Wednesday, May 25, 2011

YouTube Founders Acquire the Delicious Website from Yahoo and Promise a Complete Makeover


After the initial announcement, when Yahoo first declared the news that it is seriously considering to restrict its different Web properties, many shocked by this news assumed automatically that its trendy bookmarking site Delicious is going to be among the first ones to be sacrificed. Despite the 
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decision of Yahoo, that it will consider selling the famous web-service rather than simply suspending it, this idea was another trouble maker as there were very few buyers for the website which caused even more concerns. It was also indentified by a former Delicious employee, that the site is developed in such a way that it will remain integrated with Yahoo’s platform only, which might’ve been the main cause for the potential buyers to back out.

Apple Finally Gives an Official Response to iPhone Location Data File Controversy and Promises Several Updates to Minimize Concerns

 Finally on this Wednesday an official response of Apple Inc. was published in reply to the constant allegations made on Apple’s main product iPhone. It was alleged that iPhones keeps a record of all their customers (or users') location in real-time for as long as a complete year. In its answer the company noted that all these allegations are totally based on misunderstanding and this 
Image representing iPhone as depicted in Crunc...                    Image via CrunchBaseentire idea is sinister and oblivious of facts. Additionally it has announced that it will soon be launching a series of updates to satisfy its customers even more and these software fixes will definitely address and resolve of any kind of legitimate privacy concerns of its customers.
Apple clarified the ambiguity and stated that does not keeps track of the users exact location or coordinates, instead it said that the indexing of the respective Wi-Fi hotspots and/or cell towers nearby in the overall wide-ranging area is kept on record and that also for the betterment of the user itself, the company said.

MIPS Announces To Port Google's Android 3.0 OS in Its Processors for Enhance Performance


According to the announcement of MIPS Technologies on Tuesday, it has 
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declared that it is porting Google's Android 3.0 OS, which is nicknamed Honeycomb, in order to work better with its microprocessors. The V.P. of MIPS, Art Swift, expected that this port could lead to do better and faster release of Honeycomb tablets which will be based on MIPS processors. Whereas, it was also the demand of customers to adopt the Honeycomb support, as this porting to the OS will significantly boost up the speed of tablet development.
Honeycomb is currently operating on MIPS processors internally too, but additional enhancement is definitely required, claimed Swift. He was not much sure or precise on whether how long exactly could this porting take to finish, however he did gave a rough estimation of around 60 to 90 days for finishing the porting with earlier versions of Android.

T-Mobile’s Latest Branded Service of Bobsled, a Facebook App, Gets Abruptly Suspended in Less Than a Week

Just after few days of its launch T-Mobile USA abruptly suspended its newest product ‘Bobsled,’ which was a free Facebook-integrated voice calling service. It did not even have the necessary requirement to have a T-Mobile account for either users and lets any Facebook users to download the app which enables them to call all their online Facebook friends. The launch date for this unique service was on 20th April, 2011.
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And just this Tuesday on 26th April 26, 2011, T-Mobile USA issued a notification to all of its users via a post on their Facebook page announcing that they are suspending Bobsled with immediate effect. The official post read: "We are voluntarily and temporarily suspending the Bobsled service as we work with our partners at Facebook to address their design questions related to differentiating the Bobsled experience from Facebook's own created properties. We apologize for this temporary disruption and are looking forward to expanding the service with other features soon."
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