Facebook beats Yahoo,Google is still the King!

Facebook becomes the second most popular site for viewing videos by overtaking Yahoo, according to report from comScore.

New number2!

Facebook saw a bit more than 53 million unique viewers throughout July, compared to Yahoo’s less than 49 million.

No guess on who’s No. 1!

Soon! You can edit your Facebook status!

Social Nteworkin sire Facbook  users may sonn bee able to edit theie staus update!

Oops typo!

*Facebook users may soon be able to edit their status updates!

Yes! Every Facebook user at least once would have experienced that awkward moment of realising all typos or misplaced words or at least a double ‘the’ after posting the status. That embarrassment may end soon as the company is thinking of adding edit feature to user’s status updates.

 The social networking site allows editing feature in Photo posts and recently added edit feature to the post comments. Now, the company is hinting that the feature may also be available for status updates.

Is Facebook becoming a Fakebook?

More than 8% of people in Facebook are fake said the first quarterly earnings report.

Facebook , the Social Networking giant as a public company revealed its quarterly report says it has 955 million monthly active users and 543 million monthly active mobile users.

 The social-networking site disclosed that nearly 20 percent of the mobile users accessed the social network in June solely from their mobile device.

i.e., 102 million users login to their Facebook account only through mobile and have never logged in from desktop, that’s a 23 percent jump since its last report.

This report comes days after the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said No to Facebook Smart Phone.

The increase of the only-mobile users is bit of a  bad news for the company as large part its ad revenues is from the desktop site as mobile ads only show up one at a time, while on Facebook's desktop at least seven ads can be displayed per page. 

The company introduced sponsored stories for mobile site last March only.

Microsoft Kills Hotmail and gives birth to ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com!

Microsoft the software giant killed its long standing email service Hotmail and gave its mail service over to ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com.

The changes include the new email address “@outlook.com “ which will replace the older “@hotmail.com” address, used by  millions worldwide for more than 10 years of its service. Users can already "Upgrade to Outlook.com" to keep their existing address.

CoolMail

 Hotmail still the world's largest email service with 324 million users (about 36 per cent of the market) but had been losing its market to Google's fast-growing Gmail with 425 million users!

Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith and acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million. The rebranding and overhaul of Microsoft's email service is Microsoft's first major change in its email service in 10 years.

Microsoft is hoping that the new Outlook.com as a free mail service that pulls features from Hotmail and Exchange. It is designed for both  personal consumer use, Microsoft continues to position Outlook as its business e-mail client. 

We call it ‘social-friendly’ Outlook.com because;

"Facebook Smart Phone? Not Now " says Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg,Founder and CEO of Facebook, has put an end to the rumors surrounding the Facebook-based Smartphone. 


He told analysts in a conference call that ," it wouldn't make very much sense” to make a Facebook-centered smartphone.

“Facebook is the most-used app on basically every mobile platform,” he justified. “So when we think about what we want to do right now, we want increase the depth of the experience in addition to just growing users.”

“We want to not just have apps that people use but also be as deeply integrated into these systems as possible,” Zuckerberg continued. “We want to support a development ecosystem where other apps can build on top of Facebook.” 

Top Android Apps for London Olympic Games 2012

TechStrip Olympic Special :

Yes! World's biggest sporting extravaganza has began in style, London Olympics 2012 is here  and you have to be on your mark for the games latest updates.


Here is TechStrip's collection of top 'must-have' android apps devoted specially for the London games.

Google's GTalk service muted!

Google's GTALK DOWN!

No! its not just you,Google Talk, Google’s popular chat-messaging service, suffered massive outage. Its seen that the service is down in several parts of the world. 

G-MUTE

Google acknowledged the problem around 4:10PM and initiated investigation of reports from various servers deployed across the world.

According to many users (including me), contacts and send messages were not able to be seen .Some

Microsoft Office 2013: Next generation Office suite.

The Good Old MS Office is done and done.

Welcome to Office 2013, Microsoft’s new age Office suite.

Welcome to Nxt-Gen office. 

With Windows 8 almost here, it was inevitable that Microsoft would refresh its Office suite of productivity to reflect the style of its new OS.

Microsoft has done just that. 

Yes, Microsoft Office 2013 is officially relived along with a new free Consumer Preview available for download.

Touch for good!

This new  Office suite is to be launch with Windows 8, hence Office 2013 has been designed with touch-based devices in mind, i.e., it will work well on tablets, smart phones, and touch screen PCs.

And, the standard mouse and keyboard-operated PCs aren’t forgotten either.

But the downside is that