A couple of days ago, Facebook, world’s biggest social networking website announced that is planning to “launch something awesome”. Well, yesterday, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced as rumored and anticipated, video calling – powered by Skype. Cool, right?

The video functionality is built right into Facebook Chat, so all your conversations start from the same place. To call your friend, just click the video call button at the top of your chat window.

Moreover, the company revealed other chat improvements, such as an option to see the friends you message most (whether on line or offline ) and group chat.

P.S: Facebook has 750 million users (confirmed yesterday), and since Skype only has 170 million users, it’s clear why Skype gains from this integration.

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Gears of War 3, biggest Xbox 360-exclusive title of the year was leaked to torrent sites. Well, this is not the first time when it happens in the game industry but still, a leak this early of a game this big is really surprising.

The build seems to be near-final and includes the full single-player campaign and all of the multiplayer options and as you may guessed, lots of bugs. Well, I didn’t try it myself but this is what the leak is described as. Actually, even if I am a big fan of Gears of War, I’m going to wait for the final release.

Now, you can imagine that Epic is trying to contain the leak and go after those who are responsible, claiming they are working with their security teams and law enforcement to address the situation. They also said that that the leak is not the final experience players will have with the real thing – well, hopefully not.

The release date of this game is September 20, 2011 and is developed by Epic Games. Oh, one more thing, it will be released exclusively for Xbox 360.

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In January 2010 Google decided to withdraw its service activity from China because of the censorship policy. This decision has left a big opportunity for Microsoft, who on Monday announced an English-language search deal with Baidu, China’s leading search provider. Being a company with an arguable morality, Microsoft will censor Bing’s search results in order to ensure that they are in compliance with local laws.

With a 75 percent share of China’s search queries, Baidu will offer about 10 million english-language queries per day for Bing. The contract between these search providers will lead to an improvement in the search quality results for China and offers a chance for Baidu service to expand worldwide.

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Facebook, the world’s biggest social networking website (more than 500 million users) is planning to “launch something awesome” next week, its Chief Executive and founder, Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook’s Seattle office on Wednesday. Now, what that could be?

There has been all kind of speculation in technology blogs about various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple’s iPad and a specialized app for photo-sharing on the iPhone.

If you ask me, let’s face it, we’ve long known that Facebook has capacity to integrate video and audio chat and that would probably be the best thing that could happen right now. At list that’s what I hope to happen due to the single fact that Facebook lacks a true voice and video chat product of its own.

Well, whatever turns out, we’ll bring you the news when it happens.

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Mozilla released the 5th version of their popular mail client Thunderbird. The update comes as a major release, more than a year and a half, after its latest version 3.0. Mozilla decided to skip version 4.0 in order to synchronize this product with the latest installment of Firefox. Overall Thunderbird 5.0 comes with an improved email account wizard, a better tab system, and a brand new Add-ons and API Manager.

The improved email account wizard comes with a slightly different approach compared to its former version, following the latest trend present in other similar applications. Now setting up your account has been simplified. You just have to enter your address and password and Thunderbird will try to set your account automatically from its own database.

Thanks to the new tabs system, you can reorder each of them by just drag’n'drop them to another open window. The Add-ons manager is simlar to the one present in Firefox and includes most of the applications there. The basic platform has been improved so that Thunderbird now is much faster at start-up and significantly responsive. Also the stability and security have been also improved dramatically making it a real contender in the battle for the best email client.

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Did you hear about Google introducing its own social network,Google+ ? A project that aims to make online sharing more like real life.

Well, no one can tell if this is going to be a real Facebook challenger but still, if we take a look at Google+, we can admit that is quite a bundle of joy and looks really promising.

Google+ was on trial until now and a pilot team was testing the Social Networking capabilities of this service.

Let’s take a look over the introduction video…

Aiming to take advantage of flaws in networking on Facebook, Google said in the past that “Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it.”

Google said, “We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships, and your interests. And so begins the Google+ project.”

It would offer options of networking, including ‘Circles’ interface for adding friends and sharing ‘what matters, with the people who matter most’ and ‘Hangouts’ interface for group video chat.

If you’re interested and you want to find out more, take a look at the Google+ project website.

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Let’s face it, most of the applications nowadays don’t do what there are meant to do. There are hundreds of so-called Internet accelerators which are unable to offer any improvements regarding this issue. But Auslogics proves the opposite in releasing a free module included in their latest BootSpeed 5 Suite which really shows the difference in your Internet connection while using it.

Auslogics Internet Optimizer is more of an analyzer that scans your computer and shows what you should change instead of giving a false solution through a ‘speed-up’ button that doesn’t do anything. Besides the MTU and RWIN check, the application knows how to interpret and improve several TCP/IP settings, Winsock options, DNS Cache settings and related IE, Firefox and Opera options. In case you want to proceed to a much more hard-core approach, you can manually browse all these suggestions and apply whatever option you want.

Working with so many variables, there are chances that you can actually get a much slower Internet connection. The good news here is that Auslogics included a Rescue Center which can back-up any of your computer’s former state and restore it whenever you want. So don’t be afraid to try out all its options and scenarios.

Auslogics Internet Optimizer is the one that can truly make a difference in your Internet connection or at least it can provide you with enough information to choose the right solution for your low speed connection.

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Surprisingly, Firefox 5 comes just a little over three months of it previous version Firefox 4. This due to the new Mozilla model rapid release development cycle, which means smaller incremental changes and more often releases, bringing new features, performance enhancements, security updates and stability improvements in a more rapid pace.

As you can see, Firefox 5 looks exactly like Firefox 4 but under the hood, there are several improvements such as better support for web standards, tons of bug fixes and other modification in the code.

Actually, Mozilla said that Firefox 5 comes with over 1,000 improvements and performance enchantments that makes much easier for users to interact with the web browser.

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