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FarmVille Exceeds 80 Million Monthly Users

FarmVille Exceeds 80 Million Monthly Users

Zynga, the Facebook’s gaming giant is getting more and more popular. Their extensively famous game FarmVille exceeded 80 Million monthly users this week. Facebook has 400 Million users, 80 Million of which play FarmVille (That’s a lot). FarmVille recently won “Social Game of the Year award” in “13th Annual Interactive… Read more »

Google Buzz: 5 Tips to Improve your Buzz Experience

Google Buzz: 5 Tips to Improve your Buzz Experience

Google Buzz has been out for over a week now and many improvements have been made whether it’s privacy issues or something else. Here are posting some tips to get most out of Buzz. Google Buzz allows you to format your posts just like Gmail Chat. Google dashboard allows you… Read more »

Twitter: Direct Messages Phishing Attack

Twitter: Direct Messages Phishing Attack

Twitter is under phishing attacks more often these days and every time a new type of phishing attack comes up. A new kind of phishing attack is circulating briskly today via direct messages on Twitter in an attempt to steal login credentials. Direct messages like “LoL funny” & “lol is… Read more »

Electronic Payments Increased in Pakistan

Electronic Payments Increased in Pakistan

A rising trend in Electronic payments has been seen during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2010. This increase contains transactions as well as the value. State Bank of Pakistan reported that the volume of E-transactions reached 45.7 million and the volume was recorded at 3.9 trillion rupees. A… Read more »

Google Introduces Gmail Browser Add-on for Chrome

Google Introduces Gmail Browser Add-on for Chrome

Google chrome is a lightning fast browser and they are adding useful extensions with the passage of time. Today I’m going to discuss “Gmail Browser Add-on”, which makes it easier to see new emails as well as compose emails. Once installed you will see a “Gmail extension” right after the… Read more »

Facebook Facing Loads of Problems

Facebook Facing Loads of Problems

Facebook has been slow today due to server isolation issue. Right now, people are facing 404 errors, slow loading of pages, image uploading issues and many more. Facebook seems to work fine sometimes and dead slow the other moment. Most common issues currently faced are: Photo upload failure Very Slow… Read more »

WordPress Down for 110 Minutes

WordPress Down for 110 Minutes

Earlier today wordpress.com faced a downtime of 110 minutes which is said to be their biggest in four years. 10.2 million blogs were affected and according to Matt (founder of wordpress) this outage kept blogs from having 5.5 million pageviews. People at wordpress are not sure what went wrong and… Read more »

Watch IPL 3 on YouTube Live

Watch IPL 3 on YouTube Live

Two successful seasons of IPL has made it very famous among cricket lovers. IPL games consist of 20/20 overs unlike normal one day games. Due to its short nature loads of people like it. IPL season normally goes on for 45 days. Some countries won’t be broadcasting IPL. Google acquisition… Read more »

Facebook Beats Yahoo:  Now the 2nd Most Visited Site in US

Facebook Beats Yahoo: Now the 2nd Most Visited Site in US

Web analytics firm compete.com disclosed that Facebook is bigger than Yahoo (in terms of traffic) in United States. Started in 90s yahoo was the world’s number 1 portal of the world for years.  Two years back Google crossed Yahoo to become the world’s most visited website. Facebook a relatively newbie in… Read more »

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