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If you just logged into your Facebook account after a long break, don’t be surprised if you see a lot of friend requests from strangers and a bunch of irrelevant messages/ invitations. If that’s not enough, you’d be shocked to know that your name, profile photo, gender and other personal information are now public on Facebook. All these changes are courtesy the new privacy (rather, the lack [...]

Image by jlori via Flickr You all know Sporkings bring you the latest and greatest, as such we’re giving away 5 Google Wave invites for free! Simply email Wave[at]Sporkings[dot]com  with your gmail address to be in with a chance of winning. Keep in mind that this version of Wave is  a bit rocky at times, but fun can still be had. Invitations will not be sent immediately. We will pick [...]

17th November 2009 at the O2 Indigo, London. [12% discount code: KJCXIDKA or click here] Themes that will be discussed are twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. “Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about  microblogging or the place where people share twitter “tips and techniques” but rather where we explore the effects [...]

Couple of changes happening on Facebook this week, first the tagging of posts and now early this morning Facebook announced a new way of logging into your facebook account. This new feature makes it easier to sign in to Facebook, you can do this by using the vanity URL you may or may not have chosen a few months ago to login. This is an ok feature for people who may have long email addesses, however [...]

At around 12 o’clock (GMT) last night, twitter went down for a while showing up all sorts of errors, I’m  not too sure what the issue was but there wasn’t even a fail whale, 403 & 504 errors showing up. When it came back online thousands of profile pictures were missing. It seems the past few days have proved problematic for twitter, yesterday they found a bug that wouldn’t [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve all seen the googlezon video, could this be the beginings of a new video to be created? It was just announced that facebook would be purchasing friendfeed.com the amount is not clear at the moment, however what is known is that all friendfeed staff will be joining facebook and the four co-founders “will hold senior roles on Facebook’s [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]

Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr This is probably the most exciting tech battle of our days: Google versus Microsoft. Although it will probably go on for years, it will remain a very hot subject. It all started a few months ago when each company launched a direct attack on its rival’s most important business. Google started by announcing the development of a new desktop operating system, [...]

Image by nick see via Flickr It looks like Microsoft are preparing some goodies for its users. The next Windows operating system will not only boost users’ overall experience, but also hardware performance. This sounds like good news for all Windows users! It looks like chipsets from Intel, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices will perform better with MS Windows 7. For now, Microsoft is working [...]

Image by michperu via Flickr The largest company in the world, Microsoft, reported disastrous results for the April to June quarter. Their profits went down by almost a third. The group is also expecting financial difficulties in the following months. “It looked like a pretty tough quarter for Microsoft. The top line was very weak,” – Toan Tran from Morningstar. It looks like [...]