Facebook’s newest charming feature is the ‘Friendship Page’

‘Friendship Pages’ is now the new Facebook stunt, just rolled out to all the Facebook users. This new interesting feature is basically a log of information exchange taken place between two individuals. Friendship Pages feature is being introduced to Facebook users in phased implementation manner and everyone will get it eventually. Wayne Kao, a Facebook engineer, who is to be credited for this feature, built it along with a designer at one of the "all night hackathon" events.

Every activity taken place between the two individuals, whose friendship badges are being viewed, is logged including all public wall posts, comments, photos, events. However, in order to see the public interactions between those two individuals it is necessary for you to be at least be friends with one of them. 

Once again Facebook’s privacy has being idealistic in providing every user the privilege of whether others would view their Friendship Pages or not.

With an unimagined 500 million members and a more routinely visited website than Google itself, Facebook continues to riddle the news, promising more than friend requests and event planning, but also acting as a marketing tool for businesses looking to access the millions of eyes, wants, needs, and wallets, logging on a daily basis.

Microsoft’s Growing Interest In Gesture Technology

Microsoft announced that it is buying Canesta, a small Silicon Valley company that specifically specializes in mastering the gesture-recognition technology, on Friday. Neither company has yet disclosed the financial terms.

It is noticed that this ‘gesture-recognition technology’ is been given much attention lately. This is due to its unique attributes, which include the authority to control computers and other devices through hand movements and other bodily gyrations. It is very similar to the systems rendered in many revolutionary films like “Minority Report.”

Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, shared his plans in brief interview. He said that the company is planning on upgrading the gesture technology well beyond video games. “I’m excited to be way out in front and want to push the pedal on that”, said Mr. Ballmer.

Canesta is known for making special chips. According to Herald Tribune, when these chips are attached with a digital camera, they give all manner of devices a sense of depth insight for the world around them, frankly explaining it lets them “see” in three dimensions.

Microsoft and its partners can now equip PCs, televisions, cars, cell-phones and other devices with possibly the best gesture recognition features, only if they decide to use Canesta’s technology.

Information Leak out - The New PlayStation Phone!

Tech site ‘Engadget’ first broke the story of the existence of PlayStation Phone. The phone would apparently feature 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and a screen between 3.7 and 4.1 inches. It will run on an Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread) , along with a custom Sony Marketplace  allowing to purchase and download games designed for this new platform.

Further the site claims, ‘the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center which is apparently multi-touch, and you can see in the photos that it's still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no Memory Stick slot, but it has support for micro-SD cards.’

Even though this particular model in these shots is a proper prototyping model, believing that the device could be headed for a 2010 release is a little too much to expect. 2011 seems a little more realistic!

‘Data Loss Issues’ - Apple Releases Iphoto '11 Update

Apple released the version 9.0.1 update for iPhoto ‘11 that eliminates the data loss problem. In order to upgrade iPhoto, it is necessary to upgrade the existing iPhoto Library so it can well-matched the new software. The size of this upgrade is 35.4MB.

Some users have faced the data loss problem while upgrading from an older version of iPhoto to iPhoto '11. According to Yahoo! News, reports included losing data from a few images to entire libraries. A few also went on complaining about the lost metadata and events during this upgrade process. In response, Apple considers and states the issue to be “extremely rare”.

The full iPhoto version 9.0.1 update description reads, "This update addresses issues that, in extremely rare cases, could result in data loss when upgrading a library from an earlier version of iPhoto."

Apple has added a support document in the update that recognizes and states guidelines to avoid the data loss problem. In addition to installing iPhoto version 9.0.1, the support article advises that all iPhoto users must backup their library before upgrading to iPhoto '11 in case, it surprisingly quits.

3G Services Provide Internet To Mountaineers On The Peak Of Everest!

3G services installed at a base station at 5,200 meters (17,000 feet) height that will reach the 8,848-meter peak of Mount Everest, this Friday. The base station smoothly allows surfing the Web, tweeting and posting Facebook updates without worrying that the signals would fade away any moment. The new high-speed service was announced, this Friday, by Ncell. Ncell is a subsidiary of Swedish telecom company TeliaSonera.

“You know, I think it’s kind of good and kind of bad, but to me it’s kind of inevitable,” says the famous climber Ed Viesturs, recognized as U.S.’s high-altitude mountaineer. Viesturs has a record of climbing 14 of the world’s highest peaks till now. He added, “I’m kind of old school. But you can imagine the upcoming generations saying, ‘No, bring it on. The more the better!’”

This new technology would facilitate the mountaineers to access wireless internet and make video calls from the top of the world’s tallest mountain at any time. According to The Bulletin, This fascinating technology is permanent this time around. It is also faster!