Ubuntu One for Windows is now available for download. Ubuntu One is a storage application and service operated by Canonical and the service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers.Ubuntu One Free account includes 5 GB of cloud storage and additional 20 GB of storage for just $3.99 per month.
Support:Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (22 MB)
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What’s new in this version?
integrated Facebook chat.
Tap-To-Focus In Camera.
New Battery Saver Mode.
LinkedIn and Twitter Integration.
Voice commands and local scout button.
new search buttons.
Task switching feature.
According to iSuppli ( Market research firm ) , in second quarter Total Global microprocessor revenue market share of intel is 81.8 percent, up 1.1 percentage from 80.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010.Total Global microprocessor revenue market share of AMD in second quarter is 10.4 percent, down 1.2 percentage from 11.6 percent in the second quarter of 2010.
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LibreOffice first anniversary report:
25 million LibreOffice users worldwide.
10 million Windows and OS X users.
15 million Linux users.
over 100 mailing lists.
15,000 subscribers.
136 members who have been nominated for their contributions to the project.
270 developers and 270 localizers
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Flickr has introduced Photo Session. Photo Session is a new feature from Flickr and it allows a group of people (Up to 10 people) browse and view photos and and comment on them together from mobile (iPhone, or iPad) and desktop in real time. When one user moves on to the next photo, everybody moves.
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Today Amazon introduced a new web browser called Silk.And it powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire.Silk cuts down on load times and request times by splitting the workload between the tablet and Amazon’s EC2.Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely.
Mozilla firefox 7 final is now available for download from Mozilla’s FTP site. It is currently not available on the firefox official homepage but expected to be available in few days.
what’s new in this firefox 7?
Improved memory use
Fixed several stability issues
Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis and the Web Timing specification
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox.
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According to Paul Allen (Ancestry.com co-founder and unofficial Google+ statistician), Google+ has 43.4 million users now and Google+ witnessed a 30% increase in users in the two days following its official opening to all users over age 18. According to Hitwise,Visits to Google Plus increased by 1269% last week and received 15 million U.S. visits, up from 1.1 million.
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Today (27th September) the search engine giant google celebrates its 13th birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage showing the five letters of the google sitting around a cake and lighted with 13 candles and 3 caps. The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.
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The search giant Google is celebrating the 75th birthday of Jim Henson with an interactive google doodle on its homepage.This doodle turns user into a puppeteer. select your Muppet with the bottom hand button, hover over the logo or click themuppet. The Jim Henson Company and The Creature Shop partnered with Google to create this doodle.
James Maury “Jim” Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets.Henson, who was born in Mississippi, and educated at University of Maryland, College Park.
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