Steve Jobs dead… apple confirms

on the front page of Drudgereport and Tuaw, there is mention of this.. cnet has the story: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=TOCcarouselMain.0 and apple has confirmed this as well https://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ Apple co-founder and Chairman Steve Jobs died today, Apple said. He was 56. Jobs had been suffering from various health issues following the seven-year  anniversary of his surgery for …

Facebook files for Patent to track users when they are logged out of Facebook.

The patent titled “Communicating Information in a Social Network System about Activities from Another Domain” was filed by Facebook Feb  8 2011. here is the Abstract: AbstractIn one embodiment, a method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain. The method includes maintaining a …

Facebook continues to track users after they log out of facebook.

Just read this and thought some of you may be interested in reading it. http://www.techgineering.org/2011/09/26/2611/facebook-cookies-can-still-track-you-after-your-logged-out/   Apparently even after you log out of facebook. other sites with share on facebook, or “like” buttons are tracked in your cookies.. Maybe it’s time to start tweaking your privacy settings in firefox, and install Adblock plugins..   or …

Windows Share, a New Data Exchange Mechanism in Windows 8

Pretty interesting feature of Windows 8 that allows applications to exchange data directly. full story over on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Windows-Share Microsoft has created a new mechanism for sharing information between applications in Windows 8 called Windows Share. Apps can share text, bitmaps, HTML, URI, files, and other type of data, and the usage scenarios are numerous. …