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Twitter wants to help you build your network. The micro-blogging service began rolling out a new feature Friday called “Suggestions for You” which directs users to other Twitter accounts they may find interesting. “With more than a hundred million users on Twitter, there are sure to be at least dozens of accounts out there that will reflect your interests,” Twitter said on its [...]

Google said Friday its services appeared to be back up and running normally in China, after the US web giant reported that access to its search engine and other products were being blocked. Google and the Chinese government have for months been locked in a battle over state censorship and cyberattacks that the company says originated in China, the world’s largest online market with 420 million [...]

Microsoft plans to argue before Japan’s Fair Trade Commission that a tie-up between Yahoo! Japan and Google is anti-competitive, local media said Friday. The watchdog has said the deal will not counter the anti-monopoly law, but Microsoft has condemned it, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world. Earlier this week Yahoo! Japan [...]

If you’re a Firefox fan then some of these tips could double your surfing speed in that browser. From enabling pipelining to compressing data – these tweaks in the third version take less than five minutes to implement and cost absolutely nothing. Complete List

There are a lot of reasons you might be interested in lightening up and streamlining a Windows installation. And there are several applications that allow you to do just that. 1. nLite: This freeware Windows application goes directly into the Windows installation disc and selectively rips out all the features and software you don’t want. 2. GameXP: Designed to optimize your system settings and speed [...]

So you just accidentally deleted that important powerpoint slideset that you need to present tomorrow? Here’s how you can easily recover all of your important deleted data without tearing your hair out. 1. Check Recycle Bin: The first and obvious thing to do is to check here carefully for the lost file and restore it. But if you’ve emptied Recycle Bin already you’re ready to move to the next [...]

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One year after YouTube invited members to become ‘partners’ and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning more than $20,000 (Rs.10 lakh) a month from the website! Some like Cory Williams, 27, gave up their full-time jobs to focus on the crating amateur video channels for the site and has today more than 180,000 subscribers. While it’s all free and takes very little [...]

If you’re in one of those countries with Governments that go overboard with their censorship or at work with condescending IT staff that doesn’t let you watch ‘certain’ sites. Facebook is banned in China while it was also banned in Pakistan for short period of time.Here’s some really useful cool tips to see all of those banned URLs. The most popular method is Anonymizer – that fetches [...]