Samsung Hints at New TV with Some Bends and Twists

Samsung recently patented a new technology that could set a new benchmark in history of technology and TV industry. Samsung recently patented flexible display panels that can bend and twist.

Facebook to Acquire Israeli Mobile Satelite Navigation Startup Waze for about $1 billion

Facebook is in talks to acquire yet another startup "Waze" in Israel after acquiring Snaptu in 2011 and Face.com in 2012 for $70 million and $60 million respectively. Waze is an Mobile satellite navigation startup which provide real time traffic data for a particular location.

Facebook to unveil new look for News Feed on March 7

Facebook is set to revamp its current news feed and will switch over to new one from March 7. Facebook will showcase the News Feed makeover at a media event on March 7 at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. Facebook sent out invitations to media companies. The invitation doesn't say much more than "Come see a new look for News Feed.

Why Indian IT Companies Slowed Down Hiring Process?

The Indian IT companies which hire most of the workforce in India have slowed down the hiring process for uncertain period of time. It is still unknown that whether the slowing pace of hiring process is due to Slow growth of economy or for some other reason. 

Madras HC ordered ISP's, Block Links only and not Websites

Madras High Court ordered ISP's to stop blocking the complete website and should block only those links which violates the Indian anti-piracy law. This order has made all the blocked sites accessible except the pirate bay.

Ads on Wikipedia ? You are Infected by Virus

Have you seen ads on Wikipedia, then you PC is definitely attacked by virus. There are many cases reported in which many visitors to Wikipedia have claimed that they have viewed ads on the encyclopedia website. It may be noted that Wikipedia doesn't shows any ads on its website, instead it is run by donations from million of donors all across the globe.

Halfbrick Acquires Onan Games to Port Fruit Ninja Everywhere

Australia’s Halfbrick Studios, creators of Fruit Ninja, has just acquired Spain’s Onan Games, developers of the Mandreel technology for porting games across platforms from a single C++ code base. The buy will let Halfbrick efficiently deliver its games to iOS, Android, and Facebook while making other studios pay it to do the same.

By using Mandreel to quickly launch its chart-topping native mobile games on the web and HTML5 as well as collect licensing fees, Halfbrick could boost revenues while keeping the team agile. Like a clan of ninjas…that dine only on fruit.

Soon, wearable batteries to charge your gadgets

LONDON: Canadian scientists have designed a flexible battery that can be woven unobtrusively into fabrics. Flat, flexible batteries have been connected to T-shirts sporting arrays of flashing LEDs, but they have not been built into the very stuff of a garment. This is what Maksim Skorobogatiy and colleagues at the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada have just done. In order to build their battery, they sandwich a solid polyethylene oxide electrolyte between a lithium iron phosphate cathode and lithium titanate anode. All of these are thermoplastic materials, which can be stretched under mild heating. 

Google’s Bouncer For Android Shows Malware Apps the Door

Bouncer scanning software, developed by Google, is designed to search the Android market for software that could be malicious, the company announced Thursday on its blog. With the success of Android this year, the company says it wants to protect its many users and their devices from harm.

NASA Launches Facebook Game to Test Space Program Knowledge

How much do you know about the NASA space program, Earthling?
NASA has launched a multi-player Facebook game to test just that. Space Race Blastoff poses a series of surprisingly tough questions — for example, who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket? — that cover a range of space-related topics including history, technology and science. There’s even a pop culture category.

New Zealand court denied bail to Kim Dotcom

The Megaupload saga continues. Kim Dotcom, Megaupload’s mega founder, was just denied bail by a New Zealand court citing he’s a flight risk. He will remain in New Zealand’s custody until February 22, when the courts will hear the US Justice Department’s application for Schmitz.

Dotcom insists he’s innocent of the various charges involving racketeering and piracy. His lawyers insist that Dotcom’s company was simply offering an online storage locker and diligent responded to complaints about pirated material.– a dubious statement for anyone familiar with the company. It’s all in the hands in the court now.

Facebook timeline will be mandatory for all, people will get one week to clear the mess up

Facebook will be making the timeline mandatory for all the Facebook users from next week. Till now Facebook users who wanted to have timeline needed to activate itself manually and it wasn't a compulsory feature but now it has been pushed to all users.

Twitter acquires Dasient, a Malware Protection Company

Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers — the company announced its acquisition of spam and malware protection service Dasient on Monday. Dasient will be integrated into Twitter’s “revenue engineering team because they have a deep understanding of advertising-platform security issues,” says Rachael Horwitz, a spokesperson for Twitter. The team will be very valuable as Twitter continues to expand its ad products.

Facebook can make us Sad too [study]

London: In today's world, logging on to social networking websites may be the most popular way to know about each others' lives, but it can also make you sad, say researchers. A new study, led by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge, at Utah Valley University has found the more hours people spend on social networking sites, like Facebook, the stronger is their belief that others are happier.

The researchers claim that the carefully chosen pictures of cheerful faces which Facebook users tend to upload on their pages actually portray a debilitating message to others. "Looking at happy pictures of others on Facebook gives people an impression that others are 'always' happy and having good lives. While Facebook users will know that their real friends have ups and downs in their lives, all they have to go on with their fake Facebook 'friends' is a smiling picture," 'Daily Mail' quoted Chou as saying.

Wikipedia's Blackout in protest against SOPA

As announced, Wikipedia’s main page is “blackened” today in protest of the controversial Stop online privacy act (SOPA). “For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia,” says the message on the page.

Websites Blackout against SOPA in few hours

Some of the top websites like Google, Wikipedia, Reddit and others will be holding protest today by going offline(blackout) for few hours. Some of the famous websites are also writing some huge anti- SOPA lines on their front pages in support of the protest like Google's line says "End Piracy, Not Liberty."

Jerry Yang Resigned from Yahoo

Jerry Yang the Former CEO and Co-Founder of the famous sunnyvale internet company, 'yahoo' resigned oon tuesday after spending 17 long years with the company. He already resigned from the post of CEO in 2008 and was serving on the yahoo's board of directors since 2008. Jerry Yang founded the internet giant Yahoo in 1995 with David Filo and also served as its CEO from JUne 2007ti January 2009.

Transfer Data at Super Speed with Sony's new MicroVault USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Nowadays no one has enough for any thing and thus there is need to do every work fast, even the data transfer from one place to another, and there is Sony to help you out with this. Sony Launched the new Microvault flash drive using USB 3.0 today.

FarmVille for Change: New York Times Columnist to Launch Social Game

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been one of mainstream journalism’s most eager adopters of Internet tools. The Pulitzer Prize winner has a sterling reputation as a human rights reporter, and is a major proponent of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In 2003, he became the Times‘ first blogger.

Now Kristof is expanding into social gaming to continue raising awareness of — and aid for — global crises.

The game will be similar to FarmVille, and will enable players to make micro-donations to humanitarian efforts worldwide as well as contribute to causes in other ways. It’s part of a larger effort by Kristof and his wife, fellow Pulitzer winner Sheryl WuDunn, to rally support to fight injustice against women around the world. It’s being developed in partnership with Games for Change, a New York-based company that creates games designed for social impact.

“Nick and Sheryl’s ideas are perfectly aligned with what we want to see moving forward — breaking the perception that games are only entertainment,” Games for Change co-president Asi Burak told Mashable. “Most of the people who pick up his book or turn on PBS or even read The New York Times are already the converted. What he’s hoping to do with social media and gaming is go to the people who aren’t converted and engage them in a very sensible way.”

Burak said that the as-yet-unnamed game will be played primarily through Facebook, but that the company is also exploring additional platforms. Players will be able to buy virtual goods in the game with real currency that will then go to NGOs and aid organizations around the world. Burak said that players will also be able to contribute to causes without paying money, for example by completing virtual missions that add them to advocacy campaigns or other efforts.

The game is tentatively planned for release in late 2012, to coincide with the PBS broadcast of Kristof and WuDunn’s two-part documentary called Half the Sky. The pair wrote a bestselling book with the same title in 2009. The premise of the book, movie and upcoming game is that addressing oppression and mistreatment of women and girls worldwide will help make life better for all humans.

Burak said that the game and larger campaign are funded by a host of major non-profits including the Ford Foundation, United Nations Foundation and USAID. But he emphasized that they are still seeking additional backing to guaranteed the game’s success.

Expertise from Kristof and WuDunn will likely go a long way toward that goal. Burak said that the couple is “very involved” in the game’s conceptual development and provides input on details “from small to large.” In one example, Burak said, Kristof and WuDunn encouraged designers to emphasize the positive aspects of people’s lives in developing countries in addition to the challenges that they face.

“Coming from them,” Burak said, “that gives us a lot of confidence to strike a tone that isn’t just a serious tone, but also an entertainment tone.”

How big of an impact can social games make on social justice? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Source: Mashable

Acer launches AcerCloud at CES 2012 ,an iCloud clone

Not content with just being a PC and tablet maker, today at CES 2012 Acer announced a cloud service for its devices. Dubbed AcerCloud, it’ll enable easy sharing of documents and photos on Acer devices, but in a limited way.



Unlike Apple’s iCloud, which is primarily designed to sync media in the background, AcerCloud is set up to enable automatic sharing of photos and documents, but only for 30 days. Those files are ultimately backed up permanently on your PC, not in the cloud.


It works like this: You take some photos with your smartphone, and AcerCloud automatically puts them in on a service called PicStream, which can then push the photos back to an Acer PC or some other device. It only works for Android phones right now, though Acer says support for Windows Phone (!) is on the way.

Similarly, saving documents to AcerCloud lets users access them from anywhere, though only for 30 days. And Acer’s clear.fi application lets users stream or download music or video files anytime from the cloud. There’s no 30-day limit on clear.fi.


Acer says users can user their phone to retrieve files from the “main PC” anytime via AcerCloud, even if the machine is in sleep mode. The service is said to use both local and cloud storage together so data is “always available.”


The service, as outlined by Acer, shares many of the same features of other cloud services like iCloud and Eye-Fi, though its 30-day expiry for storing content appears to be a serious limitation.


Are you an Acer user? Would you use AcerCloud? Let us know what you think of it in the comments.