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Facebook ropes in Mozilla VP & installs Live Search, while clearing off a few Controversies

While still largely lagging behind Google and Yahoo with the market share and the search rankings, Microsoft yesterday announced that it had expanded its deal with Facebook and will now be integrating its Live Search right into the popular social network. Microsoft already has a 1.6% stake in Facebook which it bought at $240 million while valuing Facebook at a whopping $15 billion.

[How To] iTunes Store India Sign-Up Walkthrough and Upgrading to Firmware 2.0

[How To] iTunes Store India Sign-Up Walkthrough and Upgrading to Firmware 2.0

A few days ago, Apple released a whole lot of new goodies that we covered here. Among them, hidden, was a surprise for us Indians. Apple finally released the iTunes Store for India and other neighboring countries. This was mainly done so that the iPod Touch users in these countries could upgrade to the latest [...]

The Next Gen iPhone Applications - Our Picks

The Next Gen iPhone Applications - Our Picks

As the release date of iPhone in India is still uncertain I have decided to share few applications that you must have as soon as it releases.

Facebook Looks to Stop the Spam

Facebook Looks to Stop the Spam

How many of you are on Facebook and are tired of application request? Well, evidently a lot of Facebook users are.
  
Here’s a couple of screenshots of groups who are overtly pissed.
 
 
Facebook listened to it’s users and created an ‘ignore all’ button for ignoring multiple requests. It’s now looking at ways to make sure that [...]

The Police in Manchester is Fighting Crime Through Facebook

The Police in Manchester is Fighting Crime Through Facebook

Here’s another one of those innumerable uses of Facebook. TechCrunch UK reports how the greater Manchester Police has just launched a Facebook Application which gives users who add the application crime alerts to individual profiles and newsfeeds.
 
 
Such crime alerts work much faster than others especially for users who are on Facebook because average statistics show that Facebook has a [...]

GTalk on Facebook?!?!

GTalk on Facebook?!?!

I recently discovered that Facebook has added an application which can be used as the GTalk chat client.
 
 
After spending some time trying to figure out the interface and how to go about adding the application I finally managed to get myself to use it.
 

 
What’s interesting is that the interface is completely similar to the [...]