Social Networking site Facebook has launched a new application to protect young users of the site. Bowing down to pressure campaign led by Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), the social networking site has launched a new application known as “Panic Button” to ensure safety of its young Facebook users. The rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender, posing as a teenage boy, who she met on Facebook, further mounted pressure on the social network to launch the panic button. The Panic Button, which can be downloaded to a home page or bookmarked, is aimed at users ages 13 through 18 and enables them to get advice from or report incidents to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center of suspected of predatory behavior toward a minor. The application, which is downloaded voluntarily, gives users access to CEOP’s information and resources and allows them to report crimes and suspicious behavior.
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Facebook Launches New Application To Protect Children
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Comments OffMotorola launches New Handset-Motorola CHARM
Motorola has launched a new Motorola CHARM which is a touch screen smart phone fully enhanced with the revolutionary MOTOBLUR technology. Motorola Charm weighs 110 g and sports a 2.8 inch display with screen resolution of 320 x 240 QVGA TFT. It comes with a 3MP camera and KODAK PERFECT TOUCH technology with pinch to zoom function and two-finger swipe to surf and sort photos. Equipped with touchscreen interface Motoblur and a full QWERTY keyboard, the mobile phone supports MOTOBLUR technology that ensures easy customization of your messages, emails, contacts, posts and also features BACKTRACK for better touch screen navigation. Running on Android 2.1 operating system it comes with a 2GB microSD card slot. With wi-fi and GPRS enable the phone promise a new feature that allows user to upload photos to Facebook, MySpace, Picasa and PhotoBucket with a single touch. Another special feature of this phone is its CrystalTalk PLUS, which adds a second microphone for increased voice quality while filtering out background noise. Though the release date is pushed to August, Motorola promises a extended battery life as an added feature.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: facebook, gadgets, gprs, Mobile, motorola, out-background, Phone, phone-supports, photo, Revolutionary, system-it-comes, technology, touch-screen Comments OffFacebook – the Photo Sharing friendly Site in India – FV Current Waves
MediaMughals Facebook – the Photo Sharing friendly Site in India FV Current Waves Approximately 64 per cent of Indian are hooked and addicted to the Facebook as a photo-sharing podium for them, with more than 18 million distinct Facebook addicts in India opening their web walls at the Facebook site daily which according to them is a … Photo-friendly Facebook trumps photo-sharing sites Business Standard Facebook becomes the No.1 Photo Sharing Site in India Technology Stop Facebook takes lead on Youtube and Flickr MediaMughals domain-B
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Facebook is planning to close down its “Gift Shop” feature on August 1. In a surprising move that would disappoint many Facebook fans, Facebook has decided to stop its virtual gift shop feature, that let users present a icon of cake during B’day and other such funny and humorous icons, by the end of this month. But gifts that have been received previously will remain on the wall. According to Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for games and credits, on a blog post “Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts. We’ll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the “Like” button and the Wall.” The Gift Shop, which was launched in 2007, offers dozens of virtual presents at a cost of one dollar each which users purchase using Facebook Credits. In the beginning stages virtual gifts created a rage on Facebook and were pretty much the company’s only source of revenue, long before the addition of advertising and social games like Farmville. Well, all good things must come to an end. Though, one surely does wonder whether Facebook users will start a community to stop the “gift shop” from closing down.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: addition, facebook, Gift, gift shop, given-millions, humorous-icons, may-disappoint, People, photos, stages-virtual, such-as-photos, surprising-move, users-present, users-purchase Comments OffInterpol Goes Online To Catch Fugitives
International Police Agency Interpol has reached out to the international online community to help capture criminals who are wanted for serious crimes like murder, rape, child sexual abuse and others. With Facebook, twitter and host of other social networking sites becoming a rage around the world, the Interpol launched an appeal to the public to report any sign of the 26, releasing their photos and biographical information on its website. This is the first time Interpol, a global crime-fighting body, which links police forces from 188 countries, have sought public help to find so many suspects. Martin Cox, coordinator of the appeal said this is part of Interpol’s efforts to widen the net and search for criminals. Interpol is hoping that social networking sites prove a fruitful tool for the 26 fugitives on its new public list.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: child-sexual, facebook, fruitful-tool, help-capture, other-social, photos, police, police-agency, social-networking, technology, widen-the-net Comments OffA Tweet For Indian Fans
Tom cruise was pleasantly surprised to find a huge number of Indian fans wishing him on his birthday. The Mission Impossible star, who turned 48 this week, had birthday wishes pouring in from all quarters, especially from Indian fans, through Facebook and Twitter. Tom cruise has often expressed a desire to come to India and was overwhelmed by the huge fan following he had in the country. The star promptly tweeted his thanks “A huge THANK YOU to the wonderful people of India for their birthday wishes and kindness…” He added “I’ll see you at the movies Friday,” referring to his upcoming film “Knight and Day” to hit theatres on July 9. The film an action comedy has Cameron Diaz and Cruise in the lead. Cruise and Diaz play a fugitive couple on a race across the globe amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: birthday-wishes, cameron-diaz, facebook, fugitive-couple, indian, technology, the-wonderful, upcoming, wishes-pouring, Wonderful Comments OffAirtel Allows Users Free Facebook Access
Airtel has joined hands with Facebook to provide users with free access of the social networking site through their Mobile Phones Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel today announced that all its users will be allowed to use popular social networking site Facebook for free from the month of July 1st to august 31st.Users can now post status updates, comment and write on walls, message others, and also be able to view or upload photos – all without any data charges. The Facebook site will be available in English, Hindi and five more Indian languages – Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam. M.facebook.com is a new application created by Facebook for mobile phone users to access their social networking site. The new application promises to be faster and more fun to use. According to Officials from Airtel said that “For the two-month period, the partnership enables Airtel customers to access Facebook’s full mobile site faster and at no data cost from their Airtel mobiles via m.facebook.com,” Customers, accessing mobile Internet for the first time need to SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321 to take advantage of this offer.
Posted in Software Tools Tags: airtel, bharti-airtel, facebook, indian, Internet, message-others, mobile facebook, Partnership, social, social-networking, take-advantage, the-partnership, today-announced, write-on-walls Comments OffCakewalk & Intel – Creating Music Superstars
What I like best about technology is what creative people do with it. And now – Cakewalk and Intel have teamed up to give everyone with a PC and access to the internet (and musical talent) the opportunity to be a star. Songwriters – click the picture or jump on Intel’s Facebook site, and you’ll be able to register as an artist and upload your music for a chance to win recording software and gear, some great computer hardware, and…cash – not to mention you’ll have a great platform to be heard. Not quite up to uploading your own creations yet? No problem. In a few weeks you’ll also be able to register as a fan, listen to what’s been uploaded, and vote for your favorite song/artist. Keep checking back to watch your favorites rise up the charts – and, once the top contenders have been picked – see who takes home the grand prize at the end. While Facebook provides the “face” for the contest, a lot of internet-savy musicians and fans will recognize OurStage as the underlying platform for the contest itself – they’ve long been a favorite hangout for musicians and outlet for great original music. Not only is this a very cool contest – what’s amazing to me is that the technology around PCs and music recording software like Cakewalk’s Sonar has come so far a contest like this is even possible. It doesn’t seem that long ago I was paying $1000 or more to create one halfway decent song demo – or singing in demo sessions that cost $15K and more – again, for one song demo. The only multitrack recording software I could afford barely did more than sync all my outboard gear more or less reliably - and forget about recording directly to my hard drive. Now you can buy a Core-based machine and professional-grade multitrack recording software for less than it used to cost to record a piano-vocal demo in a pro studio. You can record multiple tracks, access sampled orchestras from your hard drive, and apply affects to your tracks with latencies so low, it’s practically real time. In other words, if you have the ear and the talent, you don’t need a ton of cash to build yourself a home studio that rocks. Man. Anyway – songwriter or music fan – definitely check out the Superstar contest! Read the official Press Release here . And…even more on Blackweb .
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Facebook is all set to roll out a new privacy feature after complaints of their original Privacy policy refuse to die down. In their new move to protect the information of users, Facebook has roped in their third part application that provides games and other features to its users. Facebook’s applications will now have to ask the permission of the user before it can use the individuals Facebook data. Initially applications already had to ask users for permission to access anything in their profiles that wasn’t public. But these services didn’t have to specify what information they were using. Such information can include your photos, your friends’ birthdays or your e-mail address. Now, applications will have to specify to users the information that they will use or look into. But, it doesn’t give users a chance to pick the information it wants share neither does it allow the user to proceed without sharing. This new move according to Bret Taylor, provides more transparency to users on how Facebook and its third party applications operates. Thought the move was welcomed by critics they still fell that Facebook could still improve on its privacy policy.
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Intex has brought a new dual SIM (GSM + GSM) handset-IN6633- in the market. The IN 6633 handset features a 5.8 cm TFT display and comes with two cameras; main camera has 2MP resolution while second front facing camera is VGA which can be use for video calling purpose on a 2G platform. User can use its camera as a webcam also. The QWERTY keypad based handset packs in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth with A2DP, Nimbuzz and Facebook application. It also has Push Mail feature will allow users to access up to 10 mail boxes without logging in and out every time. In addition to this the phone comes equipped with FM Radio with recording and scheduling, audio player with Equalizer, sound recorder, Video recorder and player, Flash Light, motion sensor, java support, mobile tracker, auto call record and answering machine. The In6633’s special attraction is its Black List feature that allows users to block any 10 callers free of cost. Priced at Rs 4500 it has an internal memory of 78MB with an expandable memory up to 8 GB and comes in a color combination of black and wine red.
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