Facebook to allow updates to status messages through e-mail

Facebook to allow updates to status messages through e-mail
Social networking service Facebook is currently testing a new feature with limited number of users which allows them to respond to status messages through email.
Currently, the service sends you an email with an alert. You have to click on the link to access the message [...]

Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite released

Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite released
Opera Software has released the special edition Opera 10 that comes with their Opera United technology.
Opera 10.10 stable edition is now available as a free download.
Opera Unite technology enables you to use your own machine as a server which can be used to share data and information with [...]

Yahoo Go shutting down next year

Yahoo Go shutting down next year
Yahoo has announced that they would shut down their Yahoo GO service next year.
This mobile service was launched by the internet media giant way back in 2006.
Yahoo has not updated it in months now and it would now shut down on January 12, 2010.
Yahoo Go has [...]

Spotify now has a mobile app for Symbian platform

Spotify now has a mobile app for Symbian platform
Spotify has announced the launch of their mobile application for the Symbian platform.
This is huge considering Symbian is the most popular smartphone platform in the world.
Spotify still remains limited to few European markets however as they are still working on plans to launch their [...]

Microsoft might launch Windows 8 in 2012

Microsoft might launch Windows 8 in 2012
If we are to believe the Microsoft road-map, the successor to Windows 7 would arrive sometime in 2012.
Microsoft however has a bad history of coming out with two great operating systems in succession.
The company has just launched Windows 7 which has been called the best release from [...]

Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta has arrived

Foobar2000 v1.0 Beta has arrived
The developers behind the popular Foobar2000 project have finally released the beta of version 1.0 of this music application.
Foobar2000 has been in development for around seven years now and it is yet to reach version one. Something that reminds me of the Wine project.
The first beta has arrived [...]

Google Android now has access to Fring mobile app

Google Android now has access to Fring mobile app
Fring has released their mobile application for the Google Android mobile platform.
Incidentally, Fring is already available on several other mobile platforms like Apple iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile.
Google Android version was much awaited and it has finally arrived.
Fring allows the user to communicate [...]

Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta already out

Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta already out
Microsoft has released the first beta of Silverlight 4.
The software giant is aiming to release the final edition sometime next year.
Microsoft Silverlight technology is designed as an alternative to Adobe Flash.
AJAX and HTML5 have also become potential competitors on the web. On the desktop front, Adobe [...]

Facebook gets working on fixing iPhone App

Facebook gets working on fixing iPhone App
TechCrunch has reported that Facebook has started working on fixing problems with the Facebook App for the Apple iPhone.
Apparently, the app stopped working just recently and would require fixes. Let’s hope the fixes can be applied on the server side so that the users would not have [...]

Microsoft introduces Fishbowl desktop client for Facebook

Microsoft introduces Fishbowl desktop client for Facebook
Microsoft uxlabs have released a new desktop application for the Windows platform.
Fishbowl uses the Facebook stream APIs to provide access to the popular social networking platform using a desktop client.
It is a technology showcase so the application is not supported by the company.

It uses several [...]

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