If you don’t know, Facebook has some restrictions for updating its Facebook status. You cannot type in more than 420 characters as an update. Thankfully this is 3 times more than Twitter’s character limit of 140 per tweet. If you try updating more than 420 characters, you will be greeted with an error.

Thanks Keith!

Apple never fails to deem its product as a “cool gadget” on TV as that’s what most non-techie’s call it. It looks nice, has multitouch and many applications. That’s what all the non-geeks know because that’s what Apple is showing in it’s ads.

History has proven that Apple rocks all the TV commercials, *cough* Apple has loads of Anti-Windows Commercials airing too *cough*, and Apple does it again.

Here’s a neat commercial which gives a flow of features available in the iPad (though it doesn’t tell you which features are missing which it should according to Consumer Rights) and teaches you how to position your iPad while using it Video after break.

If the App ever gets approved then users would be able to experience internet six times faster than the current speed offered by iPhone’s default internet browsing tool, Safari. At SXSW (South by Southwest interactive event) Opera Spokesperson, Thomas Ford gave a glance of the app which is in development to CNN.

Ford said that the App will be submitted for approval in few weeks. Now the biggest question, will Apple ever approve this App? We had a long discussion on this same issue when a rumor had just struck that Mozilla was also making a browser app for iPhone. Readers said that Apple won’t ever approve such an application because the story would end with Apple getting a new competitor for it’s default browser, Safari on it’s device itself. We also referred to the Apple’s submission guidelines which are in favor of the Cupertino Based Company and say that no app will be accepted if it duplicates iPhone’s existing function.

Opera Mini was publicized, a “lot” and seriously a “lot” for a unapproved app. When asked why, the company said this would force Apple to have no choice but to submit to the will of consumers and approve the app, which seems unlikely to happen especially after the iPad launch which left millions of potential consumers unsatisfied and maybe if you remember the Google Voice App Case too!

Opera argues that Mini and Safari are different, saying Opera Mini is quicker at downloading regular Internet pages while Safari’s design makes it more apt for more data-intensive functions, such as editing a Google document.

Opera’s process involves running Web pages through their servers, stripping away all but the most essential data so the pages load quickly.

If Apple disapproves this App, which i think it mostly will, it will end up losing another friend and having it join the alliance of the existing enemies and to name a few, Google and Adobe

Google has seen immense growth, poking it’s nose in each and every sector, healthcare, biotech, cleantech, software, news delivery, books and nearly everything.

Google is very hungry. It wants to capture everything that belongs to you, your entire digital life. From Email to health records online, from entertainment to books, Google wants to know everything about you. It wants to track your online activity and store it for 18 months. Google Buzz breached privacy also, Google Maps has been under a lawsuit for containing unwanted images of people vomiting and naked children.

Google wants to know everything about you. But why? 97% of Google’s revenue is sourced from Advertising and Google wants to know more about you so that it can target you with right types of ads and get more conversions and high numbers on it’s yearly revenue score cards.

Despite people talking about the missing camera and multi-tasking, Apple sold well over 90,000 iPads in the first six hours of pre-orders which they will ship in April.

Investor Village’s AAPL Sanity Board have rolled out their own sales figures based on their calculations and estimates. They claim to have found out Apple’s sales figures, by putting down their order numbers on Google Spreadsheet. By 11:05 a.m. ET they had 15 confirmations with estimates as high as 74,000 products sold but we are not sure if these are just iPad sales or they start from 0 or not.

“51,000 orders in two hours,” announced Victor Castroll shortly after noon. He’s an analyst with Valcent Financial Group and an AAPL Sanity member who, with the blogger-analyst who calls himself deagol, has been monitoring the spreadsheet.

At 4:21 p.m E.T Victor shoots a update, “We’re at about 91k in six hours”. If this is true, then it’s Party time for Mr. Jobs. Frankly, the not-so-remarkable product had received just too much buzz and they did successfully capture as many as consumers in so less time, if the reports are found to be true.

We still strongly believe that this isn’t the success which a company would want, atleast not Apple. They would be concerned with User Satisfaction more (you can obviously say that looking at Apple’s Branding techniques) and so the real reports of Pass or Fail will be coming after the iPads are shipped and people have used them.

[Via Cnn Money]

But this recently has taken a turn and as been contributing to a lot of Spam and phishing taking place on Twitter via Direct Messages because the biggest advantage of having a shortened URL is that you can hide the destination location of the url so people can be fooled easily by describing the link with some text giving a misinterpretation of what it would lead to while, it leads to some poker or a warez website which is a scam or something.

From now, all the direct messages and Email Notifications from Twitter will have links shortened from Twt.tl and this will help Twitter monitor URLs and prevent such fishing attacks. Here’s a excerpt from their blog post,

Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.

It surely points that in no time, we will have all replies with twt.tl links too, who knows?

It’s not a joke that humans more than the capabilities look over disabilities first but finally, whatever it is they have to accept it and if you ask me, then Apple has added a lot of features to the iPad and it has focused a lot on not what is currently existing but what is going to be there with you, in your hands in the future and you will desire for it.

If we fly back to 2001, when iPod was first released people said that it was called a big fat storage device for “fat” people to store their huge libraries. The first review from Slashgear also highlighted all the negative points about the iPod which convinced people quite well. Lastly, ask me who won? Selling over 240,000,000 pieces from 2001 till last month, Apple clearly did and they know quite well that they will.

If we see Apple’s iPad is the perfect for everything it does. iPad’s large screen size made it to be called as an oversized iPod by everyone, including me, said that but well it did take me sometime to realize it’s potential. a 9.7 inch is capable of doing things which you did earlier on other devices too, but there is something impressive and un-noticed about it unless you actually start using it. I have often desired the iPod and iPhone screens to be larger while i was watching videos and something less heavy and more portable than my laptop and television. Here’s where the iPad steps in. Guess what else? It does nearly most of what all the devices do, sort of.

iPhone and iPod touch OS being used on iPad was lamented all over by all experts as people wanted innovation. Well, iPhone OS itself was a innovation but it’s true that it has grown 3 years old but it’s always evolving. Amidst all this, one most not forget that whenever something new enters the market, you need to teach your consumers how to use it and the iPhone was as simple, a 12 year old kid or a 70 year old man could just unlock and start using it easily and i couldn’t have imagined for anything much simpler than this for the iPad. It’s a real smart move.

Next on the track. Where’s the camera? I know if i say that not adding a camera was a brilliant move by Apple, there will be people waiting to kill me. Wait, read the rest of this. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad at the keynote he showed you a picture. He said that he wanted to introduce something, a new product line which was between the MacBook and the iPod, iPhones and not a replacement for the rest of the products. Get that right, it’s not a replacement.

That will surely answer all of your questions. Steve Jobs is a shrewd businessman. He knows what to sell, when and most importantly he knows what not to sell. Just imagine, if iPad had multitasking and a camera, people would think twice before going for a iPhone. Also the larger screen gives it a huge advantage over the iPod touch, so if it had additional features, would people buy iPod Touch’s?

If iPad had a OS somewhat similar to the MacBook’s and MAC OS X do you think the Mac sales will continue to be as they were? Obviously not. They would see some amount of sales drop and those people will be the one’s the buy iMacs.

What I have learnt from history, it shows that Apple always wants to sell most of it’s products to one customer at a time, like iPhone and Macs have real tight integration via iTunes and so does iPad. It’s like a family and without any member it cannot survive so Apple is trying to do something like that.

Apple is reknowned for the simplicity of it’s products and I have never seen any gadget made by Apple crammed with all features. The art of segregating is very well known by those at Apple and they know what is important for the product and not.

The last thing that i have always noticed is that Apple would not add anything to it’s army till it’s competitors force it to, like the Video Recording feature to the iPhone. It’s this simple game that Apple always plays and wins, either you accept it or not. Overall Apple is seriously a marketing genius!

Then there is this saying,

If your product is great, it doesn’t need to be good.

Not everything is wireless, most of it’s still under water and under ground even though we are growing fast. Have a look.

Truly, amazing isn’t it?

Picture credits: FunOnTheNet

It’s been hyped a lot, and especially after Windows Phone 7 Series, we expect a lot from the newer and upcoming operating systems. It did not live upto expectations. We were expecting a breakthrough in mobile OS with some unique innovation but guess what we got? Three home screens which are widget ready. They have kept the touch sensitiveness very high and this OS revolves all around it.

What is surprising is that after so much hype and time, we get this? We were expecting something better. Nokia, you’ve got to work real hard! The videos we’ve got are extremely short, like about 30 seconds but enough to give a glimpse of what’s going to be out there. This comes into production in early 2011.

Wow! Awesome pics and hope it comes soon into the market.

Thanks for the Images, Fun And Fun Only