Tag Archives : Data

Facebook Facebook’s “Like” button could be integrated with Bing’s search results. Facebook and Microsoft are in talks and the  agreement would significantly expand the search relationship both the Internet giants share. Features expected includes the possibility for Bing’s search service to mine anonymized data from consumer usage of  Facebook’s Like buttons, which [...]

Source : www.developer.android.com Over 70% of Android based Mobile phones are now running Android Eclair 2.1 or Froyo 2.2 according to a  latest report on fragmentation of its Android platform released by Google. There has recently been a surge in the number of devices running Android 2.2, it’s now running on 28.7% of handsets. The swift leap can be attributed to the wide number of handsets that [...]

Give way, iPhones and BlackBerrys, smartphone customers in U.S. have voted with their wallets and picked Android as their favorite in the second quarter of this year according to NPD , a market research company. Earlier NPD survey has shown Android-based smart phones outselling the iPhone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2010. NPD  concluding that 33 percent of phones sold during the [...]

Research firm  ChangeWave’s recent smart phone survey of 4,028 U.S. consumers shows an explosive transformation occurring in consumer demand and  throws up a number of illuminating statistics. The major point is that people are keen on buying smartphones like never before, with 16% of respondents saying that they’ll be taking the plunge within the next 90 days, which marks the biggest [...]

AppStore HQ developers directory which claims to have  a complete listing of all 50,000 plus developers  whose apps are currently available in the Apple App Store or Android Market,shows that 43, 185 coders have apps on Apple store ,and  10,199 develop for Google’s Android Market with 1412 of those develop for both the platforms. It’s apparent that single-platform development is the [...]

Google Move over Facebook’s complex privacy control and user-data sharing issues, Google has gone one-up on Facebook by scooping up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service. French National Commission on Computing and Liberty CNIL, has begun looking into the exact data that Google’s Street View cars captured, and have  found that the “sensitive [...]

Image via CrunchBase After facing severe negative reactions and criticism from all quarters about the privacy policy  which has gone to the extent of people making their mind to quit Facebook altogether and events like quitfacebook.com gaining momentum Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a damage control exercise. He admitted that his popular social networking tool had moved “too [...]

Calvin Robinson, Editor of Sporkings.com discusses Facebook Privacy Policy issues on Channel 4 News in the UK: We previously wrote an article instructing users on the steps necessary to delete a Facebook account; Image via Wikipedia Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely [...]

Image via CrunchBase Apple iPad is finally coming to UK, Apple have opened up pre – orders and released mobile network & pricing information for UK versions of  iPad tablet device after they previously put back the UK release date due to high demand in the US where it has reached the landmark of selling a million devices last week. There is  a choice of three carriers  – [...]

Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely difficult to actually close your account. If you follow the ‘Help’ section of Facebook, you’ll eventually be led to ‘Deactivate’ your account – which basically means your data is still on [...]