New York technology studio Betaworks has agreed to buy Digg and all of its remaining assets for only $500,000. Betaworks is combining Digg with News.me.Betaworks CEO John Borthwick will become CEO of the new Digg.7-year-old Digg has 350M Diggs, 28M Story Submissions and 40M Comments.
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Windows Server 2012 Essentials beta is now available for download and testing.It supports the applications need to run business and also helps to quickly connect to additional cloud-based applications and services to extend server’s functionality.
Main features:
full client PC backup
access your resources from virtually everywhere using almost any device
easy use and manage of cloud-based applications and services
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Google just released chrome 21 beta (21.0.1180.15) for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.
what’s new in this chrome 21 (21.0.1180.15) beta ?
getUserMedia API- now access your webcam and microphone without having to install any additional plug-in
New and improved printing experience for Google Cloud Print
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Facebook has announced that The App Center is now available in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Initially, the App Center was available to users in the United States only.Now facebook accepting submissions from developers with translated apps for the App Center.Facebook also said that it will be launching it in Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey in the coming weeks.
At Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller announced that more than 630 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold to date – and that more than half of enterprise desktops today are running Windows 7.
Microsoft has released a new 60 second TV ad exclusively to Facebook.This new ad uses the song “Too Close” by UK-based singer Alex Clare.The new ad first shows the websites (vimeo, clipboard, cut the rope, marvel, facebook and twitter) running inside of Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer reviews from Wired, softpedia, new york times, conceivably tech, the next web.
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Facebook is shutting down Face.com’s facial recognition APIs and Face.com’s iOS app, Klik, is also being removed from the App store. After July 20th 2012 Face.com will dispose of the data collect in connection with the use of the KLIK app.
From Face.com Homepage
Face.com has been acquired by Facebook, and as part of this process, we need to close up existing products and services so we can focus on new products at Facebook.We’re working with Face.com developers to transition as we wind down support for our APIs — for more information please click here.If you use the KLIK app, the app has been removed from the iOS app store, and we have more details here on how you can download your data before the app is shut down.
Notepad++ 6.1.5 is now available for download.What’s new in this version.
Fix a html tag match freezing issue.
Fix the sidebar splitter failed in Windows 8 issue.
Fix un regression: folding/unfolding performance issue.
Fix tab context menu in the other localization regression due to adding new command “Reload”.
Fix lower/UPPER case on selected text which contains NULL characters.
Fix wrap/unwrap line position not being kept bug.
Fix xml syntax highlighting broken because of php preprocessor instruction inside.
Fix a GUI bug which shows empty tab row while closing a last tab in a row (in the multi-line tab mode).
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phpMyAdmin 3.5.2 is now available for download.What’s new in this version.
[interface] JS error when editing index
[core] Call to undefined function __()
[edit] NOW() function incorrectly selected
[GUI] Invalid HTML code on transformation_overview.php
[browse] Missing validation in Ajax mode
popup message on build SQL of import
[core] Make X-WebKit-CSP work better
replace Highcharts with jqplot for query profiling, zoom search
[interface] No form validation in change password dialog
[interface] Broken password validation in copy user form
[unterface] Add user form prints JSON when user presses enter
[config] duplicate line in config.sample.inc.php
[interface] Grid editing incorrectly parses ENUM/SET values
[core] More clever URL rewriting with ForceSSL
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Mitchell Baker, the Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation has announced that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not a priority for Mozilla and that the most critical needs for the product are on-going security and stability. Thunderbird is already pretty much what its users want and there is not a high demand for innovation in this field.
Mozilla also said that there are 20 million thunderbird users worldwide.
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