both to help sites that usually use it to choose between the mobile or regular web version for mobile users.

Developer Tools

Over subsequent releases, Mozilla has focused on providing developer tools, although it's been only a few months since its been doing so. Some improvements have come for the page inspector and style inspector, with a 3D view in the former for better focus on elements.

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You were reading Firefox 13 Aurora Has Support For SPDY, Mobile User Agent & Advanced Developer Tools - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 21, 2012 - 12:06 pm (Indian Standard Time)

The new Mozilla Thunderbird with Firefox 11 is now available, and we can see some noticeable changes and enhancements in the browser. It has an updated Gecko engine, but more interestingly, some major support for instant messaging and chat for users.

While the Thunderbird 13 boasts of these features, they aren't fully complete yet. So while it might now work to it's fullest extent yet, it will in about 12 weeks, when Thunderbird 13 goes into stable channel. For now, the Chat feature supports Google, IRC, Twitter and Facebook, however only Google and IRC seem to work right now.

Although the feature has a fair amount of work left to be done, it is something email clients will probably be looking forward to, with chat being available as a default feature too, a new development in many years. On the other hand, Lightening, a calender app which has been available for quite some time, is still being worked upon under Thunderbird, but will still be an add-on and not a default built-in functionality.

Download Mozilla Thunderbird 13

• Linux - 32 Bit | 64 Bit
• Windows - 32 Bit
• Mac OS X - 32 Bit | 64 Bit

Other versions and languages - Here

Clearly chat is an extremely useful and well liked functionality in email, considering that popular email clients like Google Mail, Yahoo, Live etc. have it built in. Users find it covenient if nothing else, and more often than not email conversations can turn into pseudo-chats too, emphasizing on its need. With the chat feature integrated, getting a quick response will cut down the need to send more and more emails and increasing thread size, not only cutting down volume of email received, but also relieving the user of having to sift through useless mail.

It's of course true that most people who need a chat feature already use it on the web versions of their mail clients or a separate IM client. Most users would prefer having more options in one single app, with perhaps a unified address book or multiple account support or both.

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You were reading Latest Mozilla Thunderbird Now Supports IM, Chat, IRC, Facebook & Twitter - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 21, 2012 - 11:42 am (Indian Standard Time)

The new version of the Linux kernel called Version 3.3 which was to be released about a week ago, has finally come out with some interesting and useful features. The most important of these is the availability of the Android kernel code along with additional feature upgrades for networking and processing architecture support.

Linux 3.3 Kernel & Android

Since a new release candidate was necessary to fix certain issues with networking, memory management and drivers, the release date was pushed forward for the kernel. But now, with all problems sorted, Linux Torvalds is available for download as was announced by the Linux creator.

The major buzz about the launch has been focused on the Android code being part of Version 3.3, a news well received by everyone given the fall out between the two some years ago. Android integration will benefit developers in a major way, since they can use the Linux kernel to run the Android system, develop drivers for either of the kernels easily and more or less eliminate the whole exercise of having to keep independent patches for each Android release.

Future versions with Linux and Android integration will also include perhaps better power management features, says Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman.

However, Android integration isn't the only good part about Version 3.3. The version also has Apache 2.0 licensed Open vSwitch, a multilayer virtual switch. What this does is drive traffic among different virtual machines on the same host, and also between the virtual machine and physical network. Apart from this, it also runs Texas Instruments' c64x and c66x processors which can be smartly put to use for a lot of things such as for printers, medical diagnostic equipment, mobile base stations among others.

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You were reading New Linux kernel 3.3 Includes Android Code And Additional Features - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 20, 2012 - 2:48 am (Indian Standard Time)

Dropbox has changed the way people share and store files. However, if you are a regular dropbox user, 2GB space might seem very less at times. Although you can get more space for some extra price but who does not want stuff for free. In this article we will tell you how to get 1GB addition space on your Dropbox account which will take the total space in your Dropbox account to 3GB.

Step 1: Complete all the steps mentioned on this page: dropbox.com/free. It has 5 simple tasks like connecting your Dropbox account to facebook, following the dropbox twitter account, etc. Completing all the 5 tasks will fetch you a total of 650MB free additional space on Dropbox.

Get free space on Dropbox

Step 2: Complete any 5 of the 7 tasks that are listed on this page: dropbox.com/gs. It is the Dropbox Getting Started page and also has simple tasks like installing Dropbox client on your phone, installing mobile client on your phone, taking the dropbox tour, etc. AFter  this you will get 250MB additional space on Dropbox.

Getting started with Dropbox

You were reading How To Get 1GB Extra Space For Sure On Dropbox – Free Of Cost? - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 18, 2012 - 11:34 pm (Indian Standard Time)

If you have already used WordPress then you must be familiar that a Jquery script is included by default in your blog pages headers. However, this version of jQuery included is always pretty old as compared to the latest versions released by the jQuery project. So if you want to get rid of this jQuery which is included by default, here is how you can:

Just add this code snippet to your WordPress theme's functions.php file and you are done:

wp_deregister_script('jquery');

However, this would also remove jQuery from your WordPress installation's admin panel rendering your WordPress installation totally unusable. In order to prevent that, just use this code snippet in your theme's functions.php file:

if ( !is_admin() ) wp_deregister_script('jquery');

Now that the WordPress version of jQuery has been removed from your site, you need to drop in the latest jQuery script in your theme's header.php file, which can be done in two ways:

• Either download jQuery from the official site and include it in your theme's header.php file

• Or, use this snippet and paste it in your theme's header.php file:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

You were reading How To Remove WordPress Jquery Scripts From Header? - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 17, 2012 - 12:01 am (Indian Standard Time)

Looks like the social networking website Facebook.com is not available currently to users in Northern Europe. Twitter is already abuzz with updates from various users complaining about Facebook.com not opening. This is the second time after a year when Facebook went down.

Checkout this screenshot from Twitter search about the search tag #facebookdown

Even Hackernews is full with posts about Facebook going down:

Hackernews flooded with Facebook down messages

Developing Story

You were reading Facebook Goes Down In Northern Europe - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 7, 2012 - 1:51 pm (Indian Standard Time)

We have recently come across a post which shows how many websites and businesses are wrongfully using CSS and styles to trick users into liking their Facebook fan pages. In this trick, a fake cursor is used to get the user click on a Facebook like Button using the CSS property cursor:none. Thanks to Jack Shepherd who has brought this to notice of millions now.

Less do the users who actually use such tricks to raise their Fanpage counts know that if they are clever Facebook and its engineers are 100% more clever than them. The Facebook Like button has a cool confirm feature. So, this is how it works. If Facebook detects that a Facebook Fan page, which is embedded inside a 3rd party website, receives abnormally huge number of likes in a short period of time, then it throws another interaction layer in the form of confirm.

After clicking the Like button, users are shown a Confirm link, clicking on which opens another new window on Facebook that ask you whether you actually like the Fan page! Check out this screenshot below:

Facebook asks you to Confirm Like Page action

You were reading Facebook Pushes “Confirm Link After Like” For Pages Receiving Likes Abnormally Fast - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 7, 2012 - 12:20 pm (Indian Standard Time)

Everyone who's ever bought an iPhone has always wondered which are the best apps around, which they must try. Be it games, business or other utility apps, the list is endless when it comes to the Apple App Store. The availability and choice of apps has always been a new user's prime concern, who is not always interested in the phone's interface or basic functioning. But finding a requisite app on the App Store has not always been easy.

Chomp Logo

The iTunes App Store has over 500,000 apps available, both free and paid, and divides these into the most popular apps, as well as different categories. It also has Genius recommendations to help users get an idea of the apps they must try, but it's not quite useful at all times. The app inventory in the App Store is so huge, that finding apps has become more and more complicated an exercise over the years.

Aware of the fact that app discovery is not getting an easier on the App Store, Apple very recently acquired a company called Chomp, to make app search a simpler and more efficient task. Chomp is nothing but a simple search engine for mobile devices, and although in look and feel it may seem pretty basic, it performs extremely well. Operating both for the App Store and Android Market, Chomp produces better results for search queries. Chomp's website says, “"Chomp's proprietary algorithm learns the functions and topics of apps, so you can search based on what apps do, not just what they're called." The company first came to light and became popular due to the backing provided by angel investors and venture capital firms, and even well-known personalities such as Kevin Rose and Ashton Kutcher.

TechCrunch reports that the acquisition of Chomp could prove to be extremely beneficial for Apple, and in essence a complete overhaul of how apps are search on the store. Chomp's technology will be integrated into the App Store, thereby making searches for apps yield better results, and these suggestions could be supported with additional data such as social cues and user behavior data.

The integration will benefit not only users, who'll be able to search better, but also developers who can get exposure and a market for their apps.

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_apples_acquisition_of_chomp_means_for_the_fut.php

You were reading Apple App Store could be headed for major improvement with Chomp acquisition - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 3, 2012 - 12:49 pm (Indian Standard Time)

The forthcoming Office 15 suite from Microsoft will, according to a select few who have access to the Technical Preview of Office 15, have “touch-mode” to help enlarge the ribbon interface along with other UI elements which are there in apps. The feature has been introduced by Microsoft is a number of applications through a “touch mode” button which activates the upcoming “Office Personality” plans Microsoft has had for Office 15.

Microsoft Office 15

The mode was first noticed by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, will not only have animation for a few Office features, but bigger icons and more spacing in the ribbon.

The touch mode version does not completely work in the new Technical Preview of Office 15, but the feature is expected to ease up the process of typing on Office 15 through a tablet device. Although, much news hasn't come out regarding the radial menus in the preview, people are expecting this menu style to be out for the OneNote Metro style application, and not for the desktop versions of Office 15.

The Office 15 applicatons are currenltly in the Technical Preview with beta coming up in the summer, and we hear that some of these applications will be included by Microsoft as part of the Windows on ARM.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2821222/microsoft-office-15-touch-mode

You were reading Microsoft’s Office 15 to have “touch-mode” to enlarge ribbon, provide easy typing - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 3, 2012 - 12:47 pm (Indian Standard Time)

A patent infringement case involving Apple's iCloud and MobileMe push mail services in Germany against a European patent owned by Motorola, as gone in the favor of the latter. A court in Germany had ruled that Apple infringed on Motorola's patent and that the services in question must be halted in Germany immediately.

Apple halts iCloud push services in Germany

Apple has released a new support document on its German website, confirming that the company is for now halting iCloud and push mail services for people within the German territory. The support document also gives users instructions on setting up email which will be delivered at regular intervals. While iCloud services are said to have been discontinued only within Germany, MobileMe will be disabled till any further notice from Apple.

The lawsuit against Apple was filed by Motorola in April 2011, resulting in the above changes in the German operations of iCloud and MobileMe. The ruling given by Judge Andreas Voss of the Mannheim Regional Court stated that Apple had infringed on Motorola's EP 0847654 (B1).

The patent was regarding a "multiple pager status synchronization system and method," and Motorola was thus given a preliminary injunction and exercised its right to enforce the patent with a 100 million euro bond. Although Apple will most probably be appealing against the ruling, for now iCloud and MobileMe will not be available for those in or traveling to Germany.

Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/24/apple-halts-icloud-push-services-in-germany/

You were reading Motorola wins patent infringement case against Apple - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 3, 2012 - 12:46 pm (Indian Standard Time)

A new study by Pew has revealed that people on social networks are now beginning to recognize and use the privacy settings provided, especially on Facebook to avoid unwanted friend requests and people on their friend lists. In other words, users are now becoming more selective and unfriending on Facebook to try and “clean” their profiles. More and more users are deleting comments, photo tags or even posts. And this behaviour has been observed more among women and young users, since almost 67% women are using “pruning” tactics compared to 58% men.

Facebook Unfrending On The Rise?

The Facebook Timeline has made access to past user information much easier, and with this users are finally learning to manage their accounts better, allowing access to only that which they want others to see. The fact that social networks particularly Facebook have taken over people's lives proves that better privacy management needs to be in place, so the world sees the personality a user wishes to show.

In terms of profile visibility stats, almost 58% social network users have set their profiles to “Friends only”, while 19% have set it as visible to friends of friends, and only 20% have made their profiles entirely public. The study by Pew suggests that the latter 20% are power users whose profiles are used for more conversation, or they're users unaware of the privacy options. And for 48% users, managing these options is difficult, and for 49% it is easy. The remaining 2% find managing Facebook privacy “very difficult”.

Gender & Privacy

When it comes to the kind of content that is posted, 11% users have said that they regret posting certain content. And men are more in number, about 15% as compared to 8% women who said they regretted posting something. Similarly, even young users, aged 18-29 have shared content which they think they shouldn't have. By the looks of these figures, it seems that Facebook of all social networks has made us the most vulnerable.

And that's not a surprising fact altogether, since according to the study by Pew, 93% profile owners have a Facebook account, a 20% increase since 2009. Similarly, even Twitter has seen a 10% growth since 2009.

Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_facebook_unfriending_is_on_the_rise.php

You were reading More People Are Unfriending On Facebook – Bored Of Facebook? - originally published on Digitizor.com on March 3, 2012 - 12:32 pm (Indian Standard Time)