TECHFLAPS – Waves of Technology

Google just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data. Consider the following scenario.

The Microsoft Vine Beta connects you to the people and places you care about most, when it matters. Stay in touch with family and friends, be informed when someone needs help. Get involved to create great communities. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved. Vine is a location-aware [...]

Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) Beta 4 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.5. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.5 can be followed at the Firefox 3.5 Planning Center, as well as in [...]

As per Businessweek reports, Apple (AAPL) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks about selling two new wireless devices. This is in contradict to an earlier report from USA Today that Verizon was planning to offer Apple’s iPhone as early as next year.

When you want to stay updated with your friends and other connections on Facebook, you can log into your home page to see a running time-line, or stream, of the information they’re sharing. The more they share, the more you see in the stream and the more you learn about your connections. Starting today, you [...]

Meeting its own deadline, Google on Monday released the final version of software to create programs for a forthcoming update to the company’s Android mobile phone operating system. Xavier Ducrohet announced the Android 1.5 software development kit (SDK) on the Android developer blog.

Throughout April, worms have ripped through the “micro-blogging” platform, infecting user accounts with malicious code that spread from profile to profile as Twitterers visited one anther’s compromised pages. Every time Twitter’s administrators declared that they had cleaned up the infection, a new strain of malicious code would begin propagating through thousands of accounts, week after [...]

A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, is quietly turning thousands of personal computers into servers of e-mail spam and installing spyware, they said.

According to Hitwise, with celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey helping fuel Twitter mania, the micro-blogging website is soaring to stardom around the world. Twitter’s growth in Australia “has been nothing short of phenomenal,” rocketing 1,067 percent since the start of this year, reported Alan Long, research director at the Internet intelligence gathering [...]

As we celebrate Earth Day and as now many of us are thinking about Nature and Green endeavors, have we ever thought of how beautiful this small planet is? Mother Earth always puts something interesting for us in some or other way. The life, the pants, the animals, the landscape.. everything given to us humans [...]