Many netizens are finding it harder and harder to stay away from social networking sites and experts have figures like around 350 million users suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). You won’t find FAD in any medical text book but this is true. More than half of Facebook’s total membership log on at least once in a day. You might be thinking that I don’t have FAD and this is all rubbish....

Google is changing the way it is doing its business under new CEO Larry Page and it wants to open up your wallets. With 3 million customers, Google Apps which was launched 5 years ago is helping small businesses in means of Email, Calendar, Docs, and many more. Now, Google is making some changes to its licenses – some good news and bad news. Here is the update received from Google Apps Team to its customers -...

Apple has finally admitted that the latest “LocationGate” as a bug and it will be fixed in upcoming iOS software update. According to the latest press release a while ago, Apple is collecting data from iPhones, but it is not tracking the location and has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. The main part of the press release - 6. People have identified up to a year’s worth of location data being stored on the iPhone....

The much awaited Android Gingerbread (2.3) latest smartphone from Google, Nexus S (manufactured by Samsung) is now officially launched in India. This Samsung manufactured phone features a 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor and 16GB iNAND flash memory. The phone includes both a front-facing camera to facilitate video-chatting and a 5 MP camera. The price of this device in India will be 29590/- Samsung also announced other Galaxy series devices in today’s event....

Effective July 1, 2011, Microsoft has decided to increase retail price of its Certifications Exams. The price increase will vary from country to country and in India, the price change will be effective on Aug 1, 2011. According to the FAQ page: Microsoft recognizes the increased pressures on students and academic institutions during these challenging economic times. Although some of the prices for Microsoft Certification exams for students and academic institutions will increase, the discount will remain significant....

We have seen a classic picture of the legends Steven Paul Jobs and William Henry Bill Gates III in the past – and here is another creative morphed picture of both - Slightly disturbing? Check out this cool video - [via] Celebrity Morphing

Yesterday was an interesting day for many (I mean many) sites around the world which rely on Amazon servers. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), an amazing implementation of Cloud Computing had a major network failure yesterday that triggered a re-mirror of all the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes in the North Virginia data centre. This re-mirror combined with a large number of customers trying to fire up new instances to recover from the network failure caused Amazon to hit a storage capacity problem....

Apple may start selling the iPhone 5 in September rather than in summer according to a report published by Reuters. This next generation iPhone will have a faster processor and will look largely similar to iPhone 4 - three people with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain said. According to the report - “Apple Inc suppliers will begin production of its next-generation iPhone in July this year, with the finished product likely to begin shipping in September, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday....

We are know that iPhone can track user location. But, how many of knew that the iPhone constantly tracks your location and records your coordinates alongside a time stamp to a secret file? This secret file is also copied to owner’s computer when the two are synchronised. What’s so bad about this? The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it....

The smartphone industry is again on patent issues. Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, Motorola - all seems to be currently in litigation. Have you noticed Samsung’s Galaxy line of products? Does they look an awful lot like iDevices [iPhone, iPod Touch]. Apple think so. Apple filed a trademark infringement suit against Samsung last Friday with a U.S. District Court in North California. Apple’s court filing is filled with examples of the copycatting, ranging from product design to user interface....