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Official Twitter Add-on Brings Twitter Search to the Mozilla Firefox

Twitter has released the Twitter Address Bar Search add-on to make it easy to complete Twitter searches in Firefox. With Twitter Address Bar Search, users can discover richer and more relevant Twitter search results directly from the Firefox Awesome Bar (Address Bar). The add-on makes searching Twitter in Firefox a snap. You can search for #hashtags [...]

Google is using search patterns about dengue fever

Google is using search patterns about dengue fever in an attempt to help health officials prepare for outbreaks. It hopes to develop an early-warning system by monitoring dengue-related search terms by users in Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Singapore. Google said that its results are collected in real-time, whereas official data can take weeks to [...]

Gmail Introducing the people widget

Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you communicate about.  it can be helpful to view relevant information in context, which is why over the next two weeks we’re rolling out a new people widget located on the right hand side of your messages. The people widget [...]

Mozilla Firefox, NVIDIA and YouTube Bring 3D HTML5 Video to the Web

Mozilla, NVIDIA and YouTube announced support for 3D HTML5 video, available exclusively in Firefox. You can find the announcement here and read more details from Mozilla Director of Platform Product Management, Chris Blizzard, here. Below is an excerpt from the blog post. Starting with Firefox 4, WebM videos encoded with 3D data will be displayed in high-quality [...]

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Libcloud as a Top-Level Project

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is pleased to announce that Apache Libcloud has graduated from the Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Libcloud is an Open Source Python library that provides a vendor-neutral interface to cloud provider APIs. The current version of Apache Libcloud includes backend drivers for more than twenty leading providers [...]

TweetDeck team has joined Twitter

In a blog Twitter confirmed that its has accrued TweetDeck.  This acquisition is an important step forward for Twitter. TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about. TweetDeck is a great example of a third-party developer that designed tools for the incredibly important audience [...]

Skype is not working – Hit by global service crash

From yesterday we are not able to login to Skype.  But some times we are able to login and again it crashed. As per BBC it says skype is hit by global service crash waiting for more reposrs

CloudFlare Free CDN – Organic traffic dropped almost 70%

Two weeks back i moved to CloudFlare and everything was working fine. suddenly one day morning my site was not loading and i checked and found that there are some issues with w3 cache and cleared the cache and started working. few days later my Organic traffic dropped almost 70%. And also i noticed one [...]

Cookiejacking – IE’s latest security risk

A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp’s widely used Internet Explorer  browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access Facebook, Twitter and other websites. He calls the technique “cookiejacking.” “Any website. Any cookie. Limit is just your imagination,” said Rosario Valotta, an independent Internet security researcher based in Italy. [...]

Google Joins Cloud2 Commission Examining Cloud Computing

Google believe the Internet is a rich platform for innovation and that when organizations fully adopt online services (what we call “100% web”) they dramatically improve productivity and reduce their costs. In order to advance these interests, we work closely with similarly minded groups to advance this common goal and to enable innovation. To that [...]

How to Make financial comparisons easy with Google Advisor

Financial decisions may be some of the most difficult decisions we face—whether it’s finding the right credit card or understanding the impact of paying an extra point on a mortgage. And these days, it seems like we have more financial options than ever. Google Advisor is designed especially to help you make these difficult financial [...]

Intel touts power-saving chip focus

Intel’s CEO says his company’s focus is shifting toward power-saving chips as smartphones and tablets account for a rising share of the computer market. Intel will aim for power consumption of 15 watts as a midpoint. Now, the midpoint for chips for laptops is around 35 watts. Paul Otellini’s comments Tuesday at an investor conference [...]

Sony finds another security flaw

NEW YORK – Sony Corp has shut down a website set up to help millions of users affected by April’s massive data breach after finding a “security hole”. The site had been designed to help 77 million users of its PlayStation Network reset their passwords after finding the security weakness. he issue, which Sony alerted [...]

Craigslist moving to MongoDB

Mongo DB is a new age no SQL datastore which is gaining traction. Mongo DB is also opensource (http://www.mongodb.org/) . MongoDB is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database. Written in C++. The NoSQL data store is now being used to archive billions of records at Craigslist, the popular classifieds and job posting community that [...]

Start integrate performance analysis with Page Speed Online API

Google release page speed online and now thay have come up with an API for page speed by which you can able to integrate performance analysis very simply in their command-line tools and web performance dashboards. Google have provided a getting started guide that helps you to get up and running quickly, understand the API, and start [...]