One Policy, one Google Experience to Take Effect Tomorrow

Starting tomorrow, March 1, 2012, the giant multinational internet and sofware company, Google will start implementing its revised privacy policy for a better, intuitive and one google experience. (Click image to view in full size) The revision allowed Google to remove about 60, product specific privacy policy statements and transformed it into one compact, simplified and more understandable privacy policy that applies to most of all products...

WMF and Telenor Partnership Allows Free Access to Wikipedia on Mobile

Telenor, an international telecommunications company has partnered with Wikimedia Foundation to offer wikipedia mobile and other wikimedia sites access free of charge to telenor subscribers in Asia and Southeastern Europe. Image courtesy of Wikimedia blog In a press release published by Wikimedia, the partnership is said to target 135 million customers around the world whose primary means of accessing the web is through mobile device. “The...

Pope Benedict XVI to Join Twitter

Pope Benedict XVI will join the micro blogging and social networking site Twitter to communicate and reach more catholics, as announced by a Vatican official although there is no date revealed yet as to when the account will be activated and officially start tweeting.Image Courtesy of The GuardianHead of the Vatican's pontifical council for social communications, Father Claudio Maria Celli said that Pope's tweets can be reformulated, redistributed,...

Infographic: The Sad State Of Social Media Privacy

Aside from allowing people to connect from one another, building a safe, robust community over the web, another big responsibilty of social media providers is to give users barrier against outside parties that may be benefited of the information they share.This is where the Privacy Policy comes in. Privacy policy is a statement or a legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses and manages a customer or client's...

Spammers and Malwares Find new Targets Through Facebook for Android Mobile App

Today as I browse on youtube, like I used to do most of the time, I happen to encounter an unexpected notice that disallow me to share or post videos to my facebook profile. The notice says:Until now I keep wondering how it happened until I read one of the headlines on my Google News and Weather app regarding the mobile malware spreading over targeting Android OS users through Facebook app!This is alarming in a way that the youtube as well as facebook...

Google Docs for Android Updates Released!

There are new and improved ways to increase overall productivity over your documents on-the-go as Google Docs developers released its updates on  Google Docs for Android today, available now in the Android Market.Major updates include the enhanced user-interface which now allow users to pinch to zoom and focus on a specific paragraph or see the whole document at a glance and the added rich text formatting so users can do things like creating...

Practical Tips to Secure Your Android Device

Mobile Malware has been very alarming since that last quarter of 2011 and the number of 'unconcious' victims continue to rise towards the beginning of 2012. These malwares such as RuFraud and DroidDreamLight, two most popular malware variants, invade users’ privacy by stealing personal and other kinds of confidential information.McAfee Labs comparative report about the number of victims of mobile malware attacks- Q2 2011Before you become the next...

A Must Have Tools for Your Windows PC (Part 1)

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