Facebook to show profiles to search engines

Facebook users may no longer be able to hide after the website announced it is launching a service that enables anyone to view member profiles.
In a major move, the social networking site said on Wednesday that it intends to make a limited public listing service available to people who are not logged in to Facebook, meaning that non-members will be able to look for friends or acquaintances via a search box on the Facebook home page. Information contained in the listing service will also be accessible via search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN Live.

The announcement marks a significant policy change for Facebook, which, unlike other social networking sites, has previously denied the major search engines access to information on its members.
In an entry on the Facebook blog, site engineer Phil Fung claimed that the move would make it easier for people to see which of their friends are members of the site. He also downplayed the importance of the decision to open up information to the general public.
"The public search listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we're not exposing any new information, and you have complete control over your public search listing," said Fung. Facebook also told users that "public search listings may only include names and profile pictures".
Facebook is to begin notifying its members of the decision over the next month and users will be able to keep their listing private if they wish by changing their search settings on the 'Search Privacy' page. Members will only appear in searches outside Facebook if their search settings are set to 'Everyone'.
Founded in February 2004 by Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has an estimated 39 million active members.

Last year the website introduced new features that instantly notified users of their friends' activities on the network. But Facebook found itself having to backtrack furiously when an estimated 600,000 members staged an online protest over the "News Feed" and "Mini-Feed" functions. Following the backlash, Facebook reversed its decision and introduced new privacy controls that allowed users to block the features.

Nokia N95i

With the N95 being a much disappointing phone with regards to battery life and hanging.The new N95i which is available only in black has a 30% longer battery life and improved software performance.So that means???less hanging guys.The N

95i hopes to solve all the problems with N95

Google's New Phone

The google's new phone comes with skype, youtube facilities and google talk.

It looks like the blackberry but promises to be far more advanced.

Nokia N800 : Nokia's Answer To iPhone

Nokia N800: $399

Apple iPhone: $499 or $599

The Nokia N800 has two memory slots that support a range of memory cards (SD, miniSD, microSD, MMC and RS-MMC). This allows you to keep one card in the device for a more permanent storage solution, and still have a slot available for cards from your camera or other device. With the falling price of memory cards, you could have several cards with music and videos tucked away in the carrying case that comes with the N800.

The N800 supports a wide range of audio and video formats. Supported audio formats are AAC, AMR, MP2, MP3, RA (Real Audio), WAV, WMA. You can play videos in the following formats: 3GP, AVI, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-4, RV (Real Video), and Flash Video

The N800 also has a built in webcam and supports video conferencing!The N800 can be used to for making VoIP calls via Gizmo and GoogleTalk. Skype support is coming in the second quarter of 2007.

Competition to iPhone

Touchscreen, WiFi, MicroSD Card slot for expandability and not bound to any carrier. Oh, and it runs Linux. The OpenMoko project is producing the first open-source hardware phone which will go on sale for $300 and $450 on July 9th. There will be two models, the Neo Base and the New Advanced. Both are mainly geared towards developers.

The consumer version will go on sale in October and will cost around $450. In contrast to the iPhone, though, this device will be wide open for developers. The interface isn’t quite on par with the iPhone, but looks better than most other phones and comes with a 2.8 inch screen (480×640) and a Global Locate AGPS chip. It will also have a USB port for expandability and development.

Hardware
120.7 x 62 x 18.5 (mm)
2.8″ VGA (480×640) TFT Screen
Samsung s3c2410 SoC
Global Locate AGPS chip
Ti GPRS (2.5G not EDGE)
Unpowered USB 1.1
Touchscreen
micro-sd slot
2.5mm audio jack
2 buttons
1200 mAh battery (charged over USB)
128 MB SDRAM
64 MB NAND Flash
Bluetooth 2.0

OPLC Prototype

Red Hat engineer and Mozilla Corporation board member Christopher Blizzard demonstrating the first OLPC working prototype, and now, courtesy of Google Video, you can watch it below:

http://www.olpcnews.com/prototypes/olpc/first_video_of_worki.html

The proposed price of this laptop is 100$

Mouse For The Filthy Rich

Pat Says, a computer mice manufacturer based in Switzerland, are selling a USB plug-n-play mouse that costs a whooping $25k because it's all made of white gold and diamonds.
Other than balance in your bank account, this world's most expensive computer mouse won't change your computing lifestyle.

And as far as ergonomics and comfort is concerned, the (relatively) dirt-cheap Logitech MX revolution maybe far better than this diamond-studded gold mouse.
PC World has an overview of more such absurdly expensive gadgets here including the million dollar laptop from Luvaglio that activates only when you insert the unique colored diamond.
Related: Vertu Gold Phones, Gold USB Drives, Logitech MX Air