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Facebook Privacy Concerns – 16% Quit, 60% Consider Quiting – Poll

According to an online poll of 1588 Facebook users conducted by Sophos, almost two thirds of Facebook users are considering leaving, with 16% of those polled claiming to have already stopped using Facebook as a result of inadequate control over their data. But, a mass exodus from Facebook seems unlikely. Instead, members will be getting more interested in knowing precisely who can view their data. […]

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AWS Amazon Cloud Computing Platform Services for Asia Pacific Region

Asia Pacific-based businesses or global businesses with customers based in Asia can now leverage the Amazon Web Services (AWS) suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud. Prior to today, the AWS platform has been available from datacenters in the U.S. and Europe. The first AWS Asia Pacific Region is located in Singapore. […]

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Twitter @anywhere Framework to Tweet from Any Website – Coming Soon

Twitter has recently announced their plans to launch a new platform for adding Twitter experience anywhere on the web, easier than currently possible today via the Twitter APIs. Your favorite websites will be able to recreate these twitter interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com website. With @anywhere service, everywhere you visit, you will find relevant up-to-date tweets, be able to follow anyone with a click and share what you’re finding and reading without leaving the site you’re visiting. […]

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What are Google SMS Channels, How Do I use It?

Google SMS Channels is a service that enables channels/groups on SMS. It’s a free service that enables you to get premium content published by Google publishing partners, Google popular products (Google News, Blogger and Google Groups) and websites with RSS/Atom support for free. SMS Channels allows you to create your own channel(s) to publish content that other users can subscribe to. You can also create groups over SMS to communicate with your friends, family, and co-workers. […]

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ubiQ-Freedom UTM (Unified Threat Management) Software for Free

ubiQ-Freedom is a Free & Open Source UTM (Unified Threat Management) Appliance Software. UTM software provides comprehensive solution for the primary network gateway defense solution for organizations, including the ability to perform multiple security functions in one single appliance: network firewalling, network intrusion prevention and gateway antivirus (AV), gateway anti-spam, VPN, content filtering, load balancing and on-appliance reporting.
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.COM Domain Name Celebrates 25 Years (March 15, 1985 – 2010)

March 15, 2010 marks the 25 years of the .COM domain names. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Inc. registered the first .com Internet domain name symbolics.com. Symbolics Inc. is then a Cambridge, Massachusetts based maker of computer systems and software based on research done at MIT. They signed up the first .com with Network Solutions. The Symbolics.com Web site still exists, but was purchased in 2009 by XF.com, an Internet domain investment firm. […]

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Facebook Opening Office in Hyderabad

Facebook to soon open an office in India to support users, advertisers and developers in India and around the world. By having multiple support centers in a variety of time zones, we can provide better round-the-clock, multi-lingual support. More than 8 million of Facebook’s total 400 million users are in India. […]

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Open Source Data Center Initiative

The Open Source Data Center Initiative is a new industry group announced recently, to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers and to act as a repository and test bed for mechanical and engineering advances in data-center design. […]

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Amazon Kindle Now On BlackBerry Too

Amazon launched its Kindle application for the BlackBerry devices. Kindle For BlackBerry app enables users of the Blackberry smartphone to read digital books purchased from Amazon and synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices. Apart from the Amazon Kindle e-Book Reader device, currently it is available in Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch with a Kindle app and also on Windows PCs. Amazon also plans to release applications for the Mac and Apple iPad, a tablet computer set to be released at the end of March. […]