Yes its true, just under 24 hours of its launch google’s chrome has captured 1% of browser market share. It has really started with a bang. To be more precise chrome took only 9 hours to reach that landmark. The hourly tracking of chrome on Market Share has revealed that Chrome passed 0.5% in just 2 hours. By midnight (EDT) it had surpassed 1% of the market share. By next day 4 a.m., it had hit 1.48% share, and after that it continued at 1% for the rest of the day. (more…)

The latest news on the fly is that Google has integrated Face Recognition feature to their Picasa Web Albums website. The website will now offer facial recognition feature to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them.

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Two months back no one could have imagined that China can put up a show like this. People around the globe witnessed one of the most unforgettable opening and closing ceremonies. But no one can really think about the technology, money and people involved behind it. So here are some facts that you must know..

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FriendFeed today released a beta version of its newly designed interface to all users. The new interface is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com and will soon be available on main site.

Below are some of the new features that are added to redesigned FriendFeed.

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Google Suggest - a search feature that provides real time query suggestions as you type into a search box will now be available by default on Google.com Homepages. Earlier, the Google Suggest Feature was there in Google labs and was used by a  Google Search in Firefox, Firefox Addon Customize Google to add Suggestions feature to normal Google Search in Firefox.

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Remember those crazy followers on Twitter that follow thousands of Twitter users and then use it to send spam to you. But now, the micro blogging platform Twitter will become more secure and spam free as Twitter has planned to take actions on Spammers and take additional measures to combat spam.

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Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.

One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.

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Intel has unveiled the new USB technology called USB 3.0. It is far superior than the current USB 2.0. USB 3.0 has 10 times the bandwidth of existing USB 2.0 connections. It is expected to hit the markets in 2009 or 2010. The transfer speed of USB 3.0 is really jaw dropping, which is about 4.8Gbit/s that is 614MByte/s. The time required for data transfers will be reduced dramatically, for example transferring a movie of 30 GB will take around 74 seconds( 1 min 14 sec) in USB 3.0 whereas it will take around 17 to 18 minutes with USB 2.0.

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Secure Computing, a company providing enterprise security solutions has published a report on Internet threats for the second quarter of 2008. According to the report, USA tops the list of spam sending countries accounting for 16.5% of the spam while Russia is second on list with around 8% contribution.

These top 10 countries account for 55% of global spam. Besides US and Russia, India, Korea, Argentina, Germany were also on the top spam sender’s list.

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Yahoo Buzz, the Digg like social content rating website from Yahoo is now open to all. Earlier, this service was available to only selected 400 publishers. Now anyone can submit a story on Yahoo Buzz and if it gets featured on front page of Yahoo Buzz, it could drive enormous amount of Traffic to the publisher just like Digg.

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