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White House Proposed The Bill Of Rights

Zeeshan Tariq — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:04:39 +0000

The Obama administration has proposed a “Bill Of Rights” on Thursday that would give consumers greater online privacy protection and could ultimately give the federal government greater power to police Internet companies. The privacy bill of rights does not impose any immediate new obligations on online companies.

President [...]

Microsoft Pokes Fun At Google (Video)

Sara Williams — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:06:12 +0000

Watching this ad from Microsoft was really not easy for me as the software giant has hit Google very hardly in this commercial.

Two minutes of insulting, mocking, criticizing, I wonder where it will take us once Google decides to retaliate. Microsoft has already accused Google of exploiting the Internet Explorer [...]

Facebook Ready To Roll Out New Adverts From February 29

Sara Williams — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:59:45 +0000

Facebook’s soft-derided timeline format will soon be rolled out to brand pages in an effort to introduce a more consistent look to the site. AdAge reports that the new brand pages will be launched in beta with a handful of partners on February 29 and then be released to additional marketers [...]

Future Data Speed Of Wi-Fi Will Corner LTE

Zeeshan Tariq — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:27:03 +0000

Wi-Fi Alliance is a nonprofit organization that makes sure users receive the best performance from their Wi-Fi enabled products after complying to the set standards.

The organization is likely to launch Wi-Fi Certified Passpoint standard that will take the users’ headache to login, enter password and follow other procedures in order [...]

Apple, Google And Microsoft Join Other Three To Devise App Privacy Policy

Zeeshan Tariq — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:29:42 +0000

The California Attorney General announced on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with six companies including Apple, Amazon and Google to mandate individual privacy policies for apps collecting personal information that will allow users to read policies before downloading an app.

In total, the six companies represent the “majority of the mobile [...]

Photo Sharing Is Just A Bump Away Now (Video)

Zeeshan Tariq — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:50:33 +0000

When I bought my wife an iPhone and I personally went for an Android the very next problem we faced was the lack of sharing-the-photos possibility from iPhone to my Sony Ericsson Arc S over Bluetooth. That was really disappointing of iPhone 3GS the one point I didn’t know before I [...]

China Telecom To Offer iPhone 4S

Sara Williams — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:49:30 +0000

China Telecom Corp Ltd, China’s smallest telecom carrier by subscriber numbers, will sell Apple Inc’s iPhone 4S from March 9. That means the company will become the second Chinese operator to offer the Apple handsets on contract.

Customers will be able to place online applications for the Code Division Multiple Access version [...]

Google’s Bypassing Practices Are Igniting

Zeeshan Tariq — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:38:58 +0000

Last week, Google scrambled to deflect criticism that it tracked the online activities of users’ of Apple‘s Safari Web browser against their wishes, by circumventing an anti-tracking mechanism. Tuesday, Google lashed out at Microsoft in response to allegations that the search giant has [...]

DNA Sequencing Thumb Drive Can Help Better In Human Genome Project

Sara Williams — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:28:57 +0000

Scientists sequenced the entire genome of bacteria for the first time in 1995. It took them 13 months to do this. Nowadays you can do it with a gene slinger in a USB stick. Called MinION, scientists at Oxford Nanopore Technologies who built it says that the disposable device will be [...]

Samsung Circle Looks Very Bonny

Zeeshan Tariq — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:38:05 +0000

I have used a wide range of standalone MP3 players but when I bought iPod some seven years ago and I got stuck with it, even it is still in my gadget window functioning perfectly well. No problems whatsoever.

Today I looked at this concept player that catches my eyes at least due [...]