Orkut About To Fall To Facebook In India...
Orkut About To Fall To Facebook In India
For all the grief Google gets for not understanding social networks, people often forget that it owns a pretty big one, Orkut. While Orkut is much smaller than Facebook worldwide, it does dominate in at least two large countries: Brazil and India. But that soon may change. India looks like it is about...
Microsoft to find your stolen data...
Microsoft to find your stolen data
SAN FRANCISCO – A new program being spearheaded by Microsoft Corp is designed to provide a trusted way for researchers to report stolen credit card numbers and other data they've found in the dark corners of the Internet. Establishing that link is important because when a researcher finds...
Web users enjoy full freedom: China...
Web users enjoy full freedom: China
Beijing: Skirting the Google controversy, China on Tuesday claimed that there are 384 million netizens in the country making it the best net savvy country in the world with web users enjoying "full freedom". By the end of 2009 the number of netizens in China had reached 384 million, 618 times...
John Mayer Clarifies: Twitter Isn’t De...
John Mayer Clarifies: Twitter Isn’t Dead, Tumblr Is Just Better. Join Me.
Yesterday, we noted that during a recent interview in Los Angeles, singer John Mayer shared his thoughts about why Twitter was “over.” Today, on his Tumblr blog (appropriately titled One Forty Plus), he clarified a bit. In his post entitled, “Twitter Isn’t “Over”,...
Facebook Considering HTML5, Won’t Talk...
Facebook Considering HTML5, Won’t Talk iPad App
Earlier today, there was a lot of hubbub over Facebook supposedly enabling HTML5 video playback on their website. This would, of course, allow Facebook videos to be played natively within the browser on the iPad and iPhone. More significantly, it would be another big blow to Adobe’s Flash format....
ItsTrending Shows Popular Facebook Share...
ItsTrending Shows Popular Facebook Shared Items
  ItsTrending is a new website that shows popular shared items on Facebook. This isn’t anything magical – Matt Schlicht, a product manager at Ustream, put it together in an evening – “This is a good example of how easy the Facebook plugins are to implement – I’m...
Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Andr...
Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android
Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world — but why stop there? Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 for Android into public beta. The jump from version 4 to version 5 is...
Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For...
Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search Technology
Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Shasta Ventures with Granite Ventures and Walden International participating in the round. This brings the company’s total...

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