Pin Itemailprint Google has just announced sweeping changes to its privacy policies that will allow the search behemoth to share user data collected across multiple services, an update that promises to stir controversy and raise a few eyebrows. The new privacy policies go into effect on March 1 and users have no choice but to [...]
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Facebook continues to dominate every corner of the web. In fact, the term “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011, according to Experian Hitwise. This was the third consecutive year that Facebook placed at the top of the annual list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1 percent of all searches in 2011, a 46 percent [...]
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If you don’t think your iPhone 4S battery is lasting as long as it should, you’re right. In fact, Apple has now confirmed it. The tech giant confirmed this week that the unusually short battery life is due to bugs in Apple’s new iOS 5 mobile operating system. “A small number of customers have reported [...]
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Was it just a prank or wasn’t it? Last week, Google got a good laugh with its annual April Fools prank. This year, the search giant “unveiled” a new service called Gmail Motion which would allow users to control their email interface using bodily gestures. Of course, many people were fooled given that this technology [...]
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There’s certainly no shortage of April Fools Day fun over at Google today. Gmail Motion For starters, there’s Gmail Motion, which allows you to finally control Gmail with your body. The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. [...]
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Twitter‘s newest security roll-out is designed to make accounts harder to hijack. It allows you to access the popular social networking site through the more secure “https” connection, as opposed to the plain, old “http”, which is less secure. The micro-messaging site has been under pressure to increase its security on the heels of the [...]
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Have you ever wondered how the story of the Nativity might have been different if there had been things like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and other social media websites around at the time? Well, the folks over at http://www.excentric.pt, a 50-person shop based in Lisbon, have put together a video that’s both amusing and amazing that [...]
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There’s been talk of this for some time, and now it actually seems to be happening. Blippitt has learned on good authority that at Facebook’s special event being held on Monday, the social network is ready to roll out Project Titan. Project Titan is a top-secret e-mail project that Facebook is said to have been [...]
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At first I thought Gmail‘s “conversation view” was very innovative and it’s what eventually lured me into switching my personal email account over to Gmail. There are definitely times, however, when I would rather see each reply and forward separately, as I inevitable end up missing one when there are replies from several different people. [...]
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Google Voice has gone to the next level. Google is now in direct competition with Skype, allowing users to make phone calls from within Gmail to landlines or cellphones. It seems the company is looking to create as deep a relationship as possible with users, now allowing them to have one source for sending text [...]
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Ever had one of those maddening moments where you just can’t seem to access Gmail no matter what you do? Sometimes this is due to a Gmail outage…but sometimes it isn’t. You could have a problem with your browser, Gmail could be temporarily unstable, or your work might block access to Gmail. So what can [...]
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As Gmail is down again for the umpteenth time this year, a novel idea occurs to me. It would be nice if Google’s Apps Status Dashboard actually reflected the real-time status of Google’s Apps. Taking a quick peek at Twitter, we can see that the masses are ready to revolt… While, at the same time, [...]
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