While Facebook is all about connecting with one's family, friends and colleagues, it has also evolved as a platform for a consumer to connect with the brand or page of his or her choice. On the face of things, the number of 'Likes' that a page or a brand garners on Facebook, goes on to say a lot to its existing or prospective consumers, and as the company rightly notes here, "A Like that doesn't come from someone truly interested in connecting with a Page benefits no one".
In an official post now, Facebook affirms that it will be coming down strongly on fraudulent Likes on Pages. The social networking giant opines that when a page and a fan connect on their platform, they want to ensure that the connection involves a real person with genuine interest in knowing more about, and hearing from that particular Page. "As such, we have recently increased our automated efforts to remove Likes on Pages that may have been gained by means that violate our Facebook Terms," Facebook adds further in its post titled 'Improvements To Our Site Integrity Systems'.

The survey revealed that 59 percent of all Facebook users 'liked' a particular Facebook brand or company page over a period of six months. The report says while the sheer figure should boost the brand’s morale, the connection between a user ‘liking’ a brand’s page and having some loyalty towards them is hazy. Further, the eVoc sightings confirmed that 54 percent of users, who hit the like button on the page of a particular brand selling a particular product, largely being food brands, TV shows, music, movies, and clothing, stated that they were more or less inclined to buy products from them.

Latest reports coming in have confirmed that a list containing 309 URLs, whose ban the government had sought in light of the Assam violence and the subsequent NE exodus, has been leaked online. The aforementioned URLs comprise URLs, Twitter accounts, img tags, blog posts, blogs and a handful of websites, and were blocked between August 18, 2012 till August 21, 2012. In an analysis that Pranesh Prakash, programme manager at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), carried of the leaked items, among other things in his post, he wrote that, "It is clear that the list was not compiled with sufficient care."

An official statement confirms that Nimbuzz has announced its association to power up free Nimbuzz messaging on Nokia Asha 311 smartphones. Nimbuzz, preinstalled on the brand new Nokia Asha 311 smartphone, offers free messaging and entertainment, adds the statement further. The official statement claims that Nimbuzz on Nokia Asha 311 enables the user to stay connected with their Nimbuzz contacts as well as connect multiple IM in one screen. With unique data compression technology of Nokia Browser, consumers can experience Nimbuzz instant messaging without having to worry about data download charges. Nokia Browser compresses data up to 85 percent, making internet experience more affordable for the consumer.

“With over 100 million users worldwide, Nimbuzz is one of the most popular applications for any Nokia Symbian smartphones. We are confident that we can replicate this success story for the Nokia Asha 311 devices as well,” said Mr. Keshav Bajaj, VP – Business Development, Nimbuzz.

“The next billion consumer wants to stay connected on the go. Instant messaging services such as Nimbuzz are immensely popular with the youth. Nimbuzz is among the most downloaded apps on the Nokia Store; with over 40 million global downloads to date. We are confident that Nimbuzz on Nokia Asha 311 will excite the consumer,” added Viral Oza, Director Marketing, Nokia India.

The Nokia Asha 311 sports a 3-inch touchscreen display and is powered by a 1GHz processor. The device is fuelled by a 1110.0 mAh battery and weighs in at 95g. The Nokia Asha 311 also comes with pre-installed Nokia Maps, in addition to 15 level pre-bundled version of Angry Birds. The device will launch in Rose Red, Dark Grey and Sand White.

Here is a quick look at the specifications of the Nokia Asha 311:

• 3-inch scratch resistant capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 400 x 240 pixels
• GPRS (2G), EDGE/EGPRS (2G)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 3.2  Megapixel(s) camera 
• Stereo FM radio 
• Internal memory: 120MB, Expandable memory card size up to 32GB

Telecom service provider Uninor lost 1.1 million subscribers even as the country's GSM subscriber base grew by 0.25 percent in July adding 1.7 million new users, according to data released by Cellular Operators Association of India. Uninor, the joint venture between Norway's Telenor and India-based Unitech stands to lose its licenses following the Supreme Court's orders Feb 2.

Microsoft recently renamed the User Interface (UI) in all of its documentation to 'Modern UI' from 'Metro UI', officially. Documentation now reveals that apps that have the word 'Metro' in the name will not pass through certification, and will not show up on the Windows Marketplace, according to UnleashThePhone.
  A line in the section reads, “Don’t use names trademarked by others... Make sure your app name doesn’t include the word metro. Apps with a name that includes the word metro will fail certification and won’t be listed in the Windows Store”. This could be problematic for many apps such as MetroTwit and Metrogram.

Google Maps for Android application has been updated to version 6.10, as per an official blog post by Christopher Van Der Westhuizen, Software Engineer, Google Maps. The update makes Google Maps the latest Google product to have received an update. With this update, Google claims to have made transit information, that it has been providing by way of Google Maps even more useful. Part of the update list are changes that Google has made to the Transit Lines Layer. The update here means that users can now select a specific mode of public transport - then be it train, bus, tram or subway to be displayed on their mobile map. This way, all other modes excluding the chosen mode are hidden on the map. Understandably, a feature like this is helpful, especially in areas where there are several modes of transport available. Also featuring in the update list is the layout of station pages. Users can now open it by tapping on the name of the station on the application on their mobile device.
 Google puts in its official blog post that Google Maps for Android offers more than a million transit stops globally, and this is across almost 500 cities. In India, it is at Bangalore (Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation Ltd), Chennai (Chennai MRTS), Delhi (Delhi Metro Rail) and Kolkata (Kolkata Metro).

Also updated are region highlighting, My Places and Location History displays. Elaborating on this further, Google adds that when a user searches for a city or a postal code, the borders of that particular region gets highlighted. As for the My Places feature, Google adds that new tabs are added under it. This way, Google claims that users will be able to access all information from a single place "from your saved maps for use offline to your starred places and Custom Maps created on your desktop."  Those users who enable Location History on their Maps will be able to browse through the places which they've been on regularly, complete with an updated Location History dashboard.

To get the updated application, head over to the Google Play store. 

StatCounter have released the latest figures indicating the top 5 browsers as on July 2012. Chrome is leading the market share for browsers. With 33.81 percent of the market with it, Chrome is definitely at the top of the order, closely followed by Internet Explorer that has for itself 32.04 percent. Firefox comes in third at 23.73 percent, while Safari logged in 7.12 percent. Opera managed a share of 1.72 percent in the sheet. 

StatCounter is a web traffic analysis tool. It records all kinds of information about browsers and other parameters by monitoring data traffic trends. Figures released by StatCounter pertaining to the market share of browsers in June 2012, saw Chrome overtake Internet Explorer by becoming the world’s most used web browser. The market share lines crossed ways in May. The following month, Google Chrome had a market share of 32.43 percent, while Internet Explorer had 32.12 percent. Firefox was trailing behind at a moderate 25.55 percent. Internet Explorer has been falling steadily over the past years. Apple’s Safari was at a distance with a share of 7.09 percent and Opera far behind with a share of 1.77 percent.

StatCounter numbers revealed early this year had indicated that Chrome will continue to accelerate, and Internet Explorer seems to be dipping quickly. Chrome is expected to become the most used browser by the end of this year. Internet Explorer dropped from 40.63 percent in November 2011 to 38.65 percent in December 2011 to 32.04 percent in July 2012. Chrome, on the other hand, rose from 25.69 percent in November 2011 to 27.27 percent in December 2011 to 33.81 percent in July this year.

A report by Accuvant published towards the end of last year revealed that Chrome is the most secure browser. Accuvant conducted a range of tests and checks to determine how secure various browsers were. What’s surprising is that Internet Explorer ranked ahead of Firefox in terms of security in these tests. The report also notes the frequency of updates and finds that Google releases regular updates to its browser, while Firefox updates are erratic. Chrome has implemented a proper Sandboxing system, while Firefox lacks one. JIT hardening, another safety mechanism that can prevent malicious code from being run on the PC is present in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox.

For those waiting to see multiple accounts on Android, there seems to be enough evidence for this possibility. So, in the future we could see the smartphone homescreen showing multiple account options like those we see on our desktops. The developers at XDA discovered that even with Jelly Bean you can activate a multi-user account function. A user named zanderman112 shows in a video how to activate this function on an Android device. The device he uses is a Galaxy S III running Jelly Bean. However, it is not recommended as it is not a complete function yet, and wont work smoothly. Still, this reveals that multiple user accounts exist in the Android code readily available from Google.

Currently, it works by creating a guest account with limited access. For example, the settings menu will be limited to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sound, Display, Security (limited security), and About phone. Would the next Android version Key Lime Pie come with this feature? We think it should. The multi-user account may especially be a great feature while using tablets, and in case you share the tablet with your siblings or partner. 

The latest post on the Raspberry Pi website also revealed that Android 4.0 is on the way. The team has put up a couple of pictures on the website showing that it’s indeed happening and they’ve managed to get ICS running on the miniature PC. According to the team, the hardware-accelerated graphics and video are running smoothly as of now. There’s even a short video that showcases the OS running on the hardware and given that it’s still in its initial stages, it’s not bad at all.

The latest distribution stats of different versions of the Android OS released by Google show that ICS has now spread to 15.9 percent of devices. The ICS user base was only 10.9 percent last month and 7.1 percent in June. Android version 2.3 Gingerbread still commands the major share, and runs on 60.3 percent of the devices. Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean, the latest, is present only on 0.8 percent of the devices. The reason behind this low start is that mostly Google's own devices are currently running on Jelly Bean. Most new devices are shipping with ICS out of the box at the moment, which has further contributed to the growth of ICS. 

In its 10-Q filing that Facebook made public this week, it revealed that 8.7 percent, or 83.09 million accounts, on the social networking site are fake. This number marks a huge leap from the number of fake accounts that Facebook made public in March - between 42.25 million and 50.70 million. Facebook, according to this report, is being more transparent about what fake accounts it is targetting. Earlier Facebook listed only two categories of fake accounts - duplicate users and false users. It has now recategorised them into duplicate accounts (4.8 percent), misclassified accounts (2.4 percent), and undesirable accounts (1.5 percent).
Facebook has further revealed that as on June 30, 2012, 4.8 percent of their worldwide monthly active users (MAUs) had duplicate accounts. Duplicate accounts are essentially those that users create in addition to their 'principal account'. Then there are false accounts that can be divided into two categories - user-misclassified accounts and undesirable accounts. User-misclassified accounts are personal profiles created for businesses, organizations, or non-human entities such as pets. These, as per Facebook's Terms of Service, are required to use a Page and not a personal profile. Then there are undesirable accounts, which are created for activities such as spamming.
 The social networking giant further adds that the numbers put forth by them are also affected by such applications on some mobile devices that manage to "automatically contact our servers for regular updates with no user action involved." This activity, specifies Facebook, leads their system to count the associated user as an active user for that particular contact. Figures depicting mobile activity and its subsequent effect on the numbers vary from region to region. The report details further, " In addition, our data regarding the geographic location of our users is estimated based on a number of factors, such as the user’s IP address and self-disclosed location. These factors may not always accurately reflect the user’s actual location. For example, a mobile-only user may appear to be accessing Facebook from the location of the proxy server that the user connects to rather than from the user’s actual location."

Whenever anyone mentioned about the outlook then generally think about the Microsoft Outlook which is comes with Microsoft office.

A post on the official Microsoft Outlook Blog states, “We’re introducing a preview of Outlook.com. We realized that we needed to take a bold step, break from the past and build you a brand new service from the ground up. You already know Outlook via the Outlook desktop application - for PCs and Macs - as the world's most popular application for reading e-mail, managing a calendar, and connecting to people. And you may have used the Outlook Web App connected to Exchange Server in your organization. Now, in addition to a desktop application and a service for businesses, we're offering Outlook as a personal email service - Outlook.com.”

One of world famous browser Firefox has been a steady increase in add-on download since 2007, and crossed 3 billion add-on mark.On mozzila blog we can see that they are saying,“That’s almost half of the world’s population and more than the number of people on the Internet today.”
Mozilla introduced add-on in 2004 for PC and in 2009 for Mobile.More than 85 percent of Firefox users have at least one add-on installed, and on average, a user has five add-ons installed.Some of the most popular add-ons for Firefox include AdBlock Plus, Firebug, NoScript, Personas Plus and Video DownloadHelper, among others. The most popular categories for add-ons include privacy and security, search tools, bookmarks and themes.
According to the blog post, there are more than 150,000 user-created collections of add-ons to choose from, some of which are Family Organizer, Traveler’s Pack, Sports Fanatic, The Paranoid Kit, Web Developer’s Toolbox and Online Shopping.

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