Facebook is preparing to send out an update for the entire user base to give permission to share their geographical locations. According to several sources, the popular social network Facebook has been working on this new additional feature from about a year ago but is being very cautious about implementing it. Facebook does not want the new feature to cause any technical problems to the targeted Ads function.

We also hear that this feature will be available from April on Facebook as it’s rumored in the f8 conference (which happens every year for developers). The meet also hosts an API for third parties, engaging applications to share this information.
So far the company has remained silent and one of its spokesmen Meredith Chin said, the company is still not ready to give information regarding this new service because they are still testing and adapting things.

It is clear that the service still wants to attract more users than losing the existing ones. A few weeks ago, Facebook reached 400 million users mark and also became the second most visited site in the U.S., after Google.

What is GEO-Tagging\Targetting? Here is a funny image from XKCD.

Meanwhile, rival Twitter in December bought Mixer Labs, a company that will support you to Geotag the tweets. The CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, said at the time that the new acquisition of the company will allow users show their Twitter followers from where they are writing their tweets.

Microsoft officials didn’t disclose any of the Windows 7 technical documents to the public, however the technical documents of the next generation of Windows Client and Server Operating Systems is being developed secretly.
We got on hands Microsoft’s technical documentation schematics (plan) and guess what we found? Microsoft is secretly planning on putting together the technical

Twitter wants to solve the SPAM problem and phishing attacks that have been rocking the twitter-verse in the recent months.
Accordingly, it has an announcement on its official blog – Twitter, has introduced a new feature to encounter malicious junk messages or links. To end these attacks, the new service that will try to “detect, intercept

Sharing photos on social media is a common thing nowadays. But the only disadvantage of sharing photos on social media is easy access to download the photos from the sites unlike sharing via email or on photo sharing sites. Here is a new tool called PhotoGrabber that can be used to download bulk photos from

Google Chrome 4 has two extensions very useful for all those social media addicts who start their day by accessing Orkut or Facebook like me.

First is the Orkut Chrome Extension. It shows, all the new scraps, friend requests, group messages, and other types of alerts.
Second is the Facebook extension for Google Chrome. As before, it

Ever wondered how 2 comic charecters would look if morphed together? Here is a pic of Shrek + Avatar morphed together and we call it the SHREVATAR.

A combined hero for fans of Shrek and Avatar. Dowload the Shrevatar wallpaper (1920×1200)
Image credit – Moinid

According to foreign media reports, an independent research firm NSS Labs recently released reports showing that Microsoft’s IE 8 browser is the securest and the only browser with highest performance. The study also shows that the interception of social engineered malicious software, in 2010 Quarter1.

Malware interception chart:

IE8 intercepted 85% of the social engineering malicious software,
Firefox

Now that Google indexes the updates from the Facebook fan pages, surely many companies would start to show promotional support to advertise on the Facebook fan page and track the converisations and all that can’t be easy without the help of the search engine giant..

If you ever wanted to track your Facebook Fan page visits

After the funny controversies of the iPad, here is a quick sneak peek into the future products from Apple
The photo collage shows the release of the iPhone in 2008, the iPad in 2010, next is the Apple iBoard in 2012 and finally if the world doesn’t end in 2012, its going to be

We all know about the free antivirus by Microsoft. Now there seems to be a fake one too… Microsoft is warning users about a new threat – Fake version of, the Security Essentials. The fake anti-virus, known as Security Essentials 2010 is actually a trojan Win32/Fakeinit, which installs itself to detect cases of breaking at