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Facebook 901 Million Users

Post last modified:April 24, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Facebook announced that it has 901 million users,as of March 31, 2012, an increase of 33% as compared to 680 millionas of March 31, 2011.

526 million daily active users on average in March 2012, an increase of 41% as compared to 372 million in March 2011.
488 million users who used Facebook mobile products in March 2012.
more than 125 billion friend connections on Facebook as of March 31, 2012.
users generated an average of 3.2 billion Likes and Comments per day during the first quarter of 2012.
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Skype now available for windows phone

Post last modified:April 24, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

The official version of skype for windows phone is now available in the Windows Phone Marketplace in 18 languages. And available for use on 4G, 3G and WiFi.

Tested with

Nokia Lumia 710
Nokia Lumia 800
Nokia Lumia 900
HTC Titan
HTC Radar
Samsung Focus S
Samsung Focus Flash
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Adobe announces Creative Suite 6 (CS6)

Post last modified:April 24, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Adobe announced the latest version of its Creative Suite software package,Adobe Creative Suite 6 for web developers,designers and creative professionals.Adobe Creative Suite 6 products and Adobe Creative Cloud are scheduled to be available within 30 days and can be pre-ordered now.

Price:

dobe Creative Suite 6 Design & Web Premium (US$1,899)
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard (US$1,299)
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium (US$1,899)
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection (US$2,599)
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Ubuntu 12.10 Release Date

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.10 Release Date – 18th October 2012.

There will be 3 alphas and 2 beta releases.

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 – 7th June
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 – 28th June
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 – 2nd August
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 – 6th September
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 – 27th September
Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.10 – 18th October

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Mozilla firefox 12 final released

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Mozilla firefox 12 is now available for download.

what’s new in this firefox 12?

Firefox is now easier to update with one less prompt in widows (User Account Control)
Page Source now has line numbers
Line breaks are now supported in the title attribute
Improvements to “Find in Page” to center search result
URLs pasted into the download manager window are now automatically downloaded
The column-fill CSS property has been implemented
Support for the text-align-last CSS property has been added
Experimental support for ECMAScript 6 Map and Set objects has been implemented
WebGL performance may be degraded on some hardware in OS X (fixed)
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Thunderbird 12 released

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Thunderbird 12 is now available for download. Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.what’s new in this version of thunderbird?

Global Search results now include message extracts in the results
Fixed Various improvements to RSS feed subscription and general feed handling
Thunderbird now supports add-ons that provide different types of local mail storage
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Earth Day 2012 google doodle

Post last modified:April 22, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Google is celebrating Earth Day with a new animated flowers google doodle on its homepage. Earth Day was first observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.The genesis of Earth Day is credited to Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
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WordPress 3.3.2 released

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.3.2 is now available for download.This is a security update.

Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates:

Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media.
SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins.
SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes.

Limited privilege escalation where a site administrator could deactivate network-wide plugins when running a WordPress network under particular circumstances.
Cross-site scripting vulnerability when making URLs clickable.
Cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in redirects after posting comments in older browsers, and when filtering URLs.
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Google Spring cleaning

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

Google is shutting down some of its services. The Shut down product list:

One Pass.
Picasa for Linux.
Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac and Picasa Web Albums Plugin for iPhoto.
mobile web app for Google Talk.
Google Sync for BlackBerry.
Google Related.
Google Flu Vaccine Finder.
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WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 released

Post last modified:April 21, 2012
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Post author:Manikandan

WordPress 3.4 Beta 3 is now available for download.what’s new in this beta?

Nearly 90 changes.
all of the fixes included in version 3.3.2.

Some new features in 3.4

Theme Customizer with Previewer
Flexible Custom Header Sizes
Selecting Custom Header and Background Images from Media Library
Better experience searching for and choosing a theme
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