"Some good tips on how to avoid falling prey to Facebook scams."

How to Avoid Facebook Scams

With more than 800 million users all over the world, Facebook is the perfect breeding ground for scam artists. Every Facebook user has their account interlinked with hundreds or even thousands of their friends. With the exponential amount of users connected to each

"Demon’s Souls Servers To Be Turned Off May 31st"

With its polished if not decisively superior sequel out and about for close to a year, Demon’s Souls multiplayer servers weren’t long for this world. The supremely difficult but very well received action RPG paved the way for asynchronous multiplayer in mainstream games, allowing players to help or mislead others in the course of completing quests.

"Intel Debuts 910 Series PCIe Solid-State Drives"

Intel has announced a new and very fast solid-state drive for enterprise and datacenter use. The drive is called SSD 910 series and is designed to slip into servers without having to change the server design. The drives slip into the PCI express slot inside the computer.

"LG Viper Goes Up For Pre-order At Sprint"

The LG Viper was announced recently for US mobile carrier Sprint, and now the handset is available to pre-order from Sprint for $99.99, after a rebate when you sign up to a new two year contract with the carrier.

"Netflix Windows Phone App Now Offers Streaming In UK, Ireland, And Latin America"

Netflix has this week rolled out a new updated for its Windows Phone application and Xbox 360 apps. The new Windows Phone Netflix app update now brings streaming support to users in the UK, Ireland and Latin America. As well as supporting additional locations Netflix has also added support for more regions allowing users to enjoy the application in their own language.

"Braid Creator’s New Game The Witness Detailed"

Video games must be making a cultural impact if the Atlantic is taking notice. An in-depth look at the man behind 2008 indie stunner Braid and his current work reads more like a textured character piece about the likes of Lester Bangs or Hunter S. Thomson than anything you might expect to read about a video game programmer.

"Make way for the new: Samsung outsells Nokia in global market"

Helsinki: Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd ended Nokia’s 14-year leadership of the global cellphone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling Finnish handset maker for the first time ever, according to a Reuters poll of analysts.

The poll showed analysts on average expect Samsung to have sold 88 million cellphones in January through March, surpassing the 83 million which Nokia sold in the quarter.

Nokia was the market leader for 14 years: Reuters

Nokia had announced the sales total on Wednesday when it warned of losses from the phones business in the first and second quarter. Samsung is due to release quarterly numbers on April 27.

Nokia has struggled for several years in the smartphone race, but its dominance in the lower end of the market has allowed it to keep its rank as the world’s largest cellphone maker by volume.

"Nokia Lumia 900′s material costs almost 50% of retail price"

Lumia 900 represents a make-or-break effort by Nokia and Microsoft
to re-establish their  foothold in the smartphone business.

Materials of Nokia’s new flagship model smartphone, the Lumia 900, cost $209, some 46 percent of its retail price, with the Finnish firm saving on processor and memory cost, teardown analysis of research firm IHS iSuppli showed on Wednesday.

“The Lumia 900 represents a make-or-break effort by Nokia and Microsoft to re-establish their foothold in the smartphone business,” the researcher said.

"Security experts thrash Apple for going slow on Mac malware fix"

San Francisco: The cybersecurity community raked Apple Inc over the coals on Wednesday, saying the company had dragged its heels on eradicating malware that experts say may have infected up to 600,000 Macintosh computers and can be used to ferret out sensitive user information.

The consumer electronics company said it was working on finding and ridding “Flashback” malware that exploits a flaw in Oracle Corp’s Java software. Apple has issued patches and is now developing software to detect and eliminate Flashback, it said on its website. The company declined to elaborate.

"Objectionable content: Google, YouTube off prosecution list"

New Delhi: A court on Thursday permitted the deletion of Google and YouTube from a list of websites sought to be prosecuted for allegedly posting objectionable content on their sites.

Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh passed the order after petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi’s counsel Santosh Pandey said he had no objection to the plea of the two companies to delete their names from the list submitted by him.

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Google India and Youtube India told the court they were software-based companies and had no role in displaying content on their sites.

Meanwhile, Qasmi’s counsel submitted a revised list of companies sought to be prosecuted. Six new sites: Facebook India, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Orkut, Youtube Inc, and Blogspot have been named.

The court has listed the matter for further hearing on 18 April.

"YouTube hopes to double ad revenue in India"

India is the second-biggest source of content for YouTube, after the United States.

YouTube has said it aims to spruce up its social networking skills through better integration across platforms, and hopes to more than double annual ad revenue in emerging markets

"Google+ Gets An FB-Style Makeover"

Users can now access apps and customise their page layout with ease.

After Facebook decided to go the Timeline way, and met with reasonable amount of success with the new look,Google+ has decided to take a similar route as well. Despitegarnering several followers it hasn't really helped Googlethreaten any of the major players in the social networking arena. With a bid to change its fortunes, the service has gone through a much-needed makeover, albeit it's too glaringly similar to that of FB. Nevertheless, here's what is new, if you still use Google+ or plan to head back to it.