Mozilla wants to address online behavioral tracking by advertisers with a "Do Not Track" feature for the Firefox browser. – Mozilla is planning to take its own shot at improving user privacy controls online.
The company is looking to add a new feature to its Firefox browser that would enable users to opt-out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers. The move follows a December report from the U.S. Federal Trade …
DBS Vickers Securities in a Jan 20 research report says: “Our channel checks indicated that in Nov/Dec, the India handset market was plagued with a severe stock pile in the feature phone segment (Longcheer’s key products) due to: (1) weak sell through during Deepavali; and (2) smartphone’s cannibalisation of the low to mid range feature phones.
Facebook for Feature Phones is a mobile app designed to provide users without smartphones easier access to their social network information. – Facebook Jan. 19 rolled out a new mobile application to
allow people with feature phones to access the social network on the go without
incurring data charges.
Built in conjunction with mobile app specialist
Snaptu, Facebook for Feature Phones aims to approximate
the user experience of smartph…
Facebook has backtracked over a new feature that would have shared users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers with developers of applications on the popular social networking site. Facebook announced the change late Monday night just three days after the introduction of the new feature was met with howls of protest from privacy advocates. The new [...]
If you remember, I had mentioned muting conversations as the first feature in my very popular killer Gmail features you might not know post. A number of commentators were delighted to discover this useful, and somewhat under-the-radar Gmail feature. Now, while the “mute” feature has always been good at stopping distracting chain conversation threads from [...]
In project management software Hidden Mode feature becomes most important features for creating and managing a project. Normally people do not aware about this feature. Only few companies are providing this feature on their project management software tool.
Apple’s next-generation iPad will feature front- and rear-facing cameras and possibly an SD card slot, if alleged photos of its case are to be believed. – Almost exactly a year after rumors about the first iPad began to reach
critical mass, a fresh round of whispering suggests history will repeat itself
with the next-generation iPad, widely expected to debut early in 2011.
One of the more persistent rumors is that the next iPad will feature front-…
Microsoft is building a Tracking Protection List feature into Internet Explorer 9. Here’s how it works. – Microsoft announced plans today to add new protection to block tracking in the upcoming version of Internet Explorer.
In IE9, Microsoft plans
to implement a TPL (Tracking Protection List), following up on a quot;Do
Not Track quot; proposal being pushed by the Federal Trade Commission. Last
week…
Rumours are abuzz that the cast of hit Fox show ”Glee’ will perform Michael Jackson”s “Thriller” in their post-Super Bowl episode. The song, though, will be performed as a “mash-up” — it”ll be combined with another song that hasn”t yet been chosen, reports the New York Post. The “Glee” episode in question won”t be a [...]
With its new Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2, Microsoft adds three new capabilities for developers: Silverlight app testing, test playback on Firefox and a coded UI test editor. – Microsoft
has released Visual
Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2, which provides new testing functionality to the
Visual Studio platform for applications built with Microsoft’s Silverlight
technology and more.
Brian
Harry, a Microsoft technical fellow and product unit manager for Microsoft Team
Fou…
Seems like the folks at Google are convinced that search, like it is now, isn’t enough and they need to do more. The way Google is rolling out search enhancements this year, most of them being significant ones, it is evident that Google isn’t complacent of its search monopoly and understands that there are potential [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took to the stage at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters Oct. 20 and introduced two updates to the MacBook Air that he said will "change the way we think about notebooks." Like the iPad, the new notebooks rely on SSD (solid-state disk) flash storage, which is 90 percent smaller and lighter than a hard drive and enabled Apple to build notebooks more robust than a typical netbook. They also have instant-on capabilities, a weight of just 2.3 pounds in the case of the 11-inch model and a body that’s just 0.11 inches at its thinnest point. Included in both models are Intel Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidia graphics. Jobs saved the MacBook Air introductions for last, however, using the first hour of the event to introduce iLife ’11; the next version of the Apple operating system, OS X Lion; and FaceTime for Mac. Within the next 90 days, Apple will also launch The Mac App Store a desktop-geared version of the app-buying experience that has become an industry standard for mobile devices. Gushing over the MacBook Air, which he called "gorgeous," "stunning" and "amazingly thin," Jobs said, "It’s like nothing we’ve ever created before." – Â …
Facebook users skittish about using their real password on public computers can now get a one-time password sent to their mobile phones. – Facebook has added a one-time password feature as part of an effort to
address account security.
The social network site is gradually rolling out the ability to have
Facebook text a one-time password to users
concerned about working on machines other than their normal computers, such
as public …
Citrix Online jumped into the video collaboration space with the introduction of the HDFaces technology for its GoToMeeting and GoToTraining offerings. – Citrix Online is bringing video capabilities to its online collaboration offerings, a move that will bring it up to par with rivals such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom.
At the Citrix Synergy show in Berlin Oct. 6, officials with Citrix Online a six-year-old division of Citrix System…
Amazon has added a new database copying feature for MySQL database instances. – Amazon Web Services is offering a new feature for the Amazon
Relational Database Service to help MySQL database deployments
scale to meet performance demands on high-traffic Web applications.
AWS runs cloud computing services for Amazon. According to the
company, the feature dubbed Read Replica…
Facebook is rolling out a security control that enables users to remotely log out of an active session from a different machine. The feature extends controls added in May to prevent unauthorized activity. – Facebook is updating security on its site to bolster protections added in
May relating to user log-ins.
This time, Facebook is giving users the ability to log out of any Facebook
session they may have left active on another computer or device. For example,
if a user logs into Facebook on a frien…
Security researchers at Zscaler say many organizations are leaving themselves open to corporate espionage via the WebScan feature included in HP’s all-in-one printers. – Research from Zscaler has exposed how a feature in Hewlett-Packard’s all-in-one
printers can be abused remotely to steal scanned documents.
The feature, WebScan, allows users to remotely scan a document and
have an image of the document sent from the scanner to their Web browser.
Unfortunate…
Google August 30 launched Gmail Priority Inbox to help users designate some messages as more important than others. Google is joining intelligent inbox startups such as Gist, Xobni and Liaise. – Google joined the raft of startups offering tools to better organize and prioritize e-mail messages August 30 with Gmail Priority Inbox.
Priority Inbox, a new beta Gmail feature users must opt in to use, lets users designate some messages as more important than others at a time when users are buckl…
Apple TV could be renamed iTV, according to an unnamed source quoted by tech blog Engadget, and feature the ability to run apps. Although Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook once referred to Apple TV as the companys "hobby," the rise of Google TV could goad Apple into devoting more resources to the segment. – Apple TV will soon be renamed iTV, according to the latest
rumors circulating online, and leverage a new iTunes streaming service for
content.
Those
rumors come courtesy of Engadget,
which claims a trusted but unnamed source
in the matter. That source also suggested that, thanks to an
un…
Lenovo engineers “sweated the small stuff” on the new M70e and A70 ThinkCentre towers, slimming their facades, increasing ergonomic efficiency and shaving power use by 15 percent. – Lenovo is launching two new ThinkCentre towers, the enterprise entry-level
M70e and an A70 for quot;growing businesses looking for a boost in processing,
memory and graphics, quot; the company said in a blog post.
With both PC towers, Lenovo reportedly, against popular convention, sweated
the …
