Microsoft Natal to Launch in October; Confirmed!

Project Natal is a controller free gaming and entertainment experience by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 Video game platform. Experience it at http://www.xbox.com/en-us/live/projectnatal/ The latest scoop in the series confirms that Microsoft plans to launch Natal in October this year. This was confirmed by Syed Bilal Tariq speaking to GamerTagRadio who happens to be the Marketing Manager for Microsoft Saudi Arabia. “[The launch of Project Natal] is going to be somewhere in October and we will be in a position to confirm the date at E3, which is in June, but definitely it is going to be October 2010....

May 12, 2010

More Web Industry Leaders Quit Facebook, Call For Open Alternative

A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation about the social network’s perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he’s closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora, a project working to create an alternative social network outside of Facebook’s control. Laporte said he was convinced to make the move by a post written by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, in which Calacanis called Facebook a “monster” and called for users to throw their support behind OpenID and advocates of distributed social networking as open as the internet....

May 12, 2010

Twitter: Serious Flaw

Twitter, the popular short message service has a serious flaw that can impact your feeds and timelines. If you tweet accept @k_avinash, you will automatically be added to that persons follow list. What exactly does this mean? It means that anyone can force themselves into your “follow” list without your approval. No longer do you have control over whom you will follow or who is posting information to your feeds. This works with both native and third party clients....

May 10, 2010

My Mother’s Day Resolutions

Some of these resolutions could be funny but Yes I really want to adhere.. wish I do not come home late and see mom waiting for my dinner wish I do not shout at her when I am in bad mood at work I’m now more than 3 years into job life. Wish I find a way to combine both kinds of work I love and at the same time likely take on more responsibility for family wish I learn cooking and help my mom at least on Sundays Some Quotes which I love the most:...

May 9, 2010

Google Apps To Become More Connected—Adding Picasa, Reader, AdWords And More

I love that my Gmail account can connect to iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family, making the transition between applications seamless and easy. Google is now planning to bring this interconnectivity to Google Apps. Google says 9 of the top 20 requests from Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google. Currently, Apps works with Gmail, Docs, Chat, Groups, Video and Calendar....

May 7, 2010

Visa to Launch Contactless Mobile Payments for iPhone

Want to pay for purchases by waving your iPhone in front of a payment terminal at checkout? That will soon be a reality thanks to a new partnership between Visa Inc. and DeviceFidelity, who have teamed up to launch a mobile payment technology for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS devices. payWave for iPhone According to the release, the new Apple-certifed technology combines a protective iPhone case with a secure memory card that will host Visa’s contactless payment application, Visa payWave....

May 6, 2010

Facebook Security Flaw: See your Friends’ chats

A famous blog has pointed out a shocking security flaw in Facebook that allows users to see the live chats. There is an option in privacy settings, under personal information and posts, that allows you to preview your profile as it would look to one of your Facebook friends. You are then able to select one of you friends and view it, literally, from their eyes. The feature works so well, that if your friend happens to be live chatting at the time, you will see their conversations in action....

May 5, 2010

Apple sells over 1 Million iPads and still Counting!

Apple has just unveiled some statistics that suggest iPad is definitely the people favorite gadget. The Cupertinos have managed to sell more than 1 million iPad and that too in less than a month, in 28 days to be precise. iPad besides being larger in size to iPhone, has also proved to have a larger fan following since the iPhone reached the same landmark after 74 days of its launch....

May 4, 2010

Optical Illusion [HQ] – Crappy malware floating on Facebook!

Ok. A bunch of people that are my friends are getting this video posted on their walls, and it looks like porn or something. A lot of my friends have gotten it. Even I allowed it incidentally and it posted on many of my fr’s walls automatically. Its this lower half of a naked girl (nothing shown!) The application seems to be called “Optical Illusion [HQ]’ and if you click on one of the links it will send out the link to people on your friends list stating person’s name, this is without doubt the hottest video ever!...

May 2, 2010

We are removing Flash support from Apple products – Steve Jobs

Today, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has taken time to write a post about why Apple doesn’t like Adobe Flash. And why Apple doesn’t support it in new products. And more importantly, why Apple won’t support it in new products. Full Article at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Right after this post, Fake Steve posted following comments on this topic in his blog 1. We’re all about being open. The Mac with OS X is the most open environment ever....

April 30, 2010