Verizon Announces To Stickers on Mobiles to Spread Awareness Regarding Location Data Being Tracked

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Verizon has announced that it will be fitting an additional a peel-off sticker on the face of every mobile phone it has to sell from now onwards. The sticker will actually convey the warning to each user that the Verizon or even the mobile phone manufacturer might keep record of the user's location data. Additionally it will be mentioned on the sticker, that the users should be careful while installing any third-party applications, as they also have the permission to send the user location. So in order to avoid location information being shared with third parties, they should avoid installing unknown apps.

This step has not been taken in reply to the very recent controversies involving the location-tracking which have encompassed the giant mobile phone manufacturers like, Apple of iPhone and Google for Android phones. It was mentioned that it is a separate Verizon scheme which was under process from quite some time now. However, it was also found out that this idea was first suggested in the response from Verizon to the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus, which had circulated a critical letter to four mobile companies just last month, after they had discovered that a German mobile operator actually practiced the to track users' locations.

Three Sony High-Ranking Officials Bow Traditionally While Apologizing For Network Security Breach

Sony executives have bowed down publicly, according to their Japanese traditions, in order of showing their great sentiments of apology in the matter of the security breach in the Sony PlayStation Network. This public apology was offered on Sunday, as they also announced that this incident have overall affected a total 77 million users of online service, as their personal data has been stolen to one degree or the other. Furthermore, the apology also included the commitment that the company will be delivering free of cost help services for all of their customers.

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The Chief of the PlayStation Dep. at Sony Corp., Kazuo Hirai, stated publically that "We deeply apologize for the inconvenience we have caused.” Hirai was one of the three executives of Sony Corp. who bowed publically for several seconds on national television from the company's Tokyo headquarters, which is seen as a Japanese tradition to display your deeply apologetic sentiments.

Infosys Looks to Make Divergent Acquisitions in Europe and Japan within the Healthcare and Public Sector

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The second best software services exporting company of India, Infosys Technologies Ltd, has declared that it is looking to have a good deal to make acquisitions in near future. The C.E.O. of the company reportedly said on Sunday, that Infosys has been looking in the areas including Europe and Japan and hoping to get an upper hand in the industries like healthcare and public services.

S. Gopalakrishnan, the C.E.O. of Infosys at the moment, was talking to Reuters, just after the day the company announced to make major changes

 in its elite-level management. Gopalakrishnan also mentioned that Infosys will find it even more suitable to find a good acquisition in the new areas which are yet to make their own new markets, like cloud computing. He stated that "Our philosophy has always been that you plan organic growth.”

Royal Wedding Breaks All Internet Traffic Records Boosting The Most On Flower Girl’s Reaction During The Kiss

Several Internet records were broken on Friday during the first royal wedding of the social media era. Billions of videos were streamed live and also recorded to see afterwards, as the actual time of the event was converted to 2 a.m. in the large audience of U.S. and varied even more for other viewers worldwide.

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Even though the showiness and ceremonial nature of entire event was enough itself, still the major boost to the views was observed to be caused by a little unhappy girl and an unordinary hat. Overall complete ten out of ten worldwide topics to form the trend that day on Twitter were related to the royal event and it took no more than few minutes for Twitter to become a royal social network. On the other hand, a total of more than1.6 million videos were streaming simultaneously on Friday at the time of the wedding. The ceremony of Prince William and Kate Middleton has beaten all the previous Internet traffic records which were set on very large events like the FIFA World Cup or death of Michael Jackson. But all the buzz of the event reached its peak due to one little flower girl, Grace Van Cutsem.

Google Talk with Video Released For Android in the Next Update

It has been recently posted on the official Google Mobile blog, by the Mountain View Company that it is soon going to reveal its own video chat software for the Android phones, titled Google Talk with video. Even though three are already several third party apps for Android phones, like Fring and Tango, which allow users to have video chat, but it is the first time that Google’s own Google Talk has allowed Video Chat. This updated version of 

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Google Talk will be integrated in the upcoming Android OS update 2.3.4.

According to the update, Google Talk with video will be able to communicate best with the users who are either using the same Google Talk with Video on their Android, or Google Talk with Video enabled on their Gmail on computers. Andriod supported phones will be able to make the video calls easily via 3G, 4G or even better with Wi-Fi. This in comparison with Apple’s FaceTime is a very open service, as FaceTime on supports connection via Wi-Fi only.