New Digits

Facebook acquires  content sharing site drop.io owned by Sam Lessin, a Longtime friend of Facebook chief executive  Mark Zuckerberg, drop.io is a file(drop) exchange site, It allow users to share content privately in various ways. Users could create a drop and can share documents, videos, audio, pictures and other data files. Facebook likes the way drop.io uses to share content and acquired it to use its developer's than its technology to develop the Facebook in drop's way. Facebook said in a statement, " We can confirm that we recently completed a small talent acqisition for drop.io and acquired most of the company's assets. We're thrilled that Sam Lessin will be joining us." And the drop.io said in it's blog post , "  In the coming weeks, we’ll be winding down the  drop.io  service. As of this week, people will no longer be able to create new free drops, but you’ll be able to download content from existing drops until Dec. 15...

Friendship Pages from Facebook helps you and your friend to share the photos, posts, memories, conversations and more. It will help you to keep up with your friend activities instead of missing the friend updates in the Facebook news feed. Friendship Pages contains the public Wall posts and comments between two friends, photos in which both are tagged. One can see a friendship page if friends with one of the people and have permission to view both people's profiles. The Friendship page is really useful for friends who wants to share their activities with closest and dearest friends. A Friendship Page will be accessible if you are friends with one of the people and have permission to view both people's profiles. You can find a Friendship Page from links under relevant Wall posts, under relationship stories, and under the main photo on a friend's profile page.

The Commuter is a comedy action film, starring Dev Patel (  Slumdog Millionaire fame ), Pamela Anderson,  directed by the McHenry Brothers .The whole movie is shot using the newly released Nokia N8 in the streets of London and St Albans. Check out the Nokia HD Vimeo page  for the collection of films shot using the Nokia N8 which is powered with 12 MP camera and it can capture 720 p HD videos. To get started your self with your N-8 read here about Nokia Camera School

Google.com is the famous search engine which index and search billions of pages every day. Here is a short video how Larry Page  develop the search engine to  something that “understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.”   When you type a query in search box, search engine search the billions of pages which are indexed and Crawled by Google and displays what exactly you want. 

Yahoo rolled out new mail beta to the world on 26th October. This new one will give user the faster email experience than before. In this beta you can find some additional features like Speedy incoming and outgoing mails with better support for attachments, better spam protection technology, Unlimited storage, mail on mobile and you can watch photos & videos with in the mail. You can read more about this new release @  http://features.mail.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Mail @ Yahoo! Video

The fastest browser on earth is even faster with the new version 10.60. This version has reached an even higher performance score with security and stability updates (more info at changelongs ). And this new version includes JavaScript engine which is 50% faster than the previous v10.50, it supports HTML5 and WebM, It will prompt you to share your location,  making geolocation-supporting websites more useful.

Chrome developers integrated PDF viewer within the browser. To get it in your chrome browser just type chrome://plugins in chrome address bar and press enter. It will shows the list of enabled and disabled plugins in that list find the ' Chrome PDF viewer ' and click on the Enable to enable the plugin.

Skype 5.0 enable you to login with your Facebook account. It enables you to Call/Sms your friends. You can also check your news feeds, update your status, comment on others directly with in Skype. So try the new Skype  to join the fun. This new version of Skype also includes Group Videos(beta), Automatic recovery for dropped calls.

People logged into many sites regularly, they had some tough time with their passwords to manage. Here is a simple way to manage passwords easily. The Mozilla Security team gave some suggestions on how one can choose strong, easy to remember and different passwords for different websites.

Finally Skype is available for Android. To Get it point your mobile browser to skype.com/m   or you can get it from Android market.

Forefox4 beta is available  for Android and Nokia's Maemo supported devices . This version includes Firefox Sync a major thing which Sync browsing history, bookmaks, tabs, passwords and form-fill data. so we can access all these things on desktop and mobile. Your Firefox data is completely encrypted between your devices so you can only have access to it.  Developers have the power to use the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.

Governament, Industry and Non-profit Organizations launched first ever Cyber Safety Campaign during National Cyber Security Awareness Month( October ) called Stop. Think. Connect. a simple message   to public and it promotes simple steps to increase the safety and security online.

The web meet TV services from Google, Google TV tells what should this product includes. You can read about it here  http://googletv.blogspot.com/2010/10/here-comes-google-tv_04.html

Google Phone Gallery a new url to showcase all android based mobile devices. All the phones in this gallery includes  Android Market, Google Search, and other Google Mobile services such as Gmail, Maps, and YouTube. There are tools that make it easy to compare phones side by side: you can filter phones by country, manufacturer, and carrier; view and compare technical specifications and features; and find where each phone is available for sale.

Google invented a new image format WebP  to load images faster than before. This new formate will reduce the byte size of the images to load 35% faster than a normal JPEG formate. You can try this developer preview of this new format @  http://code.google.com/speed/webp/ . and you can read more about this release at  http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html

Facebook announced three big improvements to the photos. With these improvements you can upload high resolution images, easy view for uploaded photos and you can upload multiple images simply. The photos size is increased to 2048px from 720px so you can upload high resolution images. You can view photos and albums with new viewer makes it simple and faster to navigate photos. When click on the photo to view, new viewer open the image at the center of the screen with dark background and the navigation will be more faster than previous. The simple uploader allow you to upload multiple images at a time and you can tag multiple photos at a time. These new features will rolled out from the next month.

Microsoft launched a new podcast- Windows Phone Radio, It is all about the  behind the scenes information and conversation with key personalities inside Microsoft   And track the people behind the news and broadcast on location from around Microsoft campus and industry events.  You can catch these 15 min episodes hosted by  Brian Seitz (@brianseitz) and Matt Akers (@skipdeez) in podcast directories like  Zune Marketplace. Here is First episode for you.

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as we are typing in the search box. We can get results more faster than previous. You need not to type the full search term. Just start typing and results appear right before you. You can also get predictions for your search.

Google Introduced Street View in May 2007, which enabled people to view street level imagery in five US cities. And then they expanded it for more places, now after three years Google Earth and Maps team announce that the Street View is now available to all Seven Continents of the World. So you can now see images of the places from around the world, today they added places from Ireland, Brazil and Antarctica...