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Twitter introduced a new version of Twitter for Windows Phone.It has a new design which brings the app in line with other Twitter apps, this update includes several features that make it easier for you to discover and share the content that matters to you. Twitter for Windows Phone now includes the Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs found in other versions of the app. Using the Home tab you…

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that “Everyone should have the chance to learn to code in school” as part of this efforts to support code.org. And he says, “Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren’t enough people who are trained and have these skills today.“ At a time when people are saying “I want a good job…

Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer bans Working from home policy Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer has decided Yahoo employees who work remotely relocate to company facilities from June. On February 22, AllThingsD published a leaked copy of a Yahoo memo. “Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home,” reads the memo to employees from HR head Jackie Reses. “We need to be one Yahoo!, and that…

Tuesday, 26th February 2013 – A hot air balloon crashed near the Egyptian town of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists who were aboard. Luxor is  510 kilometres south of Cairo, Egypt’s capital. The Air Balloon Crash happened after a gas explosion at 1,000 feet. The tourists were from a variety of countries. “There were 20 passengers aboard. An explosion happened and 19 passengers died. One tourist and the pilot…

BlackBerry launched its first smartphone BlackBerry 10 series in India. The price of  the phone is Rs. 43,490. BlackBerry has a strong fan following in India, especially among youth. But they feel the the Price Rs. 43,490. is high. BlackBerry, which for long been considered as an enterprise device, has introduced ‘BlackBerry Balance’ that will allow users separate professional data and applications from music, photographs and other personal items. The…

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony,honoring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place February 24, 2013. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards for the first time. Los…

Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail by the South African Court following his arrest for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Magistrate Desmond Nair granted Pistorius bail when the four-day bail hearing resumed on Friday afternoon. “The accused has made a case to be released on bail,” he said. Mr Pistorius’s family and supporters in the court gasped and cheered as the magistrate announced he would…

February 22nd, 2013 Google today celebrates Edward Gorey‘s 88th birthday. Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.He was best known for his macabre drawings and picture-stories. Gorey was born on February 22, 1925 and went to the School of Art Institute of Chicago for formal art training for just one semester. He attended Harvard University from 1946 to 1950 where he studied…

A security breach at cloud-based customer support vendor Zendesk has exposed personal information including email addresses of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr users, the company in a blog post. We’ve become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week. As soon as we learned of the attack, we patched the vulnerability and closed the access that the hacker had. Our ongoing investigation indicates that the hacker had access to the support…

  Google has announced about its new Chromebook device named as “Chromebook pixel”. Unlike previous Chromebook versions, the Pixel is aimed at power users who fully live in the cloud. It will be the first computer Google has made itself, and will come with a terabyte of online storage. Google products like Search, Gmail, YouTube, Maps and Google+ Hangouts are integrated with the Chromebook pixel which uses Google’s Chrome OS…